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The Formula

Where:

🇩🇪 Germany California

When:

The 1980s The 1940s

Big Oil. Big Money. Big Mystery. Everyone’s out to make a killing. — A detective uncovers a formula that was devised by the Nazis in WW II to make gasoline from synthetic products, thereby eliminating the necessity for oil--and oil companies. A major oil company finds out about it and tries to destroy the formula and anyone who knows about it.

Released in 1980 — 117 minutes

Genre:

Thriller

Languages:

English German Spanish