The Foreigner

Amos Poe, the film's director writes: “This is the story of the other side of the American dream; the foreigner who doesn't make it. A nightmare film in an existential philosophical context, a world where less is more.' The blond stranger (Eric Mitchell) speaks English with a heavy accent. He's on the run - but from what, and whom? We don't know. Adrift in a black and white nightmare vision of New York, the stranger is vulnerable and threatened in a hostile world. Being a foreigner here is not easy. In New York, Max searches for people who might help and protect him, but the only people he meets are aggressors and assailants. People he doesn't know, and predators who don't know him. He feels rejected and haunted and persecuted by the violence around him. The stranger's blond hair and white suit disintegrate into film tones of grainy gray. There is no solace, and no security, but there is a glimmer of hope: Debbie Harry, singing Bertolt Brecht in German.

Credits

Original Title: The Foreigner
Language: English
Country of Origin: USA
Year : 1978
Duration: 77 Min.
b/w
Director: Amos Poe
Script: Amos Poe
Camera: Chirine El Khadem
Editing: Johanna Heer
Sound: Mike Escover, Pam Gare, Adam Malec, Josie Siegel, Ed Weissburger
Music: Ivan Kral
Starring/Featuring: Eric Mitchell, Anya Phillips, Patti Astor, Deborah Harry, Séverine, Robin Crutchfield, Kitty Sondern, Duncan Hannah, Steven Kramer, Susan Morris, Amos Poe, David Forshtay, Pusante Byzantium, Ana Marton, Chirine El Khadem
Production: Amos Poe Visions, Amos Poe
Festivals: 1982: Berlinale/Internationales Forum des Jungen Films