The dark nest
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The dark nest |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 88 minutes |
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| Director | Christine Hartmann |
| script | Andreas Dirr |
| production | Gabriela Sperl |
| music | Stephan Massimo |
| camera | Christof Wahl |
| cut | Horst Reiter |
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The Dark Nest is a German TV film made by ZDF in 2011 .
action
Pastor Dr. Gabriel Reinberg, a former criminal psychologist, started a new job as a village pastor three months ago. His predecessor, Pastor Adler, died twelve years earlier in 1999 when the rectory burned down. In the village, Pastor Reinberg befriends the twelve-year-old student Lydia Gerblich, who is his minister, and gives her tutoring in Latin. Soon he gets a visit from Inspector Esther Fromm: child murderer Anton Kretschmer, about whom Reinberg had prepared an opinion in his function as a criminal psychologist, has relapsed.
When Lydia disappears without a trace, a search party goes on a search; her father Mario Gerblich finally finds the girl dead in the forest; Forensic medicine determines, among other things, skull injuries. Shortly after Lydia's body was found, the local parish register from 1999 disappears.
Pastor Reinberg soon falls under the suspicion of the village community because of his profession and his friendship with Lydia. There were graffiti directed against Reinberg, an arson attack on his car and even an attempt to lynch the pastor.
Commissioner Fromm has a DNA comparison carried out in the village, in which Pastor Reinberg also takes part. Reinberg's DNA is also found on Lydia's corpse, but the match comes from a cross that Lydia had scratched into Reinberg's arm.
A little later, Lydia's father is arrested because an item of clothing was found in his house that Lydia was wearing when she disappeared. A 15-year-old complaint for rape speaks against him.
At the same time Lydia's mother Maria Gerblich revealed to the priest: Lydia was born from the incest between her and her father, the sawmill owners Wolfgang pledges. In the meantime it turns out that Maria had given the parish book to her friend Basti. Pastor Adler had made a corresponding entry in Latin, which Maria could translate. Pfänder set fire to the rectory for fear of the truth being revealed. When Lydia confronted her mother Maria with her knowledge, an argument broke out, with Lydia falling down the stairs. Wolfgang Pfänder disguised Lydia's death as a sex murder and blamed her father Mario for the act.
Production and publication
The shooting of the Sperl Productions took place in November and December 2010 in Munich and the surrounding area. The premiere was on June 27, 2011 in the New German Television series at the Munich Film Festival . The first broadcast in the ZDF evening program on November 28, 2011 saw 5.43 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 16.3%.
Reviews
“Author Andreas Dirr was too clichéd. The positions of the investigators were painted in black and white (not outstanding: Katharina Müller-Elmau and Andreas Schmidt), and the resolution that was emerging was not surprising. Christian Berkel and Petra Schmidt-Schaller impressed with their intense game. "
“Even the extras of the brilliant cast act terrifyingly credible. But the plot - script: Andreas Dirr - has already landed on the level of the horror novel: Dark family secrets crystallize out as a motif, hair-raising coincidences lead to the trail of the perpetrator, every current commonplace is served, from incest to bondage. But one thing remains unaffected: the insight into the devastating power of prejudice and hysteria, the weakness of reason as soon as general fears and instincts are alarmed. In the end, helplessly like the priest, one clings to one of the central statements of Jesus Christ, quoted several times in the film: 'The truth will set you free.' "
“It is the actor Berkel who saves the film from falling into the usual genre. What the script does not allow his role in dialogues to express the deep inner hurt by the general suspicions against the entire church, is played out in Berkel's eyes. You are hopeless and yet brave. They say to the observer: This man is bathing what not he but other members of his class have done. He takes on himself the guilt that the official Church finds so difficult to recognize. Berkel never appears submissive or diligent, more proud of sin. He is a master of portraying seriousness, which is accompanied by courage and melancholy. Such men are not only needed by the church. "
“ZDF is showing a crime thriller that takes up the abuse scandal in the Catholic Church and, unfortunately, is not very subtle. The death of the child grabs the viewer emotionally, but then the film loses itself too quickly in theses. [...] The film cannot decide whether it wants to be a hard thriller, a social drama or a shallow crime thriller with a tendency towards comedy. [...] Christian Berkel plays the likeable Jesuit in such a way that the viewer never really believes that he is the culprit. Petra Schmidt-Schaller is a bright spot in the role of the mother of the dead child. It touchingly shows a fragile, now broken young woman. The TV police, on the other hand, just stand around and spread simple theses. "
Web links
- The dark nest in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rudolf Ogiermann: Moments of self-consciousness: an interview with Christian Berkel. In: merkur.de . November 27, 2011, accessed December 29, 2017 .
- Tina Layes: Delicate ZDF film: Interview with Christian Berkel. In: tz . November 28, 2011. Retrieved December 29, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The dark nest. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on January 3, 2018 .
- ↑ The Dark Nest. Munich Film Festival, accessed on January 3, 2018 .
- ↑ TV film "The Dark Nest". In: tittelbach.tv . Retrieved January 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Petra Noppeney: Woods: The dark nest (ZDF). In: Westfälische Nachrichten . December 8, 2010, accessed December 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Dieter Bartezko: On TV: "The Dark Nest" - A village chases the priest. In: FAZ . November 27, 2011, accessed December 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Nikolaus von Festenberg: ZDF church drama "The dark nest": A cross, this crime story. In: Der Spiegel . November 28, 2011. Retrieved December 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Tanjev Schultz: Such a handsome man, and then a priest. In: Sueddeutsche . November 28, 2011. Retrieved December 29, 2017 .