Every day they clean the dirty windows of their cars from the filthy film that has formed overnight. Measuring stations call a low smog warning. But one day a soccer player collapses on the pitch with breathlessness.
Direction
Petersen grinding grime and dread from a TV budget.
Production
Smog so thick you can practically taste the particulates.
Director
Wolfgang Petersen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Germany's 1972 smog crisis; aired weeks before the oil shock made environmentalism unavoidable.
Petersen later admitted he stole the suffocating atmosphere techniques for Das Boot's submarine claustrophobia.
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