Knockin' on Heaven's Door (film)

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Knockin´on Heaven's Door
Directed by	Tomas Jahn
Produced by	Til Schweiger, Thomas Zickler, Andre Hennicke
Written by	Thomas Jahn, Til Schweiger
Starring	Til Schweiger Jan Josef Liefers Moritz Bleibtreu Thierry Van Werveke Huub Stapel Rutger Hauer Hannes Jaennicke Ralph Herforth
Music by	Selig
Cinematography	Gero Steffen
Editing by	Alexander Berner
Distributed by	Buena Vista International, Mr. Brown Entertainment
Release date(s)	February 20, 1997
Running time	86 min.
Country	Template:Germany
Language	German, English
Budget	3,500,000 DM
IMDb profile

Knockin' on Heaven's Door is a 1997 German criminal comedy,^[1] by Thomas Jahn, starring Til Schweiger, Moritz Bleibtreu and Rutger Hauer. Its name derives from the Bob Dylan song which is also on the film's soundtrack.

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Two patients (Martin Brest and Rudi Wurlitzer) meet in a hospital, both just after learning about their untreatable disease. They start talking about their death that is to come very soon. When they find a bottle of Tequila, Martin finds out that Rudy has never seen the sea. Martin tells Rudy that all they talk about in Heaven is how beautiful the sea is.

Drunk and still in their pajamas, they steal an old Mercedes convertible of sky color and go for their last mission, to see the sea. The car belongs to a crime boss. They rob several small shops, only to find that there is a million cash in the back of their car.