The Man Inside - Deadly News

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Movie
German title The Man Inside - Deadly News
Original title The Man Inside
Country of production France , USA
original language English
Publishing year 1990
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Bobby Roth
script Bobby Roth,
Günter Wallraff
production Philippe Diaz
music Tangerine Dream
camera Ricardo Aronovich
cut Luce Grunenwaldt
occupation

The Man Inside is a 1990 film by director Bobby Roth . It premiered in July 1990 at MystFest in Cattolica, Italy. The Man Inside was also nominated for the best film category there. The film was first shown in Germany on June 19, 1991. The film was released as a purchase video under the title The Price of Truth .

action

The Portuguese general Borges plans to return to his home country. In order to come back to power, he is preparing a coup from abroad. The journalist Günter Wallraff, who specializes in political revelations, manages to infiltrate Borge's confidants. He found out that the high-ranking German politician Heinz Herbert Schultz was involved in this putsch. This comes after the announcement of Wallraff's research in distress. The newspaper founder and publisher of “Standard” does not like this fact at all. His editor-in-chief Schroeter then lets his editors begin a character assassination campaign against Wallraff. Despite the massive threat, however, it cannot be stopped. He can be hired as editor Franz Messer at Standard to report on the connection between the newspaper and the right-wing regimes abroad. He soon becomes part of the machinations and is sent into action with star reporter Henry Tobel. Wallraff is finally exposed. With Tobel's help, however, he manages to incriminate the standard in court. However, Tobel pays for the subsequent feed of the material with his life.

background

After three and a half months as editor of the Bild newspaper , Günter Wallraff shook the German media landscape with his book Der Aufmacher in 1977. The newspaper Standard mentioned in the film is actually BILD. Furthermore, the role of Hermes Brauner corresponds to the founder of the picture, Axel Springer . Wallraff did not investigate under the name of Franz Messer, but as Hans Esser.

Reviews

The lexicon of the international film judges: “Exciting, if a bit wooden and clichéd story developed after the experiences of the journalist Günter Wallraff [...]. Honest in its political intent, the film paints the cliché picture of the "ugly German" in the description of the newspaper makers. "

Moviemaster.de writes that the film is a “sensational flick, which, however, remains in the aesthetics of the early 1980s and, as a 'documentary evidence of the times', hardly gets under your skin.” Cinema.de speaks of a “captivating, but unfortunately also banal crime thriller " .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Man Inside - Deadly News in the Lexicon of International Films
  2. ↑ cf. The Man Inside - Deadly news on moviemaster.de
  3. ↑ The Man Inside - Deadly News on cinema.de

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