Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
OT: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Werner Herzog | USA, 2009
Fiction Feature | FF2009
Story
Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendez, Val Kilmer– the thriller Werner Herzog boasts a veritable star cast. Detective Terence McDonagh (Cage), of New Orleans Homicide, saves an inmate from drowning in the midst of hurricane “Katrina”, and is promoted to lieutenant. But he injured his back so badly, he can only work under drugs. Soon his lifecentres on addiction. As he pursues the drug dealer Big Fate, who massacred an African family, it seems that solving the case will bring about his own salvation. Set in a city in ruins, Herzog presents the protagonists’ inner selves as their real threat.
Director
Werner Herzog, born in 1942, director, writer, producer of more than 50 films. His many films include“Nosferatu” (1979), “Fitzcarraldo” (1982), “Rescue Dawn” (2006), the documentaries “Mein liebster Feind” (1999), “Grizzly Man” (2005) and “Encounters at the End of the World” (2007).Trailer
Info
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Fiction Feature
English
Agenda 09 | FF2009
USA
2009
121 min
OV
Werner Herzog
William Finkelstein
Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Tom Bower
Edward R. Pressman, Elliott Rosenblatt
Peter Zeitlinger
Mark Isham
Tony Corbett
Splendid Film
Millennium Films