Összeomlás — Falling Down, Warner Bros. (DVD)

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Product Details

• UPC: 5999010440553
• Product Type: DVD Video
• Director: Joel Schumacher
• Starring: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey
• Release Year: 1993
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Publisher / Distributor: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
• Country of Producing: Germany

Product Features

• Format: DVD Video, single disc
• Runtime: approx. 113 minutes
• Audio: English, German (Dolby Digital)
• Subtitles: Multiple European languages
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 widescreen
• Region: PAL Region 2
• Rating: FSK 16 (Germany)
• Disc pressed: Germany

Overview

A man known to the credits only as "D-FENS" — his personalised licence plate — snaps in Los Angeles traffic and decides to walk home across the city. What follows is a film that generated real controversy because it didn't take the easy route of simply condemning its protagonist. Michael Douglas is remarkable: controlled, unsettling, and genuinely difficult to read. The audience is never quite sure how to position itself, which is precisely the point Joel Schumacher was making.

Robert Duvall matches Douglas note-for-note as the cop who pieces together what's happening and who sees in D-FENS something he can't quite bring himself to dismiss. Falling Down is a harder, grittier film than either man had been making in the years prior, and it landed at a moment — Los Angeles, 1993, one year after the Rodney King riots — when the city's fractures were visible to everyone. This German-pressed Warner PAL edition carries the original English audio alongside German.

Interesting Facts

• The film was shot in 1992, during the extended aftermath of the Rodney King beating and in the months leading up to the 1992 Los Angeles riots — the timing gave it an immediate cultural charge that reviewers at the time could not ignore.
• Michael Douglas based much of his characterisation on the specificity of costume and prop: the white short-sleeved shirt, the glasses, the briefcase — he wanted D-FENS to be anonymous in a way that was itself disturbing.
• Joel Schumacher and Michael Douglas, both working against type, produced what most critics consider their most accomplished and uncompromising work.
• Robert Duvall's Detective Prendergast is explicitly constructed as D-FENS' mirror image — also frustrated, also passed over — but with an entirely different response to that frustration.
• The film was a significant box office success, grossing over $40 million in the US alone on a $25 million budget, and sparked genuine mainstream debate about frustration, alienation, and masculinity.
• The German FSK 16 rating on this pressing reflects the film's mature and occasionally violent content.

Publishers

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. European PAL edition, pressed in Germany. © 1993 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

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