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Straight Shooter
Germany 1998. Former Foreign Legionnaire Volker Bretz has gone on the rampage. His victims: leading industrialists in the nuclear industry and prominent politicians. He holds them responsible for the death of his little daughter from cancer because he believes that the controversial nuclear plant ATAR II was the reason for the fatal illness. He had first asked, then implored and finally warned the atom lobby to shut the nuclear power stations down. He once more assumes his battle name - Straight Shooter - from the Foreign Legion. Shooter is always able to escape the police's clutches because he was specially trained for fighting behind the lines. He now uses this knowledge for his deadly attacks. Frank Hector, Shooter's former trainer at the Legion, is brought in to give assistance. The police and the politicians plan to neutralize Shooter with his help. At the same time, they draw an image of left-wing terrorism for the public. Hector is forced to make a distinction between his loyalties to the young man he once trained and to the society and authorities, and to his fellow men. He is joined at his side by Helga Toelle, a young careerist public prosecutor. She has a son who is the same age as Shooter's daughter had been....
Thomas Bohn was born in Wuppertal in 1959 and trained at television studios in Munich and in Washington, USA. He has directed around 100 commercials since 1986, written a novel (Der Querschlaeger) and penned scripts for a Tatort episode, Die Kampagne, and The Plan. His films include Held von Heute (short, 1982), Timezones (short, 1985), Viva (1986), Magic Mueller (TV film, 1993), Tatort: Die Kampagne (TV film, 1995), The Plan - An Ecomedy (Die Aktion - Eine Oeko-moedie, TV film, 1996) and Straight Shooter (1999). Since then, he has been working exclusively for television, mostly for parts of the German Tatort-series.Director Thomas Bohn
Screenplay Thomas Bohn
Director of Photography Peter von Haller
Producers Hanno Huth, Joseph Vilsmaier
Production Companies Perathon Film/Munich, Senator Film Produktion/Berlin
Principal Cast Heino Ferch, Katja Flint, Dennis Hopper
Length 100 min, 2,800 m
Format 35 mm, color, cs
Original Version German/English
Subtitled Versions German, English
Sound Technology Dolby Digital
With backing from German Federal Film Board (FFA), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern
German Distributor Senator Film Verleih/Berlin
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