Red Heat (1985 film)

Red Heat
Directed by Robert Collector
Written by Robert Collector
Gary Drucker
Starring Linda Blair
Sylvia Kristel
Release dates
  • May 28, 1985 (1985-05-28)
Language English
Box office 37,933 admissions (France)[1]

Red Heat is a 1985 women in prison film starring Linda Blair and Sylvia Kristel.[2]

Synopsis

Christine Carlson (Linda Blair), an American college student, travels to West Germany to visit her fiancé Mike (William Ostrander), who is serving in the US Army there. She tries to convince him to marry her promptly, but he chooses to delay marriage in order to re-enlist. Distraught by Mike's decision, Christine takes a late-night walk where she witnesses a kidnapping by the East German Stasi and gets kidnapped herself as well. She is transported to the East Zone, where she is brutally interrogated by the Stasi, forced to admit to false charges of espionage, and thrown into a women's prison with the common criminals, including the gang leader Sofia (Sylvia Kristel), who is the prisoners' "top bitch" and has de facto control of the entire prison population. Sofia takes pleasure in brutally tormenting and harassing Christine, until the latter loses her patience and fights Sofia in a no-holds-barred brawl. Meanwhile, Mike is determined to free his beloved, and tries to get the US Army and the West German BND to help him. At first they refuse, but ultimately they reluctantly go along with his plans and help him free Christine.

Cast

Linda Blair—Christine Carlson
Sylvia Kristel—Sofia
Sue Kiel—Hedda
William Ostrander—Mike
Elisabeth Volkmann—Einbeck
Albert Fortell—Ernst
Herb Andress—Werner
Barbara Spitz—Meg
Kati Marothy—Barbara
Dagmar Schwarz—Lillian
Sissy Weiner—Uta
Norbert Blecha—Kurt
Sonja Martin—Evelyn
Evelyn Engleder—Eva
John Brett—Roger
Michael Troy—Howard
Helmut Janatsch—Lecture
Elvira Neustädtl—Limmer
Fritz von Friedl—BND Agent

Notes

This film is not to be confused with the 1988 film of the same title starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Belushi.

References

  1. ↑ Sylvia Kristel French box office information at Box Office Story
  2. ↑ "Red Heat". The New York Times.

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