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Fail-Safe (1964)

Angriffsziel Moskau

subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Turkish

Genre: Drama, Classics

Plot:

It's Dr. Strangelove, but without the laughs. Fail Safe, made within a year of Strangelove and at the height of cold war atomic anxiety, posits a similar nightmare scenario. A U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered toward Moscow, ready to drop its load. The U.S. president (Henry Fonda) and various military and congressional leaders must then scramble to deal with the disaster. The built-in suspense is well maintained by director Sidney Lumet, working from a script by former blacklisted writer Walter Bernstein. The solemn, serious approach doesn't begin to touch the brilliance of Strangelove's inspired take on the nuclear nightmare, but Fail Safe is absorbing and well acted (a memorable role for Walter Matthau, for instance). The movie enters unexpected territory in its final minutes; conditioned for feel-good endings, viewers are still genuinely shocked by the plot turns in the final reels. The climax comes as a sobering slap in the face, intriguingly staged by Lumet. Now that the cold war has passed on into history, Fail Safe stands as--thank goodness--an interesting period piece.

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Eine amerikanische Bomberstaffel erhält durch einen Fehlalarm den Befehl, Atombomben über Moskau abzuwerfen; sämtliche Versuche, das Himmelfahrtskommando rechtzeitig zu stoppen, versagen.

Minuziös beschreibt der Film die Verkettung von Misstrauen und Täuschungen, Sicherheitsdenken und allzu später Kooperation zwischen den amerikanischen und den sowjetischen Militärs sowie den politischen Spitzen: Für jede denkbare Massnahme hat der Gegner im Voraus schon so wirksame Vorkehrungen getroffen, dass sich alle Bemühungen aufheben. Nach einer betont nüchternen Exposition entwickelt Lumet diese Eigendynamik der Abwehrmaschinerie so konsequent, dass der Film auf dem Höhepunkt erzählerisch und visuell surreale Züge annimmt. Ein kleines Meisterwerk des Huis clos und ein grandioses Zeitdokument.

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Director: Sidney Lumet

Starring: Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Dom DeLuise

DVD Extras:

Scene Selections, Commentary with Director Sidney Lumet, Fail-Safe Revisited (16min), Theatrical Trailer

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