The invisible girl
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The invisible girl |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dominik Graf |
| script |
Friedrich Ani Ina Jung |
| production |
Dagmar Rosenbauer Gloria Burkert Andreas Bareiß |
| music |
Sven Rossenbach Florian van Volxem |
| camera |
Michael Wiesweg Hendrik A. Kley |
| cut | Claudia Wolscht |
| occupation | |
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The invisible girl is a German crime film directed by Dominik Graf . The story is based on the real Peggy case .
action
The Dresden inspector Niklas Tanner is transferred to the homicide squad in Sihl in Upper Franconia near the Czech border at his own request. At a company party in nearby Eisenstein, he ends up with his superior, Chief Inspector Wilhelm Michel, in the bar Bärenstüberl , which is divided into two by a red line. There he saw a picture of a girl on the wall with the text “Sina, you will always be with us!” And the message “Ecco, we will not forget you!” He also met the retired Chief Inspector Josef Altendorf.
After his first day at work, Tanner is on his way back to Berlin when he runs over a dead woman on the street. It is Eva Lorant, who testified nine years ago as a witness in the Sina Kolb case: the eight-year-old girl suddenly disappeared in 2001 in tranquil Eisenstein near Sihl. There is no corpse in this case that Josef Altendorf originally worked on as head of the special commission. When Tanner's current superior, Chief Inspector Michel, took over the case on the instructions of the Interior Minister, a perpetrator was quickly presented; the mentally handicapped Emanuel Stock, called Ecco, collapsed after three days of interrogation by Michel and confessed to the murder. Although he later revoked it and the location of the corpse he had named turned out to be untrue, Ecco was convicted. The marking line in the Bärenstüberl still shows today who believes in Ecco's innocence and who doesn't. Ecco is the host's son. Tanner finds a collection of excerpts from the Sina Kolb case in Eva Lorant's apartment and begins to reopen the case. It quickly becomes clear that he has woken sleeping dogs. Michel tries everything to keep him from investigating. Altendorf, in turn, leads Tanner into his basement, where he has collected dozen files on the Sina case. Michel has Eva Lorant's husband arrested, who is a drinker and prone to violent outbursts. He tries to convince him that his wife is murdered and, through suggestive questions, receives a statement that could indirectly be interpreted as a confession. Soon after, Lorant hangs himself in his cell and the case seems to be settled. Michel is relieved, but Interior Minister Dr. Max Helwig, who wants to succeed Prime Minister Bergmann.
But Tanner continues to research. One day he surprises a Czech in his hotel room and follows his car, which takes him to the Luzi Club, a brothel across the Czech border. Shortly afterwards he found out from Sina's mother Inge-Maria Kolb that Eva Lorant had been with her a few days before her death and had told her that she had seen Sina in a supermarket on the Czech border - in Ronfeld, where the Luzi- Club stands. You also informed Michel of this by telephone. Tanner also learns from Inge-Maria that Michel is Sina's father. Tanner drives to the Luzi Club and pretends to be a suitor. He is taken to a room with young girls. He recognizes Sina in a young woman who serves drinks. He wants to kidnap her, kills one of the nightclub employees in self-defense and is finally beaten up in his car by employees of the Luzi Club. They leave him in a field, where he is rescued by the policewoman Evelin Fink. She was once on Michel's side, but now works for Altendorf. After Tanner's report and his testimony that he murdered a man, the Luzi Club is evacuated. But neither the body nor Sina can be found. Michel dismisses Tanner's statement as an invention, but a short time later a woman's corpse is found in a quarry who is identified as Sina Kolb. The funeral takes place and Ecco is released from prison. The Sina Kolb case becomes a stumbling block for the interior minister's career plan; For his term of office as a member of the state parliament, connections to the Luzi Club are proven. Helwig resigns from his offices. In contrast, Michel seems inviolable, he welcomes Ecco, who has been released from prison, in public. Altendorf shoots Michel and Tanner helps him cover up the murder. Some time later Altendorf lives on the North Sea, where Tanner visits him. It could not be found out who kidnapped Sina. The search for Michel's murderer continues.
production
The invisible girl was filmed from July 5th to August 9th 2011 in Munich , Hof , on Amrum and Sylt as well as in Schwarzenbach an der Saale . The film was first shown on Arte on March 30, 2012 after its world premiere at the Hof Film Festival in October 2011 . The invisible girl appeared on DVD in 2012 along with four other films in the New German Crime Series .
reception
Audience ratings
The broadcast of The Invisible Girl on ZDF as TV film of the week on October 29, 2012 was seen by 5.64 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 23.7%; a market share of 9.4% was achieved in the group of 14 to 49 year old viewers .
Reviews
“His new film is always really good where it illuminates the psycho-economic currents of power in the village region. Graf almost develops the sharpness as in his Luden portrait 'Hotte in Paradise' from 2002, in which he describes the entrepreneurial struggle for survival of a West Berlin pimp. "
“It is breathtaking how Graf creates foreboding, almost mystical connections between people and locations and scenes. How he alternates between introverted and extroverted pain. How he unites the loneliness of his heroes. Graf is making a cinema of border experiences, borderland experiences. On the verge of delirium. The sex business, across the border, they say, has ruined love. "
“A fireworks display of zooms and detailed shots: grinning doll heads, stuffed foxes, knight armor. Recounted! Overheated gender wars, Bavarian political clashes, Franconian bigotry, provincial nastiness are heaped on top of each other here, extremely fast, heated, unpolished, slightly disreputable and somewhere between biting parody, melodic porn and psychological thriller. With Graf you don't need to zap any more, he stuffs everything into the one, feverish now moment. "
Awards
The screenwriters Friedrich Ani and Ina Jung won the Bavarian TV Prize for The Invisible Girl 2012 . Ulrich Noethen and Silke Bodenbender were nominated for their roles as best actors at the German Television Award in 2012 . The invisible girl was nominated for the 3sat audience award at the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival in the same year ; Ulrich Noethen won the award for outstanding performance for his role. The invisible girl also received a DIVA for best film in 2012 .
In 2013 the film was nominated for the Golden Camera in the categories of “Best TV Film”, “Best German Actress” (Silke Bodenbender) and “Best German Actor” (Ulrich Noethen).
Web links
- The Invisible Girl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The invisible girl at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heike Hupertz: A murder without a corpse. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 30, 2012, accessed on July 6, 2016 .
- ↑ The invisible girl at crew united
- ↑ The invisible girl. In: film database. Hof International Film Festival, accessed on October 30, 2012 .
- ↑ Uwe Mantel: ZDF: Strong ratings for “The Invisible Girl”. But victory went to RTL. DWDL.de, October 30, 2012, accessed October 30, 2012 .
- ^ Christian Buß: TV thriller by Dominik Graf. Home of the sick. Spiegel Online, March 29, 2012, accessed July 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Fritz Göttler: "The invisible girl" on Arte. Murderous Frontier Experience. Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 30, 2012, accessed on October 30, 2012 : “ The invisible girl is Franconian film noir, the story is inspired locally, but the drive of the film comes from American cinema, Sam Fuller and Robert Aldrich , and from hardware boiled-Roman, Hammett and Chandler . "
- ↑ Nino Klingler: The Invisible Girl. In: critic.de. Frédéric Jaeger, accessed on November 9, 2012 .
- ↑ See The Invisible Girl on fernsehfilm.zdf.de, October 29, 2012