The Wannsee killer

Movie
Original title	The Wannsee killer
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2002
length	93 minutes
Rod
Director	Jörg Lühdorff
script	Tim Krause
production	Stream Films AG (Berlin) for Sat.1
camera	Philipp Timme
cut	Jens Klüber
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Lavinia Wilson : Johanna Bühring Gerd Silberbauer : Klaus Bühring Reiner Schöne : Frank Martens Ronald Nitschke : Commissioner Wendtland Anabelle Lachatte : Jasmin Lehmann Kami Manns : Lucy Lee Julien Lambroschini : Tomas Duchont Oliver Bröcker : Viktor Martens Dennis Grabosch : Lukas Andersen Nick Romm : Mike Schönfeld Esther Seibt : Kristina Bohl Erwin Leder : Kalle

The Wannsee Murderer is a thriller by the director Jörg Lühdorff from 2002. Lavinia Wilson plays the leading role of the young art student Johanna, who is embroiled in a murder case when she is back in Germany after a stay abroad.

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The young art student Johanna Bühring has been studying in Italy and is back in Berlin with her father, a boat builder. Both are happy to see each other again, and Johanna's friends also want to celebrate their return to Germany in style: a party is arranged at the lake, the meeting point should be the sailing club that is based there.

The exuberant celebration takes a turn when the two friends Mike and Jasmin don't come back from a joint sailing trip . It turns out that the two fell victim to murder. In the further course it becomes clear that the two were only the beginning of a whole series of murders, which apparently has started now, because more and more friends are mysteriously killed. The police involved suspect that it is a fatal drug accident. But Johanna had doubts about this police investigation result.

Johanna then goes on the search for the exact circumstances of death and comes up with a hot lead: apparently similar deaths happened 25 years ago. In the course of her research, Johanna suspects that her own father and the parents of the other group members, then as now, could be involved in the series of murders.

Production notes

Stephan Barth was in charge of film production. Wilmont Schulze was responsible for the film noise, Ingo Pusswald for the sound editing and Guido Zettier for the sound design.

Publication dates

The Wannsee killer was first broadcast on Sat.1 on February 19, 2002 . It started in France on March 4, 2003.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films means that the film is "a commercial (television) thriller that once again conjures up the shadows of the past."

TV Spielfilm is of the opinion that the film loots American role models, but in the end it gets the curve because the thriller is essentially about suppressing what makes Germans basically.

Rainer Tittelbach sums up that one has to consider that the pictures were taken under water in a small pool and that the resulting pictures “don't look that cheap”. Furthermore, Tittelbach gives great praise to the actors, who, measured against what there was to portray, seem more than passable.

The TV magazine prisma states that the director has produced a solid TV thriller in which he could rely on good actors.

Web links

• The Wannsee Killer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Wannsee killer in the lexicon of international films
• The Wannsee killer on TV Spielfilm
• The Wannsee killer at Kino.de
• The Wannsee killer at Moviepilot

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Wannsee murderer. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved September 30, 2015 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} The Wannsee Murderer in the Lexicon of International Films
3. ↑ Der Wannsee-Mörder (TV Movie 2002) - Release Info - IMDb. In: imdb.com. Retrieved September 30, 2015 . 
4. ^ The Wannsee murderer - film review - film - TV SPIELFILM. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved September 30, 2015 . 
5. ^ The Wannsee murderer - review of the film - Tittelbach.tv. In: tittelbach.tv. Retrieved September 30, 2015 . 
6. ↑ The Wannsee Murderer (2001) - Films. In: prisma.de. Retrieved September 30, 2015 .