Black Sunday
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Black Sunday |
| Original title | Black Sunday |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1977 |
| length | approx. 136 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Frankenheimer |
| script |
Ernest Lehman , Kenneth Ross , Ivan Moffat , book: Thomas Harris |
| production | Robert Evans |
| music | John Williams |
| camera | John A. Alonzo |
| cut | Tom Rolf |
| occupation | |
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Black Sunday is a 1977 American thriller directed by John Frankenheimer ; the novel is based on Thomas Harris .
action
A splinter group of the Palestinian terrorist unit Black September is planning an attack in the United States . They are supported by the Vietnam veteran Michael Lander, who works as an airship pilot after being a prisoner of war for six years, including in solitary confinement . After years of torture in Vietnamese camps, trial in a military court, and a failed marriage, he is bitter. The driving force behind the attack is the Palestinian Dahlia Iyad, who was expelled from her homeland during the Palestinian War and then grew up in refugee camps. She justifies the plan with the financial and military support of the US for Israel. With the attack she wants to draw attention to the fate of the Palestinian people worldwide. Your opponent is the Mossad agent David Kabakov, who spared Dahlia in an attack on the Black September quarters. Dahlia is organizing the smuggling of 500 kg of plastic explosives into the United States, Lander plans to detonate a fragmentation bomb attached to the underside of the gondola of his airship at Orange Bowl Stadium during the Super Bowl in Miami . There are 250,000 steel arrows in the fragmentation bomb. Kabakov can identify Dahlia with the help of a tape recording; Nevertheless, Lander and Dahlia manage to take off with the bomb on board after a successful test. With the help of FBI agent Sam Corley, Kabakov takes on the chase in a helicopter. Dahlia is killed during a firefight; the seriously injured lander manages to detonate the fuse on the bomb over the stadium. Kabakov ropes down from the helicopter to the airship and takes the stern on a tow hook. He manages to pull the airship into the open sea, where the bomb finally explodes.
criticism
“It is noticeable how Frankenheimer neglects the human touch that is otherwise almost obligatory in Hollywood films in the disaster scenes. In view of the impending mass murder and in the midst of the panic, the fates or the behavior of individual participants are no longer singled out and depicted ... Located on the border between sensationalism and political warning and unfortunately also exceeding them in detail to the former, Frankenheimer's film is unfortunately on gained current importance. "
background
The stadium crowd scenes were filmed during the Super Bowl on January 18, 1976 at Orange Bowl Stadium in Florida. The owner of the Miami Dolphins , Joe Robbie made a guest appearance. Goodyear allowed all three available airships (Columbia, America, Mayflower) to be used for filming.
Web links
- Black Sunday in the Internet Movie Database (English)