Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendez, Val Kilmer– the thriller Werner Herzog boasts a veritable star cast. Detective Terence McDonagh (Cage), of New Orleans Homicide, saves an inmate from drowning in the midst of hurricane “Katrina”, and is promoted to lieutenant. But he injured his back so badly, he can only work under drugs. Soon his lifecentres on addiction. As he pursues the drug dealer Big Fate, who massacred an African family, it seems that solving the case will bring about his own salvation. Set in a city in ruins, Herzog presents the protagonists’ inner selves as their real threat.

Director: Werner Herzog

Screenplay: William Finkelstein

Cast: Nicolas Cage Eva Mendes Val Kilmer Tom Bower

Producer: Edward R. Pressman Elliott Rosenblatt

Orig. Titel: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Section: Agenda 11
Original language: English
Filmtype: Fiction Feature
Music: Mark Isham
DoP: Peter Zeitlinger
Set Designer: Tony Corbett
Format: 35 mm

German Distributor: Splendid Film
Production Company: Millennium Films