20.13 - Murder in the flashlight
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | 20.13 - Murder in the flashlight |
| Country of production | Germany , France , Canada |
| original language |
German English |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Bradshaw |
| script |
Michael Capellupo Don Schubert |
| production |
Anton Moho Klaus Rettig |
| camera | Annette Wernicke |
| cut | Lisa Grootenboer |
| occupation | |
| |
20.13 - Mord im Blitzlicht is a German, internationally co-produced thriller from 2000. The television film was directed by director John Bradshaw .
action
A man fell fatally in a stairwell in a building numbered 2013. Frank Decker works for the police in the custom department. He still suffers from a terrible childhood experience. His sister was abused in a holiday home south of Cologne and killed in a shed. He has hated pedophiles ever since.
When Frank and his partner arrest the pedophile Hohlmann, child pornography evidence is seized. However, due to the lack of a search warrant, Hohlmann has to be released again and Frank is withdrawn from this case. In addition, he has to be treated by the police psychologist Eva, with whom he previously had a relationship. A little later, Hohlmann was found dead on the pier in 2013. He was blinded with a flashlight and murdered. The police initially assume a suicide. At the scene of the crime, Frank meets the attractive journalist Carla, who is taking pictures. He takes the films from her.
Carla finds out that the dead person in the stairwell was also a pedophile and that both cases must be related because of the 2013 number. Meanwhile, the police are evaluating the port surveillance video, but cannot see anything due to the lack of a better resolution. Frank Decker secretly copies this video. Carla and Frank get closer and now work together. Carla has the idea that the mysterious number 2013 could indicate a Bible verse. In fact, Exodus chapter 20 verse 13 says , "You shall not kill" - an allusion to the murdered pedophiles who destroyed the lives of their victims.
In the meantime, the surveillance video was deleted in the police station and Frank was suspected for the first time. Eva looks for Carla and asks her - driven by jealousy - to leave Frank alone. On the internet he finds references to the mastermind of child pornography, Max Reck. He looks for this and knocks him down. At the same moment he himself is knocked down, the pedophile is blinded with a flashlight and shot. After the police seized Frank's fingerprints at the scene, he was arrested as the main suspect.
While in custody, Eva confesses to him that she committed the murders to win him back and avenge his past. Then she also decides to kill Carla, who Eva recognizes a little later on the surveillance video. Desperate, Frank flees and goes to Carla, who has left him a message where Eva wants to take her - to the holiday home south of Cologne. Once there, he discovered the number 20.13 on the walls everywhere in the house. He finds Carla in the very same shed where his sister was killed. Eva chained her to a beam there and set the shed on fire. Frank saves Carla and Eva dies in the fire.
criticism
"The wannabe ripper steals his fashionable stereotypes from various movies without being able to put them together into a crisp plot."
" 20:13 - Murder in the Flash is a TV thriller based on a familiar pattern. The film is teeming with clichés typical of the genre. The initially exciting, but increasingly predictable plot seems to lose its thread towards the end. "
Web links
- 20:13 - Murder on the flash in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 20.13 - Murder in the flashlight in the online film database