Particular severity of guilt (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Particular severity of guilt |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 89 minutes |
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| Director | Kaspar Heidelbach |
| script | Sascha Arango |
| production |
Sabine de Mardt , Tim Rostock |
| music |
Arno Steffen , Friso Lücht |
| camera | Daniel Koppelkamm |
| cut | Hedy Altschiller |
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A television film by director Kaspar Heidelbach with Götz George as the main actor is particularly serious . The film first aired on November 1, 2014.
action
The habitual criminal Joseph Komalschek, who was sentenced to life imprisonment with determination of the particular severity of the guilt, returned to his hometown after his release at his own request. He was imprisoned for 30 years for the double murder of his neighbor at the time, the barmaid Anita, with whom he had a relationship, and of her newborn child. He has always protested his innocence and was only convicted on the basis of circumstantial evidence; in particular, the child's umbilical cord was found in his rubbish. The dismissal came after a request from the prosecutor to subsequently arranged preventive detention was rejected because of a procedural error.
The three police officers who investigated the murder case at the time and ensured Komalschek's conviction, Heinz Braun, Klaus Barner and Fritz Reet, are now retired. For fear of acts of revenge, they have Komalschek monitored around the clock. The surveillance team also includes Klaus Barner's son Tom, who celebrates his 30th birthday in the film.
Komalschek stoically endures the rejection that hits him everywhere. He leads his shadowers to key locations of the crime at the time, including a disused mine, in which the body of the murdered woman was buried and discovered by chance when he was hiding the booty from his robberies there. When Tom Barner, who is chasing him, loses consciousness because of mine gas , Komalschek saves his life and gives him a jackknife, on whose blade Tom later finds the engraved names of his father, Braun and Reet. Komalschek skillfully sends the police so much clues that relieve him until it is certain that the case has to be reopened from scratch, since the three investigators were apparently involved in the act at the time. Tom Barner, who has developed a friendly relationship with Komalschek since the mine gas accident, delves into the case files.
At this point Klaus Barner takes his own life. Komalschek appears at the funeral and confronts Klaus' widow Agnes about the whereabouts of Anita's child. Komalschek knows that he is the father of the child and assumes that the officers killed and buried elsewhere after Anita was murdered.
It was only when Komalschek was looking at photos from that time with an old friend in his apartment that he noticed the similarity between Tom, who was sitting across from him, and an old portrait of himself at the same age. As Agnes Barner tearfully confirms, Tom is the wanted child. After the murder of Anita, which was committed by Braun and Reet and then blamed on Komalschek, Klaus Barner was supposed to get rid of the newborn, but without the knowledge of his accomplices he instead brought it to his wife, who looked after it and raised it as her own child. Afterwards, however, she had always prevented Klaus from admitting the act and thereby exonerating Komalschek.
In the end, Komalschek hands over the stolen property hidden in the pit to Tom, says goodbye to him and disappears forever without asking for reparation or a pension from the judiciary. His only concern was to bring the truth to light.
background
The film was shot in Cologne from April 28, 2014 to May 27, 2014.
reception
Reviews
“George, who cursed loudly when he was Inspector Schimanski , has become very quiet. Even his groan is a statement. Much in life happens in silence, in vagueness. And Götz George is the grand master of silence. The film Special Gravity of Guilt brings him into contact with another Grand Master of Silence. Sascha Arango wrote the script, one of the outstanding storytellers on German television, and of course the sentence applies especially to him: that a good storyteller is always a better silent person. "
“There is a lot of objection to 'Special Severity of Guilt', Kaspar Heidelbach's film about someone buried in the ground who digs his way bit by bit through a swamp of old lies and crimes. [...] There are dramaturgical concessions to television film conventions that prevent this piece from becoming anything like a German film noir or an oppressive psychological thriller, based on a script by Sascha Arango . "
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Special Gravity of Debt on November 1, 2014 was seen by 6.85 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 21.51% for Das Erste .
Web links
- Special weight of the debt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Particular severity of guilt at crew united
- ↑ Holger Gertz: Listen to those who are silent. In: Götz George. Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 1, 2014, accessed on July 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Ursula Scheer: He sounds like he hasn't spoken for a long time. Götz George on TV. In: TV review. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 1, 2014, accessed on July 21, 2018 .
- ↑ David Grzeschik: Primetime check: Saturday, November 1, 2014.quotemeter.de , November 2, 2014, accessed on July 21, 2018 .