The dead man on the beach
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| Original title | The dead man on the beach |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 89 minutes |
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| Director | Martin Enlen |
| script | Daniel D. Wissmann |
| production | Heike Wiehle-Timm for Relevant Film |
| music | Dieter Schleip |
| camera | Philipp Timme |
| cut | Monika Abspacher |
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The Dead on the Beach is a crime film by director Martin Enlen from 2006. The literary film adaptation is based on the novel Rosa's Return by the writer Barbara Krohn . In the main role , Silke Bodenbender embodies the daughter Rosa of the patriarchal father Friedrich Liebmann ( Hans Peter Hallwachs ), who emigrates to the USA at a young age and only returns to Germany when her father turns 70.
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At a young age, Rosa, like her siblings, suffers from the pressure and humiliation of her father, who has hardly any friends because he is particularly domineering. When she could no longer withstand this pressure, she emigrated to the USA in order to finally start a new life, freed from all unsightly memories from her childhood.
As the day approaches after more than a decade on which her father will celebrate his 70th birthday, she decides to come back to Germany and talk to him about all her experiences with him. Furthermore, she has in mind to finally be able to make peace with him and forget all the humiliations that happened to her on his part.
However, it turns out differently: When she arrived in Germany, Rosa found her father dead, he was sitting lifeless in a beach chair, a bullet hit him in the heart and he was shot. All of a sudden, Rosa suddenly realized all the wrongdoings her father committed in his life, and not just against his own children. For example, a father who drowns a cat in front of his daughter or sends his son a notice, forcing his other daughter to abort and calling his sons-in-law all “washcloths”, such a person will likely have more enemies than friends in the course of his life and it seems clear that, given the circumstances, the killer must come from the family.
Initially, Rosa is also under suspicion. It also turns out that the father had a relationship with Liselotte Petersen, with whom he always met on Saturdays. The mother, in turn, has a secret relationship with the driving instructor Carl. On the day of the crime, Carl was also out on the beach and saw Ole shot his father-in-law in a scuffle. Through a letter from Rosa the day before, he had learned that his wife Regina had been forced to have an abortion by her father 15 years ago, as a result of which their marriage remained childless. Ole drew the wrong conclusions from this and shot Friedrich Liebmann. When he is determined to be the perpetrator, Ole storms home to Regina and takes the murder weapon from its hiding place. Rosa arrives and tries to protect her sister by stating that Ole killed himself. Regina, however, admits this act and is taken away.
Production notes
Relevant Film produced the film on behalf of ZDF and Arte . Romano Ruhnau was the still photographer , Su Proebster was responsible for the film construction, and Heta Mantscheff for the casting . Filming began on September 27, 2005 and ended on October 31 of the same year. The locations were Hamburg and Heiligenhafen .
Publication dates
The dead man on the beach was shown for the first time at the Hamburg Film Festival on October 10, 2006. The TV premiere took place on December 1st of the same year on Arte .
Reviews
The program magazine TV Spielfilm thinks that the film is a "[t] op-occupied family tragedy [...] against a backdrop of the Baltic Sea." The conclusion is: “A well-played crime thriller with salt water flair”.
Rainer Tittelbach is of the opinion that top-class actors are used in the film and that the director has demonstrated all his skills in the field of drama.
Kino.de states that The Dead on the Beach was almost "wastefully" cast with high-quality actors, and that even smaller roles were cast with outstanding actors.
Web links
- The dead on the beach in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Dead on the Beach in the online movie database
- The dead man on the beach at Tittelbach.tv
- The dead man on the beach at ARD
- The dead man on the beach at Kino.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The dead man on the beach. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved October 6, 2015 .
- ^ The Dead on the Beach - Film Review - Film - TV SPIELFILM. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved October 6, 2015 .
- ↑ The dead man on the beach - review of the film - Tittelbach.tv. In: tittelbach.tv. Retrieved October 6, 2015 .
- ↑ The Dead on the Beach Film (2006) · Trailer · Review · KINO.de. In: kino.de. Retrieved October 6, 2015 .