Air Force One DVD 1997 / Directed by Wolfgang Petersen / Starring: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Wendy Crewson

UPC 4011846003731

REGION 2 PAL DVD 

MADE IN GERMANY

AUDIO: English 5.1, German 5.1, Spanish 5.1, Russian 2.0

SUBTITLES: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Portuguese, Hebrew, Croatian, Estonian

Total Runtime: 120 minutes

English Summary:

Air Force One is a 1997 American political action thriller film directed and co-produced by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Xander Berkeley, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell, and Paul Guilfoyle. It was written by Andrew W. Marlowe. It is about a group of terrorists who hijack Air Force One and the U.S. president's attempt to rescue everyone onboard by retaking his plane.

A combined U.S.-Russian special forces operation captures General Ivan Radek, the dictator of Kazakhstan. Three weeks later, U.S. President James Marshall attends a diplomatic dinner in Moscow, Russia, during which he praises the capture and insists the U.S will no longer negotiate with terrorists. Marshall and his entourage, including his wife Grace and 12-year-old daughter Alice, and several of his Cabinet and advisers, prepare to return to the U.S. on Air Force One. In addition, members of the press have been invited aboard, including Radek loyalists disguised as journalists led by Egor Korshunov.

After takeoff, Secret Service agent Gibbs, who is a mole, enables Korshunov and his accomplices to obtain weapons and storm the plane, killing many of the other agents and military personnel before taking the civilians hostage. Marshall is raced to an escape pod in the cargo hold and seemingly escapes as the pod is ejected. The pilots, Colonel Axelrod and Lieutenant Colonel Ingraham, attempt an emergency landing at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, but Korshunov and his second-in-command & pilot, Andrei Kolchak breach the cockpit and kill the pilots, diverting the plane towards Kazakhstan. Several F-15s escort Air Force One as it is piloted towards Radek-loyal airspace.

German Summary:

James Marshall, der Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, hat gerade im Zusammenhang mit der neuen Terrorismuspolitik und mit Hilfe Russlands den gefürchteten Diktator General Ivan Radek verhaften können, der in der ehemaligen Sowjetrepublik Kasachstan an Einfluss gewonnen hatte. Einige Anhänger des Ex-Diktators, angeführt von Ivan Korshunov, entführen daraufhin die Air Force One, das Flugzeug des Präsidenten. Sie werden hierbei von einem Verräter unter den Secret-Service-Agenten namens Gibbs unterstützt, der ihnen den Zugriff zu den an Bord befindlichen Waffen verschafft. Statt sich mit der Rettungskapsel in Sicherheit zu bringen, versteckt sich der Präsident an Bord des Flugzeugs, da er nicht ohne seine Familie das Flugzeug verlassen will.

Die Maschine wird auf dem deutschen Luftwaffenstützpunkt Ramstein Air Base notgelandet, doch die Terroristen schaffen es, bis ins Cockpit vorzudringen, die Piloten zu erschießen und selbst die Kontrolle über das Flugzeug zu übernehmen. In einem spektakulären Manöver, bei dem sie fast frontal in ein anderes Flugzeug rasen, schaffen sie es, die Maschine wieder durchzustarten und Kurs Richtung Kasachstan zu nehmen. Kurz darauf melden sich die Terroristen bei der Vizepräsidentin im Weißen Haus und verkünden ihre Forderung: Solange General Radek nicht freigelassen ist, wird jede halbe Stunde eine Geisel hingerichtet. Das erste Opfer ist der nationale Sicherheitsberater Doherty. In der Zwischenzeit schafft es Präsident Marshall einige der Terroristen unbemerkt auszuschalten und mithilfe eines Mobiltelefons Kontakt zum Weißen Haus aufzunehmen. Um die Air Force One zum Landen zu zwingen, löst er den Treibstoffnotablass aus.

