Numbers station
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Numbers station |
| Original title | The Numbers Station |
| Country of production |
Great Britain , Belgium , United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kasper Barfoed |
| script | F. Scott Frazier |
| production |
Bryan Furst Sean Furst |
| music | Paul Leonard-Morgan |
| camera | Óttar Gudnason |
| cut |
Chris Gill , Per Sandholt |
| occupation | |
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Numbers Station (original title The Numbers Station ) is a British - Belgian - American feature film by the director Kasper Barfoed from 2013 . John Cusack and Malin Åkerman can be seen in the leading roles .
action
Emerson Kent works as a contract killer for the CIA . He receives his orders encoded in the form of series of numbers via a number transmitter . When he kills a former CIA agent who now works as a bartender, a witness escapes. Kent's boss Michael Gray, who accompanies him on the assignment, orders him to kill the witness as well. Kent shoots the witness in his house, while he is surprised by the victim's daughter. He wants to let the girl live, but Gray shoots her. Kent fell into depression and began to drink. He is therefore transferred to England , where he is supposed to watch over the cryptology expert Katherine, who works as an announcer in a number transmitter located in a bunker on a former military base.
When Kent and Katherine come to the station one day, they are suddenly shot at. They manage to escape into the transmitter. There they are attacked by an intruder who Kent can shoot. Using tape recordings, they find out that three men broke into the station, overwhelmed Meredith, the announcer for the other shift, and her protector David and forced Meredith to send 15 encrypted messages. They find David's body, but he still managed to shoot one of the intruders.
On a computer, Kent discovers files on 15 high-ranking CIA officials, including Gray, from which he and Katherine conclude that the messages are murder assignments. You want to revoke this, but you need the encryption key to do so. Kent tries to call for help, but the attackers tampered with the phone line so that he can only speak to them. He receives an offer that the attackers will let him live if he kills Katherine so that she cannot cancel the orders. Kent makes a pretense of being able to leave the bunker and get to his car, in which Katherine's cell phone is.
While Kent is walking towards the exit, Katherine discovers the crypto key in an email from Meredith and starts sending messages to revoke the murder orders. When Kent opens the bunker door and goes to the car, a third attacker enters the bunker and goes in search of Katherine. Kent follows him but cannot take him out until he shoots Katherine. Kent carries the injured woman to the street, where he stops a car and tries to get the driver to drive him and Katherine to a hospital. However, he recognizes the person he is speaking to from the telephone in the driver using his voice. Kent can shoot the man, but is injured himself. Nevertheless, he manages to drive to the hospital with Katherine in the back seat.
At the hospital, Kent receives a visit from Gray, who tells him that Katherine will die because she knows too much. When Kent explains to him that Katherine saved Grey's life, he decides to let her live.
background
Numbers Station was filmed on a former Royal Air Force base in Bentwater Parks, Suffolk . The film was released in the United States on April 26, 2013, and was released on DVD in Germany on January 24, 2014 .
synchronization
| actor | German speaker | role |
|---|---|---|
| John Cusack | Andreas Fröhlich | Emerson Kent |
| Malin Åkerman | Ursula Hugo | Katherine |
| Liam Cunningham | Erich Rauker | Michael Gray |
| Bryan Dick | Tobias Nath | David |
| Lucy Griffiths | Sonja Spuhl | Meredith |
| Richard Brake | Ronald Nitschke | Max |
reception
“The thriller, which is mostly set in the narrow space of the station, is at times quite exciting and well played; The intelligence service criticism is less convincing. "
Web links
- The Numbers Station in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Numbers Station in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Numbers Station . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2013 (PDF; test number: 141 258 V).
- ↑ Numbers Station. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on January 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Numbers Station. In: Filmdienst . Retrieved January 24, 2017 .