Until Death Do Us Part (2008)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Until death do us part |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Edzard Onneken |
| script | Timo Berndt |
| production | Constantin Film |
| music | Michael Kadelbach |
| camera | Mathias Neumann |
| cut |
Dietrich Toellner Christoph Oertel (sound design) |
| occupation | |
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Until Death Do Us Part is a German feature film from 2008 . The plot largely follows the American film The Enemy in My Bed .
action
Susanne Podiak is married to the wealthy Christian. He regards his wife as his property, is jealous and regularly beats her brutally. Susanne wants to leave him, but is afraid of him and finally makes the decision to stage her suicide and start a new life. On a joint boat trip, she puts her plan into practice and makes everything look as if she has jumped over the railing. Her husband then declares her dead, but quickly finds evidence that she is still alive and hires a private investigator to track her down.
In truth, Susanne leaves the ship under a new identity and lives in an old wooden hut on a lake that belonged to her parents and decides to repair her father's ship. There she meets Michael, who also lives in the country, who saves her life, whereupon the two fall in love. From a friend who was also on the ship, she learns that Michael is actually the private detective her husband has hired.
Her husband finds her and ambushes her in her hut. He brutally beats her when she refuses to come back with him. Michael comes to her aid, but is knocked down by her husband. She escapes from the hut, her husband follows her and falls into the pointed parts of the anchor lying on the ground. He was fatally injured and fell into the water. Then Susanne says goodbye to Michael and sails away on her boat.
Reviews
“The plot reveals its narrow secret all too soon and confidently. [...] The rest is showdown action for the poor. "
"Constructed psychological thriller about a woman who thinks she is torn, goes from bad to worse and has to fight for her self-determination."
Web links
- Till death do us part in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Until death do us part on the website of the television station Sat.1
- Criticism to Until death do us part on the website of the Südthüringer Zeitung
Individual evidence
- ↑ TVMovie.de ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Open Media Database
- ↑ Until death do us part. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
