Mercedes-Benz features in the new action thriller "Unknown Identity"

Like me, you may already be aware of the new action thriller “Unknown Identity” featuring actors Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger, but it’s not just the Hollywood elite that will grab your attention – Mercedes-Benz are out in force with no fewer than 6 different cars featured in the movie.

It’s a real car-nerd’s delight with the B-Class F-Cell, fresh from its round the world tour and the gull-winged SLS AMG representing current and future models, but it’s the alphabet soup of E-Class taxis that had me reaching for my I-Spy Guide. You’ll find a W 124 (built from 1984 to 1997), W 210 (built from 1995 to 2002), W 211 (built from 2002 to 2009) and the W 212 (built since 2009).

Kudos to the first person who shouts that list out in the middle of the cinema on a busy Friday showing..

The film was made by director Jaume Collet-Serra and producer Joel Silver in Berlin, Brandenburg, Leipzig and the Babelsberg studios in Potsdam. The story goes along the lines: a nightmare begins when biologist Dr. Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) awakes from a coma following a serious car accident in Berlin. His wife (January Jones) does not recognise him and another man has taken on his identity.

To compound matters, a killer (Stipe Erceg) is also on Harris’s heels. In order to win back his wife and his former life, he seeks out taxi driver Gina (Diane Kruger), who rescued him in the accident. Together with her and former Stasi agent Jürgen (Bruno Ganz) he takes up the fight for his identity and the truth against an all-powerful adversary – including high-speed chases in Mercedes taxis.

I’m a sucker for a good high-speed car chase (watching rather than taking part!), and there’s the added bonus with Unknown Identity of being able to congratulate yourself for spotting all 6 of the starring Mercedes cars.

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