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Dead Fish

Dead Fish

Germany | 2004, 95 min.

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Festival edition: 2005

Section: Premieres 2005|2006

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A black comedy thriller about assassins, traitors and lovers. Present-day London. Humble key cutter Abe is having what is not his best day. His Spanish girlfriend announces she is pregnant and storms off to Madrid. Debt collector Danny Devine (Robert Carlyle) gives Abe 24 hours to pay off his debts “or else”. Abe switches cell phones with Lynch (Gary Oldman), a neurotic hit man. Now at least two other assassins want him dead. If that weren’t enough, he gets a contract to kill Fish (Terence Stamp). Abe has to get through the day, without being killed or killing anyone. He just wants to earn enough dough to pay back Devine, and most importantly make sure he doesn't lose the girl he loves…

Director(-s): Charley Stadler

He began a career in fashion photography. He quickly found himself shooting images for magazines such as "Elle", "Vogue" and "Max". In the mid 1990s he moved to commercial directing (BMW, Guinness, Mercedes, among others). Made his first short "8cht" in 1997. "Dead Fish" is his feature debut.

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2004 Dead Fish
1997 8cht (kr.m.)

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Producer: Dan Maag, Philip Schulz-Deyle

Cast: Gary Oldman (Lynch), Robert Carlyle (Danny Devine), Elena Anaya (Mimi), Jimi Mistry (Salvador), Andrew Lee Potts (Abe), Billy Zane (Virgil), Terence Stamp (Fish)

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