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Retrospective

Mission: Impossible

FromBrian De Palma

WithTom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Jean Reno, Ving Rhames

Year1996

Duration116min.

LanguageEnglish

The agents of the Impossible Mission Force are sent to Prague to stop a traitor. But the mission ends in disaster: only agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) survives, whereupon he becomes the prime suspect and does everything in his power to find the real mastermind. The first Mission: Impossible film takes the clever deceptive manoeuvres of the original TV series to the extreme. The mask games and false trails are celebrated with the usual relish by the brilliant thriller stylist Brian De Palma: He masterfully orchestrates suspense (and amuses himself with Hitchcock variations) in sweat-inducing set pieces such as Ethan Hunt's break-in at CIA headquarters. For De Palma, the agent blockbuster was his last global success, for Tom Cruise the start of a successful series. (Christoph Huber)

After the second part is screened in our main retrospective, we are taking the opportunity to show all three films in one weekend:

Sat, 22.03. 18:00 - Mission: Impossible
Sat, 22.03. 20:30 - Mission: Impossible II
Sun, 23.03. 18:30 - Mission: Impossible III

Photo: Austrian Film Museum