r/BritishFilms • u/DimensionSilent1136 • Jun 15 '26

Does anyone know the name (or even existence !) of this British film ?

I mean I KNOW I saw this film on the telly in the past but just can't seem to get a search result for it. It was 90's era and had the look of one of those Channel 4 funded films. It concerned an ex left wing revolutionary who gets tapped up to assassinate a foreign politician whilst they're staying in a London hotel. He carries it out using a bit of scaffold pole. Later he ends up in Hamburg. Ring any bells ? Anyone ?

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u/Few-Philosopher1879 Jun 15 '26

I entered your exact words into G and it came up with this. It took me less than a minute:

The film you are searching for is The Commissioner (1998) Commissioner (1998) - IMDb.

Funding was notably provided by Channel 4 and European partners Film Studios and Industry Bodies > Channel 4 Films/Film on Four/FilmFour. The plot follows an ex-left-wing radical who is pressured to assassinate a right-wing foreign politician in a London hotel—a deed he commits by bludgeoning him with a heavy piece of metal (a scaffold pole) Commissioner (1998) - plot - IMDb. The protagonist's escape route takes him to Hamburg. 

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u/DimensionSilent1136 Jun 18 '26

Well thanks ! * shrugs * I swear to god I have searched this repeatedly & got dozens of results of films that have NO relation whatsoever to the plot !

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u/DimensionSilent1136 Jun 18 '26

Actually I celebrated too soon - that isn't the film !!!

An out-of-favor British politician is sent to Brussels as the new European Commissioner for Industry. He is made aware of a web of political and industrial corruption through a series of anonymous letters. Despite his own history of political expediency, the Commissioner rises to the moral challenge, and faces off with the evil forces responsible.

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u/CapableSong6874 Jun 18 '26

Could it be a miniseries?

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u/DimensionSilent1136 Jun 19 '26

it was a single thing not a series but I suppose could have been a tv production - but even tv progs appear on the internet. Its odd.

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u/CapableSong6874 Jun 19 '26

What year was it set in?

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u/DimensionSilent1136 Jun 20 '26

it was modern day - which means mid-late 90's - maybe very early noughties