The Golgotha file
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The Golgotha file |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Zoltan Spirandelli |
| script |
Conny Lens Philipp Vandenberg (novel) |
| production | Norbert Sauer |
| music | Andy Grudge |
| camera | Sönke Hansen |
| cut | Magdolna Rokob |
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The Golgatha Files (also: Golgotha Files ) is a television film from 2010, produced by UFA television production . The film was based on a novel by Philipp Vandenberg and combines elements of an adventure film with a comedy .
action
The archaeologist Arno Schlesinger discovered the supposed grave of James , the brother of Jesus Christ , in Israel . An ultra-conservative Roman Catholic secret order called In Nomine Dei wants to prevent the discovery, which could shake the foundations of the Christian faith, by all means and therefore sends contract killers to the excavation site. They want to kill Schlesinger by means of an explosion. But the professor survived this seriously injured. However, three weeks later he dies in a liver transplant that was necessary because of his injuries. Felicia Schlesinger, the dead man's daughter, who has had no contact with him for some time, is notified by the attending physician, the surgeon Dr. Gropius, informed of the death of her father. The father gave him the keys to his VW Beetle shortly before the operation . He hands her the keys. The father wanted her to fix him. Her father's assistant, Sheba Yadin, calls her through her father's cell phone, which she finds in the bug. She wants to travel to Germany immediately to speak to Felicia. Shortly afterwards, Felicia learns that the transplanted liver was poisoned. The assistant, who has meanwhile arrived, is shot by members of the secret order before she can explain the details. Together with Dr. Gropius, whom the investigating commissioner Ingram is pursuing as the main suspect because of the transplant and his fingerprints on the weapon with which the assistant was shot, she tries to solve the murder.
Felicia realizes that her father used motifs from her novels as clues. A key in the shape of a pine cone leads them into a mountain hut where Professor Schlesinger spent the last days before his death. A calendar there refers to a laboratory in Rome . The killers threaten Felicia torture, but it can free itself and finds in a bottle of olive oil from Gethsemane a note that you say that they are "looking at home" is. Her father's homeland had long been Jerusalem , which is why Felicia and Gropius travel to Israel via Jordan . You meet the excavation manager Yusuf, who leads you to the excavation site. An inscription on the grave lid tells them that the discovery is even more spectacular than previously known. It is about the tomb of Jesus and his bones would be proof that the Savior, escaping the biblical tradition, did not rise from the dead . At the moment of success, the representatives of the secret order arrive. They shoot Yusuf, who sinks to the ground, seriously injured, and throw Felicia and Gropius tied up and weighted down with stones into an underground mountain lake.
Unbeknownst to the perpetrators, Gropius is able to free himself and save Felicia and Yusuf at the last moment. After the narrow rescue, there is a dispute between Gropius and Felicia. While the doctor wants to break off the investigation, the writer insists on looking for further clues in Rome and gets on the bus. When Gropius happened to observe the scene with Veronica's handkerchief at a passion play , he realized where Schlesinger got the DNA of Christ to identify the bones in the grave. He stops the bus and drives to Turin with Felicia . In the church, Bishop Calvi confirms that the professor owned a piece of the Turin shroud .
In Nomine Dei's murderers followed Felicia and Gropius to Turin and kidnapped the two of them and the bishop to the residence of the secret order, where it turned out that Father Marcus, who worked in the Munich hospital, was responsible for the poisoned liver. Cossiga, the leader of the arch-conservative group, wants to burn the three prisoners at the stake as heretics , but at the last moment the police, under Ingram's direction, take care of the rescue. While the commissioner is having an audience with the Pope, Felicia and Gropius are on their way home to Germany. On the way, while trying to adjust the seat, Gropius finds the " Golgotha File ", in which Schlesinger collected his spectacular research results. Felicia realizes that a scarab she found in Christ's tomb referred to the car. Felicia now proposes either to publish the file or to sell it to the Vatican for ten million . Relieved to have survived the adventure, Felicia kisses Gropius, who has stood by her the whole time.
background
The film was made as a production by UFA on behalf of the television station RTL . Filming began at the end of September 2009 and took place in the original locations of the action in Israel , Munich , Rome and Turin . The producers used a special studio on Malta for the underwater scene at the excavation site . The island also served as a backdrop for the prison scene and as a replacement for Jerusalem.
The book of the same name for the film by Philipp Vandenberg has been implemented in major changes. The most significant change concerns Felicia. In the film she is the daughter and in the novel the wife of the professor.
After the premiere on June 27, 2010 at the Großes Fernsehen festival , the film was broadcast on RTL for the first time on November 7, 2010 . The television premiere achieved a market share of 12.8% in the group of 14 to 49-year-olds, which is strongly preferred by the advertising industry, which, as Uwei Mantel put it in a debriefing, was “only enough for fourth place” that evening. The DVD release has been announced for November 12, 2010.
Reviews
Jürgen Krisch from Oddsmeter.de said that the positive impressions of the film are mainly due to the main actress: “The action-packed scenes with the graceful actress are sometimes a bit unintentionally funny, but you get used to them as the length of the film increases. [...] The role of Felicia, who slips into ever more uncontrollable events, fits [her] perfectly. The biggest plus point is the gripping dialogues between her character and her involuntary companion Dr. Gropius. “However, Schüttler cannot completely save the film because the confusing myths and numerous locations do not fit into the season.
The reviewer from kino.de came to a similar conclusion, who ascribed the production a lower quality compared to previous RTL adventure films: “The locations between Italy and Israel may be more international, but the star line-up is far more manageable; and the plot too. "
Klaudia Wick described the film in the Berliner Zeitung as a moderate popcorn cinema: “It has a few funny and many silly moments, scores with the scenic beauty of Israel and the pretty legs of Katharina Schüttler, but otherwise relies on exactly the gags, that always work "
Web links
- The acts of Golgotha in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Golgotha File in the online film database
- Interviews and background information on RTL
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Carsten Rave: Mystery thriller "Golgatha Files" on RTL. Stimberg Zeitung, November 7, 2010, accessed November 8, 2010 .
- ↑ Vera Tidona: RTL: Start of shooting for the event movie "The Golgotha Files". cinefacts.de, September 24, 2009, accessed November 8, 2010 .
- ↑ locations. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
- ↑ The interview with Katharina Schüttler. RTL, October 27, 2010, accessed on November 8, 2010 .
- ↑ Video diary on RTL, part 8 (Flash video)
- ↑ Video diary on RTL, part 1 (Flash video)
- ↑ Video diary on RTL, part 3 (Flash video)
- ↑ Jürgen Overkott: "Golgotha Files" - Marco Girnth on the run. The West, November 5, 2010, accessed November 8, 2010 .
- ↑ Start dates. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Uwe Mantel: Adventure files Ggolgatha with no chance. DWDL, November 8, 2010, accessed on November 9, 2010 .
- ↑ Carsten Tudisch: Universe: TV movie "The acts of Calvary" on DVD. cinefacts.de, October 22, 2010, accessed on November 9, 2010 .
- ↑ Jürgen Krisch: The Critics: "Golgatha Files". quotenmeter.de, November 6, 2010, accessed on November 8, 2010 .
- ↑ The Golgotha File. kino.de, accessed on November 8, 2010 .
- ↑ Klaudia Wick: Enlightenment in a mini skirt . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 6, 2010