''Fire and Ice'' () is a 1986 German

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directed by Willy Bogner.

Plot

John (

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) and Suzy (

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) meet while skiing in

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. They run into each other again in

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and John follows her around the country.

Cast

In alphabetical order

Production

While the movie has a plot, it is essentially irrelevant. The movie contains mainly

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scenes with Willy Bogner as director and cameraman.

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does the voiceover narration for the English-language version, Emil Steinberger for the German version. Besides skiing scenes, the movie contains

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and

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scenes with sports talents Gianfranco L'Amore, Jan Bucher and Mike Waltze.

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performed the title track ''Fire and Ice''. With ''Fire and Ice'', Bogner won the

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in 1986, and a

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in 1985. Bogner directed a kind of sequel in 1990, named ''

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''.

Reception

The film was the fourth highest-grossing German film in West Germany for the year with admissions of 1,496,743.

References

External links

* 1986 films 1980s sports films German sports films West German films English-language German films Foreign films set in the United States Skiing films Films scored by Harold Faltermeyer 1980s German films {{sport-film-stub