Knockin' on Heaven's Door

1997 ""

Knockin' on Heaven's Door

7.8 | 1h27m | en | Comedy

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.

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7.8 | 1h27m | en | Comedy , Crime | More Info

Released: February. 20,1997 | Released Producted By: GmbH , Mr. Brown Entertainment Country: Germany Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Til Schweiger , Jan Josef Liefers , Thierry van Werveke

Director

Gero Steffen

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GmbH , Mr. Brown Entertainment

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Reviews

tarasovalex Fate brings the characters and pictures in the hospital, where doctors render their death sentence. By the time of their lives is important. Further events in the film unfold in a rapid pace. Stealing a car with a million German marks in the trunk, they escape from the hospital.They are pursued by hired killers, they become robbers Willy-Nelly, they are chased by the police, they fall into a brothel. But nevertheless continue to rush forward towards his destiny. While watching this film, I wanted to cry. This film left me only positive emotions. Happy to watch him again.

Maxim Slavin This movie is a whole phenomenon in Russia, it hits the first places of the local lists of "must-see-movies". Many persons aged from 14 to 80 don't stop enjoying it after watching it like 5 or 10 times. I tried to analyze what made this film so popular in this country and had a couple of ideas:First of all, this movie was shown in 1999 (or something) by a nationwide TV channel in prime time (and with a good translation!). This was a really respectful move from our TV makers which provided a solid audience for the film.The second (and the most important) factor is that the plot is a total fiction (bullets don't hurt, mafia can be nice, etc...) but still extremely sincere. This is what appeals to the Russian spectator. If becoming wiser will deprive me of believing in fairy tales - then down with the wisdom!

Andrey Gabov Incredibly interesting and clever movie! This movie is very popular in Russia. Why? I don't know. May be because of its excellent philosophical meaning. But it's a fact that this film is close to the Russian spectators (it's enough to see ratings and lists of favorite films). This film is a parable about the main aim of human's life. What's really the main thing in our life? What will you do if you remained to live only several days? These are very interesting questions. And the heroes of this movie trying to answer this questions... It's not so difficult to see the sea, as it seems.

snoopdoc15 This movie is great, it should have been translated into English. It's often compared to Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino. I can understand that to a certain point because it contains witty dialogues like Pulp Fiction but it combines them with tragic and still has it's funny moments.And because of it's tragedy it makes you think, unlike Pulp Fiction (now don't get me wrong folks, I just LOVE that movie). The effect holds on and you wonder: what would I do, if I knew I'll die within a week or a month,... (some very short time period) One of the movies, that you can't just put in one genre, it's more than that. Brilliant.