Azrael (hollow leg)

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Azrael is a 1994 published horror - novel by German author Wolfgang Hohlbein , who in 1998 with Azrael - The return was continued.

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Part 1: Azrael

Fear in Berlin : the capital is being hit by a series of extremely bizarre suicides . The only connection between the victims is a mysterious lettering: AZRAEL, the name of the biblical angel of death from the Old Testament .

A series of clues leads the officers of the Berlin criminal police to the clinic of the chemist Dr. Sillmann, who used to do secret drug experiments on children - even on his own son Mark. One day he discovered an old Bible and saw in it a picture of the apocalyptic monster known to the ancient church people as Azrael. As a consequence of it that drew a guinea pig of the doctor a dark force that is in Marks imaginary angel of death image manifested , and all but Mark either killed or driven them mad.

Mark grows up and forgets the things that happened to him. However, when he drops out of school and returns to Berlin , the dark power that he and his friends had conjured up again emerges - and one after another kills everyone who was even remotely involved with the project.

For the middle-aged police officer Bremer, a race against time begins, because Mark walks unsuspectingly through Berlin - and Azrael is getting stronger and stronger. Only at the last minute does Mark learn the truth about the drug he gave him from his father: a bioactive substance that connects the thoughts and feelings of a whole group of people and gives them immense power, enough power to make even a fantasy real allow.

The events culminate in Mark's father's old laboratory. Azrael finally breaks out of Mark's ghost and lets an inferno fall over everyone present, which no one except for a bodyguard survives.

Part 2: Azrael - The Return

Berlin - the capital is rocked again by a series of extremely bizarre and brutal murders. For Kripo inspector Bremer, the events awaken unpleasant memories of AZRAEL, the biblical angel of death who visited the city a few years earlier. As if by a miracle, Bremer survived the destruction of the monster in the Sillmann laboratories and is now dismissing the events of that time as imagination.

A young clergyman repeatedly points to the clinic of the neurologist Dr. Sillmann, whose secret drug experiments on his son Mark AZRAEL had created. A man has been in a coma in the clinic's basement for years , a kind of living dead man whose brain only reacts when the monster kills again.

Together with the young policewoman Angela Bremer is able to fend off the black angel of death several times in order to finally leave for the final battle in the secret laboratory. The chief doctor seems to have called AZRAEL. This continues to kill until the two manage to find out the last wish of the living dead - the wish to die.

Now it turns out, however, that it was not the professor who called the angel. Bremer himself has at the moment his impending death - at that time in the Sillmann laboratories - called the being to save himself. The coma patient, the only other survivor from that time, grasped the danger that Bremer posed and sent an angel into battle for his part : Angela, who is also AZRAEL, another side of the angel, merciful and loving, but just as powerful.

Bremer realizes that the AZRAEL drug flows in his veins and gives him the power to let his feelings of revenge take shape. As long as he lives, the threat from the murderous angel lives on. The drug never created life, explains Angela, now in angelic form, it only called life that was already there. Because only one can create life.

Bremer draws the only logical consequence - he triggers self-destruction and destroys the laboratory with the coma patient and himself.

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The name Azrael does not appear in the Bible, as described in the book, but comes from the Islamic tradition, see: Azrael .

filming

The film production company NEOS Film announced in June 2007 that they would implement Azrael as a feature film. The corresponding option rights were concluded with the management and the author in spring 2007. The film should come to German cinemas in autumn 2009. The German director Lasse Nolte is to direct the film, who is also to write the script in "close cooperation" with the author. The management of Wolfgang Hohlbein indicated in December 2007 that Azrael was the only Hohlbein film adaptation that is currently "moving forward".

Work on the film was not officially stopped, but currently (as of 2017) the project is no longer being worked on.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Press release from NEOS Film ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) .
  2. ^ Quoted from the press release from NEOS Film ( memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) .
  3. ↑ Wording of the official Newsletter Hohlbein.net of December 21, 2007, segment annual review 2007 - film, TV and audio books