Underplayed Gems

African Timber (1989)

African Timber poster
Directed by
Peter F. Bringmann
Genre
thriller film
Country
Germany, France
Runtime
1h 38m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A thriller set in Africa. An action hero fights a villainous figure in a dangerous environment. The film is a commercial genre movie from the 1980s.

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What happens

African Timber est un film d'action et d'aventure franco-allemand réalisé par Peter F. Bringmann en 1988, tourné en Afrique. Heiner Lauterbach joue le rôle principal, tandis que Dietmar Schönherr joue un méchant. Réalisateur allemand de films de genre commerciaux pour le cinéma et la télévision, Bringmann s'oppose ainsi directement au « nouveau cinéma allemand », plus controversé et expérimental, de grands noms du cinéma d'art et d'essai international tels que Fassbinder, Wenders, Kluge, von Trotta et Herzog. Son «Theo gegen den Rest der Welt/Theo Against the Rest of the World» (1980), une comédie d'aventure mettant en vedette le chanteur de rock Marius Muller-Westernhagen, a battu des records de box-office dans toute l'Allemagne. Le réalisateur et l'acteur ont depuis refait équipe pour «Der Schneemann/The Snowman» (1985). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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