One Way (II) (2006)

To cover up his infidelities and protect his upcoming marriage, a star advertiser helps free an accused rapist by giving a false alibi and suffers the brutal revenge of the victim.

Director:

Reto Salimbeni

Writer:

Reto Salimbeni

Stars:

Til Schweiger, Lauren Lee Smith, Michael Clarke Duncan

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Til Schweiger	...	Eddie Schneider
Lauren Lee Smith	...	Angelina Sable
Michael Clarke Duncan	...	The General
Sebastien Roberts	...	Anthony Birk
Eric Roberts	...	Nick Swell
Stefanie von Pfetten	...	Judy Birk
Art Hindle	...	Russel Birk
Sonja Smits	...	Linda Birk
Kenneth Welsh	...	William Henderson (as Ken Welsh)
Jennifer Steede	...	Vicky
Mikael Persbrandt	...	Tomas Gaal
Katie Keating	...	Young Angelina
Sandra Hess	...	Dr. Evelin Sage
Steve Byers	...	Ricardo
Mark Clifton	...	Priest

Storyline

In New York, the competent creative director of Birk Advertising Eddie Shneider is living a successful moment of his professional life and is engaged and has just proposed Judy Birk, the daughter of the owner of the company where he works. Eddie is also a wolf and very successful with many women, and is having an affair with a neighbor of the street where he lives with Judy. When he gets the account of the greatest American airline for his company, he is promoted to partner and he celebrates with his assistant and friend Angelina Sable in a lunch party in a restaurant. After hours, when they are in the garage, Angeline notes that she had forgotten her car keys in the office, and when she returns, she is violently raped by the despicable brother of Judy, Anthony Birk. On the next morning, when Eddie arrives in the garage, he finds the traumatized Angeline on the floor and he takes her to a hospital. He returns to the company and Anthony blackmails Eddie with pictures of his many ...

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Plot Keywords:

rapist | revenge | false alibi | false accusation | redhead | 

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Genres:

Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

Taki Corporation [jp]

Country:

Germany

Language:

English French

Release Date:

25 January 2007 (Germany)

Also Known As:

Blaze

Filming Locations:

Cologne, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany

Box Office

Budget:

€7,100,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

barefoot films, Erfttal Film, Indigo Motion Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

116 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

When the general visits Angelina in the battered women's shelter, she sits down on the windowsill. During their conversation, the curtain behind her changes its position, from hanging correctly to hanging askew to hanging correctly again, between shots.

User Reviews

Til Schweiger takes a more interesting career turn

hmmmm, yesss. From the statistics I read that US females over 30 did not like this film. Whereas the younger audience especially in Europe was thrilled. Why would this be so? The film is about rape and about revenge and how the victim feels and into what kind of situation she gets put by her surroundings. Seeing how things are, the US are very ambivalent about sexual themes. Not to say 'hypocritical'. Judging from the themes feministic theory in the US put forward in the 70ies and 80ies sexual oppression and violence are very much more of a problem when they cannot be voiced at all. This may have been different in Europe with a more liberal approach in many countries (well, not all, I believe...). Anyway, this might explain, why a film like 'One Way' will not be received so open-heartedly in the US - it is painful. And it shows parents in their relationship to their children in a very painful way. Maybe this also explains the distaste of 'elderly women' (to phrase it this way without actually implying criticism).

This much for the background. The film itself is a treat in that it shows a comparatively new side of Til Schweiger as a 'real' actor besides the many comedian roles he has played - actually one of those bought him his ticket to the film world: 'Manta, Manta'. He played in some more serious films before: "The Ice Bear" (Der Eisbaer) and "Knocking on Heaven's Door", but even his last flick in 2006 "Where is Fred" (Wo ist Fred) was a comedy - not bad (and including some hilarious stunts by Christoph Maria Herbst and beautiful Anna Maria Lara) - but not really a revelation. Also the film puts him in context with many other good actors, especially Lauren Lee Smith. For a while Schweiger has been directing and/or producing his own films - maybe because this was the way of getting a job at all? I hope not - rather do I hope that he will some time tread in the footsteps of Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford etc.

I will leave the comments to the film itself to the other two I have seen posted. Just this: it is a dark film, giving rise to hope, nevertheless. And it does show many things to make people thoughtful - and I do hope this makes them like the film rather than dislike (which would be the far more easy thing to do).