Outbreak of the 28th
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Outbreak of the 28th |
| Original title | The McKenzie Break |
| Country of production | Great Britain , Ireland |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lamont Johnson |
| script |
William W. Norton , Sidney Shelley |
| production |
Arthur Gardner , Jules V. Levy |
| music | Riz Ortolani |
| camera | Michael Reed |
| cut | Tom Rolf |
| occupation | |
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Outbreak of 28 is a British - Irish war film of the director Lamont Johnson in 1970. The screenplay is based on a novel by Sidney Shelley , who also collaborated on the screenplay. The film premiered on October 28, 1970 in the United States . It first appeared in Germany on January 12, 1971.
action
Captain Connor, a British Army officer from Ireland , was summoned to Camp MacKenzie POW camp in Scotland in the middle of World War II . Mainly German naval and air force officers are held there. Connor is a headstrong officer who seldom adheres to service regulations. He is supposed to help the overstrained camp commandant Major Perry to deal with the unruly prisoners - especially members of the Navy. He has the fire brigade spray down a prisoner riot. The captain suspects that the Germans are trying to distract from a planned breakout. Connor's suspicions are confirmed when Lieutenant Neuchl lies in the infirmary after a staged fight. Half unconscious, Neuchl speaks incoherently of a planned escape operation. But before Neuchl can wake up from his subsequent faint, he is strangled - which the Germans disguised as suicide by hanging. The fighter pilot was exposed to hostility because he was considered a conformist and homosexual among his fellow prisoners . Connor promises the German naval officer Schlueter on the head that he thinks he is the person responsible for the murder of Neuchl. And for that he “will hang”.
Kapitänleutnant Schlüter - U-boat commander, staunch Nazi and leader of the German prisoners of war - is in contact with Berlin. A German submarine is said to be ready for the escape off the coast. A tunnel will enable 28 submarine men to escape to the Scottish coast. In order to be able to raise the German submarine, Connor, who got wind of the plan, gives the escapees the opportunity to escape. Major Perry is against it, but Connor prevails. Shortly afterwards, however, the track of the Germans is lost. Hidden in a moving van, they arrive at the coast. Connor searches for the fugitives with an airplane. Only at the last moment does he discover Schlueter and his men when they abseil down from the steep coast to cross over to the waiting submarine in rubber dinghies. Before that, the submarine people carelessly crashed their escape vehicle into the depths, and the smoke rising from the burning wreck could not be overlooked. Connor alarms a waiting motor torpedo boat via radio . However, the warship arrives a little too late, so that only Schlueter and three of his people can be captured again. In a rage, Schlüter had fired a submachine gun at Connor's plane from his boat. The frustrated Connor sees himself exposed to further trouble and disciplinary proceedings. From above he looks down at his German rival and mumbles to himself: "Willi, now we're both in the shit".
Reviews
The lexicon of international films describes the production as “a story characterized by improbabilities and lying adventurousness. The film, fraught with amusing flaws in the equipment, celebrates the sporting admiration that some military men, across national borders, show each other for heroic action ”. The Variety, on the other hand, praises the "imaginative, intelligent script, the crackling direction by Lamont Johnson and the powerful, three-dimensional portraits by Keith and Griem". Cinema magazine also sees the film as rather positive and describes it as “war action with psychological tension. Conclusion: top thrills against a war backdrop ”. The evangelical film observer , on the other hand, judges ambiguously : “Johnson’s strip presents itself as a conflict between two different conceptions of freedom, duty and order, personified in the two main actors. Despite the restrained game and the astonishingly objective portrayal of the enemy camps, you don't have to see this film. "
Awards
Brian Keith took third place in the Best Action Performance category at the 1971 Laurel Awards .
background
The film is based on real events at the Grizedale Hall prisoner of war camp in Cumbria and partly on the events of Operation Kibitz , in which German submarine captains were to be freed from a prisoner of war camp in Canada.
The film was shot in Ireland, the submarine scenes at the end of the film were filmed in Turkey .
Director Johnson made a name for himself in the 1960s directing several successful television series. For Tom Rolf , who later won an Oscar-winning film and was born in Sweden as Ernst Rolf, it was the fifth time he was working on a movie.
Web links
- Outbreak of 28 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Outbreak of the 28th In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed August 27, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117793041.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&p=0 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ cinema.de
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 497/1970
- ↑ Outbreak of 28 at Turner Classic Movies (English)
