A Texan with a secret past searches Europe with his son after the KGB kidnaps his wife.
Acting
Hackman doing 'suburban dad who kills people' before Liam Neeson made it a genre.
Direction
Arthur Penn's final theatrical feature — elegiac tension, not bombast.
Director
Arthur Penn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Houston and Paris, but 'Hamburg' is clearly just Houston with extra fog machines. Penn knew audiences wouldn't care.
Released months after 'Back to the Future' — this father-son road movie feels like the grim adult alternative to Marty and George McFly.
US
