The Assassination Attack (2018)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The assassination attempt |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 180 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Miguel Alexandre |
| script | André Georgi |
| production |
Jutta Lieck-Klenke Dietrich Kluge Ulf Israel |
| music | Wolfram de Marco |
| camera | Miguel Alexandre |
| cut | Marcel Peragine |
| occupation | |
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The murder attack is a German two-part television film by Miguel Alexandre from 2018. Petra Schmidt-Schaller and Ulrich Tukur can be seen in the leading roles . The political thriller is based on real events around the RAF murders of Alfred Herrhausen and Detlev Rohwedder as well as the events in Bad Kleinen and is based on the novel The Last Terrorist by André Georgi . The film premiered on July 3, 2018 at the Munich Film Festival in the New German Television series and was shown on ZDF on November 5 and 7, 2018 .
action
Berlin, 1991. Sandra Wellmann, a member of the third generation of the RAF, is smuggled into the Treuhandanstalt as an informant by the terrorists Klaus Gelfert and Bettina Pohlheim . As a personal advisor to President Dahlmann, she should provide information about a suitable place and time for an assassination attempt. While she is earning Dahlmann's trust and getting used to it, a fatal attack is carried out on the head of the Deutsche Vereinsbank Wegner. The BKA under the leadership of the senior official Kawert takes over the investigation.
Meanwhile, Sandra's doubts about the correctness of an assassination are growing. She prevents a killing attempt in the underground car park of Dahlmann's Berlin hotel and is then put under pressure by her like-minded people. When Gelfert is identified as one of the Wegner assassins by the BKA and he has to go into hiding, Sandra is supposed to carry out the attack herself, in Dahlmann's villa in Bonn-Bad Godesberg.
Before she can do this, Dahlmann is shot from a distance by unknown snipers. Sandra and Bettina do not know who it was, the BKA is also groping in the dark. However, based on evidence, Kawert is convinced that it was not the RAF. Sandra and Bettina manage to escape and go into hiding. Since their secret depots are monitored, they try to get passports and money as well as the truth about the assassins through an ex-Stasi employee. Before their middleman can explain more to them, he too is murdered from a distance by a sniper. But he can still give you the name of a Frankfurt business lawyer who Sandra knows from her work at the Treuhand and who is involved in unclean privatization deals and who was interested in Dahlmann's death.
Sandra and Bettina extort money and passports from him. The handover is to take place at a train station in a small town called Bad Gronau . However, it is a trap, Bettina kills herself in an exchange of fire with SEK forces, and Sandra is arrested. She is brought to Stammheim . To protect her son, she declines an offer to cooperate and instead claims that the attack was carried out by Gelfert.
background
The shooting took place from August to October 2017 in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Düsseldorf and Wroclaw.
reception
Audience rating
The first part on November 5, 2018 was seen by 4.37 million viewers and thus achieved a market share of 14.0 percent. The second part on November 7th was seen by 3.86 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 13.1 percent. The subsequent documentary on the film saw 3.45 million people, which at this time of day corresponded to a market share of 13.2 percent.
Reviews
Ansgar Siemens from Spiegel Online calls the film a “risky mixture of fact and fiction”, but has seen “180 exciting minutes”. Heike Hupertz praises Ulrich Tukur in the FAZ , who plays the head of the trustees “as a fearless philanthropist, mild ironic and sympathizer with top managerial enthusiasm”, but accuses the film of the dilemma of the historical and the imaginary and the resulting legal minefield with the claim “more complete Fictionalization of the events and people ”, on the other hand, to reconstruct events such as the attack on Alfred Herrhausen and the“ image of the destroyed limousine (...) in Bad Homburg down to the last detail ”.
Awards
At the Munich Film Festival , the film was for Bernd Burgemeister Television Award nomination.
Web links
- The assassination in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The murder attack at Crew United
Individual evidence
- ↑ Program page Filmfest München , accessed on October 30, 2018
- ↑ Start of shooting for ZDF two-parter "Der Mordanschlag" , ZDF press portal, August 30, 2017, accessed on October 30, 2018
- ↑ Fabian Riedner: "The murder attack" does not go against crime novels , quotemeter.de , November 6, 2018, accessed on November 8, 2018
- ↑ Jonas Späth: Primetime check Wednesday, November 7, 2018 ,quotemeter.de, November 8, 2018, accessed on November 8, 2018
- ^ Ansgar Siemens: Sprengstoff, Gewehre, Legenden , Spiegel Online, November 5, 2018, accessed on November 8, 2018
- ↑ Heike Hupertz: He was on her page , faz.net, November 5, 2018, accessed on November 8, 2018
- ↑ Information on Crew United , accessed October 30, 2018