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(aka "Die Katze" or "Lives of a Cat" or "The Cat")
Directed by Dominik Graf
West Germany 1988
Two robbers hold up a bank and its employees demanding 3 million marks for their ransom. The police plot to storm the bank but are unaware the robbers have an accomplice on the outside, anticipating their every move. Genre master Dominik Graf specialized in crime films and The Cat is one of his greatest. A heist film of the highest order, it grabs you from its opening scenes and doesn’t let go. Winner of Best Direction at the German Film Awards, The Cat is an undiscovered treasure and Radiance Films is proud to present it on Blu-ray for the first time outside Germany. *** Two criminals rob a bank and hold the clerks hostage, demanding 3 million German marks. Unaware to the police, the actual criminal mastermind is monitoring their every move. |
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Theatrical Release: January 21st, 1988
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Distribution | Radiance - Region FREE - Blu-ray | |
Runtime | 1:57:40.136 | |
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1.85 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 48,894,892,798 bytesFeature: 35,842,931,520 bytesVideo Bitrate: 34.81 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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DTS-HD Master
Audio German 1265 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1265 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48
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Subtitles | English, None (English for screen-specific commentary) | |
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Release Information: Studio: Radiance
1.85 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 48,894,892,798 bytesFeature: 35,842,931,520 bytesVideo Bitrate: 34.81 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details: • "Good Times": an interview with Dominik Graf (2024, 1:05:05) • Interview with screenwriter Christoph Fromm (2024, 32:01) • Interview with producer Georg Feil (2024, 32:23) • Select-scene commentary by Dominik Graf (2024 / 12:36) • Trailer (1:52) Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
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Radiance give the option of DTS-HD Master stereo track or a 5.1 surround
bump (both 24-bit) in the
original German language. The Cat
has violence of various forms that come through with impacting depth -
and in the surround - modest separations. The minimal but punchy score
was by Andreas Köbner; a composer best known for his extensive work in
film and television music, particularly in German productions. His
career spans decades, blending classical training with a practical knack
for scoring diverse genres. Also notable in the film are tracks by Eric
Burdon and The Animals, Cruzados, Jennifer Warnes (singing Leonard
Cohen's First We Take Manhattan,) Chris Rea, Roger Chapman,
Annabel Lamb, Cruzados and others. Radiance offer optional English
subtitles on their Region FREE
Blu-ray.
The Radiance
Blu-ray
Dominik Graf's The Cat
is a German crime thriller that has earned a cult reputation as one of
the standout genre films from late-1980s West Germany. It’s a taut,
gritty bank heist flick with a twist-heavy plot and a stellar cast,
including Götz George (son of the acclaimed actor Heinrich George and
actress Berta Drews,) striking Gudrun Landgrebe (A
Woman in Flames,) and Heinz Hoenig (Wolfgang Petersen’s
Das Boot.)
Shot in Düsseldorf between June and August 1987, the story kicks off in
a seedy Hotel Nikko room (now the Clayton Hotel), where Probek (George),
a hardened crook, is tangled up with Jutta (Landgrebe), the wife of a
bank manager across the street. What starts as a steamy affair turns
into a calculated heist. Probek’s crew storm the Credit Bank, taking
seven hostages and demanding 3 million Deutschmarks. Probek, the real
brains, watches from the hotel, directing via walkie-talkie while
tipping off the cops anonymously to up the stakes. It’s a house of cards
- everyone’s double-crossing, and it collapses messily by the end.
Graf’s direction is the star here - lean, muscular, no fat. He blends
sweaty realism with genre flair, using Düsseldorf’s urban sprawl (plus
Munich and Erkrath exteriors) to ground the chaos. The Bavaria-Atelier
studios in Grünwald handled interiors, and Martin Schäfer’s
cinematography (Wim Wenderrs'
Paris, Texas) drenches The Cat with uncomfortable
darkness and vérité suspense, giving it a retro ‘70s hangover vibe. I
was so pleased to see this fabulous
neo-noir-ish effort on Radiance Blu-ray
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