If you die, i'm alive!

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Movie
German title If you die, I'll be alive!
Original title Autostop rosso sangue
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1977
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Pasquale Festa Campanile
script Peter Kane
Aldo Crudo
Pasquale Festa Campanile
Ottavio Jemma
production Mario Montanari
Bruno Turchetto
music Ennio Morricone
camera Franco Di Giacomo
Giuseppe Ruzzolini
cut Antonio Siciliano
occupation

If you die, I'll be alive! (also in the spelling If you krepierst - I live , original: Autostop rosso sangue ) is an Italian film by the director Pasquale Festa Campanile from 1977. It is also known as The Death Trip .

action

The alcoholic Italian Walter Mancini is a selfish journalist who goes camping with his wife in the mountains of northern California. The marriage between Walter and the attractive Eve is not happy: both make fun of each other in front of others, argue incessantly and have callous sex. You are taking a hitchhiker with you, Adam, who has a large suitcase with him. When he obscenely harassed Eve while driving, Walter's fuses blow. The couple stops, Walter pulls Adam out of the vehicle and beats him. However, Adam pulls a gun and takes the two hostages. He's a bank robber and there's $ 2 million in his suitcase. Both the police and his cronies, whom he cheated of the loot, are after him. When two patrol officers stop the car, Walter succeeds in signaling one of the police officers that Adam has kidnapped them. The policeman understands the message and tries to behave inconspicuously, but Adam senses this and shoots both policemen in cold blood.

When Eve tries to make the gas station tenant aware of her situation at a gas station, she fails because he only speaks Spanish. In the evening, the three of them set up camp in a remote place. First, Walter interviews Adam because Adam suggested that he write an action novel. The more alcohol he drinks, however, the more uncontrolled he becomes, ties Walter up and wants to get on with Eve. His two companions appear and shoot Adam, who then falls into a stream. The two take the couple hostage and want to flee with them to Mexico. However, Adam survived the shot and took possession of a truck and a firearm. He goes in pursuit, catches up with the four and overpowers them. He puts his two companions alive in the truck and lets it crash into a slope, where it explodes. The three continue their journey. The next night, Adam harasses Eve again. He ties Walter up and forces him to watch as he rapes Eve on earth. Eve pretends to have fun with Adam and asks him to go into the trailer with her. Walter now manages to cut his bonds with a shard. But not fast enough, Adam comes out of the trailer and is about to murder Walter when Eve shoots him with the couple's hunting rifle. Walter suggests keeping the money, ignoring his wife's remorse. The two want to drive off and leave the body lying there. However, they got stuck in the soft ground. When a strange driver arrives, Walter is forced to quickly move the body into the trailer. The driver helps them pull the vehicle out of the ground. The two of them eat something at a gas station. There they sit next to two couples who are on the road with two motorbikes. When they see Walter pulling a large wad of money out of his pocket, they tell them to buy them a drink. Walter replies that they should look for work. However, Eve invites them to dinner. Later, the motorcyclists overtake Eve and Walter and set a trap for them by laying a track of gasoline on the road. Walter loses control of the vehicle and rolls over. The motorcyclists take a wad of money out of the helpless couple's pockets and disappear. Walter, who is unharmed, can free himself. Instead of helping his seriously injured wife, he dragged Adam's body into the vehicle and told her that this would be a good opportunity to get rid of her. He had planned to do this anyway. He showered the vehicles with gasoline and set them on fire with his wife who was still alive, and hitchhiked off to start a new life with the suitcase.

background

In The Devil Thumbs a Ride , a short documentary about this film, Nero said that he got the lead role in this film through his acquaintance with the director Pasquale Festa Campanile. Nero was just in Germany and shot the film The 21 Hours of Munich . David Hess also had a small role in the film.

When Nero got the offer to direct the film, he proposed Hess as the second male lead. After Nero broke his hand, that was built into the plot of If You Die, I'll Live With. For cost reasons, the film was shot in the mountains of Gran Sasso , around the town of L'Aquila in central Italy. The area resembles the mountains of Northern California .

An edited version of the film was released on video in Germany. There was also an uncut broadcast on the television station Tele5. In March 2016, the unabridged version was submitted to the FSK for examination, which approved it for publication from the age of 16.

criticism

If you die, I'll live! is an excellently cast psychological thriller that brings sadism and meanness to the screen in such a concentrated manner that it is almost unbearable. "

- DVD.Uncut.

"Tasteless work full of perversities"

- CINEMA

"A shabby speculative product aimed solely at sex and violence that indiscriminately denounces social fringe groups"

- Two thousand and one film review.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. on DVD uncut
  2. Critique of Cinema
  3. Critique in the two thousand and one