# Catch-22 - Der böse Trick (1970)

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**Original title**: *Catch-22*
**Runtime**: 121 min
**Genres**: War, Comedy
**Directed by**: Mike Nichols
**Written by**: Buck Henry
**Starring**: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Buck Henry

> *The nice thing about war is that the person who kills you really has nothing against you. Personally.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Here's a film that perhaps bit off more than it could chew. John Yossarian tries to get out of bombing runs by claiming insanity, though army bureaucracy won't allow it. The movie certainly has ambition, if little else.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, pitch-black, playful

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