Der Mann, der sich in Luft auflöste (“The man who disappeared into thin air”) (Swedish: Mannen som gick upp i rök) is a German 1980 police film about Martin Beck, directed by Péter Bacsó.
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Directed by | Péter Bacsó |
Screenplay by | Wolfgang Mühlbauer |
Based on | The Man Who Went Up in Smoke by Sjöwall and Wahlöö |
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Starring | Derek Jacobi |
Cinematography | Tamás Andor |
Music by | Jacques Loussier |
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Running time | 111 minutes |
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Language | Hungarian |
During the height of a Cold War, a drunken reporter from Sweden disappears without a trace while on a business trip in Budapest. Meanwhile, the tabloid for which he was writing sounds an alarm, with the Swedish government trying to avoid direct confrontation with the Hungarian police. Martin Beck, a detective, takes the case, and is sent behind enemy lines as a private citizen, to find the reporter and bring him back to Sweden. However, the official of the homicide commission faces a dilemma: How will he be able to locate a Swedish national in a city of two million? They need to interrogate charming Ari, a Hungarian girlfriend of the missing person, to gather the clues on his whereabouts.
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