Blood eagle (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Blood eagle |
| Country of production | Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Nils Willbrandt |
| script | Daniel Martin Eckhart |
| production | Thomas Hroch |
| music |
Marco Dreckkötter Stefan Will Timo Blunck |
| camera | Eeva Fleig |
| cut | Vassela Martschewski |
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Blutadler is a German-Austrian television film from 2012. The thriller , directed by Nils Willbrandt and produced by ARD and ORF , is based on the novel of the same name by Scottish author Craig Russell . The thriller is the second film adaptation from Russell's crime series about the Hamburg detective Jan Fabel, played by Peter Lohmeyer .
action
The Hamburg police are occupied with a bizarre series of murders . The female victims were literally executed according to an ancient Viking ritual called the blood eagle . The perpetrator, known within the police as a ripper , announced his actions shortly beforehand by email or text message, which he sent directly to Inspector Fabel. Fabel's team unearths connections to the Federal Criminal Police Office through its investigation , because at least one of the victims was on the agency's payroll.
Entanglement with the Ukrainian mafia is also apparent. The journalist Angelika Blüm has already done research on such a Ukrainian group and is ready to share her findings with Fabel. Unfortunately, Fabel only finds her dead in her apartment. The Ukrainians are probably involved in real estate deals, she told him on the phone. Even in their own ranks, the BKA leadership suspects a mole from this milieu. With the help of a strongly addictive informant, Fabel can then expose two of his colleagues as spies. During her research on the blood eagle , Fabel's colleague Susanne repeatedly comes across the name Wassyl Witrenko, a Ukrainian colonel who systematically used the blood eagle in the Chechen war . It was for this Witrenko that the two previously exposed agents worked. Not only the Hamburg police but also the Ukrainian anti-terror police are on his track.
Fabel's teammate Anna is kidnapped by Harald Frantzen, who was previously only suspect, into the Wilhelmsburg flak bunker , but seconds before Frantzen executes the blood eagle on her in the presence and on the orders of Witrenko, she is rescued by Fabel and his colleague Herrmann. Frantzen is killed in the exchange of fire, colleague Maria is critically injured while pursuing Witrenko, and Witrenko is able to escape.
background
The first broadcast of the thriller filmed in the greater Hamburg area was on November 3, 2012 on Das Erste . In addition to blood eagles , wolf trail was filmed in 2010 and Brandmal from Russell's fable novels in 2015 .
Reviews
“Routine, but largely unsurprising (TV) thriller that works on the clichés of the serial killer topic. The second film (after 'Wolfsfährte') in a series of novels by the Scottish detective writer Craig Russell set in Hamburg. "
“An unusual thriller for a German crime scene, whistling about realism and social criticism, but with elements of mystery, even horror, and portrays Hamburg as a dark metropolis. You immediately forgive a few mistakes and inconsistencies. "
Web links
- Blood eagle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Blood eagle on Tivoli.tv
Individual evidence
- ↑ Blood eagle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Blood eagle on TV-Spielfilm.de