Der Mann, der sich in Luft auflöste

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.

Der Mann, der sich in Luft auflöste
Directed by	Péter Bacsó
Screenplay by	Wolfgang Mühlbauer
Based on	The Man Who Went Up in Smoke by Sjöwall and Wahlöö
Produced by	André Libik Bo Jonsson
Starring	Derek Jacobi
Cinematography	Tamás Andor
Music by	Jacques Loussier
Release date	25 December 1980 (1980-12-25) (Sweden)
Running time	111 minutes
Countries	West Germany Hungary Sweden
Language	Hungarian

Plot

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

• Derek Jacobi as Martin Beck
• Judy Winter as Aina Mattsson
• Lasse Strömstedt as Kollberg
• Ferenc Bàcs as Major Szluka
• Krisztina Peremartoni as Aranka Ari
• Tomas Bolme as Åke Gunnarsson
• Thomas Oredsson as Alf Mattsson
• Kjell Bergqvist as Stenström
• Mari Szür as Mrs Bubla
• Sándor Szabó as Sós
• Zoltán Gera as Kuti
• Dieter Schidor as Embassy Secretary
• Helena Brodin as Mrs Beck

External links

• Der Mann, der sich in Luft auflöste at IMDb
• Der Mann, der sich in Luft auflöste at the Swedish Film Institute Database