The dead maker
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The dead maker |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Romuald Karmakar |
| script | Romuald Karmakar, Michael Farin |
| production |
Peter Herrmann , Thomas Schühly |
| music | Without music |
| camera | Fred Schuler |
| cut | Peter Przygodda |
| occupation | |
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Der Totmacher is a feature film produced for the cinema by the German director Romuald Karmakar from 1995 . The dramatic largely in the form of intimate play staged film focuses on the survey of the serial killer Fritz Haarmann by the psychiatrist Ernst Schultze after. It took place in 1924 as part of the investigation against Haarmann for the murder of at least 24 boys and men before the Hanover Regional Court . During this questioning, Haarmann speaks about his motives and his methods. The dialogues for the film actors were taken from the interrogation protocols.
plot
The film is limited to a single, unspecified and spartan room as a backdrop, possibly an interrogation room. A statement by Haarmann in the film shows that the survey takes place in Göttingen . In this room, Haarmann is questioned by Schultze, who is supposed to judge Haarmann's culpability, in several sessions and reports soberly, sometimes naively, about his actions. The conversations are recorded by an attending stenographer. In the course of the film, a dense and depressing image of Haarmann's deeds develops for the viewer. In the last scene, Haarmann has already been found guilty and sentenced to death and receives a cigar from him at a last meeting with Schultze before the execution. In this last scene, a somewhat freer conversation develops between the two men, in which Haarmann talks about his relationship to death.
Reviews
Götz George's portrayal of Haarmann was received enthusiastically by the majority of critics. In epd film no. 12 in December 1995, Marli Feldvoss spoke frankly of Götz George as a " great " actor. And Jürgen Hentsch was always “ wrongly overshadowed ” by Götz George, according to Prisma . Occasionally it was criticized that "The Dead Maker" is not necessarily a film.
“In the course of the conversations, the viewer vacillates between murderer and appraiser, between disgust and fascination. The film is staged as an extraordinarily dense chamber play that is not designed to be emotional, but rather as a sober case study . In the role of the hair man, the brilliant main actor conveys the actually incomprehensible.
“Three men, one room. A table, two chairs, a lamp. [...] Every sentence, even the gestures, are historically guaranteed [...] 'Der Totmacher' shows, for almost two hours, only words, faces and changes of eyes. Nevertheless, in the complicated relationship between his protagonists, he brings everything to light: [...] The mass murderer as a product of a time between the wars . [... There] a change is going on almost imperceptibly. Intimacy arises between the perpetrator and the expert; they become accomplices. "
"Götz George [...] here in the Haarmann role is apparently striving for total theatrical triumph: the submission of the cinema to the rule of its mumbling, howling, its hysterical laugh, its wandering gaze. Still, he's not alone on the scene. Jürgen Hentsch [... Karmakar] is sitting across from him at the wooden table. He knew that the text exudes an irresistible pull. "
"Actually, the film is a duel."
Die Zeit highlighted, among other things, the camera work by Fred Schuler.
Deborah Young praised Götz George in Variety on September 18, 1995, to a lesser extent Jürgen Hentsch and Pierre Franckh for their performances, the cameraman Fred Schuler, and Peter Przygodda for the editing, and in places and only in places sees "hypnotic power" ( hypnotic power ) and overall somewhat misses the gain in knowledge ( insight ).
various
Romuald Karmakar is said to have spoken of his film as a " documentary about actors who portray historical figures ".
Out of 400 pages of minutes, around 80 were selected for the film.
The Totmacher was actually not the "nickname" of Fritz Haarmann, but of Rudolf Pleil , who murdered about 30 years later. Haarmann was called a werewolf or a vampire from Hanover .
As part of the dctp night club , the documentary filmmaker Alexander Kluge shot a 41-minute making-of about the dead man , which consists of an interview with the director Karmakar and the recordings of some rehearsals.
Awards
For his psychogram , director Karmakar received the German Film Prize in 1996 as best director and the film tape in gold as best film . Lead actor Götz George was named Best Actor .
The film was previously nominated for best film at the Venice Film Festival in 1995 . Götz George was awarded the Coppa Volpi as Best Actor " against Jack Nicholson " ( Hellmuth Karasek ) .
The Totmacher was also submitted in 1996 by the Export-Union des Deutschen Films as a German entry for an Oscar in the category Best Foreign Language Film , but was not nominated by the Academy .
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden gave the film the rating of particularly valuable.
See also
- M ( Fritz Lang , 1931)
- The tenderness of wolves ( Ulli Lommel , 1973)
Web links
- The Deathmaker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The dead maker at filmportal.de
- The dead maker at prisma
- Deathmaker, The (Totmacher, Der) on German-Films.de
- Der Totmacher - Film about the serial killer Fritz Haarmann (41-minute documentary about Der Totmacher by Alexander Kluge, as part of the dctp topic loop crime and punishment ), completely available in the archive of dctp.tv
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Dead Maker. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Marli Feldvoss: The Dead Maker . In: epd film . December 1995, accessed on February 8, 2018 (from filmportal.de).
- ↑ The Dead Maker. In: prisma . Retrieved March 27, 2021 .
- ↑ a b Nikolaus von Festenberg: In the werewolves' den . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 1995, p. 242-244 ( online ).
- ↑ a b Christiane Peitz: Not much, such a person . In: Die Zeit , No. 48, 1995, p. 65.
- ↑ a b c Hellmuth Karasek : Biting people to death, that doesn't work at all . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1995, pp. 223–229 ( online - Götz George in conversation).
- ↑ Deborah Young: The Deathmaker. (No longer available online.) In: Variety . September 18, 1995, formerly in the original ; accessed on May 14, 2008 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Der Totmacher - Film about the serial killer Fritz Haarmann (as part of the crime and punishment loop ) completely available in the dctp.tv archive
- ↑ german films: On the history of the German candidates for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
