Amigo - Death on arrival
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Amigo - Death on arrival |
| Country of production | Germany , Italy |
| original language | German , Italian , English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lars Becker |
| script | Lars Becker |
| production |
Daniel Blum , Reinhold Elschot , Bettina Wente |
| music |
Hinrich Dageför , Frank Wulff , Stefan Wulff |
| camera | Andreas Zickgraf |
| cut | Eva Schnare |
| occupation | |
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Amigo - Arriving death is a German crime - thriller from the year 2010 by Lars Becker .
action
The experienced BKA investigator Fredo Kovacs is on his way to Italy with his young colleague Jupp Sauerland to arrest Amigo Steiger. Through a tip they found out about his whereabouts near Naples , where the former terrorist has been living as a vegetable farmer in a manor house for twenty years. But Steiger, forewarned by a suspicious noise, can evade the intervention of the task force. Only Sauerland sees Steiger escape through a drainage canal and follows him. When trying to catch the fugitive single-handedly, the policeman is injured by a ricochet in the spine. Steiger wants to know from Sauerland who the tip came from. He threatens to leave the seriously injured man behind without notifying an ambulance, but Sauerland assures him that the information was anonymous.
Meanwhile, the young graffiti artist Rio was arrested in Hamburg . In addition to the allegation of damage to property, bodily harm and resistance to state violence, a pistol is found with which - as it turns out later - the chairman of a bank's supervisory board and his driver were murdered twenty years ago. Since he refuses to say where the weapon came from, the sprayer initially remains in custody. Rio Bosch is the son of Amigo and Maxime, who used to be active in the militant scene herself. After Steiger had to go into hiding, Maxime married his friend and former comrade in arms, Alexander Bosch. The couple jointly run a publishing house in which a novel is due to appear shortly, the content of which is perceived by Islamist groups as a provocation. A certain Nazari offers Alex 50,000 euros to stop publishing the controversial book, knowing full well that the publisher is in financial difficulties, but Alex refuses. When he was attacked by strangers one night with the advice that he should take this as a warning, Alex accepted his offer when he met Nazari again. Suddenly Steiger, who came back to Germany with a false passport, is at the table of the two of them and witnesses the agreement.
Amigo Steiger has come to Hamburg to find out who betrayed him and confronts Alex. Through Carlotta Fortunato, a former sympathizer of the Red Brigades , who is Steiger's confidante and lover, he learned that his farm in Italy was for sale. Alex explains to him that he has given the property to his friend, lawyer Fritz Declair, because he needed money to keep the publishing house, and asserts that he has not betrayed Amigo. Declair, on the other hand, offered the property for sale without prior agreement - and for double the original price. The successful criminal defense attorney pretends to be innocent, but in fact he has informed the authorities about Amigo's hiding place. Amigo demands his share of the booty from three bank robberies, but when Amigo and Alex go to the hiding place at night, the depot is empty. On the way back, the two of them are involved in a car accident in which Alex is seriously injured. Amigo seizes the car that caused the accident and takes Alex to the nearest hospital, where he dies a little later. When the police want to find out more details about how the accident happened, Steiger disappears.
Meanwhile, Sauerland, who was able to receive medical care in good time thanks to a phone call from Steiger, is on the mend in a clinic in Naples. He was operated on by Carlotta Fortunato, who once studied medicine in Germany and now works as a surgeon. Sauerland learns from an Italian policeman that the nice doctor is in a relationship with Steiger and has helped him go into hiding. Maxime asks Declair to help her pay the bail for her son, but when the latter ties his help to sexual favors, she simply abandons him. Back in Germany, Kovac's maxim suggests a deal. She should arrange a meeting between Steiger and his son, who have never met each other, in return, the charges against her son would be dropped. He does not fail to mention Carlotta as Amigo's long-time lover. Rio agrees to the meeting because he wants to know how the accident came about. When father and son sit across from each other in a pub, they learn that Alex drove the motorcycle and shot Amigo in the attack. Rio tearfully begs his father to leave immediately. When Amigo realizes that he has fallen into a trap, he threatens Kovacs, who is sitting a few tables away, with a weapon and forces them to be safe. When he gets on a subway with Kovacs, the claustrophobic BKA officer escapes from the train compartment at the last second, and Amigo is able to escape again. Before he returns to Italy, he visits Mansour Nazari, and violently makes it clear to him that he will have to keep to the agreement even after Alex's death.
Meanwhile, Kovacs' Italian colleague Renzo Esposito has an eye on Sauerland, which, contrary to expectations, has not yet returned to Germany. Esposito also follows the young, impulsive man when he is on crutches through Naples, but then loses sight of him. Only now does Kovacs realize where Sauerland's strong interest in the Amigo case comes from: he is the son of the driver who was murdered at the time. Sauerland is now on the way to Carlotta's apartment. When he meets Amigo there and confronts him with what he did at the time, the latter says to the son of the driver who was murdered at the time, who is now facing him with a gun, that there is no excuse. When Esposito reaches Carlotta's house, it is too late: Sauerland shot Amigo in front of Carlotta's eyes.
background
The screenplay was based on a novel by director Lars Becker from 1991. After a preview at the Roma Fiction festival, the German premiere of Amigo - When Death Arrives took place in September 2010 at the Hamburg Film Festival . The film was first broadcast on German television on Arte on March 11, 2011, and was released on DVD on October 11, 2011 .
Reviews
“With this film, screenwriter and director Lars Becker did not dare to tackle a simple subject. He explores the question of what happened to all the less prominent militant RAF members or helpers who are no longer in jail. It's about what her life is like in society and what happens when she catches up with her old guilt after twenty years. Murder does not expire - neither psychologically nor legally. An exciting field of investigation, which was fictional in large parts successfully processed. "
Awards
- 2011: German TV crime award - special award for outstanding individual performance for Lars Becker
Web links
- Amigo - Arriving death in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Amigo - Upon arrival death in the program of the Filmfest Hamburg 2010 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Criticism of the film
