Der Clown (2005)

User Rating:

4.4/10   

Director:

Sebastian Vigg

Writer:

Timo Berndt (screenplay)

Release Date:

24 March 2005 (Germany)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Thriller

Plot Keywords:

Transportpanzer Fuchs | Bundeswehr | Gold Theft | Clown | Beautiful Woman

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Sven Martinek	...	Max Hecker
Eva Habermann	...	Leah Diehl
Thomas Anzenhofer	...	Tobias 'Dobbs' Steiger
Götz Otto	...	Zorbek
Dirk Heinrichs	...	Marten
Oscar Ortega Sánchez	...	Kameramann
Martin Brambach	...	Kähler
Xaver Hutter	...	Salbach
Diana Frank	...	Claudia Diehl
Xenia Seeberg	...	Mona
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Christian Beuter	...	Polizist
Thomas Born	...	Tom
Patrice Bouédibéla	...	Daib
Stefan Gebelhoff	...	Wolff
Bernhard Hoëcker	...	Erdoan
Dave Mallow	...	Tobias 'Dobbs' Steiger (voice: English version)
Claudia Mehnert	...	Antonia
Pat Murphy	...	Polizist
Stefan Richter	...	Soldier
Andreas Schmidt-Schaller	...	Führmann
Frank-Leo Schröder	...	Leah´s Boss
Stefan Weinert	...	Martin schneider
Crisjan Zöllner	...	Soldat

Also Known As:

The Clown: Payday (UK) (TV title)

Runtime:

Germany:104 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Finland:K-15 (VHS rating) (2006) | Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Cologne, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany

Company:

Action Concept Cinema & Company

Trivia:

Holds a record for the most expensive German movie screenplay. During development, producers demanded constant rewrites from the original authors -- who had to be paid for every single draft. Then, after the production had already spent around 250.000 Euro on the script, it was finally rejected and writer Timo Berndt started from scratch to write the script that ended up being used.

Goofs:

Continuity: Eva Habermann has through the whole movie some cream boots except in the scenes where she sprang out of the helicopter on the roof of the building. There she had some terrain flat shoes in same color.

Movie Connections:

Follows "Der Clown" (1998)

Banal, Obvious, Trite

I love both Eva Habermann and Xenia Seeberg for their incredible performances in immortal Lexx Series. But here I was so badly shocked and so much disappointed that no words can come in. The plot is a real obvious silliness - bad guys, Xenia is among them, are always plotting some bad actions, only to steal some big chunk of gold from some place. Good guys, including Eva and some mystical Der Clown, as a modern day Robin Hood, always hinder them on doing that. There are many cars exploded, some helicopters, some airplanes, some cycles, some bombs, some more... It all looks like a cheap remake f some Commando or Rambo films, only with poor play and cheap budget. Xenis does not play, she only makes effective poses and shows her legs galore. Eva is better by a hair width, she is always cool but then frightened and brave. I say, this is a brainless, light weight ditty, not a serious thought behind. Do not waste your time on that. But it is good for laughs.