Strongman Ferdinand

1976 · 91 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 190 VOTES · DIR. Alexander Kluge

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Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline - 700 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME - EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:15 This is stupid! That's no way to talk to a superior.
00:04:34 Security zone 5: Everything in its entirety.
00:08:06 Keep them out. Send them to a café.
00:10:52 Richard dear
00:14:12 That's all. Good night, gentlemen.
00:16:37 Well then.
00:22:19 A lift, please.
00:26:53 A systematic viewpoint:
00:29:16 Wertheim? - When someone infringes upon a legally protected property.
00:35:11 We'll lose all our customers if our works are being sabotaged! Got that?
00:38:46 Enough with the small stuff, what about the big items?
00:41:36 5-Deputy Chief Medical Service 6-Property Protection Headquarters
00:45:48 That's my business. Evening.
00:51:45 the works guards have been going from time clock to time clock.
00:55:15 3: Think about the starving in India. - It's warm there. - 4: Find lodgings.
01:00:03 then you'd have an overall picture!
01:04:23 Against this background, the chairman's ambiguous words.
01:08:25 May we check your bag, please?
01:11:40 You know I could get a search warrant. You've got a skeleton in the closet!
01:16:02 Wilutzki's impudent manner
01:20:26 Cut the phone lines. No one gets in or out. Wilutzki's under house arrest.
01:24:53 No, we can't touch the meat.
01:27:29 Any closer and the muzzle flash would have shown. - You were caught anyway.
01:29:49 from "Learning Processes with Deadly Results," Suhrkamp 665.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed700
Dialogue density7.7 lines / min
First line00:01:15
Final line01:29:49

Production Record

DirectorAlexander Kluge
LanguageGerman
IMDb votes190