GERMANY: BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL PREMIERE OF ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER MOVIE "COLLATERAL DAMAGE"

Record ID: 389027

  • Title: GERMANY: BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL PREMIERE OF ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER MOVIE "COLLATERAL DAMAGE"
  • Date: 14th February 2002
  • Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (FEBRUARY 14, 2002) (REUTERS) SCU SOUNDBITE (German) ACTOR ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER TALKING ABOUT A RECENT VISIT TO TROOPS IN BOSNIA: "It was wonderful. I think our troops are very important, they are the ones who defend our countries, who fight for democracy. I think it is very important to visit them and entertain them."
  • Embargoed: 1st March 2002 12:00
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  • Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVACO25JNZK51HSJOCNW6KJQRRDE
  • Story Text: Austrian-born Hollywood superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger received a rapturous welcome in Germany on Thursday (February 14) when he attended the Berlin Film Festival screening of 'Collateral Damage' - his latest blockbuster.
    Hundreds of Arnold Schwarzenegger fans turned up to wait for Germany's most popular action hero at the German premiere of his latest film, Collateral Damage in the capital, Berlin on Thursday (February 14, 2002).
    Austrian-born Schwarzenegger took time to greet his many fans and admirers and sign autographs before the opening of the film in which he plays L.A. firefighter Gordy Brewer, who in one fleeting moment loses everything that he had ever cared about.
    Running late to meet his wife and young son at a downtown high-rise, Schwarzenegger's character, Gordy Brewer, witnesses a catastrophic bomb blast kill his family before his eyes. The explosion is credited to The Wolf, an infamous rebel leader in Colombia's decades-long civil war. The intended targets were members of the Colombian consulate and American intelligence agents. Brewer's wife and child are considered collateral damage, innocent people who lost their lives for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. His only consolation is the hope that justice will prevail for the loss of his family.
    But when the official U.S. investigation into the Wolfs whereabouts stalls, Brewer realises that bringing the terrorist to justice is no longer a priority to anyone but himself.
    Against the advice of friends and pointed warnings from the CIA and the FBI, he heads to war-torn Colombia to track down the Wolf alone. He puts his life on the line to bring the Wolf to justice but at this point he has nothing left to lose.
    Brewer's relentless pursuit leads him from the jungles of Colombia back to the streets of Washington where the bomber is preparing to strike again.
    The analogy to the 11th of September is strong, but Schwarzenegger says he thinks it is the right time for the film, people want to see evil being destroyed, he said at the opening in Berlin. Director Andrew Davies (Under Siege, The Fugitive) said he hopes its an incitement to stop violence.
    It is violence begetting violence, he says.
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