At a short distance (2016)

TV movie
Original title	At a short distance
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2016
length	90 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Philipp Kadelbach
script	Holger Karsten Schmidt , ; Oliver Kienle
production	Benjamin Benedict , ; Verena Monßen
music	Michael Kadelbach
camera	Jakub Bejnarowicz
cut	Fritz Busse , ; Constantin von Seld
occupation
	Tom Schilling : Klaus Roth; Edin Hasanović : Luka Moravac; Jens Albinus : Frank Dudek; Britta Hammelstein : Eva Rittner; Sascha Alexander Geršak : Jagos; Aleksandar Jovanovic : Radan Goric; Lazar Ristovski : Aco Goric; Emilia Schüle : Nadja; Fortunato Cerlino : Marco Feri; Tamer Yiğit : Jyan Cyahan; Vladimir Korneev : Vukasin; Marko Dyrlich : Borko; Vladimir Burlakov : Christoph Schönherr; Jerry Hoffmann : Patrick Köberlein; Sandra Nedeleff : Ramona; Marko Mandić : Spiridon;

On Short Distance is a German television film by director Philipp Kadelbach from 2016 . The main roles of detective stories took Tom Schilling and Edin Hasanović , who for his performance with the German TV crime rate has been excellent.

action

The Serbian-born police officer Klaus Roth is said to be covertly investigating a gang of Serbian gangsters operating in Berlin who earn income from sports betting on manipulated games. For this purpose he seeks the acquaintance of Luka Moravac, the nephew of the gang leader Aco Goric. The two become friends and begin to bribe athletes and referees together and then place bets.

When the Turkish gangster Jyan Cyahan pushes his way into the betting business and tries to compete with the Gorics, Luka gets the order to shoot Cyahan. While he's on his way to carry out the murder, Aco Goric meets with Cyahan's employer, Marco Feri, a member of the Italian mafia . He explains to him that Cyahan has to stay alive because he is supposed to manipulate a football game for the Italians on which they placed bets amounting to 10 million euros. Goric wants to stop Luka, but cannot reach him. Although the police prevented the murder through a deliberately caused car accident and the arrest of Cyahan, Roth was suspected of being an informant. To protect Roth's cover, his superior arrested Spiridon, a member of the Goric clan, and manipulated evidence in his apartment to make it appear as if he was the traitor.

Luka and Roth get the order from Aco to bribe the referee of the soccer game in order to postpone the outcome of the game. Goric wants to earn money from the game and at the same time he assumes that the mafia will kill Cyahan because of the bets that are then lost and will do business with the Gorics in the future. On match day, Luka and Roth are waiting for the referee at half-time when they are suddenly picked up by Radan Goric, Aco's son. You leave the stadium and drive into a forest in a car, which is also Cyahan. Radan gives Luka a pistol to shoot Cyahan. When Luka can't do this, Radan passes the gun on to Roth and tells him to prove that he is one of them. Roth reveals himself as a policeman and wants to arrest Radan, whereupon the latter asks Luka if he now believes him. The allegedly planned betrayal of the Italian Mafia was a trap planned by Aco Goric to expose Roth as a police officer. Radan draws his pistol and shoots Cyahan. When Roth then wants to shoot Radan, he discovers that his gun is not loaded. While Luka turns around and goes back to the car, Radan shoots Roth.

background

The film was shot at a short distance in 2015 in Berlin. The first broadcast on March 2, 2016 on Das Erste saw 2.62 million viewers, which corresponds to 8.2 percent market share.

In 2013, after researching manipulated sports betting, Holger Karsten Schmidt developed both the script and the novel “Auf short distance”, which was published by Rowohlt Verlag on October 29, 2015 ( ISBN 978-3499271007 ).

The journalist Benjamin Best has been researching betting fraud in sports for many years and has acted as an advisor on the film.

reception

Reviews

"The piece is so persistently disillusioning, so effectively crushing - so black that it is just very, very good."

- Ralf Wiegand : Süddeutsche Zeitung

"Tom Schilling's Game of a Lost One is reminiscent of Robert de Niro in ' Taxi Driver '"

- Michael Hanfeld : Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

“Believably played (television) thriller about an informant between all chairs; the more conventional action is visualized in a technically superior manner and gains depth thanks to the staging that focuses on nuances. "

- Film service