Bermuda Triangle North Sea

Movie
Original title	Bermuda Triangle North Sea
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2011
length	138 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Nick Lyon
script	Simon X. Rost , ; Derek Master
production	Stefan Raiser , ; Felix Zackor
music	Dynamedion
camera	Peter Joachim Krause
cut	Charles Ladmiral
occupation
	Hannes Jaenicke : Tom Jaeger; Bettina Zimmermann : Marie Niklas; Karoline Eichhorn : Hannah Wensberg; Josefine Preuss : Sara Wensberg; Max Herbrechte : Michael Bühring; Gudrun Landgrebe : Claudia Schelking; Dirk Heinrichs : Stefan Sinzki; Hannes Hellmann : Torben Karlsberg; Rainer Sellien : Claas Jensen; Peter Prager : Professor Conrad "Conny" Petersen; Winfried Huebner : Hollmann; Bernadette Heerwagen : Britt Pörkens; Niels Bruno Schmidt : Rick; Paul Maximilian Schüller : Hennes;

Bermuda-Dreieck Nordsee is a German disaster film from 2011 that was first broadcast in Germany on September 25, 2011 and reached five million viewers. The film was created by Dreamtool Entertainment on behalf of RTL .

action

A certain area in the North Sea is the scene of eerie events: ships disappear, wind turbines collapse, flocks of seagulls fall dead from the sky and hundreds of fish are washed ashore, dead. An energy company that maintains a drilling platform nearby is suspected of having something to do with the accidents. The focus of this group is namely on the underground storage of CO ₂ , which is to take place in the fragile underground of the Hexenloch below them. In particular, the natural methane hydrate stored in large quantities in the sea floor is a cause for concern. However, a forged report, which is supposed to certify the safety, supports the lucrative project. A young assistant who works in a laboratory on the artificial island, however, works with a local environmental protection organization and secretly sends explosive information from her workplace.

Tom Jaeger, postal operator and resident of a nearby Hallig , made the acquaintance of PR manager Marie Niklas, who wanted to use the platform to prepare the festivities for the premiere of the introduction. Both are soon confronted with mysterious incidents which fuel their suspicion. The young laboratory assistant, who is also Jaeger's stepdaughter, is convicted and captured by the brutal security service of the energy company; a professor who supports the environmental organization is murdered in his university and seafarers suffocate in agony on the open, calm sea.

Meanwhile, the CEO and a managing director invite many guests to a festive setting on a cruise ship to witness the first deep-sea dumping live. Analyzes carried out in parallel by the environmental protection group, however, show that the discharge will quickly turn the entire lake area into a deadly cauldron. In dramatic actions, Jaeger and Niklas manage to free their daughter and leave the oil rig. They approach the luxury ship by helicopter and enter it despite the landing ban. They urge the captain to leave the sea area as quickly as possible and warn urgently of the impending dangers of the discharge of carbon dioxide. When the first fountains foam up in front of the ship and a huge vortex forms, the refusal of the ship's command changes. Windows shatter and passengers injure themselves or are killed by flying debris. The residents of the Hallig save themselves in the stable lighthouse. The oil rig explodes too, only a worker can get to safety with a deep-sea tug. The cruise ship now threatens to sink into the rotating sea suction due to insufficient engine power. Jaeger and Niklas take the end of a hawser with the helicopter to the tugboat crossing nearby and thus manage to pull the ship away from the vortex and bring all passengers to safety. The CEO is arrested and the director takes his own life.

background

Former blast furnace in the Duisburg-Nord landscape park , where many of the action scenes were filmed

The 5.7 million euro film highlights an existing technology that is highly controversial in reality. The sequestration of CO ₂ waste , which the eco-thriller was about, is a technology already practiced in the US, Norway and the UK. On the other hand, in Germany the Federal Council has stopped a law on the storage of carbon dioxide, as it is feared that the greenhouse gas could escape in an uncontrolled manner.

The name of the energy company used in the film ("Global Senergy") was very close to a real Scottish energy company called " Senergy " which was active in the North Sea. The logo shown in the film also had similarities with the Scots company emblem. The legal department of the energy company approached RTL and prevented the name Senergy from being used in the negative context of the film plot. The makers then cut all the relevant scenes and sentences from the film, or these were dubbed accordingly . The platform remained nameless, only the German flag was flying on the facility. Senergy was taken over by Lloyd's Register in December 2013 .

The main actor Hannes Jaenicke said that a politician approached him who is said to have asked whether the project could be stopped somehow, as pure scare tactics were being carried out here.

reception

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“'Bermuda Triangle North Sea' is a mixture of conspiracy theory, a patriotic story of fate and action adventure - the right mix for an RTL disaster film. The strip begins exciting and quite unusual. The relationships between the protagonists are recorded authentically and honestly. However: The characters are only sketched superficially, and the creators try to compensate for the lack of dramaturgy between the protagonists with an action-packed plot. "

- Anna Miller in Stern

“The story uses every imaginable cliché and mixes a bit of 'Titanic' into the last three quarters of an hour. [...] But in the course of the new wave of ecology, the 'Bermuda Triangle North Sea' has a huge impact in the end. Because the film doesn't tell a story, because it doesn't show any characters made of flesh and blood, a happy ending for the heroes is not enough, no, an appeal must be made to 'the' people, to humanity. "

- tittelbach.tv