Murderer Ltd.

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Movie
German title Murderer Ltd.
Original title The Assassination Bureau
Country of production Great Britain
original language English , French , Italian
Publishing year 1969
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Basil Dearden
script Michael Relph
Wolf Mankowitz
production Michael Relph
music Ron Grainer
camera Geoffrey Unsworth
cut Teddy Darvas
occupation

Mörder GmbH is a British feature film starring Oliver Reed and Diana Rigg , which premiered on April 25, 1969 in the Federal Republic of Germany . Directed by Basil Dearden . It is based on the unfinished novel Das Mordbüro (original title: The Assassination Bureau Ltd. ) by Jack London , completed by Robert L. Fish .

action

Europe around 1900. - The up-and-coming journalist Sonya Winter discovers that the newspaper advertisement “ Mesopotamia ” is a personal ad with which an organization offers murders for payment. When she presented various cases to the newspaper publisher Bostwick and gave him to understand that she had placed the last ad for a job herself, he was, to her surprise, ready to work together. She makes contact and gets to know the young Iwan Dragomiloff, the chairman of Mörder GmbH. When she hires her target person, himself, as a victim, he takes the opportunity to put his company to the test and accepts the order for £ 20,000. At the meeting of his GmbH, Dragomiloff challenges the shareholders of his offices to a fatal duel. Lord Bostwick, who is also a member and vice chairman of the corporation, donates an additional £ 10,000 to encourage his colleagues.

Ivan, disguised as an old man, first goes to Paris, where Miss Winter follows him to a brothel owned by partner Lucoville. When Lucoville reveals him, a car chase ensues in which Lucoville is killed by an explosion. After a brief detention, Miss Winter goes to Switzerland with Iwan, where they kill partner Weiß with a pocket bomb. His Romanian partner Popescu tries to kill him in the dining car and fails. On to Vienna, where Iwan feels safe because he doesn't have an office there. But the German General von Pinck tries his luck and tries to slip a sausage bomb into a pub that unfortunately kills the Archduke of Ruthenia.

The death of the monarch triggers a crisis. Dragomiloff tries to win his partner Spado in Venice to his side and end the duel, but he is already poisoned by his wife. When Ivan arrives at her place, he avoids another poison attack by Spado's wife by means of a clever maneuver and takes the place of her gondolier. Bostwick, Pinck and Muntzoff arrive in Venice to find out about his body. Bostwicks plans to set up a new Mörder GmbH. He gives up his cover against Miss Winter and orders Muntzoff to kill her. Ivan prevents this and smuggles himself into the coffin. Miss Winter and Iwan escape with the undertaker's gondola.

Iwan and Miss Winter found out that Bostwick wants to destroy the peace negotiations with an assassination attempt. Lord Bostwick has risen in power to his head and, with the help of General von Pinck, wants to use a zeppelin to drop a bomb on the rulers of Europe who are meeting in a castle near Linz . Ivan smuggles himself into the zeppelin as captain , sabotages it and takes a balloon to safety before the zeppelin with Bostwick on board explodes. He ends up in the castle and is honored for his bravery when Miss Winter arrives dressed as a nun .

German version

In the German dubbed version, as was customary in the 1940s to 1970s, faded-in documents and newspaper articles were replaced by German ones. Since the 1970s, it has been more common to use subtitles or an off-screen speaker to explain the non-German language elements of the film.

Reviews

"Prominent crook comedy with typical English humor, which offers an enjoyable pastiche of the usual crime films."

- Lexicon of international film

"Parodistically exaggerated and mostly amusingly silly English criminal grotesque."

- Protestant film observer

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mörder GmbH. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 203/1969