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Desperado City

BR Deutschland 1980/1981 Spielfilm

A film about outsiders and drop-outs and the directorial debut by actor Vadim Glowna: Skoda, son of a wealthy banker, is fed up with his bourgeois home and leaves it to work for the taxi driver Eva. He has a relationship with her and shares a taxi with her: he drives at night, she during the day. Liane quits her apprenticeship as a hairdresser without knowing what to do next. Liane gets to know Skoda. Together they dream of fleeing to America. They sleep together. Eva catches them and commits suicide. Her ex-husband blames Skoda for Eva's death. The stripper Hilke is chased and murdered by pimps. Skoda avenges her death. During a robbery at his father's bank, he is shot and killed.

Credits

Director

  • Vadim Glowna

Screenplay

  • Vadim Glowna

Director of photography

  • Thomas Mauch

Editing

  • Helga Borsche

Music

  • Stanley Walden

Cast

  • Siemen Rühaak
    Skoda
  • Beate Finckh
    Liane
  • Vera Tschechowa
    Hilke
  • Karin Baal
    Eva Buchholz
  • Vadim Glowna
    Onkel Paul
  • Witta Pohl
    Lianes Mutter Gertrud
  • Harry Kuznia
    Lianes Vater Walter
  • Stanley Walden
    Sänger Stanley Walden
  • Domenica Niehoff
    Titten-Ilse
  • Rosemarie Heinikel
    Algerien-Rita

Production company

  • Atossa Film Produktion GmbH (München)

Producer

  • Vadim Glowna

Alle Credits

Director

  • Vadim Glowna

Assistant director

  • Marijan Vajda

Script supervisor

  • Noemi Ivich

Screenplay

  • Vadim Glowna

Director of photography

  • Thomas Mauch

Assistant camera

  • Rainer Klausmann

Optical effects

  • Bernhard Niedermayer (Tricks)

Still photography

  • Lilian Birnbaum

Lighting design

  • Tassilo Peik

Set design

  • Wolfgang Rux
  • Jürgen Henze

Property master

  • Matti Geschonneck

Stand-by props

  • Pia Frankenberg

Construction manager

  • Erich Möller
  • Roland Tallay

Title

  • Bernhard Niedermayer

Make-up artist

  • Eva von Giese

Costume design

  • Gabriele Bernhardt

Editing

  • Helga Borsche

Assistant editor

  • Corina Dietz-Heyne
  • Maja Braun

Negative cutter

  • Hannelore Genth

Sound

  • Edward Parente

Sound assistant

  • Michael Etz

Audio mixing

  • Milan Bor

Stunts

  • Peter Hick

Music

  • Stanley Walden

Cast

  • Siemen Rühaak
    Skoda
  • Beate Finckh
    Liane
  • Vera Tschechowa
    Hilke
  • Karin Baal
    Eva Buchholz
  • Vadim Glowna
    Onkel Paul
  • Witta Pohl
    Lianes Mutter Gertrud
  • Harry Kuznia
    Lianes Vater Walter
  • Stanley Walden
    Sänger Stanley Walden
  • Domenica Niehoff
    Titten-Ilse
  • Rosemarie Heinikel
    Algerien-Rita
  • Caroline Haggerty
    Mona
  • Heinz Donaz
    Kurt
  • Peter Nusser
    Ekke
  • Heino Lucht
    Berni
  • Hanno Thurau
    Heinz
  • Klaus K. Kiehle
    Ledertyp
  • Irmgard Veithen
    Blondie
  • Uwe Hacker
    Pfandleiher
  • Ursula Schaefflein-Dietrich
    Chefin
  • Senta Sommerfeld
    Frau Hölermann
  • Carmela Di Napoli
    Gerti
  • Claudia Bünger
    Minderjährige Hure
  • Heike Thiele
    Mädchen
  • Adolph Hansen
    Rentner
  • Franky
    1. Schausteller
  • Lorenzo Basso
    2. Schausteller
  • George Moorse
    Liebhaber

Production company

  • Atossa Film Produktion GmbH (München)

Producer

  • Vadim Glowna

Co-Producer

  • Vera Tschechowa

Line producer

  • Peter Wohlgemuth

Unit production manager

  • Hans-Christian Hess

Location manager

  • Reinhard Hinrichs
  • Rainer Köhnke
  • Franz Josef Hübner

Production manager

  • Regine Berndt

Production office

  • Ellen Jäger

Original distributor

  • Filmwelt Verleih- und Vertriebs GmbH (München)

Funding

  • Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film (Wiesbaden)

Shoot

    • 27.05.1980 - 04.07.1980: Hamburg
Duration:
2697 m, 98 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,66
Video/Audio:
Fujicolor, Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 08.05.1981, 52340, ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 23.04.1981, München, Leopold 2

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Desperado City

Versions

Original

Duration:
2697 m, 98 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,66
Video/Audio:
Fujicolor, Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 08.05.1981, 52340, ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 23.04.1981, München, Leopold 2

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