Knockin' on Heaven's Door(Movie, 1997)

Name: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1997
Duration: T01:27:00
Rating: 3.8

1h 27min | Genres: Comedy, Crime

Rating: 3.8/5 (with 209 votes)

Knockin' on Heaven's Door is a 1997 German crime tragicomedy film by Thomas Jahn, starring Til Schweiger, Moritz Bleibtreu, Jan Josef Liefers and Rutger Hauer. Its name derives from the Bob Dylan song which is also on the film's soundtrack. It was entered into the 20th Moscow International Film Festival where Til Schweiger won the Silver St. George for Best Actor. The film has received widespread popularity in Russia and other post-Soviet states and has attained a cult status there. On the Russian-language online film database Kinopoisk it is currently ranked 18th best film of all time based off 680,000 votes. In the film, two hospital patients with terminal diseases befriend each other. Wishing to see the sea before it is too late for them, they steal a roadster and start ... ()

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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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Additional Information

Production country: Germany

Shot in: Cologne

Plays in: Germany

Made by: Mr. Brown Entertainment Filmproduction GmbH (Potsdam), Buena Vista International (Germany) Filmproduktion GmbH (München)

Original language: German (DE)

Spoken languages: German (DE)

Translated into 20 languages: Belarusian (BE), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 02/20/1997

Cast: Til Schweiger, Moritz Bleibtreu, Hannes Jaenicke, Jan Josef Liefers, Leonard Lansink, Rutger Hauer, Thierry Van Werveke, Huub Stapel, Ralph Herforth, Cornelia Froboess, Christiane Paul, Helen Duval, Hark Bohm, Jürgen Becker, Markus Knüfken, Florian Fitz, Tyron Ricketts, Willi Thomczyk, Corinna Harfouch, Jenny Elvers, Muriel Baumeister, Thomas Jahn, Tobias Schenke, Bernd Eichinger, Xenia Seeberg, Sönke Wortmann, Clelia Sarto, Janine Kunze, Eva Mannschott, Wolfgang Kaven, Boris Aljinovic

Director: Thomas Jahn

Producer: Til Schweiger, André Hennicke, Bernd Eichinger

Screenwriter: Thomas Jahn, Til Schweiger

Film Editor: Alexander Berner

Director of Photography: Gero Steffen

Composer: Selig

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door"

"Batendo na Porta do Céu"

"Paradis Express"

"Dostuchat'sja do nebes"

"Knocking on Heaven's Door"

Keywords: dying and death, friendship, money delivery, road movie, ocean, brain tumor, car race, police

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