Rocky's knife

Movie
Original title	Rocky's knife
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1967
length	88 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Joachim Mock
script	Joachim Mock
production	Joachim Mock
music	Horst A. Hass
camera	Wolfgang Lührse Klaus J. Merl
occupation
Michael Miller : Rocky Karl-Josef Cramer : the tall one Thomas Rau : Elois Christine Dass : Lu Barbara Ratthey : Messer-Kitti Heidrun Kussin : Eva Uwe Pietsch : Chicago Manfred Kunkel : Blacky Dietrich Stephan : Mauke Wolfgang Priewe : Klaus Mildred Wuest : Karin Arthur Binder : Gerda Blisse : Dieter Kursawe : Ulrich del Mestre :

Rocky's knife is a German crime film from 1966 directed by Joachim Mock .

action

At the center of the action is a group of criminal youths in what is now (1966) Berlin (West). When a scuffle breaks out between some of the boys, one of them is stabbed to death. Since the knife belongs to the gang member Rocky, the judge assumes that he must have stabbed too and sentenced the boy to six years in prison. After two thirds of the prison term, i.e. four years, Rocky is released early from prison for good conduct. He knows he is innocent, and so he immediately sets out to find the real culprit. For the former gang members he has become a danger because he knows about their criminal past, from which most of them have now broken free in order to build a “normal”, bourgeois existence. Therefore they try to render it harmless and get rid of it ...

Production notes

Rocky's knife , sometimes with the subtitle The Story of the Opel-Kapitän-Gang , was the middle of three movie directors of the actor Joachim Mock. He shot and produced the work in 1966, and on March 2, 1967, the film was released in German cinemas.

criticism

Zeit judged that the film was "so annoying that a critical word about the level of the film set in Berlin is superfluous."

The lexicon of international films found that the film was "[good] meant, but colossal, clumsy and closer to the clichés of crime films than to the targeted social reality."

Web links

• Rocky's Knife in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Rocky's knife at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rocky's knife in Die Zeit, July 28, 1967
2. ↑ Rocky's knife. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 13, 2018 .