Outbreak - silent killers

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Movie
German title Outbreak - silent killers
Original title Outbreak
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1995
length 128 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Wolfgang Petersen
script Laurence Dworet
Robert Roy Pool
production Arnold Kopelson
Wolfgang Petersen
Gail Katz
music James Newton Howard
camera Michael Ballhaus
cut Neil Travis
William Hoy
Lynzee Klingman
occupation
synchronization

Outbreak - Lautlose Killer (Original title: Outbreak ) is an American film by the German director Wolfgang Petersen from 1995 . The two companies Punch Productions and Warner Bros. Pictures were involved in the production. The premiere took place on March 6, 1995 in Westwood . The film opened in German cinemas on March 30, 1995.

In this thriller, human and military interests collide. While doctors are looking for an antidote to a dangerous virus to prevent it from spreading, the military try to stop it - after all, a virus is the perfect weapon, but worthless with a publicly available antidote.

action

In 1967, a US military helicopter lands in an African village in the Motaba region, Zaire , where American soldiers, among others, are involved in combat operations similar to civil war. There are two virologists from USAMRIID on board . As it turns out later, the two are later Maj. Gen. Donald McClintock and later Brig. Gen. Billy Ford. The two of them are expected by a doctor who shows them around the infirmary, which is home to several patients with a terrible illness that leads to excruciating death within a few days. After seeing the full extent and taking a blood sample from a sick person, McClintock orders the destruction of the village by means of an air raid with an aerosol bomb on the return flight .

Years later, a terrible disease occurs again in a village in the same region, with the same symptoms as those of 1967. Brig. Gen. Billy Ford sends his subordinate and friend, Col. Sam Daniels, to the site to investigate the circumstances.

Back in America, Sam Daniels starts evaluating blood samples he has brought with him and discovers a virus that is new to himself . Little does he know that this is the aggressive Motaba virus , which his superior is already familiar with, a rapidly spreading variant of Ebola . Billy Ford refuses Sam Daniels' request to raise a disaster alert as a precaution.

A short time later, isolated cases with similar symptoms appear in the United States . When an epidemic breaks out in the small town of Cedar Creek in California, Sam Daniels and his team want to go there immediately. So he defies an order from Billy Ford and sets up his laboratory in Cedar Creek instead of in New Mexico as ordered. He is supported there by his ex-wife Robby Keough, who works for the American Health Authority (CDC) . The small town is now being hermetically sealed by the military and a curfew is being imposed. While the local hospital is filling up quickly and the first victims are dying, Daniels and his team set out on a detective search for the original carrier of the virus, the host. A host animal that is immune to the virus is suspected to be the vector and must be found in order to produce a vaccine . With the help of the young virologist and hobby pilot Maj. Salt, Daniels finally steals a helicopter in order to leave the city without permission.

When the host animal has finally been identified and captured in the form of a monkey and nothing really stands in the way of producing the antidote, it turns out that the virus was developed by the US military as a biological weapon . General McClintock is now trying to secure this weapon again.

In order to prevent the development of the serum , Daniels and Salt and the monkey should now be eliminated. At the same time, McClintock orders the complete destruction of the completely cordoned-off town and its inhabitants.

In a dramatic showdown, Daniels and Salt bring the truth to light and are hunted by McClintock for it. Nevertheless, they make it back to Cedar Creek with the monkey, where they immediately begin making the antiserum. With only the sick and dying left in town, and the military withdrawn entirely, Daniels and Salt realize that McClintock will bomb and wipe out the town. With the previously stolen helicopter, they block the path of the plane, which is supposed to drop an aerosol bomb over the city and thus wipe it out. Daniels demonstrates the truth to the pilot of the plane. For a moment it seems that the pilot is too accustomed to command to listen to Daniels. At the last moment, however, he evades the helicopter and drops the bomb into the ocean, where it explodes without killing people. General Donald McClintock is arrested and the remaining residents of Cedar Creek are given the antidote.

synchronization

The film was dubbed by Magma Synchrom GmbH.

figure actor Voice actor
Col. Sam Daniels Dustin Hoffman Joachim Kerzel
Robby Keough Rene Russo Evelyn Marron
Maj. Gen. Donald McClintock Donald Sutherland Rolf Schult
Brig. Gen. Billy Ford Morgan Freeman Jürgen Kluckert
Maj. Casey Schuler Kevin Spacey Gerhard Mohr
Lt. Col. Briggs Dale dye Ernst Meincke
Maj. Salt Cuba Gooding Jr. Dietmar miracle

Reviews

“With a good-humored star cast, as one could really only wish for, Wolfgang Petersen was allowed to let off steam. The result was a terrifyingly realistic virus thriller. [...] Almost on time for the cinema release, the real headlines about the Ebola epidemic in Zaire piled up. This gives the film an additional factor of anxiety, which it actually didn't need. Outbreak is a rock solid thriller that literally takes your breath away. Perfect tension and skilfully placed action round off the extremely positive impression. "

- Denis Hoffmann (Zelluloid.de)

“Wolfgang Petersen has created a tough thriller in several ways. As far as the prerequisites are concerned, it remains completely factual, at the same time remains true to the more or less modern concept of linking information and entertainment and the narrative principle of task and solution, from the tension arc of last minute rescue, and finally it sets the viewer from the beginning optically, acoustically and emotionally under so much pressure that there is no chance of abandoning the essentially melodramatic rather than enlightening construction of the plot. "

- Georg Seeßlen ( epd film issue 4/95)

"Lengthy, unoriginal reworking of genre clichés, in whose computer-like scheme external effects overgrow the inner tension of the topic."

- Lexicon of international film

"Outbreak" is a disaster and tension film that captivates for two hours without a break. This despite the fact that the course of the story and the outcome of individual fates can be foreseen, and all common and necessary clichés of films of this genre have been brought into the plot. "

- German film and media rating (FBW)

Awards

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literature

  • Il-Tschung Lim: The espionage, the war and the virus. Popular globalization knowledge in contemporary Hollywood cinema. Fink, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-7705-5318-1 , pp. 171-195.
  • Richard Preston : Hot Zone - Deadly viruses from the rainforest. A factual thriller. Translated from the English by Sebastian Vogel. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-426-77257-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Outbreak - Silent Killer in the German dubbing file
  2. ↑ Denis Hoffmann: Outbreak Silent Killer. In: Zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on March 9, 2018 ; accessed on September 28, 2018 .
  3. ^ Georg Seeßlen: Outbreak - silent killers. In: Filmzentrale.com. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Outbreak - Silent Killer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 13, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ a b Outbreak - Silent Killer. In: FBW-Film Rating.com Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  6. ^ Awards 1995 New York Film Critics Circle. Retrieved July 17, 2012.