Die Nazis sind gezwungen, sich an einen jüdischen Historiker zu wenden, um Hilfe im Kampf gegen den antiken Dämon zu erhalten, den sie versehentlich aus seinem Gefängnis befreit haben.Die Nazis sind gezwungen, sich an einen jüdischen Historiker zu wenden, um Hilfe im Kampf gegen den antiken Dämon zu erhalten, den sie versehentlich aus seinem Gefängnis befreit haben.Die Nazis sind gezwungen, sich an einen jüdischen Historiker zu wenden, um Hilfe im Kampf gegen den antiken Dämon zu erhalten, den sie versehentlich aus seinem Gefängnis befreit haben.
- Auszeichnungen
- 1 Nominierung insgesamt
- Alexandru
- (as Morgan Sheppard)
Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesThe main set of the film was built in a disused abandoned former slate quarry at Glyn Rhonwy near Llanberis in North Wales. Some interiors of "The Keep" were filmed inside the natural stonework of the Llechwedd Slate Caverns near the historic mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd, Wales. Michael Mann once described the set by saying: "It's a black monumental structure that might have been built by a medieval Albert Speer."
- PatzerWhen Dr Cuza is translating the writing on the wall, he says "The form is the imperative" i.e. that it's a command. That's taken from the source novel, where the writing is translated as "Strangers, leave my home!" But in the film the translation is "I will be free", which is not an imperative statement.
- Zitate
[Molasar appears and talks to the frightened Dr. Cuza]
Molasar: You have... death around you.
Dr. Cuza: Your hands?
[points at Molasar's powerful hands that touched him last time and healed him]
Molasar: No.
Dr. Cuza: Then, what you sense is my fate in a death camp?
Molasar: A place where people gather to die?
Dr. Cuza: A place where people are murdered!
Molasar: [loud] My people are murdered?
Dr. Cuza: Yes! And others, from all over Europe!
Molasar: [angry] Who does this?
Dr. Cuza: Their leader... in Berlin. And the soldiers in black.
Molasar: [screams] I WILL DESTROY THEM! I will consume their lives...
Dr. Cuza: When could you do this?
Molasar: When I am complete. In two nights. If... I can leave this place.
Dr. Cuza: Why couldn't you?
Molasar: Because an object of mine, the origin of my power, must be removed from the Keep and hidden in these mountains and kept save from people here... and from anyone who may come here. It must be done by someone I can trust... like you. Only then can I leave the Keep and destroy the soldiers in black and their leaders. Will you carry this object... out of here... for me?
[Molasar touches Dr. Cuza on the shoulder like a friend]
Dr. Cuza: Yes.
- Crazy CreditsThe Keep Production Pays Tribute To Wally Veevers
- Alternative VersionenSome television versions include additional footage after the original downbeat ending, showing Eva Cuza (Alberta Watson) turn around, entering the Keep and finding the body of Glaecen (Scott Glenn), dead after the final battle with Molasar. Eva hugs Glaeken, who is revived by the power of her love.
For one thing, the characters themselves are a very enticing bunch, rife with potential. Captain Klaus Woermann (Jürgen Prochnow) is a soldier in war-time, more emotionally attuned to his humanity, not so much to Nazi ideology, leading his army through a sense of obligation - a striking detachment from typical presentations of II World War Germans. The ruthless Major Kaempffer (Gabriel Byrne), leader of a Gestapo death squad, works as his direct contrast, fully indoctrinated and mercilessly cold, capable of killing women and children to achieve his goals (Byrne's chilling portrayal nonetheless remains a highlight of the movie). Into this construct arrives Jewish historian Theodore Cuza (Ian McKellen) and his daughter Eva (Alberta Watson), who are brought in from the camps to aide in solving the deadly puzzle. For Theodore this task brings the promise of an ultimate solution to the Nazis, as the maleficent force promises their destruction in return for his freedom.
As these characters intertwine in the misty Gothic backdrop created by Michael Mann and his talented cinematographer Alex Thomson, a sense of dread permeates (aided in part by great haunting atmospherics by Tangerine Dream). The slow camera-work and detailed sets, reminiscent of the best of Dario Argento, captivate with their gloomy consistency. Also the special effects are so perfectly 80-ish with their crude muckish gruesomeness, something that seems so lost in the perfection of CGI-induced horror. Slowly however the confused script and B-class elements so widespread in the 1980s, start to overrun the qualities, which made the movie so promising. Riden with clichéd portrayal and short-cuts in terms of story development, Mann ends up with a bungled mess of a horror, which neither frightens nor manages to maintain the eerie essence. Nonetheless the look of the movie offers some degree of satisfaction, it will undoubtedly remain a skeleton in Michael Mann's closet.
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Details
- Erscheinungsdatum
- Herkunftsländer
- Offizieller Standort
- Sprache
- Auch bekannt als
- The Keep - Die unheimliche Macht
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Box Office
- Budget
- 11.000.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 4.218.594 $
- Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
- 1.032.295 $
- 18. Dez. 1983
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 4.219.430 $
- Laufzeit1 Stunde 36 Minuten
- Farbe
- Sound-Mix
- Seitenverhältnis
- 2.35 : 1