Cuibul salamandrelor

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Cuibul salamandrelor
Directed by Mircea Drăgan
Produced by Mircea Mohor
Dick Randall
Written by Ioan Grigorescu
Music by Gino Peguri
Cinematography Gheorghe Cristea
Editing by Lucia Anton
Release dates 1977
Running time 90 minutes
Country Romania
Italy
Language Romanian

Cuibul salamandrelor is a 1977 Romanian-Italian film directed by Mircea Drăgan. It is also known as "The Billion Dollar Fire".[1] [2]

Plot

An International petroleum company named "Consolidated Oil" secretly lits an oil well in the Sahara because the local government in the Middle East doesn't comply with their demands. Due to the expected size of the damage oil prices hit the roof. Merely as an alibi the company's president (Mr. Stewart) assigns John Carter aka "Salamander" to take care of this matter. Yet once Carter arrives on location one of the company's representants hinders him to extinguish the endurance burning and signalises to him that this catastrophe happened for a reason. "Consolidated Oil" hires a Romanian crew with lesser experience in regards to this kind of burnings. But the Romanian specialists team up with Carter and find prove for arson. Step by step they succeed in putting the seven fire sources to rest. "Consolidated Oil" tries to sabotage the firefighting but their attempts are proven futile. Finally the International news media disclose the conspiration. Stewart is unmasked as one of the driving forces behind the scheme. He needs to learn that he is chosen as a pawn sacrifice and while he still thinks this over he is murdered. His secretary isn't surprised at all when she's informed he just died. Instead she is eager to show the obituary she wrote. Meanwhile the Romanian firefighters are publicly celebrated in Arabia.

Cast

Reception

Cuibul salamandrelor has been listed as one of the ten best films with Tony Kendall.[3]

DVD Release

A PAL version has been released as Fireforce (Brennendes Inferno) by a company called Elfra. It includes an English and a German-language version as well as filmographies.

References

  1. "Cuibul salamandrelor". Retrieved 2013-07-10. 
  2. "Cinema Nocturna Remembers Gordon Mitchell". Retrieved 2013-07-10. 
  3. "Top Tony Kendall movies". Retrieved 2013-07-10. 

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