Film Screening: Roland Klick's "Deadlock"

Speaker(s): André Fischer, German Studies

A young man, Kid (Marquard Bohm), stumbles through the Mexican Sierra, shot and half bled to death, carrying a suitcase containing the loot from a bank robbery. Passing out from heat and blood loss, he is found by Charles Dump (Mario Adorf), a former gold miner living on the outskirts of ghost town "Deadlock" with his daughter. As Dump realizes what's in the suitcase, he tries to come up with a plan to get rid of its owner. As they are joined by Kid's partner in crime, the sadistic killer Sunshine (Anthony Dawson) the conflict triangle is perfect. Soon it's everyone for himself in a violent endgame under the glistening sun where only one can walk away with the suitcase.