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Schutzengel

  • 2012
  • 2h 10m
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
4.3K
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Schutzengel (2012)
ActionCrimeDrama

A troubled veteran from the war in Afghanistan works to protect an orphaned teenager who witnessed a murder from the killer's henchmen.A troubled veteran from the war in Afghanistan works to protect an orphaned teenager who witnessed a murder from the killer's henchmen.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
    • Til Schweiger
  • Stars
    • Numan Acar
    • Volker Albers
    • Loyd Bateman
  • See production, box office & company info
  • IMDb RATING
    5.7/10
    4.3K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Til Schweiger
    • Writers
      • Stephen Butchard
      • Paul Maurice
      • Til Schweiger
    • Stars
      • Numan Acar
      • Volker Albers
      • Loyd Bateman
    • 14User reviews
    • 15Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 2 nominations

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    Schutzengel (2012)
    Til Schweiger in Schutzengel (2012)
    Til Schweiger and Luna Schweiger in Schutzengel (2012)
    Herbert Knaup, Kostja Ullmann, and Loyd Bateman in Schutzengel (2012)
    Heiner Lauterbach in Schutzengel (2012)
    Til Schweiger and Luna Schweiger in Schutzengel (2012)
    Moritz Bleibtreu in Schutzengel (2012)
    Hannah Herzsprung in Schutzengel (2012)
    On set of Schutzengel doubling Til Schweiger
    Schutzengel (2012)
    Schutzengel (2012)

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    Numan Acar
    Numan Acar
    • TV Reporter Türkei
    Volker Albers
    • TV Reporter RTL
    Loyd Bateman
    Loyd Bateman
    • Shooter 12
    Gode Benedix
    • Krankenpfleger
    Moritz Bleibtreu
    Moritz Bleibtreu
    • Rudi
    Rainer Bock
    Rainer Bock
    • Karl Falkner
    Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen
    Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen
    • Leo's Frau
    Nicolais Borger
    • Falkners Tochter 2
    Vanessa Bühler
    • Angestellte Supermarkt
    Nina Eichinger
    • TV Reporterin N-TV
    Matthias Fornoff
    • Nachrichtensprecher ZDF
    Wanja Götz
    • Shooter 10
    Marcel Graf
    • Shooter 13
    Matthias Günther
    • Shooter 6
    Carsten Hädler
    • TV Reporter N24
    Teresa Harder
    Teresa Harder
    • Krankenschwester 1
    Mickey Hardt
    Mickey Hardt
    • Falscher Polizist 2
    Ralph Herforth
    Ralph Herforth
    • Streifenpolizist 1
    • Director
      • Til Schweiger
    • Writers
      • Stephen Butchard(screenplay)
      • Paul Maurice(screenplay)
      • Til Schweiger(screenplay)
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Goofs
      Whenever a police siren is heard, it sounds like an American-style siren. However, this kind of siren is used nowhere in Germany.
    • Connections
      Features The Town (2010)
    • Soundtracks
      Feel Again
      Performed by OneRepublic

      Written by Ryan Tedder, Brent Kutzle, Andrew Brown and Noel Zancanella

    User reviews14

    Review
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    Featured review
    3/10
    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.
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    10
    • Karl Self
    • May 5, 2013

    Details

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    • Release date
      • September 27, 2012 (Germany)
    • Country of origin
      • Germany
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official site (Germany)
    • Languages
      • German
      • English
      • Russian
      • Turkish
    • Also known as
      • Янгол-охоронець
    • Filming locations
      • Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Barefoot Films
      • Warner Bros.
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • €7,500,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $8,530,346
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 10 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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