Sneakers - the silent ones

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Movie
German title Sneakers - the silent ones
Original title Sneakers
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1992
length 126 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Phil Alden Robinson
script Phil Alden Robinson,
Lawrence Lasker ,
Walter F. Parkes
production Lawrence Lasker
music James Horner
camera John Lindley
cut Tom Rolf
occupation
synchronization

Sneakers - Die Lautlosen (Original title: Sneakers ) is a film directed by Phil Alden Robinson , shot in the USA in 1992 . The film belongs to the genre of heist movies . The German dubbing was done by Berliner Synchron GmbH Wenzel Lüdecke and Lutz Riedel was responsible for both the dialogue book and the dialogue direction.

action

1969

The two students Martin "Marty" Brice and "Cosmo" make themselves one evening a kick out of a terminal of their university break into bank computers and from the account of money Richard Nixon to the National Committee for the legalization of marijuana to transfer . With a toss of a coin, they can choose who should get pizza . Cosmo (who tosses the coin) is cheating so that not he but Marty has to go. Shortly thereafter, Cosmo is the FBI ver liable while Marty - can escape - sitting already in the car and sees the police coming.

San Francisco, today

Martin Bishop and his friends make their living breaking into banks and large companies. For a fee, they uncover weaknesses in their security systems. The fact that Bishop, like the rest of his crew, has no clean slate, gets him and his team in trouble when two NSA agents approach him with a special assignment. Martin wants to refuse because he doesn't want to work for governments, but the agents put him under pressure because they know his real name: Martin "Marty" Brice. The team accepts the assignment: to steal a box of unknown content from a mathematician.

The task is relatively easy to solve. While the team celebrates the success in the evening, it turns out that the box contains a crypto chip with which you can crack all codes. When Martin and Crease, the ex- CIA man of his team, handed over the box the next morning, Crease - who stayed with the car - caught a headline: The mathematician was murdered. Crease lures Martin back into the car before he can get the agreed money for the box, and they both flee. When Marty protests, he shows him the headline and convinces him that the employers couldn't be NSA agents.

Marty suspects an old friend, the Russian cultural attaché and ex- KGB man Gregor, as the man behind the scenes. When he kidnaps him, Gregor asserts that he has nothing to do with the matter. He shows Marty in the official car of the consulate, in which Marty recognizes the two alleged agents. Gregor offers Marty asylum without explaining who the two really work for. At that moment the car is stopped; one of the alleged FBI agents who stopped the car takes Marty's revolver and uses it to shoot Gregor and his chauffeur . One of the fake NSA agents knocks Marty down and puts him in the trunk of his car. Marty wakes up while driving and can hear the driving noises. When the trunk is opened, Marty is knocked out again.

He wakes up in a posh office and is greeted by his old friend Cosmo, who did not (as Marty assumed) died in prison, but now works for an apparently mafia-like organization. Cosmo offers Marty a collaboration, but Marty realizes that Cosmo still has the same anarchist world improvement ideas as before: he wants to collapse the entire financial system worldwide. Marty refuses, whereupon he is knocked unconscious again and dumped somewhere in town; Alcatraz Island can be seen in the background .

Marty goes to his friend Liz and rounds up his team in their apartment. You contact the real NSA, which - without the decryption chip - does not want to offer you any protection. The only thing the team can do is get the box back and steal it again. With the help of Whistler, their blind communications specialist, whom Marty describes the noises of the kidnapping drive, they find the location of Cosmo's office: a toy company that acts as a camouflage and is well secured. After they have overcome all safety devices in a tricky way, they are discovered by Cosmo; Marty and his team manage to escape after Marty gave Cosmo a duplicate of the box.

When they get home, a real NSA response force awaits the team. Marty indicates that the NSA wants to sound out other US intelligence services and also the White House with the development of the chip and can put them under pressure. A wish is granted to every crew member if they don't reveal anything. Marty only gives the NSA a non-functional chip and keeps the original: at the end of the day, television reports on the inexplicable bankruptcy of the Republican Party and inexplicable donations to Amnesty International , Greenpeace and the black student union in America .

Trivia

  • At the beginning of the film, when Marty and Cosmo hack into a bank computer, the building can be seen, which was already used for films such as Who disturbs the nightingale , Gremlins - Little Monsters or for the Back to the Future trilogy. The building was on the Universal Studios site .
  • When a code is entered at the beginning of the movie, it ends with 1138 as a reference to George Lucas ' first movie, THX 1138 .
  • The orange VW Karmann Ghia Type 14 that Robert Redford uses in one scene is the same car that Mike Myers used a year later in Liebling, Do you ever hold the ax? (also shot in San Francisco ) is used.
  • Robert Redford wears the same jacket as in the film The Indomitable .
  • The computer that is part of Cosmo's PlayTronics company is a Cray Y-MP, one of the fastest and most expensive computers at the time.
  • Mother wears a t-shirt that says Aleka's Attic , the name of the band from Ko-Star River Phoenix.
  • While they rummage through Werner Brandes' trash, Mother holds up a Cap'n Crunch pack of cornflakes . In the 1970s, a toy whistle that could produce two tones was included in the pack during a promotion. The hacker John T. Draper aka "Captain Crunch" discovered that he could use this pipe for phone phreaking to make free phone calls (so-called blue boxing ). There's one more reference to John T. Draper during the game of Scrabble: the word CRUNCH is visible upside down before expanding to SCRUNCHY. Cosmo also tells Marty that he helped some Mafia men make some "free phone calls" while in prison.
  • Whistler is modeled on Joe Engressia , a blind telephone expert who was born with perfect hearing and is considered the first phone phreaker. Joe Engressia's nickname was u. a. The Whistler .
  • When Liz - under her false name "Doris" - meets Werner Brandes in the Dim Sum Bar , the band plays the song Bad, Bad Leroy Brown in Chinese . In the song, Leroy Brown gets into trouble because of a woman named Doris.

reception

The film grossed around US $ 105.2 million worldwide, including US $ 51.4 million in the US alone. On the opening weekend, the film grossed more than 10 million US dollars in North American cinemas, putting it at number one on the box-office charts. In the annual ranking of the German cinema charts, the film ranks 23rd among the most popular films in 1993, with over 1.4 million visitors .

Sneakers - Die Lautlosen received a positive response from the critics , earning an 80 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 49 reviews.

“Humorous burglar story whose high-tech garb gives old clichés the appearance of new. In the end, the top-class performers cannot hide this fact either. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

The film was nominated for the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award in the Best Picture category. He was also nominated in 1995 for the Image Award in the Best Actor category .

The German film and media rating in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating valuable .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sneakers - Die Lautlosen (1993) German dubbing files . Retrieved November 30, 2017.
  2. ↑ Sneakers. In: boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved August 25, 2018 .
  3. ↑ TOP 100 GERMANY 1993. In: insidekino.com. Retrieved August 25, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Sneakers. In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved August 25, 2018 .