Cast / Besetzung:

• Harrison Ford as U.S. President James Marshall: Popular president and a family man who loves his wife Grace and daughter Alice. Marshall is also a decorated Vietnam veteran and Medal of Honor recipient who speaks reasonably fluent Russian. Feigning escape during Air Force One's hijacking, he attempts to retake the aircraft, to rescue everybody.
• Gary Oldman as Egor Korshunov: A ruthless Russian Radek loyalist who leads the hijacking of Air Force One. Korshunov believes that the collapse of the Soviet Union had ruined his country.
• Glenn Close as U.S. Vice President Kathryn Bennett: The Vice President of the United States who commands the situation in the White House Situation Room, alongside Secretary of Defense Walter Dean and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Northwood. Though all the tension, Bennett remains calm and collected, refusing to make risky or poor decisions.
• Wendy Crewson as U.S. First Lady Grace Marshall
• Paul Guilfoyle as White House Chief of Staff Lloyd Shepherd
• William H. Macy as Major Norman Caldwell, USAF, military aide to the President
• Liesel Matthews as the President's daughter Alice Marshall: Alice complains about her father not taking her to see the refugee camp.
• Dean Stockwell as U.S. Defense Secretary Walter Dean
• Elya Baskin as Andrei Kolchak, Korshunov's best friend, second-in-command and pilot
• Andrew Divoff as Boris Bazylev, Korshunov's henchman
• David Vadim as Igor Nevsky, Korshunov's henchman
• Levan Uchaneishvili as Sergei Lenski, Korshunov's henchman
• Ilia Volok as Vladimir Krasin, Korshunov's henchman and close friend, as they both fought the Afghans together.
• Xander Berkeley as U.S. Secret Service Special Agent Gibbs, in charge of Presidential Protective Division. A mole who secretly helps the terrorists take over Air Force One. The hijackers never reveal to anyone Gibbs' true intentions, to the point where they also hold him hostage along with everyone else.
• Alan Woolf as Russian President Petrov
• Tom Everett as U.S. National Security Advisor Jack Doherty: Korshunov executes Doherty. The first hostage to die when the terrorists demand Radek's release.
• Jürgen Prochnow as General Ivan Radek: The dictator of a rogue terrorist regime in Kazakhstan that had taken possession of former stolen Soviet nuclear weapons, threatening to start a new Cold War, Radek's regime is responsible for the killing of 200,000 people. Captured by a joint Russian-American military ops team, Radek is imprisoned in Russia, awaiting trial for his crimes against humanity. The terrorists who take over Air Force One, demand for Radek to be released, threatening to kill a hostage every half hour.
• Donna Bullock as Deputy Press Secretary Melanie Mitchell: Korshunov, believing that a Secret Service Agent is in the cargo hold, executes her.
• Michael Ray Miller as Colonel Axelrod, USAF, pilot of Air Force One: Axelrod bravely attempts to make an emergency landing after the hijacking begins. He orders the flight crew, "No matter what happens, we land this aircraft, is that understood?"
• Carl Weintraub as Lieutenant Colonel Ingraham, USAF, co-pilot of Air Force One: Ingraham courageously attempts to help Axelrod emergency land the plane after the hijacking begins.
• Spencer Garrett as White House Aide Thomas Lee
• Bill Smitrovich as General Northwood
• Glenn Morshower as U.S. Secret Service Agent Walters
• David Gianopoulos as U.S. Secret Service Agent Johnson
• Dan Shor as Notre Dame Aide
• Philip Baker Hall as U.S. Attorney General Andrew Ward
• Richard Doyle as Colonel Bob Jackson, USAF, Air Force One Backup Pilot
• Willard Pugh as White House Communications Officer
• Don R. McManus as Lt. Colonel Jack Carlton, F-15 "Halo Flight" Leader
• J.A. Preston as USAF Major General Greeley: Having been President Marshall's commanding officer during the Vietnam War, he is the first to anticipate that Marshall is battling the hijackers.