Champagne Rose is dood

Summary

English-Swedish-Dutch crime film about a lone champion of justice.

Dutch producer Thijs Chanowski worked together with the American-Swedish duo Calvin Floyd and Tony Forsberg on the film Champagne Rose is dood (Champagne Rose is Dead). Director Floyd and cameraman Forsberg made up the Swedish production company Aspekt Film. They had made a number of documentaries for Swedish television but Chanowski now hired them to make a crime film financed by backers in the US, the UK, the Netherlands and Sweden.

Most of the film is shot in Amsterdam, other locations include Rotterdam’s Euromast, Schiphol, Monnikendam and the NAM (Dutch Petroleum Company) drilling rigs in Drenthe.

The story is about a loner who fights against the evils of the world. Driven by a sense of justice and integrity, time and again he finds himself using brute force to combat criminals and corrupt organisations. The makers of the film aimed for a combination between James Bond and the absurd nonconformity of playwrights such as Eugène Ionescu and Fernando Arrabal.

Information

original title
Champagne Rose is dood
alternative title
Champagne Rose is Dead
Champagne Rose är död
production year
1970
censorship date
12-01-1970
first screening
20-04-1970
country
Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom
geographical names
category
Fiction
director
production company
production company
production company
production company

Cast

Actor

Crew

Technical notations

runtime
86
original length
2340
sound
Sound
colour
Colour
format
35mm
acts
5

Resources

NBF-Bulletin No. 3, 1969, pp. 38-39
Sveski filmografi 7: 1970-1979, pp. 79-80

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