Antibody (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | antibody |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 127 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christian Alvart |
| script | Christian Alvart |
| production |
Theodor Baltz , Rainer Koelmel |
| music | Michl Britsch |
| camera | Hagen Bogdanski |
| cut | Philipp Stahl |
| occupation | |
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Antibodies is a German thriller from 2005. It was directed by Christian Alvart , and Wotan Wilke Möhring and André M. Hennicke played the leading roles as the two opponents. The film was released in German theaters on July 7, 2005.
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The serial killer and pederast Gabriel Engel, who, as he later admits, brutally killed 13 boys and painted imposing religious paintings with their blood, was accidentally caught in Berlin during a nightly police operation . Commissioner Seiler is charged with questioning the murderer.
Police officer Michael Martens lives in the small village of Herzbach. Here the arrest of Engel is noted. Memories of a still unsolved murder of twelve-year-old Lucia are awakened, which one now wants to attribute to the serial killer. Martens decides to go to Berlin to speak to Engel. However, during the fall, he neglects his wife and children.
But parallels between the murders are also suspected in Berlin. The Berlin police have reached a point where they can't get anything out of Engel, so Martens should try his luck. And he actually manages to get the serial killer to talk again. However, Engel plays a bad game with the village policeman, in the course of which reality and fiction mix more and more for Martens. Martens is soon convinced that the girl's killer is still at large.
Under the influence of angels, the devout Catholic Martens slowly begins to explore his dark side. So he gets involved in a brief affair with a woman from the city and causes his wife pain during sexual intercourse.
After Engel obtained poison through bribery and ingested it, he still has 48 hours to live. Martens is supposed to get as much information out of the serial killer as possible in the remaining time. Finally, Engel tells of the murder of Lucia, which he does not want to have committed but only to have observed. He directs suspicion to Martens difficult, 13-year-old son.
The desperate Martens then decides to kill his son, but he cannot bring himself to do so. In the meantime, inspector Seiler finds out that Engel himself killed Lucia and only manipulated Martens. In the end, Martens is relieved to be able to embrace his wife and son; the serial killer Engel dies of being poisoned.
Reviews
"A tightly staged, well-acted thriller of considerable tension, rich in images and metaphors, which addresses the ambivalence of good and bad, guilt and atonement, without, of course, deepening it beyond the immanent genre."
"" Antibodies "is (...) in a class of its own. What he may lack in international star power and a big budget look, he makes up for with top acting performances, imaginative picture compositions, pointed symbolism and above all with an excellent script. Even die-hard viewers cling to their seats. Conclusion: The psychologically most radical and most consistent thriller that was ever made in Germany "
“The scenario of the vulnerable cop and the subtle killer known from“ The Silence of the Lambs ”comes as an effective psycho duel. The film is not perfect, the characters too flat, but at least Christian Alvart does without spectacular shock elements. "
“The attempt to show Hollywood what a rake is with the film“ Antibodies ”ends miserably. It begins with platitudes, continues with intentionally crude language and fails in bad scenes. “Antibodies” can only convince during the psychological duels between the village cop and the serial killer. But it is precisely these moments that are the shortest in cinema films. “Antibody” wants to be an extraordinary cinema film, but the result is just half-baked, hot air. If the dialogues weren't so vulgar, the work would result in a below-average " Tatort ". "
"A surprise: German genre cinema in widescreen and with a broad impact."
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Others
- The tagline of antibodies is: "The good thing is the evil of it."
- The pictures that were drawn by Gabriel Engel in the film (originals by Jan Saße) were auctioned off at an online auction house under the keyword "Antibody Killer Pictures" one month after the cinema release, on August 7, 2005.
- Recordings were made in the woods around Braunlage in the Harz National Park .
Web links
- Antibodies in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Criticism on Cinema.de
- ↑ Stern, edition 46/2007
- ↑ Criticism on filmhai.de ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
