The seventh photo

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Movie
Original title The seventh photo
Country of production Germany , Czech Republic
original language German
Publishing year 2003
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jörg Lühdorff
script Jörg Lühdorff
production Stephan Barth for KAMPA FILM Produktion GmbH (Essen)
music Oliver Biehler
camera Mathias Neumann
cut Claudia Wolscht
occupation

The seventh photo is a drama and a thriller by the German director Jörg Lühdorff , who also wrote the screenplay, from 2002. In the lead role , Oliver Korittke plays the children's book author Lenny, who is able to do so after having found a film with images of the Prague Spring to solve a murder.

action

The children's book author Lenny discovers a film in an old camera. When he had it developed, he recognized the events of the Prague Spring, the revolution that was violently ended by Russian tanks in 1968. He discovers a young woman in one of the pictures and creates a newspaper ad with her picture in the Prague newspaper . The answer to his newspaper advertisement is not long in coming: his apartment is broken into and everything is ransacked. Furthermore, his father is murdered and the photos have disappeared.

Lenny believes it is all related to the release of the picture and travels to Prague. He finds out that the woman in the photo was called Eva Marková and had died many years earlier due to unknown circumstances, probably in the turmoil of the revolution. Lenny gets to know her daughter through his research and together they try to find out how exactly Eva Marková died. The joint research ultimately leads to Lenny's parents' house and, as a result, his own life is also in danger.

Production notes and first appearance

The film was shot in Prague . First shown at the Munich Film Festival on July 4, 2003, it was first broadcast on ProSieben on December 4 of the same year .

Reviews

The lexicon of international films believes that The Seventh Photo is a “(television) thriller about a political secret that lies in the past and shows that old clerics from the time of communism are still active guard an eyeball and walk over corpses. "

Rainer Tittelbach is of the opinion that "the work of cameraman Mathias Neumann particularly [stands out], because it is not only visually very attractive, but also creates essential contexts."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Seventh Photo (2003) - Filming Locations - IMDb. In: imdb.com. Retrieved October 3, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b The seventh photo in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  3. ↑ The seventh photo - review of the film - Tittelbach.tv. In: tittelbach.tv. Retrieved October 3, 2015 .