Blood Rush (1997)

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Movie
Original title Bloodlust
Country of production Austria
original language German / Viennese
Publishing year 1997
length 96 minutes
Rod
Director Thomas Roth
script Günter Brödl ,
Milan Dor ,
Willi Resetarits ,
Thomas Roth
production Danny Krausz ,
Kurt Stocker
music Karl Ritter ,
Willi Resetarits
camera Jiri Stibr
cut Evi Romen
occupation

Blutrausch is an Austrian crime film based on the novel of the same name by Günter Brödl , which was shot largely in the Viennese dialect .

action

When the musician Kurt Ostbahn, who is known all over Vienna , enters his regular Beisl , the "Espresso Rallye", after a performance , he and the landlord Mr. Josef first witness a loud argument between the petty criminal and musician Wickerl and Rudi, who is employed as a temporary worker. Some time and a few Fernets later, Kurt Ostbahn went home and found Wickerl's rather badly battered body. The next morning Kurt Ostbahn is awakened with a heavy head by Commissioner Franziska Sedlacek and Inspector Skocik, whereby Sedlacek, who is about to retire, has more sympathy for Kurt Ostbahn than her overzealous young colleague, who wants to believe that Kurt Ostbahn is the culprit.

He begins with his musician friend, the "trainer", who is interested in criminal investigations, to find out the background of the spectacular crime on his own. In the "Espresso Rallye" he first comes across the attractive and mysterious Marlene Thompson, who introduces herself as a hotelier's wife and even follows him into his apartment. The further investigations lead to an obscure Sado-Maso fetish scene, whose American logo Ostbahn is strikingly reminiscent of a tattoo on Marlene Thompson's thigh. At first they think they have a lead when they find a lot of black copies of CDs of the metal band "Mom & Dead" with their exalted singer Donna in Wickerl's legacy , who also has an unmistakable proximity to the said fetish scene. The story becomes even more complicated when Rudi is found similarly brutally murdered by Mr. Josef.

In the end, Kurt Ostbahn himself is in mortal danger. He is knocked down and kidnapped by a stranger at a concert by “Mom & Dead”, but is able to free himself and confront the murderer - who turns out to be a psychopathic killer and a rejected admirer of Donna. In the end, Kurt Ostbahn is on the train to Paris to visit Marlene Thompson.

production

The film was shot and produced by DOR Film in Vienna in spring 1997 with the participation of ORF . Funding was provided by the ÖFI and the Vienna Film Fund .

evaluation

It started in theaters on September 19, 1997. Blutrausch was broadcast on ORF 1 on April 14, 2000 from 11.25 p.m. and repeated on ORF 2 on December 22, 2008 at 0.15 a.m. on the occasion of Willi Resetarits' 60th birthday. As part of the summer cinema, the film was shown in the arena on August 12, 2009 . The film was released on DVD on October 31, 2009 . It is also available as a download . It is awarded and distributed by the film shop .

Soundtrack

The CD for the film was released on September 15, 1997 under the Amadeo no. 5392782 published.

Track list
  1. Scene (Kurt Ostbahn)
  2. Blood Rush (long version) (Kurt Ostbahn & Die Kombo)
  3. Scene: Mr. Josef and Kurt Ostbahn (Lukas Resetarits and Kurt Ostbahn)
  4. Nothing wia wrap (Kurt Ostbahn & Die Kombo)
  5. Scene: Herr Josef, Wickerl and Rudi (Lukas Resetarits, Gerhard Gutenbrunner and Peter Dutz)
  6. Deppata (Karl Ritter)
  7. Zimmer free (Kurt Ostbahn & Die Kombo)
  8. Scene: Commissioner Sedlacek (Silvia Fenz)
  9. Haasses Pflaster (Ostbahn-Kurti & Die Chefpartie)
  10. AAS (Karl Ritter)
  11. Bondage Queen (Mom & Dead)
  12. Home is (Where the Heart Is) (Mom & Dead)
  13. Scene: Bartender (Manfred Deix)
  14. Watch your Step (Alfred "King" Karasek & His Blues Guitars)
  15. Scene: Skocik and Kurt Ostbahn (Georg Friedrich and Kurt Ostbahn)
  16. Staircase (Karl Ritter)
  17. Scene (Kurt Ostbahn)
  18. Murderous (Kurt Ostbahn & Die Kombo)
  19. Scene: Mr. Josef and Kurt Ostbahn (Lukas Resetarits and Kurt Ostbahn)

