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Strongman Ferdinand

Strongman Ferdinand

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 26, 1976

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Drama

User Score

60%

Original Title

Der starke Ferdinand

Production Companies

Kairos-Film, Constantin Film

Director

Alexander Kluge

Description

The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups such as The Red Army Faction. Ferdinand's paranoia and methods can't be contained by his company. The sympathetically-drawn Ferdinand's ludicrous actions recall those of the cynical, disastrous axis between fascism and big business in 1930's Europe: satire of the rise of private security.