Callboys - Every desire has its price
| Episode of the Michelle Eisner series | |
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| Original title | Callboys - Every desire has its price |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
U5 film production |
| length | 92 minutes |
| classification | Episode 1 ( list ) |
| German-language first broadcast |
May 11, 1999 on Sat.1 |
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| Director | Christiane Balthasar |
| script | Eckart Ziedrich |
| production |
Karl Eberhard Schäfer Norbert Walter |
| music | Johannes Kobilke |
| camera | Markus Hausen |
| cut | Claudia Wolscht |
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Callboys - Every lust has its price is a German thriller by Christiane Balthasar from 1999 . It is the pilot of the three-part Tuesday evening series Michelle Eisner on the private broadcaster Sat.1 . It was first broadcast in Germany on May 11, 1999.
action
Michelle Eisner works as a profiler at the Federal Criminal Police Office in Frankfurt am Main. Without warning, the psychologist Busch is put at her side. He is supposed to help her hunt down a serial killer who had previously cut off the tongues of three young women with a razor so that they choked on their own blood. In the last offense, this time the perpetrator had left his victim's handbag behind, from which Busch concludes that he is offering the police a kind of puzzle.
What all three victims have in common is that they were customers of call boys . Eisner is therefore investigating in the Frankfurt callboy scene. The last victim was with the handsome Lanou shortly before his death. Both he and well-known callboys are then monitored in teams of two. Since Lanou is considered the "boss" in the scene, Eisner wants to personally take care of his observation. She thinks it is quite possible that he is the culprit. Based on the time interval between the murders, which has so far been halved, another murder could possibly be expected today. That actually happens and due to an overgrowth, it cannot be ruled out that Lanou was able to leave his apartment unnoticed. The police are now on the offensive and search Lanou's apartment. Two of the women killed can be found in his customer file, whereupon he is arrested as the main suspect. During the interrogation, Commissioner Eisner learns that all of the victims were bisexual and that her friend Eva Hellmann is also his customer. This leads the investigator to check her too. After seeing Eva shave her legs with a razor, she demands their alibis for the evenings of the crime. When there was more evidence against Hellmann and Eisner wanted to get to the bottom of it, she found Hellmann's assistant murdered in her apartment. However, this murder does not fit into the “grid” of the series of murders. Before she can find an explanation for this, she will be withdrawn from the case because she had fallen in love with Lanou in the meantime and met with him privately during the investigation. Now suspended, she also wants to stand by her love, but Hellmann warns her that he would only use her as he would only have used everyone. As soon as Eisner meets Lanou in his apartment, Hellmann appears there and threatens Lanou with a gun. He is shot in the scuffle and now Hellmann shows her true colors. She tries to cut out Eisner's tongue, as she always did when she thought she had lost her lover to Lanou. The arriving bush can clear the situation and Hellmann is arrested.
Subplot
Michelle Eisner had divorced her husband because he couldn't get his alcohol addiction under control. Nevertheless, she meets with him now and then, and he usually pumps her up for money.
background
Callboys - Every lust has its price was filmed in 1998 under the working title Die Callboys . The film was produced by U5 film production.
Franziska Grasshoff can be seen in her last role as a lawyer in this thriller. The actress died a few months after it first aired in September 1999 at the age of 42.
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv rated: “The story of 'Callboys - Every lust has its price' sounds like any TV movie. What is remarkable, however, is that a talented young director was allowed to try her hand at this erotic thriller. ”“ Ann-Kathrin Kramer opens the film to the audience. It is the counterpoint to a strange world, to the lascivious pleasure life of the love servants to order. And her heroine? 'She's a very instinctive being, sometimes incredibly tough, sometimes human,' emphasizes Kramer. Kompagnon Busch, a profiler who reads the handwriting of the crime scene in order to look into the psyche of the perpetrator, is played grumpily and sympathetically by Burkhard Driest. He, who is always viewed as a criminal, always wanted to play a 'cop'. "
For the critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm , Callboys was - every pleasure has its price an “unlikely mixture of sex, crime and stupid coincidences”.
Web links
- Call Boys - Every pleasure has its price in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Callboys - every desire has its price at crew united
- Callboys - Every desire has its price at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Callboys - Every lust has its price, TV-Film, 1998–1999, Sat.1, Germany | Crew United
- ^ Ann-Kathrin Kramer, Christiane Balthasar. Deadly love servants to order from Tittelbach.tv , accessed on August 31, 2020.
- ↑ Callboys - Every lust has its price Short review at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on August 31, 2020.