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Deadlock
Deadlock
7.1
/10
1,357 Ratings

DEADLOCK

Directed by Roland Klick
West Germany, 1970
Thriller, Western

Synopsis

In this psychedelic western, a young man stumbles through the Mexican Sierra, shot and half bled to death, carrying a suitcase containing the loot from a bank robbery. Passing out, he is found by Charles Dump, a former gold miner living on the outskirts of the ghost town Deadlock with his daughter.

Synopsis

In this psychedelic western, a young man stumbles through the Mexican Sierra, shot and half bled to death, carrying a suitcase containing the loot from a bank robbery. Passing out, he is found by Charles Dump, a former gold miner living on the outskirts of the ghost town Deadlock with his daughter.

Our take

A contemporary of German New Wave filmmakers Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders, the too-underrated Roland Klick remains a director to discover. Fully embracing genre, this bracing neo-western cult classic, starring the great Mario Adorf and soundtracked by Can, is the perfect place to start.