Schutzengel (2012)

A troubled veteran from the war in Afghanistan works to protect an orphaned teenager who witnessed a murder from the killer's henchmen.

Director:

Til Schweiger

Writers:

Stephen Butchard, Paul Maurice,

Stars:

Til Schweiger, Luna Schweiger, Moritz Bleibtreu

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Til Schweiger	...	Max Fischer
Luna Schweiger	...	Nina
Moritz Bleibtreu	...	Rudi
Karoline Schuch	...	Sara Müller
Herbert Knaup	...	Henri Brietner
Kostja Ullmann	...	Kurt
Hannah Herzsprung	...	Helena
Rainer Bock	...	Karl Falkner
Tim Wilde	...	Nicholas
Katharina Schüttler	...	Polizistin Diner
Axel Stein	...	Leo
Oliver Korittke	...	Rezeptionist
Ralph Herforth	...	Streifenpolizist 1
Trystan Wyn Puetter	...	Verteidiger (as Trystan Pütter)
Teresa Harder	...	Krankenschwester 1

Storyline

A troubled veteran from the war in Afghanistan works to protect an orphaned teenager who witnessed a murder from the killer's henchmen.

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Plot Keywords:

assassin | orphan | laptop computer | shot in the side | loss of friend | 

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site [Germany]

Country:

Germany

Language:

German English Russian Turkish

Release Date:

27 September 2012 (Germany)

Also Known As:

The Guardians

Filming Locations:

Potsdamer Platz, Mitte, Berlin, Germany

Box Office

Budget:

€7,500,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany, barefoot films

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

References Hart aber fair (2001)

User Reviews

Til Schweiger isn't the German answer to Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris is an inferior rip-off of Til Schweiger. Although Chuck Norris started his career before Til Schweiger. But then Til Schweiger decided to change the course of time itself. So there.

What Til and Chuck do have in common, though, is that they both can be entertaining actors, for those good, old kick-back-with-a-beer movies that you shouldn't mention when you're trying to impress a classy chick. They serve, they entertain, they kick ass. However, they don't possess the powers of irony. If you let them produce, write, direct, act and cast their own daughter, then you're in for a long, dark ride. While he was at it, Til Schweiger might as well have called this movie "Til Schweiger Saves The World And All Chicks Want Him". As it was, he strangely limited himself to "Guardian Angel". But the action scenes are a lot of fun. Five mercenaries with automatic rifles blaze into a room with Til Schweiger in it. An unequal fight ensues, and a bad day for the mercenaries begins. Til tilts his gat gangsta style and wastes them all while bullets, plaster and human debris swirl through the air in slo-motion like birds through the rain-forest in Powanisqatsi. Beautiful to watch. My advice would be to simply fast forward to the next, beautifully photographed action scene. Because when the last bad guy has been wasted, Til Schweiger begins to talk, and that means serving up platitudes with a tightened jawbone. If you save another soldier's life, you see, you get a friendship bracelet. And Til could wear a different friendship bracelet "every day of the week". That made me worry about the Bundeswehr.

With a more ironic script, this movie would have been enjoyable in a dumb way. As it is, it's a potpourri of Hollywood action movies from the last 30 years.