Der Mann, der sich in Luft auflöste
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Directed by | Péter Bacsó |
Screenplay by | Wolfgang Mühlbauer |
Based on | The Man Who Went Up in Smoke by Sjöwall and Wahlöö |
Produced by | |
Starring | Derek Jacobi |
Cinematography | Tamás Andor |
Music by | Jacques Loussier |
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Running time | 111 minutes |
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Language | Hungarian |
Der Mann, der sich in Luft auflöste (“The Man Who Went Up in Smoke”) (Swedish: Mannen som gick upp i rök) is a German-Hungarian 1980 police film about Martin Beck, directed by Péter Bacsó.
Plot
[edit]During the height of a Cold War, a drunken reporter from Sweden disappears without a trace while on a business trip in Budapest. Meanwhile, the tabloid for which he was writing sounds an alarm, with the Swedish government trying to avoid direct confrontation with the Hungarian police. Martin Beck, a detective, takes the case, and is sent behind enemy lines as a private citizen, to find the reporter and bring him back to Sweden. However, the official of the homicide commission faces a dilemma: How will he be able to locate a Swedish national in a city of two million? They need to interrogate charming Ari, a Hungarian girlfriend of the missing person, to gather the clues on his whereabouts.
Cast
[edit]- Derek Jacobi as Martin Beck
- Judy Winter as Aina Mattsson
- Lasse Strömstedt as Kollberg
- Ferenc Bàcs as Major Szluka
- Krisztina Peremartoni as Aranka Ari
- Tomas Bolme as Åke Gunnarsson
- Thomas Oredsson as Alf Mattsson
- Kjell Bergqvist as Stenström
- Mari Szür as Mrs Bubla
- Sándor Szabó as Sós
- Zoltán Gera as Kuti
- Dieter Schidor as Embassy Secretary
- Helena Brodin as Mrs Beck