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Der Mann, der sich in Luft auflöste

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Der Mann, der sich in Luft auflöste
Directed byPéter Bacsó
Screenplay byWolfgang Mühlbauer
Based onThe Man Who Went Up in Smoke
by Sjöwall and Wahlöö
Produced by
StarringDerek Jacobi
CinematographyTamás Andor
Music byJacques Loussier
Release date
  • 25 December 1980 (1980-12-25) (Sweden)
Running time
111 minutes
Countries
  • West Germany
  • Hungary
  • Sweden
LanguageHungarian

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

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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

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