Die vierte Macht (2012)

A journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret service.

Director:

Dennis Gansel

Writers:

Dennis Gansel, Florian Schumacher (additional writer)

Stars:

Moritz Bleibtreu, Kasia Smutniak, Max Riemelt

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Moritz Bleibtreu	...	Paul Jensen
Kasia Smutniak	...	Katja
Max Riemelt	...	Dima
Rade Serbedzija	...	Onjegin
Yevgeni Sitokhin	...	Nevsky (as Yevgenij Sitochin)
Mark Ivanir	...	Aslan
Dragos Bucur	...	Shamil
Joan Pascu	...	Lukovitsch
Michael Bornhütter	...	Secret Service Agent
Ivan Vrgoc	...	Chauffeur Sergej
Stipe Erceg	...	Vladimir
Reiner Schöne	...	Sokolow
Merab Ninidze	...	Sagalayev
Marco Ammer	...	Waiter Peyo
Masha Tokareva	...	Nadja

Storyline

A journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret service.

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Plot Keywords:

three word title | 

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Taglines:

The truth is out . . . The clock is ticking.

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Genres:

Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Germany]

Country:

Germany

Language:

English Russian

Release Date:

8 March 2012 (Germany)

Also Known As:

Le quatrième pouvoir

Filming Locations:

Romania

Company Credits

Production Co:

Seven Pictures,UFA Fiction

Technical Specs

Runtime:

115 min

Color:

Color Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Co-writer and director Dennis Gansel conceived this theatrical feature film after seeing a television broadcast showing of his own thriller tele-movie Das Phantom (2000) ( (aka The Phantom) with it then in turn inspiring this motion picture.

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Quotes

Onjegin: The threat of terror is the only thing which unites the people of a country. It's a historic fact.

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Crazy Credits

The end credits appear as carvings made by Aslan and his comrades on the prison walls.

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Soundtracks

The Big Ride
Words and music by Micheal Jean-Pierre Dippon
Performed by Mike MD vs Miq Puenies
Courtensy of MD Musicproduction

User Reviews

Very good movie, but the title should be changed to

"The Naive German Moron In Russia". yes, i'm serious about this and not joking at all. from the very beginning of this movie, i knew it's a very good movie with all the proper casting all over. the young guy, the main character in this movie is such a naive moron who came from Germany to work for a Russian celebrity magazine. but his naivety and his loneliness made him lose his alertness as a foreigner, a stranger in a strange land. he allow his 'little head' doing all the stupid things that he should not do in the first place. this guy made me feel pity on him but at the same time, i think what he later encountered served him right. this is a highly ideological movie, portraying the current situation in Russia. it's also a warning to all the younger people who are interested in politics that passion is a very dangerous thing once government and government policies are involved. like what this German moron said when he was in bed with his newly found love: "it seems that he's doing nothing but protesting." there are indeed so many young guys who actually do nothing but only interested in demonstrations or protests against the reigning government. they think that peoples' power is the weapon against police or military forces. by yelling and screaming, they can achieve what they wanted, but what they got are either prison time or bullets in the head. the first thing that all the politicians in power would do is how to maintain their power and how to suppress the dissidents. this movie would allow you to understand why most Chinese young people would never like to do anything against their Chinese communist run government after Tien-An-Men Square massacre. because passion simply cannot stop a bullet.