Reviews

“For the first time, Willi Resetarits (actor) and Günter Brödl (mastermind), creators of the total work of art 'Ostbahn Kurti', are moving to the cinema. The director Thomas Roth helped them a lot, skilfully translating the Viennese suburban myth, which was previously mainly musically defined, into images. Of course, it's not a simple crime thriller or a bloodthirsty splatter movie: 'Blutrausch' tells the story of the cool prolo pop star Kurt O., who gets involved in a gruesome series of murders without much help. Roth stages a dark chamber play with bizarre characters: Outstanding are Silvia Fenz as a detective and Heribert Sasse as an agent with a penchant for private computer searches. The attractive appearance of Uschi Obermaier, the excellently preserved erotic icon of the commune Stone Age, is edifying for the sixty-eight. Doctor Ostbahn himself is a casual, slightly broken figure that is reminiscent of the film noir. Small details are also amusing: The Sado singer (Inga Busch) has motifs of the actionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler on the wall at home , and the killer (Arno Frisch) comes straight from Haneke's ' Funny Games '. "

- Frido Hütter

“... To bring the significance of this catacomb black crime thriller to the pressure point: 'Blutrausch', based on the thriller by Ostbahn intimate Günter Brödl, looks like a cozy literary film adaptation of the saying 'A real Viennese goes under'. A loving homage to Viennese shame - personified by Ostbahn, friends and enemies from the Viennese suburbs and the rest of the world. A little hoard and word preservation institution of the saying from the reason, starting with Kiberer via Blashüttn to Batzn Buschkavü - and that's really Lecherlschas ... "

- Courier Online , 1997

“Blood frenzy is rarely funny and practically never exciting. Ostbahn's sayings accompanying the action seem as spontaneous as jokes declaimed on mini-stages, and as a Philip Marlowe blend, the man is about as funny as Humphrey Bogart is imitating the Ostbahn kurti. Because, after all, nothing seems threatening (more like postmodernly quoted 'threatening situations' from film noir, splatter and western) - and because all suspense is blunted by the poses of the numerous genre corpses of this film, director Roth soon resorts to effect means without Purpose: You see a pinball ball rolling in close-up, and you see speeding tracking shots that are not motivated by any comprehensible look, no movement based on the plot, no interpretive narrative posture. Just as unmotivated, the (off) song interludes of the Ostbahn-Kurti, stuffed carelessly between the scenes, appear. But such inconsistencies are not at all in films like Blutrausch. Here one thinks and stages in smaller, but generously spiced up with silly puns: in episodes. Everything should just have some flair and work somehow - according to the motto: every shot is a hit, no matter where. "

- The press , 1997

"... There was a problem with the eyes and ears that was obvious to the eyes and ears: Ostbahn-Kurti in the main role, Ostbahn-Kurti in the most important supporting roles, Ostbahn-Kurti as an extra, Ostbahn-Kurti with Ostbahn-Kurti and Ostbahn-Kurti soundtrack."

- Culture column, 01/99

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved March 30, 2010 (information on the film).
  2. Espresso Rosi. The ultimate Kurt Ostbahn homepage. In: EspressoRosi.Hase.cc. Retrieved March 30, 2010 (facsimile of an ORF program preview, April 2000).
  3. Willi Resetarits is 60. In: ORF.at. December 19, 2008, accessed March 30, 2010 (program preview).
  4. ^ Arena Vienna. In: Events August 2009. Archived from the original on December 30, 2012 ; Retrieved March 30, 2010 .
  5. ↑ A rush of blood. In: sra.at. Retrieved April 1, 2018 .
  6. Universal Music Austria. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on March 30, 2010 (information on CD).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.universalmusic.at  

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