News - Bericht über eine Reise in eine strahlende Zukunft

A reporter working on a story about the illegal dumping of uranium waste mysteriously goes missing. His wife, naturally worried teams up with a photographer friend. They turn detective and travel half the world following the leads of her husband. While on their travels they virtually uncover the whole story of the illegal dumping and the cover up made by the nuclear industries involved.

This movie has a great story line and a reasonable plot. Although in German, this movie has been dubbed in English and is watchable.

This is an ITV-dubbed version which seems to have been shorn of half an hour, judging by the running time listed here. However, as the basic premise - Aussie journalist sticks his nose too far into a mystery surrounding the consignment of some nuclear waste on its way to Oz - is rendered with as much paranoiac hysteria as the vague recollection that you may have left your change on the counter at the local corner shop; truncation is clearly a blessing.

Crammed full of attention-alienating long shots designed for no apparent purpose other than to make post-synch international dubbing less of a headache, this is neither pictorially or actorily interesting enough to suggest that Lee was recruited - and accordingly performs - as if he were in it for anything other than the money.