Radioactive Dreams

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Movie
German title Radioactive Dreams
Original title Radioactive Dreams
Country of production USA , Mexico
original language English
Publishing year 1986
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Albert Pyun
script Albert Pyun
production Albert Pyun,
Thomas Karnowski ,
H. Frank Dominguez
music Pete Robinson
camera Charles Minsky
cut Dennis M. O'Connor
occupation

Radioactive Dreams is a US-American-Mexican science fiction film from 1986. The leading role is Michael Dudikoff, who was still relatively unknown at the time.

action

After a worldwide nuclear war, the young people Philip and Marlowe spend around 15 years in an underground shelter. Isolated from a post-apocalyptic world, her only pastime was reading crime fiction from the 1940s, preferably stories by Raymond Chandler and the private detective he created, Philip Marlowe ( hence the names of the heroes in this film ).

Philip and Marlowe decide to leave their shelter and live out their dream of being detectives. On their first trip through the wasteland they encounter a number of crazy, mutually fighting groups: disco mutants, cannibals, bounty hunters and Elvis impersonators and soon learn that a fight has broken out between the survivors of the disaster over two keys: The keys that authorize the firing of the last remaining nuclear missile.

reception

The film was a commercial flop: it grossed $ 220,038 at the box office in the US.

In Germany, the film was only released in cinemas on June 25, 1987.

Reviews

“Photographically ambitious mixture of science fiction, crime thriller and rock film about the supposed attitude towards life of a post-atomic youth. Naive in terms of content, largely a glorification of brutality and violence. "

- Lexicon of international film

Publications

The film was released in German on VHS in 1988 .

Awards

Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival 1987

  • Golden Raven in the Best Film category

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=radioactivedreams.htm
  2. ^ Radioactive Dreams. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 

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