Eternal Life (film)

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Movie
Original title Eternal life
Country of production Austria ,
Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2015
length 123 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director Wolfgang Murnberger
script Josef Hader ,
Wolfgang Murnberger,
Wolf Haas
production Danny Krausz ( Dor Film ),
Kurt Stocker
music Sofa surfers
camera Peter von Haller
cut Evi Romen
occupation

Eternal Life is an Austro-German crime film with elements of tragic comedy and the thriller from 2015 , which is based on the novel by Wolf Haas of the same name . The film is the continuation of the previously made book adaptations Come, Sweet Death  (2000), Silentium  (2004) and The Bone Man  (2009). The main character Simon Brenner is played again by Josef Hader . The film was released in Austria on March 5, 2015, in Germany it was shown on March 19, 2015.

action

The destitute private detective Simon Brenner returns to his hometown Graz , where he inherited a desolate house in Puntigam . He visits his childhood friend Köck, an antique dealer next to the stadium , to borrow money. Köck's business is bad, however. Brenner asks him to sell at least one old Walther PPK that he found in the attic. Köck, who has the same weapon, then phoned Aschenbrenner, the head of the Styrian State Criminal Police Office. Apparently the three childhood friends are linked by a secret that has to do with the old pistol. During the night, Aschenbrenner unexpectedly visits Brenner. Brenner expelled him from the house, shortly afterwards he shot himself in the head in the course of a severe migraine attack. In his dreams he remembers his youth: pictures emerge of four young men who rob a bank and then go on vacation with a woman by the sea.

Brenner wakes up in the accident hospital and suffers from the loss of his short-term memory. Although his doctor, Dr. Irrsiegler, who is convinced that he shot himself, says he was a victim of an attempted murder. At first neither of them know that their stories are linked: Irrsiegler is married to Aschenbrenner, who has heart disease. While talking to the doctor, Brenner suddenly remembers his encounters with Köck and Aschenbrenner. So she learns of the connection to her husband and that Köck has been blackmailing him for years .

So she looks for Köck in his shop and shoots him. As she leaves the junk shop, she is seen by its employee, the Rom Pinto. Brenner leaves the hospital and goes to see Köck, who is already dead. A cleaning lady finds both and calls the police. Aschenbrenner appears at the crime scene and has Brenner brought back to the hospital. Pinto is arrested because he looted the cash register after Köck's death and is therefore suspected of robbery and murder.

During the interrogation, Pinto recognizes the woman he saw at the crime scene on the desktop background of Aschenbrenner's laptop. The unpopular police chief wants to protect his wife and lets Pinto go. But he lets his employees, Heinz and Pichler, who do not want to understand the release, observe him . While they are waiting in the car, Aschenbrenner shoots the Rom without being recognized and deposits the murder weapon with which Köck was murdered in his apartment (but gives the weapon to him shortly beforehand so that his fingerprints are on the murder weapon). Dr. Irrsiegler confessed everything to her husband when asked and gave him her weapon.

Since three identical weapons have now appeared in the case, Heinz asked Brenner about it. These are service weapons that the Graz police decommissioned, which the police students at the time were allowed to purchase cheaply. Since Brenner refuses to be transferred to the nervous hospital, Irrsiegler organizes outpatient treatment and drives Brenner home.

Brenner visits the café of his childhood friend Maritschi in the Gries district . She is not happy about the reunion and puts him in front of the door. Maritschi is led by Dr. Irrsiegler, who is her daughter, picked up. Both go to Irrsiegler's birthday party on the Murinsel in Graz . Brenner follows them and now realizes that the doctor and Aschenbrenner LKA head are a couple.

In the ladies' room of the party location, Brenner confronts Maritschi and the story clears up: Brenner, Köck, Aschenbrenner and a fourth childhood friend, Franz Irrsiegler, committed a bank robbery out of high spirits in the 1970s. The police students at the time used the decommissioned Walther PPK . Franz Irrsiegler, at that time Brenner's best friend, died on the run in a motorcycle accident. The others were on vacation with Maritschi in Yugoslavia . Since the young woman had sexual relations not only with Irrsiegler, but also with Brenner and Aschenbrenner - in accordance with free love - the birth father of her daughter is not known. Dr. Irrsiegler was raised to believe that he was the child of the late Franz. As an adult she fell in love with Aschenbrenner, who may be her father and who, as a successful official, was blackmailed by Köck because of the events.

Brenner witnesses how police officer Heinz, who investigated the Köck case on his own and found incriminating surveillance videos, issues an arrest warrant against Dr. Irrsiegler wants to execute. Aschenbrenner put him off. Brenner confesses his youthful sin to Heinz at home in Puntigam when Aschenbrenner arrives and shoots Heinz with Brenner's old weapon. Brenner managed to flee on his moped through a ruse. The night chase ends on the Graz Schlossberg ; As a result of the overexertion, the police chief suffers a fatal heart attack.

Immediately after Aschenbrenner's funeral, Dr. Irrsiegler told the policeman Pichler to have killed Köck. Brenner takes the blame, however. Pichler doesn't believe either of them and the film ends with Brenner cheering Irrsiegler - without fully explaining the past - with anecdotes about her father Franz.

production

The authors and the main actors at the premiere in Vienna (2015)

The film is a production by Dor Film in coproduction with "Dor Film West GmbH". The shooting took place from March to May 2014 in Graz and Munich. The Austrian band Sofa Surfers was again responsible for the soundtrack .

criticism

The film-dienst described the film as a congenial film adaptation of Wolf Haas' novel, in which the "precisely as well as bizarre milieu is more in the foreground" than the crime story. Highlighted "brilliant black-humored dialogue and excellent actor," the "voices the characters to life" awakened. The film website kino.de judged that the “grandiose script” would rephrase the “weird artificial language of the novel perfectly into laconic everyday dialogues”. Cameraman Peter von Haller also finds “always the right pictures for the suburban dreariness”.

Awards

See also

Web links

Commons : Eternal Life  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for Eternal Life . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2015 (PDF; test number: 149 723 K).
  2. ↑ Age designation for Eternal Life . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ The Eternal Life - Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved March 8, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Austrian website for the film 'The Eternal Life'. Retrieved March 1, 2015 .
  5. ↑ German website for the film 'Das Ewige Leben'. Retrieved March 1, 2015 .
  6. ↑ 'Austrian Film Institute'. Retrieved March 9, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Katharina Zeckau: Eternal Life. film-dienst , 6/2015, accessed on March 17, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Eternal life. In: kino.de . Busch Entertainment Media, accessed March 17, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Eternal life. In: Internet presence of the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) . Retrieved March 1, 2015 .
  10. ↑ List of Diamond-Super-Golden-Austria Tickets 2015 ( memento of the original from April 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . List of April 24, 2015, accessed April 25, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wko.at