Everyone was silent
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Everyone was silent |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 115 minutes |
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| Director | Norbert Kückelmann |
| script | Norbert Kückelmann, Dagmar Kekulé |
| music | Frank Loef |
| camera | Jürgen Juerges |
| cut | Siegrun hunter |
| occupation | |
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All have been silent is a German television film by Norbert Kückelmann from 1996.
action
Based on a true case from 1987 in the Altmühltal in southern Germany: The setting is the rather gloomy music pub “Paloma”, a local hangout for a group of young men, just outside a small town. Three of them, Rick Brenner, Lutz Kern and Frank Oßler, have repeatedly made young women submissive by violence, and gang rape has also occurred. The alcohol played its part.
One evening there was a particularly bad mood among the men. Kern was blown off after a rowdy turn-on. Brenner had previously encouraged him to do so, even though he knew the woman was in company. There was also an argument between Lutz and his buddy Frank, which ended in a fight. Frank had appeared with Brenner's sister Silvia. The waitress, Carla, called in the landlord Georg Habich, who was supposed to arbitrate, then ended her duty and went home. Habich insisted on calming down, and so his regulars got drunk again.
Except for Rick Brenner and his friend Lutz Kern and Andy Kiefer, who stands behind the counter, “La Paloma” is empty when a young woman appears shortly after the incident. Habich picked up the hitchhiker Corinna. Rick Brenner wants to force her to have a beer because it makes "fun". He and Kern become intrusive. Corinna refuses; she is "not the right one" for something like that. Brenner and Kern get angry, abuse them and beat them. Because of her strong resistance, the planned rape fails. The woman is passed out. Habich comes back to the bar and decides that she has to go . The men drag her into Habich's car and drive to a parking lot. Corinna comes to, wants to flee and is finally strangled by Brenner in the forest behind the parking lot. All four confidants agree to remain silent. The next day, Corinna Klein's body is found in the forest. The autopsy reveals that she was pregnant.
The investigations of the criminal police lead to no result even after years, although the investigating commissioner Kronauer had a quick view of the area around the "Paloma" and Habich once confronted him directly with his suspicion of murder against him. Only when Andy Kiefer, who has hinted at being drunk and now lives on the street, finally reveals himself to the criminal police, does the murder case start moving again. In addition, some rapes are publicized, which have not had any consequences for the men because of threats from the Brenner clique. Brenner as well as Kern, Habich and Kiefer are arrested and taken to court.
Production notes
It is a joint production by the television station Arte , the Film-Fernsehen-Authors-Team GmbH (FFAT), the Swiss television station SRG and the ZDF , which premiered on March 10, 1996 on the ZDF.
criticism
The author Dieter Wunderlich came back to the fact that the Munich lawyers Norbert Kückelmann and Dagmar Kekulé had orientated themselves on an authentic case and wrote: “In the factual, exciting and oppressive film 'All have been silent' they denounce the irresponsibility of the witnesses who keep silent about their observations and demonstrate how powerless the police are when they encounter an impenetrable wall of concealment. "
TV Spielfilm spoke of a “harrowing TV crime drama” based on a true story, gave a thumbs up and gave one of three possible points for claim, action and eroticism and three for suspense. It was also said: “Captivating to the end, taken from the middle of the desolate small town life.” Conclusion: “Hard to imagine, but actually true.”
In the magazine Der Spiegel, on the other hand, things were different and were of the opinion that “Kückelmann [had] worked the story strictly according to reality, talked to witnesses and lawyers and studied the court files. It also said: But all research efforts and the collected facts create no suction. The story seems drawn out and frayed at the end - despite great actors like Wolfram Berger, who plays a commissioner ”.
The Stuttgarter Zeitung wrote that the film lacked “the distance to its story” and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung was of the opinion that “Kückelmann's renunciation of all superficial effects” made it difficult for viewers to “evade the frightening aggressiveness of the story”. In the evening newspaper in Munich one could read: "Sociopolitically significant."
Web links
- All have been silent in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Everyone was silent at kinotv.com. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
- ↑ Dieter Wunderlich: Everyone was silent at dieterwunderlich.de
- ↑ Everyone was silent on tvspielfilm.de (with 7 film images). Retrieved June 16, 2017.
- ↑ Everyone was silent in: Der Spiegel 40/1996 of September 30, 1996.