Det är Dagen D för årets största match på Orange Bowl Stadium i Miami. Men det är också Dagen D för terroristgruppen Svarta september. Genom att ta sig in över arenan med en zeppelinare riggad med sprängämnen kommer de förvandla platsen till ett brinnande helvete, om inte FBI och terroristbekämparen Kabakov hinner stoppa dem. USAs president och 80 000 människors liv står på spel…

Robert Shaw (Hajen) spelar Kabakov i denna hyllade storthriller byggd på bestsellern av Thomas Harris, författaren bakom När lammen tystnar. Bakom kameran stod två legender – regissören John Frankenheimer (French Connection II, Ronin) och producenten Robert Evans (Gudfadern, Chinatown). På bio i Sverige gjorde censuren hela åtta klipp på 2,5 minut. I Tyskland och Japan totalförbjöds den. Denna utgåva är givetvis oklippt.


Directed by John Frankenheimer, Black Sunday (1977) is a political thriller based on the novel by Thomas Harris. Starring Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern and Marthe Keller, the film follows a plot involving a terrorist attack planned during the Super Bowl. Produced during the wave of 1970s paranoia cinema, the film combines espionage elements with large-scale public threat scenarios.

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Throughout the 1970s, a wave of daring disaster movies gripped cinemagoers with their combination of bravura spectacle and “ripped from the headlines” plotlines. Among these, John Frankenheimer’s (The Manchurian Candidate, Ronin) Black Sunday endures to this day as among the cream of the crop.

Robert Shaw (Jaws, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three) stars as Major Kabakov, an Israeli agent attempting to avert a terrorist atrocity on US soil. The weapon: a blimp laced with explosives and piloted by Michael Lander (Bruce Dern, Silent Running), a troubled Vietnam vet driven to strike back against the nation he believes has betrayed him. The target: the Orange Bowl stadium, Miami. What follows is a nail-biting race against time culminating in a spectacular aerial climax that will determine the fate of 80,000 spectators.

Adapted from the best-selling debut novel by Thomas Harris (The Silence of the Lambs) and featuring virtuoso performances by a cast headlined by Dern, Shaw and Marthe Keller (Marathon Man), Black Sunday is a nerve-shredding, best-in-class suspense thriller from a filmmaker at the top of his game.

Från IMDB:
When a Black September terrorist group begins a plot to carry out a massive terrorist attack in the United States, an Israeli commando works with the FBI to identify the target and conspirators, and prevent the plan from succeeding.