Bang! You are dead!
Bang! You are dead! is a German crime comedy about hackers from 1987.
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Herbert William Peters rises in New York from a ferry and meet in Central Park a liaison officer for a secret handover: He takes a stolen-art high tech - computer chip in a Hamburg contrary. The American German teacher Andrea Flanegan from Boston is traveling to Germany for a conference on the German language . On the plane she sits next to the taciturn Peters and watches how he takes a medicine from his briefcase after a heart attack .
After landing in the airport, she overhears in the queue behind her Peters has another heart attack and collapses. She wants to rush to his aid because she knows about his medication, but is no longer allowed to see him because she has already passed passport control. She quickly went to look for the airport infirmary, but was late because of the confusing signs. She asks about Peters, but he has already been transported to the university clinic. Instead, she meets Peters' employee Kai Westerburg (Ingolf Lück), who is also looking for Peters. They drive to the clinic to find out about Peter's health, but it seems that he never got there. But Flanegan discovers the two ambulance drivers who have taken Peters away and, to her horror, is told that Peters apparently got out of the car on the way to the clinic and ran away.
Since she does not want to leave what has happened, she demands that we investigate the matter together with Westerburg. Peters is the managing director of CompuLab , a game developer that Westerburg is employed by. When they want to search the old storehouse of CompuLab for clues to Peter's sudden disappearance, they come across a KGB - agent who is very rude and violent, and operates also research to Peters. After the unpleasant contact with the agent, Westerburg takes Flanegan home with him, to an old factory building, to treat minor wounds. On the television program, which ran randomly, there was a report on the news about the death of a patient in a hospital that was supposed to be only undergoing a small routine operation. The reason is computer failure. For Westerburg it is clear: Peters is behind it.
Gradually there are more deaths, all of which are due to failure of computer-controlled devices. Peters has obviously accepted a multi-million dollar contract from the CIA or a similar Western organization (see East-West conflict ) and is supposed to kill six former KGB agents on their behalf. Westerburg later finds out that apparently deleted floppy disks still contain old games from CompuLab. All the identities of the six agents to be killed are coded in one of the highscore lists . With this knowledge, Westerburg is now requesting help from hackers in the Datex network , including his old friend "Major". For one night they break into the computers of various institutions, including banks, insurance companies and airlines.
The next morning, Westerburg can combine the pieces of the puzzle into a whole and locate Peters' hiding place. There is a showdown in a warehouse; this is a parody of the classic computer game Donkey Kong . The agent is injured, Kai and Andrea can destroy Peters' laser, but Peters has already disappeared.
The next day Andrea wants to fly back to Boston, but when she recognizes Peters on the plane, she gets out of fear and stays with Westerburg.
Reviews
- Film content and review on www.moviemaster.de
- “Adventure comedy based on the Hitchcock model.” - www.filmportal.de
Awards
- The actress of "Andrea Flanegan" Rebecca Pauly , won in 1987 the German Film Award as Best Actress .
- The movie Bang! You are dead! won the German Film Award in 1987 in the Best Fiction Film category .
Locations
The film is set in a fictional German city with the license plate V (this letter was not assigned at the time). The film was shot at Berlin-Tegel Airport and the Berlin subway . The outdoor shots were taken in Munich , especially in the Haidhausen district .