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1984 [GERMAN]

Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi

2
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 50%
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 1255 1.3K

Director

Muscha Photo
Muscha

Top cast

FM Einheit Photo
FM Einheit as F.M.
Ralf Richter Photo
Ralf Richter as Jaeger's Assistant
Dietrich Kuhlbrodt Photo
Dietrich Kuhlbrodt as Crisis staff
Werner Veigel Photo
Werner Veigel as Self
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
815.91 MB
1280*960
Multiple languages 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 3
1.48 GB
1440*1080
Multiple languages 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by filmreviewradical 5 / 10

Music, sounds and information used as weapons

FM discovers a way of undermining the burger peddlers in fast food joints by playing the screams of a tortured frog. But in this authoritarian CCTV ridden surveillance society where information is power his activities have not gone unnoticed by the powers that be. Released in it's native West Germany in 1984 this feature film is a bizarre, absurdist SF fantasy set in a world beset with an increasing number of riots, television screens everywhere, peep shows, and even fast food joints. Director Muscha's film (apparently originally to have been called 'Burger War') has a screenplay by Klaus Maeck, Volker Schaefer and Trini Trimpop dealing with themes of conformity and control, order and disorder (potent themes in Germany), and where music, sounds and information are increasingly used to counter the controlling power of the authorities (and vice versa) in information wars (information is like a bank, with some people rich and others poor, according to Genesis P Orridge's character). Filmed in Hamburg, Berlin and London, and also featuring FM Einheit (as FM), Bill Rice (as Jagger), Ralph Richter, William S Burroughs (whose writings are said to have loosely inspired this film), and Christiane Felscherinow (Christiane F to you and me), it's described as a 'cyberpunk' film, and has a subversive streak running through it - the H Burger training scene, and war mongering video games (militarism for kids) intercut with war scenes and military exercises. And then there's all those damn frogs.
Reviewed by Horst_In_Translation 2 / 10

No idea what I just watched

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