Hell - inferno

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Movie
Original title Hell - inferno
Country of production Austria
Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2017
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Stefan Ruzowitzky
script Martin Ambrosch
production Helmut Grasser ,
Thomas Peter Friedl
music Marius Ruhland
camera Benedict Neuenfels
cut Britta Nahler
occupation

Hell - Inferno is an Austrian - German coproduction from 2017 . The film , directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky , was released in Austria and Germany on January 19, 2017. The Austrian premiere took place on January 9, 2017 in the Innsbruck Metropol-Kino.

action

Özge Dogruol is an aloof, taciturn young woman of Turkish descent who lives in Vienna . During the day she trains Thai boxing in her ex-boyfriend Ilhan's sports club, and at night she works as a taxi driver. She also takes care of the relationship problems of her cousin Ranya, who repeatedly cheats on her husband Samir, even though she actually loves him. One night, Özge observed a gruesome murder of a prostitute from the window of her one-room apartment in the apartment opposite. She believes the killer thinks she saw him. Özge therefore asks the police for personal protection, but is not taken seriously.

Only after her cousin, who is looking for shelter in Özge's apartment after an affair, is brutally murdered there because the killer mistook her for Özge, the responsible Viennese commissioner Christian Steiner gradually begins to take Özge seriously. The cynical Steiner actually has enough to do with taking care of his father Karl, who has dementia. After the murder of her cousin, Özge also has to take responsibility for her little daughter Ada. Özge decides that she has to help herself and goes with Ada on an escape from the murderer across Vienna.

In the meantime he has picked up her trail and sits down as a passenger in her taxi. Thanks to her combat experience, she survived a knife attack from the back seat in the course of an insane car ride with difficulty, but in the end, only severely wounded, she can save herself by jumping into the Danube Canal .

Özge is reluctant to accept help and therefore leaves the hospital as soon as it is only reasonably stabilized. She fell out with her father, so she snatches little Ada, who was housed with her parents by the youth welfare office, and seeks shelter with Inspector Steiner and his father. Steiner, with whom she begins a cautious relationship, lets her in on the investigation: the pattern of the crime (the victims are always Muslim prostitutes, they are threatened with a knife, then skinned and finally they have boiling oil poured into their mouths) is the same as with several other murders committed around the world. Özge shows him a passage in the Koran where exactly this punishment is expressly described as "hell", and tells him that the murderer could work in a Vienna UN agency .

Steiner checks possible suspects there (using a perpetrator profile and a witness description) and comes first to the office of the murderer, the UN official Saeed el Hadary. He cornered him by letting Özge see his photo on his cell phone. The murderer then attacks Steiner's assistant Petrovic with his knife and fled the UN building. Özge overheard the phone and went there too. She recognizes the fleeing Saeed and pursues him through the Vienna subway, but is held back by passengers from rendering him harmless.

Saeed follows her trail again and waits for her in Steiner's apartment, where he ties her up and prepares her for his "hell" ritual. However, she is able to free herself and drive the killer in the trunk of Steiner's Volvo into a rapid reverse against the wall. Steiner comes just in time to free her from the burning car.

production

The shooting took place in March and April 2016 in Austria and Germany, mainly in Vienna . For a night chase in the inner city , parts of the Ringstrasse in the Stubenring area were closed on Easter weekend . The production was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , Filmstandort Austria , the Filmfonds Wien , the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and the German Filmförderfonds , Austrian Broadcasting and ZDF were involved .

The film was produced by Allegro Film and co-produced by The Amazing Film Company from Munich . Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson was responsible for the sound, Sammy Zayed for the costume design, Isidor Wimmer for the production design and Tissi Brandhofer for the special effects . The title song comes from the Viennese rapper Nazar .

The production costs were five million euros.

The film was released on DVD in 2018 as part of the Edition Österreichischer Film von Hoanzl and the Standard .

Awards and nominations

  • Romy Award 2017 - Award in the category Best Director of Cinema (Stefan Ruzowitzky) and Best Image Creation for Cinema (Benedict Neuenfels); Nomination in the category Best Producer Cinema Film (Helmut Grasser, Thomas Peter-Friedl)
  • Austrian Film Award 2018 - nominations in seven categories
  • Jupiter Award 2020 - nomination in the category Best TV Actor (Tobias Moretti)

reception

The cinema magazine Skip praised the film as a “gripping, densely staged and well-cast action thriller that doesn't have to shy away from any international comparison - and also convinces with its fine local color. The cast, which is handpicked right down to the supporting roles, is also great.

The Tiroler Tageszeitung wrote that the film would not only be action, but also a family drama and love story, which made the plot seem indecisive at times , but praised the consistently strong acting performance and judged: "Ruzowitzky will not get a second Oscar for Hell . But the film is not aimed at a gold man either. Fast, tough, he wanted to be Austrian. Mission accomplished."

In the online film magazine FilmClicks , Gunther Baumann wrote : “ Hell is a captivating, darkly glittering action thriller, which you can only tell from the cityscape and the license plates that it was not shot in Hollywood, but in Vienna. [...] The film is not limited to telling an exciting story. The big city feeling of today is also an issue, with its clashes (and sometimes also huddling together) of the most diverse mentalities, ethnic groups and cultures. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Hell - Inferno . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ^ Vienna Film Fund: Hell . Retrieved December 24, 2016.
  3. ↑ Hell - Inferno at filmportal.de
  4. ↑ a b c Tiroler Tageszeitung: Strong girls go everywhere . Article from January 7, 2017, accessed on March 8, 2020.
  5. ^ Association of Austrian Film Directors: Stefan Ruzowitzky talks about hell . Retrieved December 24, 2016.
  6. ↑ Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved December 24, 2016 .
  7. ↑ orf.at: "Hell": Action on an international level . Article of January 9, 2017, accessed on January 9, 2017.
  8. ↑ derStandard.at: The STANDARD edition "The Austrian Film" is now an impressive 310 pieces . Article dated October 12, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018.
  9. ↑ KURIER ROMY Academy Awards 2017: The nominations . Article dated March 20, 2017, accessed March 20, 2017.
  10. ^ Kurier: Austrian Film Prize: Albert's "Light" the big favorite . Article dated December 6, 2017, accessed December 6, 2017.
  11. ↑ Nominations for the JUPITER AWARD 2020. In: tvspielfilm.de. January 15, 2020, accessed January 15, 2020 .
  12. ↑ skip - Hell . Retrieved December 24, 2016.
  13. ↑ A dark, glittering action thriller . Retrieved January 17, 2017.