Der Mann, der sich in Luft auflöste

StarringDerek JacobiCinematographyTamás AndorMusic byJacques Loussier111 minutesCountriesLanguageHungarian

Der Mann, der sich in Luft auflöste (“The Man Who Went Up in Smoke”) (Swedish: Mannen som gick upp i rök) is a German-Hungarian 1980 police film about Martin Beck, directed by Péter Bacsó.

Plot

During the height of a Cold War, a drunken reporter from Sweden disappears without a trace while on a business trip in Budapest. Meanwhile, the tabloid for which he was writing sounds an alarm, with the Swedish government trying to avoid direct confrontation with the Hungarian police. Martin Beck, a detective, takes the case, and is sent behind enemy lines as a private citizen, to find the reporter and bring him back to Sweden. However, the official of the homicide commission faces a dilemma: How will he be able to locate a Swedish national in a city of two million? They need to interrogate charming Ari, a Hungarian girlfriend of the missing person, to gather the clues on his whereabouts.

Cast

• Derek Jacobi as Martin Beck
• Judy Winter as Aina Mattsson
• Lasse Strömstedt as Kollberg
• Ferenc Bàcs as Major Szluka
• Krisztina Peremartoni as Aranka Ari
• Tomas Bolme as Åke Gunnarsson
• Thomas Oredsson as Alf Mattsson
• Kjell Bergqvist as Stenström
• Mari Szür as Mrs Bubla
• Sándor Szabó as Sós
• Zoltán Gera as Kuti
• Dieter Schidor as Embassy Secretary
• Helena Brodin as Mrs Beck

External links

• Der Mann, der sich in Luft auflöste at IMDb
• Der Mann, der sich in Luft auflöste at the Swedish Film Institute Database