Delivered (2003)
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| Original title | Delivered |
| Country of production | Austria , Switzerland |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Andreas Prochaska |
| script | Thomas Baum |
| production | Helmut Grasser |
| music | Christof Dienz |
| camera | David Slama |
| cut | Karin Hartusch |
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Delivered is an Austro - Swiss television film in 2003. Directed by Andreas Prochaska are Harald Krassnitzer , Maria Köstlinger and Ina Weisse seen in the lead roles.
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The prison therapist Michael Trenk is convinced that his attractive patient Cornelia Steinweg can be released early from her prison after three years of therapy. Despite objections from his colleague Maria Hartwig, Cornelia, who is incarcerated for murder, is released and then returns to the house of her deceased parents. Lonely and disoriented, she writes Michael a letter and invites him over. Michael, who is actually happily married to his wife Jana, goes to Cornelia and lets herself be seduced by her. However, Cornelia hopes for more than just an affair. The following night she calls him and confesses her love to him. However, Michael rejects them. Cornelia, who found Michael's abandoned dictation machine in her house, goes to the kindergarten of Michael's daughter Nora the next day. She gives the little girl a tape cassette which Nora is supposed to give to her mother. While Michael confides in his colleague Maria, his wife Jana listens to the tape. It is a therapy protocol with which Michael recorded that he wanted Cornelia during her sessions and wanted to sleep with her. When Michael comes home, Jana confronts him and expects him to clarify the matter.
After Michael rejected Cornelia again at one of his seminars, Cornelia ambushes Jana and follows her into a library. There she sits down with her and tells her that she had passionate sex with Michael, which Michael obviously needed urgently. At home, Jana confronts her husband with his affair and then runs away crying. That same evening, Michael is scheduled to give a public lecture on psychotherapy in prison. Cornelia is also among the audience. While Michael is giving his talk, people start whispering around him. Cornelia had put the therapy protocol on paper, copied it and distributed it on all the seats. Humiliated, Michael breaks off his lecture and looks for Cornelia in her house. He demands his dictation machine back and makes it unmistakably clear to her that he does not want anything to do with her. Cornelia calls him later and wants to say goodbye to him. Convinced that she will try to kill herself, Michael rushes to her and finds her in her bathtub with her wrists cut. Later in the hospital she comes to and learns from a reporter that it was Michael who saved her life.
You can read in the newspapers that Cornelia wanted to kill herself because of her therapist. Michael's boss Peter Janko sees his profession in danger and demands a written statement from Michael. Colleague Maria wants to finally find out from Michael what happened between him and Cornelia. She drives, armed with a revolver, to Michael's house, where Jana is busy preparing for Nora's birthday party. When Cornelia enters the house, Jana secretly reaches for a kitchen knife. With the revolver in hand, Cornelia comes closer and closer to Jana. When Jana suddenly leaps out with the knife, a shot is fired. In the meantime, Michael tries to talk to the inmate Gertraud Tessler in prison. She hands him Cornelia's notebook, which shows that Cornelia was infatuated with him during her detention and wanted to win him over. The conversation is suddenly interrupted when Michael receives a call from kindergarten. Nora was not picked up by her mother. Michael finally picks up Nora and tries in vain to reach Jana with his cell phone. When he arrives in front of his house, Maria is already waiting for him. While she takes care of Nora, Michael goes into the house. A trail of blood leads him to Jana, who is lying motionless on the floor with a gunshot wound in her stomach. Suddenly Cornelia appears. When Michael wants to call the ambulance, she holds her gun to his head. She wants to live with him and Nora. Michael pleads with her to be allowed to take his wife outside, whom he really loves in contrast to her. As he and Jana walk towards the door, the now disaffected Cornelia shoots herself in the head. On the way to the hospital, Jana comes to briefly and shakes Michael's hand.
background
The film was produced as a co-production between ORF and SF DRS by Allegro Film . The script was written by Thomas Baum , who was able to incorporate his experience as a psychotherapist. The shooting took place from October to November 2002 in Vienna and Lower Austria . The main locations were the prisons in Josefstadt in Vienna and Stein in Krems an der Donau .
Delivered was premiered on March 25, 2003 at the Austrian film festival Diagonale . The following day, ORF 2's psychological thriller was shown for the first time on German-language television. The audience rating was 831,000, which corresponds to a market share of 34%. In Germany, the film was first broadcast on December 9, 2003 on 3sat .
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said that the story "about a pathologically exaggerated love that culminates in psycho-terror and other insane acts [...] is not entirely new". The "Viennese [e] melange of hysterical woman and drive-controlled therapist" gives the film "a very special charm". The actors are also "very first cream - not to say: Austrian whipped cream". "The story seems far too far fetched," said TV Spielfilm . Prisma described Delivered as an "exciting genre work".
Web links
- Delivered in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures of the film on tvspielfilm.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ ORF psychological thriller “Delivered”: last flap for psychotherapist Harald Krassnitzer and his murderous patient Maria Köstlinger . ots.at, November 12, 2002.
- ↑ a b cf. 3sat.de
- ↑ Delivered. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. allegrofilm.at
- ↑ a b cf. tittelbach.tv
- ↑ cf. tvspielfilm.de
- ↑ Delivered. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on September 3, 2017 .