Children of Wax
| Movie | |
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| German title | Children of Wax |
| Original title | Children of Wax |
| Country of production | Bulgaria |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK No youth approval |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ivan Nichev |
| script | Menahem Golan |
| production | Menahem Golan |
| music | Stefan Dimitrov |
| occupation | |
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Children of Wax is a 2007 Bulgarian thriller directed by Ivan Nichev .
action
In Berlin , Commissioner Kemal Aslan is confronted with a puzzling series of murders: Most of the victims are young Turkish children who are left behind by their murderer with a wax mask pulled over their faces. Aslan suspects the perpetrator to be part of a right-wing radical group that has been in conflict with a Turkish street gang for a long time. Aslan himself used to be part of the street gang before he made the jump.
Aslan cannot prevent a sixth child from falling victim to the perpetrator. The aggression between the two warring groups gets out of hand and a right-wing radical skinhead is killed. Both groups agree on a final open fight without rules, which should finally determine the fronts between the two groups. Aslan, however, has long since believed that none of the groups was responsible for the murders - there appears to be a third, unknown perpetrator.
Only a blind beggar gives Aslan the right tip that leads him to the serial killer "P." When confronted with the police, he shoots down a colleague of Aslan's and is finally killed by Aslan.
production
Children of Wax was filmed in Sofia from April 25th to May 30th, 2005 . The film language is English, although some passages also contain German, Turkish, Bulgarian and Persian dialogues.
The film was first released on DVD in the US on July 17, 2007. He was marketed under the title The Killing Grounds . In Germany the film was never shown in cinemas and was released on DVD in a shortened version of the FSK 18 rating.
criticism
spielfilm.de called Children of Wax a "hard thriller with well-known genre stars like Udo Kier and Armand Assante". For filmtipps.at , Children of Wax was “a prototypical Cannon film. It's cheap, violent, reasonably exciting, but sensational and technically relatively clean. With the Bulgarian filmmaker Ivan Nitchev, an old veteran took his seat at the director's chair, who does not want to set visual accents, but knows his craft and lets the 90 minutes of film pass quickly. "
Web links
- Children of Wax in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions no youth approval - NL DVD from Children of Wax at Schnittberichte.com