The murderer of Venus
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The murderer of Venus |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Dominique E. Othenin-Girard |
| script | Christos Yiannopoulos |
| production | Werner Possardt |
| music | Jürgen Corner |
| camera | Sven Kirsten |
| cut |
Guido Krajewski Carsten Orlt |
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Venus murderer is a German TV movie - thriller from 1996. The screenplay was written by Christos Yiannopoulos , director is Dominique E. Othenin-Girard . Katja Flint and Hannes Jaenicke play the main roles.
action
Laura Grimm, chief inspector in the homicide department, is divorcing her husband at the district court when she hears over the phone that a woman's body has been found. The victim's throat was cut and the skin peeled off the face, and the right hand was sewn onto the chest and the left hand onto the left thigh. The dead one has a clam and a pink flower that grows only in the Mediterranean and is also called "Venus's beautiful". The victim Susanne Schulte was in the hands of the perpetrator for five days, as was Ute Klein, who was found just as beaten four weeks ago, which is why it is now assumed to be a serial killer.
Since the press criticized the police's inaction, Laura's superiors (Commissioner Hellmann) ordered that she should now work with Chief Commissioner Strack on the case. The impulsive Strack is unpopular with Laura and she is reluctant to accept working with him.
Based on the way the victims were surgically processed, it is believed that the perpetrator could be a doctor. Strack comes across the case of the doctor Dr. Limbach, who groomed animals and murdered and stuffed a woman ten years ago. The person released after his therapy is now arrested as a suspect. Instead of a proper interrogation by Laura, the suspect is now to be taken into the mangle by Strack, which also exceeds the limits of the legal. Meanwhile, Laura is supposed to see cosmetic surgeon Dr. Go to Stern, with whom the victim was once a patient.
After the treatment by Strack, Dr. Limbach made a confession. Strack is celebrated for this and receives the department post from Chief Commissioner Hellmann, which was actually intended for Laura. Depressed about her personal and professional failures, Laura is cheered up by her best friend Lis and taken to a beauty farm. Coincidentally, Laura meets Dr. Stern again, who gives a lecture there and then invites Laura to a reception in his beauty clinic. Laura later also spends one night in Dr. Star. In the meantime, Limbach has hanged himself in his cell, which means that the investigators have concluded the case.
Laura learns that the two previous victims are patients of Dr. Star were. In the meantime, another woman, Karin Block, is missing, who Laura recognizes as a visitor to the reception and thus all victims contact Dr. Had a star. In addition, she will find a prize at Stern that has the shape of a clam and a picture of the painting The Birth of Venus by Botticelli . She realizes that the victims' hands were fixed like in this painting.
Laura then takes Dr. Stern temporarily and has his country house searched. After nothing could be proven and he was released, Stern found a secret file on the computer in his office called "Venus" that his assistant Dr. Gabriel had put on. He informs Strack and sets off with him on the way to Dr. Gabriel, whom Laura followed to a secret hiding place, where he is also holding the missing Karin Block prisoner. When Gabriel discovers the intruders, he shoots Stern and Laura then shoots Gabriel.
background
- The film produced by Calypso Filmproduktion on behalf of RTL was first broadcast on German television on October 23, 1996 on RTL. With 7.86 million viewers and a market share of 33.9 percent in the target group, the film not only won the day, but was also the fifth most successful self-produced TV film for RTL.
Reviews
“A (television) psychological thriller with an emphatically spectacular appearance with the usual borrowings from successful movie role models. Thanks to the solid play of the main actors at least of a certain intensity. "
"Routinely staged by Dominique Othenin-Girard (" Halloween 5 ") and with a few surprising twists and turns, the thriller captivates you until the end, despite some showmanship."
“The film is strongest when it trusts its main actors, Katja Flint and Hannes Jaenicke: It crackles when the suspicious doctor strokes Flint's flawless face and simulates surgical incisions. But unfortunately the film tries too often and in a way that demands the effect of the mallet aesthetic of the ghost train. "
“The crime thriller is about how a woman is slowly being brought to her knees by her surroundings. Katja Flint plays it with breathtaking intensity. It even stands against Jodie Foster . Jodie Foster? Well, the film is, to say the least, not entirely unaffected by Jonathan Demme's " The Silence of the Lambs ". Not only is the story based on the Schock classic of the 90s, the pictures also quote him again and again. When Laura Grimm runs breathlessly through the forest, one thinks of Jodie Foster's run in the "Lämmer" leaderboard. And when she breaks into the bizarrely furnished apartment of a suspect right from the start, that's a slightly parodic allusion to Demme's showdown. Fortunately, the "Venus Murderer" was not a cheap copy, but a contemporary film about the problems of strong women - and about the silence of men. "
Web links
- Venus killer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The murderer of Venus in the lexicon of international films
Individual evidence
- ↑ 25 years RTL: Quota hits ( Memento from March 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Film review by Kino.de
- ↑ movie review in Der Spiegel , issue 43/1996
- ^ Film review in Berliner Zeitung of October 23, 1996