4 keys
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | 4 keys |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jürgen Roland |
| script |
Max Pierre Schaeffer Thomas Keck |
| production | Hanns Eckelkamp Filmproduktion GmbH (Berlin) |
| music | Konrad Elfers |
| camera |
Wolfgang Treu Richard student |
| cut | Susanne Paschen |
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4 Keys is a German crime film from 1965 by the director Jürgen Roland .
It was based on the novel by Max Pierre Schaeffer . Schaeffer had the idea for this story after a real case in Switzerland . At that time it was common practice at banks that a safe could only be opened with four keys. Each of these keys was given to a trusted person. This should avoid being able to open the safe if you only bring one person into your power. A gang overwhelmed a banker in Zurich and forced him to call all key carriers to his home. One of the key bearers became suspicious and came with a detective. The gang then fled with the banker and shot him while trying to escape.
Max Pierre Schaeffer wondered how things would have gone if the perpetrators had been more intelligent. The film is also about how people behave when they are threatened with a weapon.
action
In a Hamburg bank, 3.5 million German marks are stored in the safe over the weekend. Banker Eduard Rose is looking forward to the arrival of his daughter Silvia Rose, who wants to come home from Vienna, where she is studying. The secretary Mrs. Quinn received a telegram according to which Silvia would arrive at the airport at noon . So Eduard Rose makes his way to Fuhlsbüttel, where he wants to pick up his daughter. Instead, a Franziska turns up there who claims to be a fellow student of Silvia, who invited her for the weekend, and that the daughter would take a later flight from Frankfurt.
Eduard Rose, who has no suspicions, drives Franziska to his villa, where a technician is checking the phone , which is supposed to be defective. The technician quickly reveals himself to be a criminal and Franziska, who the housekeeper has now locked in the bathroom.
A short time later, the head of the group, Alexander Ford, arrives. Mr Ford explains in a charming but relentless manner what it is all about for him and his people: He wants the 3.5 million DM out of the safe and for that he needs the four key carriers.
It is not so easy to get these four people, especially since some of the people do not have the keys with them. The easiest way seems to be to get in touch with Mr. Thilo, who is also Silvia Rose's fiancé. He frankly admits that the key is in a cassette in his apartment.
Frau Wohlers is intercepted on a rendezvous and has to admit that her father keeps the key. He is shot while trying to flee from the criminals. Herr von Brenken, who is spending the weekend with his secretary, Ms. Quinn, is forced to open the door by discharging engine exhaust fumes into the basement of the hunting lodge where he is holed up with his lover. The deaf and mute Phillip is shot from behind by von Brenken as he triumphantly holds up the safe key after stealing it from Brenken. Richard Hiss, the fourth key bearer, is intercepted at the horse race. Since he embezzled a few banknotes, he falls into the trap of suspecting the gangster to be a civil servant or a detective.
Together with Rose, his daughter and Richard Hiss, the gangsters get into the bank and overpower the night watchman Anton Merk. Hiss and Merk should bring the money from the safe into the car. When Merk escapes on one occasion, he is followed and shot by Ford. Merk's grandson, who spends the night with his grandfather, draws the attention of passers-by so that they call the police. When some of the perpetrators flee, they get into a fight with the police, in which one perpetrator and a police officer die.
In the end, Alexander Ford found a way out by taking Silvia Rose hostage and wanted to flee with her in a car. Completely surprisingly, the bank clerk Richard Hiss jumps in front of the car and thus prevents the escape. Hiss is killed in the process.
Reviews
"Exciting crime entertainment in a tight, reportage-like style."
“The more literary construction of the company is only imperfectly believable through the reportage style of the“ Stahlnetz ”director Roland, but the various behaviors of those involved encourage reconsideration. Possible from 16 onwards. "
Others
- Jürgen Roland plays a tiny role in baggage claim.
- Uwe Nettelbeck , film critic , always rated Roland's films very low. In the film, a grocer's name is Nettelbeck .
literature
- Max Pierre Schaeffer : Four keys. Detective novel. Heyne, Munich 1980, 205 pages, ISBN 3-453-10496-X .
Web links
- 4 Key in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 4 keys at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ 4 keys. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 10, 2017 .