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Die Hard(Movie, 1988)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 11min | Genres: Action, Thriller
Die HardRating: 3.9/5 (with 49534,953 votes) 827
Die Hard is a 1988 American action thriller film directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. It stars Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, and Bonnie Bedelia, with Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Paul Gleason, and Hart Bochner in supporting roles. Die Hard follows New York City police detective John McClane (Willis) who is caught up in a terrorist takeover of a Los Angel... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Die Hard

Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Foreign Language Film Academy Award for Best Sound Editing Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Sound Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

About Die Hard

NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down.

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Production country: United States of America (USA)
Based on the work of: Roderick Thorp ("Nothing Lasts Forever")
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: German (DE), English (EN), Italian (IT)
Translated into 40 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Estonian (ET), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Indonesian (ID), Icelandic (IS), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Latvian (LV), Macedonian (MK), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Slovenian (SL), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 11/10/1988 (World premiere: 07/15/1988)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Duro de Matar"
"La jungla de cristal"
"Die Hard 1 - Piège de cristal"
"Die Hard - Trappola di cristallo"
"다이하드"
"Cietais rieksts"
"Duro de Matar"
"Assalto ao Arranha-Céus"
"Die Hard I"

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