To the horizon and beyond

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Movie
Original title To the horizon and beyond
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1999
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Peter Kahane
script Oliver Bukowski
production Alfried Nehring
music Tamás Kahane
camera Gero Steffen
cut Birgit Bahr
occupation

Up to the Horizon and Beyond made its cinema debut on January 28, 1999. The film is based on Oliver Bukowski's radio play “Bahlke's Last Love”. The title song is Udo Lindenberg's "Horizont". The Polyphonic film and television company and the MDR television are responsible for production.

action

When the small crook Katja Pfeifer was sentenced to three years without parole by the judge Beate Nelken, the former excavator operator Henning Stahnke kidnapped the judge in his rickety Mercedes in order to free his great love. He telephoned an ultimatum to Katja's defense attorney, who called in the police. Stahnke takes the judge to his mother's remote house and introduces her as his fiancée Katja. While Stahnke's mother and Beate Nelken befriend each other and Stahnke and the kidnapped woman are getting closer and closer, Katja has broken out of prison and appears with the three of them, as well as the police a short time later. Stahnke and Katja flee to the nearby lignite mining area. The judges are stopped by the surrounding police to come to the aid of the two when a works train approaches the couple ...

criticism

“An atmospheric film that unites the landscape and the inner workings of the protagonists, whose excellent actors allow us to take part in the bizarre and touching fates. The dry humor and the great photography combine to form a congenial unit. "

- film service

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