Long Hello and Short Goodbye

Long Hello and Short Goodbye (1999)

The cop Kahnitz wants to finish off the little gangster Ben. The young undercover policewoman Melody is supposed to tempt him to make his final break. What Melody doesn't know is that Kahnitz and Ben are connected by a dark chapter in their past, and Melody is supposed to help Kahnitz settle his old scores. But the intriguing game of love, hate, crime and betrayal inevitably drags everyone involved into a bloody showdown...

Date of release
1999-07-15
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Comedy, Thriller
Director
Rainer Kaufmann

Casting

Interesting facts

Long Hello and Short Goodbye is a 1999 German neo-noir crime film directed by Rainer Kaufmann, produced by Studio Hamburg Letterbox Filmproduktion and co-authored by Jeff Vintar and Martin Rauhaus.

Production history

Based on an original English-language screenplay by I, Robot writer Jeff Vintar, the English-language version of Vintar's screenplay struggled to reach the screen for many years. The work was under a variety of producers and production companies; hence, the script was under option for a very long time.

The screenplay that eventually made it to the screen was developed by the production company Circle of Confusion. Shortly before the movie's release, the film's producers "got cold feet" and re-edited the film to give it a linear narrative, which became the version that made it to the screen.

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