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Wild Geese II

Year:

1985

Duration:

125 min

Genres:

Adventure | Thriller | Action

IMDB rate:

4.7

Director:

Peter R. Hunt

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 1985-10-18

Filming Locations: Berlin, Germany

Cast

Actor

Character

John Terry

Scott Glenn

John Haddad

Barbara Carrera

Kathy Lukas

Edward Fox

Alex Faulkner

Laurence Olivier

Rudolf Hess

Robert Webber

Robert McCann

Robert Freitag

Stroebling

Kenneth Haigh

Col. Reed-Henry

Stratford Johns

Mustapha El Ali

Derek Thompson

Hourigan

Paul Antrim

Murphy

Ingrid Pitt

Hooker

Patrick Stewart

Russian General

Michael Harbour

KGB Man

David Lumsden

Joseph

Frederick Warder

Jamil

Malcolm Jamieson

Pierre

Billy Boyle

Devenish

David Sullivan

EBC Commentator

Dan van Husen

Stroebling's Driver

James Monaghan

Heavy No. 1

Michael Büttner

Heavy No. 2

Herbert Chwoika

Ali's Man

Carl Price

British Corporal

Ronald Nitschke

East German Soldier

Wilfried Gronau

Immigration Official

Shaun Lawton

Intelligence Man

Peter Kybart

Hunter

Amelie zur Mühlen

Russian Woman

Gabriele Kastner

East German Tour Guide

Tom Deininger

Nightclub Artist (as Tom Deiniger)

Leslie Malton

Secretary (uncredited)

Gerrit Schmidt-Foß

Boy Playing Soccer (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Second and final "Wild Geese" movie in the two-film franchise originating with The Wild Geese (1978).

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After the success of The Wild Geese (1978) novelist Daniel Carney was asked by producer Euan Lloyd to write a sequel. Carney originally refused has he could not think up a storyline until producer Euan Lloyd gave him one, this film's high-concept: the kidnap of Rudolph Hess from Spandau Prison.

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The film's opening titles feature a dedication to The Wild Geese (1978) actor Richard Burton with a short summary of this movie.

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Faq

What is behind Colonel Reed-Henry's actions? (spoilers)

He is a traitor, a Soviet agent tasked with killing the rescue team and handing Hess over to the KGB

Who was Rudolf Hess?

Rudolf Hess was the most senior Nazi to survive World War 2. He was a close confidant of Hitler who on his own initiative flew to the UK during the war to try to arrange a peace deal between Nazi Germany and the British Empire. After the war he was kept imprisoned in Spandau prison in Berlin for the rest of his life, his incarceration shared between the occupying powers, Britain, the US, France and the USSR. He would eventually die in custody of natural causes.

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