Carl Schenkel – Kalt wie Eis AKA Strike Back (1981)
Florian Widegger wrote:
‘Goodbye romance – welcome reality’ is the almost programmatic title of one of the songs that accompanies this remarkable film by Siggi Götz and Jess Franco’s former assistant, who died young. The 18-year-old Dave is imprisoned for stealing a motorbike, but fakes a suicide and, chased by law enforcement officers, makes his way through West Berlin, which was surrounded by a wall at the time and is the film’s secret main attraction. First he seeks out his girlfriend, a stripper in one of the city’s hippest clubs, then he settles unfinished business with his ex-client … Schenkel’s official directorial debut – enriched with great punk and new wave music made in West Germany – is a chilly and visually stunning document of the no-future generation. Rightly cult!
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Dave knows what it is to suffer. Especially when he takes the rap for a gang of motorbike thieves and ends up in jail. All for the love of Corinna, his beautiful girlfriend. Refused parole and nearly insane with frustration he makes a violent escape to be with her and strike back.
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He is 18 and his name is David Balko, but everyone calls him Dave. He is in prison for tampering with stolen motorcycles. All hope of early release is dashed – no one from his former gang shows up and his girlfriend Corinna visits less and less often. Dave snaps. He takes off. But his escape costs a human life and turns into a nightmare. The story of a desperate search for happiness escalates into a blind rampage.
Carl Schenkel - 1981 - Kalt wie Eis [Commentary; DVD-PAL].mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1 h 23 min
Size: 1.35 GiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 668x570 ~> 950x570
Aspect ratio: 5:3
Frame rate: 25.000 fps
Bit rate: 1 874 kb/s
BPP: 0.197
Audio
#1: German 1.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s (Main)
#2: German 1.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s (Commentary by Marcus Stiglegger)
Language(s):German
Subtitles:English
