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Samurai (Der)
- Director: Till Kleinert
- Writer: Till Kleinert
- Producer: Anna de Paoli; Linus de Paoli
CGiii Comment
Where to begin with this one...
Technically - for the budget - it's pretty damn good. The lighting is rather spectacular and, with some clever little gimmicks and SFX...praise and credibility are easily awarded to those involved.
However...the story! It starts off well - even believable - a wolf is terrorising a small village, a young policeman is on the case. Cue: a samurai sword wielding transvestite, called Lonely Wolf...with a penchant for beheading all those who cross paths with her/him. These two disparate characters fight it out - without actually telling anyone what they really are fighting about - apart from the multiple beheadings...cause enough for an arrest...but, there's more to it!
The film is strewn with decapitated heads. So, there's mayhem without menace, barbarity bordering on the bizarre and, a conclusion without a resolution.
It seems that Kleinert likes to be impulsive...pushing his actors to do the inexplicable...jumping into a canal for no apparent reason, mutilating a pink, plastic flamingo and an erection...the list is endless and - sadly - pointless.
In the cinema, there were a few awkward laughs at a few awkward places...perhaps, this is a comedy for an accentuated, acquired taste. Who knows?!?!
Bizarre [but credible] budget film-making.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
A wolf strives through the woods around an isolated German village. Jakob the young local police officer is onto him, but scents something more in the darkness. What he finds is a man, it seems, wild eyed, of wiry build, in a dress. He carries a katana, a Samurai sword. When the Samurai invites Jakob to follow him on his crusade towards the village, it becomes Jakob's mission to pursue the lunatic to end this wanton destruction. At the end of the night Jakob has experienced too much, is too far from whom he once was. Something hidden has been unleashed to meet the first rays of daylight.
Cast & Characters
Uwe Preuss as Horvath;
Michael Schumacher as Polizist;
Pit Bukowski as Der Samurai;
Ulrike Bliefert as Die alte Frau;
Yvonne Yung Hee;
Gernot Alwin Kunert as Wachtmeister Giersch;
Manfred Mock as Postbote;
Michel Diercks as Jakob;
Kaja Blachnik as Karo;
Ulrike Hanke-Haensch as Frau Wolski