Strongman Ferdinand (1976)
Der starke Ferdinand
The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups such as The Red Army Faction. Ferdinand's paranoia and methods can't be contained by his company. The sympathetically-drawn Ferdinand's ludicrous actions recall those of the cynical, disastrous axis between fascism and big business in 1930's Europe: satire of the rise of private security.
- Date of release
- 1976-04-26
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Alexander Kluge
Casting
- Heinz Schubert — Ferdinand Rieche
- Vérénice Rudolph — Gertie Kahlmann
- Joachim Hackethal — Kniebeling
- Gert Günther Hoffmann — Wilutzki
- Siegfried Wischnewski — Kobras
- Erich Kleiber — Rosotschke
- Hark Bohm
- Rolf Zacher — Reporter
- Franz Kollasch
- Daphne Wagner
- Barbara Assmann
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