2019 - Dopo la caduta di New York (1983)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Sergio Martino

Writers:

Ernesto Gastaldi (screenplay)
Ernesto Gastaldi (story)

Release Date:

December 1984 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

In The Year 2019, The Future Depends on One Man.

Plot:

After a nuclear war, society breaks down into two groups, the evil Euraks and the rebel Federation....

Plot Keywords:

City | New York | Ape Man | Enemy | Kung Fu

Cast

Michael Sopkiw	...	Parsifal
Valentine Monnier	...	Giara
Anna Kanakis	...	Eurac Officer Ania
Romano Puppo	...	Ratchet (as Roman Geer)
Paolo Maria Scalondro	...	Bronx (as Vincent Scalondro)
Louis Ecclesia	...	Shorty
Edmund Purdom	...	President of the Pan American Confederacy
Serge Feuillard	...	Eurac Commander
Tiziana Fibi
Hal Yamanouchi	...	Rat Eater King (as Haruhiko Yamanouchi)
Alessandra Tani
Jacques Stany	...	Eurac Officer
Siriana Hernandez	...	Flower
Tony Askin	...	Aschi - Mutant
Franco Mazzieri	...	Nevada Race Announcer

Also Known As:

2019 après la chute de New York (France)
2019: After the Fall of New York (USA)
After the Fall of New York (USA)
The Fall of New York (Philippines: English title)

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

Italy | France

Language:

Italian | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:18 | Italy:T | New Zealand:R18 | Australia:R | Finland:K-18 (1997) (video rating) | Norway:18 | USA:R | USA:Unrated (original version) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Iceland:(Banned)

Company:

Les Films du Griffon

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When the sewer rats are devouring a man alive, a close-up of a "rat" chewing on flesh reveals it to actually be a guinea pig.

Movie Connections:

References Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Classic post apoc melodrama

Absolutely irresistible Italian variation on ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. The great, sadly failed, action star Michael Sopkiw as a man who must single-handedly save the continuation of the human race by finding the last fertile female alive. (Nuclear holocaust wiped out most of the rest of humanity and rendered all women infertile.) The plot was silly, but enjoyably campy. The budget was very low, but the lack of funding adds more than takes away in some cases as the bad special effects are quite fun to watch. Massively well directed and edited action scenes and some of the most entertaining music I've heard. Of all Martino's films, this is probably the easiest to appreciate. Truly a great, harmless, even lovable movie if you can look past its flaws.