Carneval - The clown brings death

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Movie
Original title Carneval - The clown brings death
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2018
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Nicolai Rohde
script Nils-Morten Osburg
production Thomas Hroch ,
Gerald Podgornig
music Johannes Kobilke
camera Felix Novo de Oliveira
cut Melanie Sagittarius
occupation

Carneval - The Clown Brings Death is a German TV film from 2018 based on a novel by the Scottish author Craig Russell . The thriller is to Wolfsfährte , (2010) Blood Eagle (2012) and stigma (2015) about the fourth film adaptation of Russell's crime series around by Peter Lohmeyer embodied Hamburger Detective January fable and was designed by Nicolai Rohde for ARD staged. The first broadcast took place on May 21, 2018 on ORF . The film was shown for the first time on September 15, 2018 on ARD.

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In his fourth case, police chief in January fable of the Hamburg murder squad shortly before the holiday to Cologne called, where he around the Cologne carnival in scrutinizing one dressed as a clown serial killer should help before it can strike again. The Rhenish High Commissioner Benni Scholz has two unsolved murders of women in the last two years in his files, both for each Weiberfastnacht committed by a cannibal , and fears that the killer will strike again this year.

Fabel, who is considered an expert on serial offenders, agrees to support because he hopes to find his traumatized colleague Maria Klee again in order to protect her from herself. She is secretly traveled to Cologne to vigilantism to practice their Ukrainian tormentors Vitrenko. Maria Klee meets Viktor Buslenko, a boxing fighter who works for Witrenko, in Cologne and begins an affair with him in order to get to Witrenko through him.

Scholz assumes that the cannibal symbolically chooses the day on the basis of the name ( carne vale ), the victims were women with lush buttocks. The first victim was beaten by the husband, the second victim lived with the mother. Willi Heidkamp was an eyewitness to the second murder. After running into a car on the run from the murderer, he ended up in the clinic and has been in a wheelchair ever since. Fabel and Scholz try to question Heidkamp, ​​but he is physically unable to provide any information.

Jan Fabel is able to track down Maria Klee, but is overwhelmed by her and knocked unconscious so that she can flee. The Cologne criminal investigation agency brings another case in connection with the serial killer. Four years ago, Vera Reinhardt was badly injured in the buttocks by a clown with a knife, and she subsequently changed her name to Andrea Gehring. The clown is likely to have found his victims through lectures by the psychologist Thomas Tesla, so the investigators suspect that the next victim could also be a visitor to one of the lectures. Tesla is friends with the chef Ansgar. Ansgar learns from Tesla that the police interviewed Vera Reinhardt.

After Viktor Buslenko finds out that Maria Klee is a police officer, the two of them fight, in which Klee is seriously injured. Buslenko brings Klee to Witrenko; Fabel finds Buslenko's apartment devastated. The police asked Dora Seiffert to act as a decoy for the serial offender. Ansgar disguises himself as a clown and looks for Vera Reinhardt / Andrea Gehring in their apartment, but is overwhelmed by the investigator Tansu Bakrac in time. Maria Klee is freed by the police, Witrenko is arrested. Klee shoots Vitrenko. After Ansgar's interrogation, however, Scholz assumes that Ansgar is not the serial killer. Dora Seiffert is overwhelmed by Vera Reinhardt / Andrea Gehring, who is disguised as a clown, but can be stopped by the police.

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production

The shooting took place from March 8th to April 6th, 2017. The film was shot in Cologne and Hamburg . The film was produced by the German Tivolifilm Film Produktion GmbH and the Austrian producers Thomas Hroch and Gerald Podgornig .

Was involved in the ARD ( Degeto film ). Gurli Thermann was responsible for the costume design, Alex Scherer for the production design, Andreas Wölki for the sound and Christina Paul for the makeup.

reception

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv found that the fourth film was a disappointment in terms of the expectations from the previously unusually dark and sometimes very brutal film adaptations, among other things with regard to the very special image design from the start. The two storylines would also be difficult to match. “While Fabel is looking for a carnival killer dressed up as a clown in Cologne, his colleague Maria is chasing the Ukrainian gangster Witrenko, who rammed a knife into her stomach in the penultimate film. The two levels are not completely convincing in themselves, but certainly exciting, but the films so far have been much more interesting in terms of visual language. "

Kai Spanke also criticized the two storylines in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , which apart from the protagonist and the setting, have no common vanishing point. “This dramaturgical shortcoming is to be solved by scenes that are cut in parallel and have a similar structure, which alternate between the clown and Maria. Alone, there is no skill. Carneval wants to be sophisticated and captivating, but is nothing more and nothing less than a clownish potpourri of crime, horror and action. "

Frank Preuss judged in the Berliner Morgenpost : “Rüder Krimi - miserable staging.” The carnival scenes are of involuntary comedy, “the music groans and thunders with suspense, while the director now haplessly assembles the two parallel actions, sprinkles a few rude sleeping scenes and the Story with an outrageous resolution sunk unerringly in the Rhine. "

Joachim Schmitz found in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung that the parallelism of the two storylines would be a bit drawn and the biggest shortcoming of the film. "If you hide it, what remains is a drastic, intense and quite exciting thriller, which is also excellently cast in supporting roles [...]."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orf.at: Carneval - The clown brings death . Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  2. ^ ARD - Films in the First: Carneval - The clown brings death . Retrieved August 19, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b Tilmann P. Gangloff: "Carneval - The Clown Brings Death" series at tittelbach.tv , accessed on August 24, 2018.
  4. ↑ Carneval at crew united . Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  5. ↑ a b Tivoli film: Carneval - The clown brings death . Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  6. ↑ FAZ: Warnings are given against Weiberfastnacht . Article dated September 15, 2018, accessed September 15, 2018.
  7. ↑ This clown crime thriller on ARD is simply outrageous . Article dated September 15, 2018, accessed September 15, 2018.
  8. ↑ Gripping thriller: "Carneval - The clown brings death" . Article dated September 15, 2018, accessed September 15, 2018.