The hunt for the amber room

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Movie
Original title The hunt for the amber room
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2012
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Florian Baxmeyer
script Simon X. Rost
Derek Master
production Stefan Raiser
Felix Zackor
music Dynamedion
camera Peter Joachim Krause
cut Moune Barius
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
The Hunt for the Holy Lance

The Hunt for the Amber Room is a German adventure film from 2012 by director Florian Baxmeyer . It is the third film in a series that began with The Hunt for the Treasure of the Nibelungs and continued with The Hunt for the Holy Lance .

action

While searching for a lost artifact in the coastal dunes in front of Sankt Peter-Ording , the treasure hunter Eik Meiers is shot and seriously injured. When he comes to in the hospital, he suffers from amnesia and can no longer remember the past twelve years. He doesn't even recognize his wife Katharina and his friend Justus anymore, only his daughter Kriemhild, known as Krimi, can still be remembered as a six-year-old girl.

Together they try to reconstruct Eik's last steps. Apparently Eik was about to discover the legendary Amber Room . In his search, Eik was accompanied by the archaeobotanist Mila Marglund, who turns out to be Albert Einstein's great-granddaughter . Einstein returned to Germany in 1944 from his exile in the USA, where he and some supporters hid the Amber Room in a secret location from the Nazis, as they discovered the secret of the Amber Room, which would have made their soldiers practically invulnerable.

The secret of the amber room is the seeds of the extinct all-healing plant Silphium , which have been enclosed in amber for thousands of years . The active ingredient of the plant should be able to restore the health of the fatally injured or the terminally ill. At the same time, the unscrupulous CEO of a pharmaceutical company, Jan van Hassel, tries to get the silicon into his possession, as he senses a billion dollar deal if he sells the active ingredient to the military. He does not shy away from having the treasure hunters pursued by two contract killers.

The first clues to the whereabouts of the Amber Room get the treasure hunter to Eik about an old film, can be seen in the Einstein, an amber necklace that Eik had found at that time, and further developed by Einstein gyrocompass . This finally leads you to the Völkerschlachtdenkmal , the construction of which goes back to an initiative by Clemens Thieme . Thieme was seen in the old film together with Einstein. A beam of light that they generate in the memorial leads the adventurers to the grave of a relative of the physicist Otto von Guericke , which they can only open when they remember his vacuum experiment . In the grave you will find an Enigma encryption machine .

Since Mila's affection is not reciprocated by Eik and his only concern is the Amber Room, she now works with van Hassel, who in return agrees to be named as the discoverer of the Silphium. Signs on the Enigma machine turn out to be the aircraft registration number of a Junkers Ju 52 / 3m . Crime, who meanwhile also works as a treasure hunter, finds out with the help of an old lady that such an airplane is exhibited in the Deutsches Museum in Munich. During a costume ball held in the museum, Eik, Katharina and Justus get to the plane. After they were caught there by the hit men and the image of an eagle with a nest on the plane did not help them, they managed to escape from their pursuers with a hot air balloon.

Katharina gives her the idea that the picture must be a reference to the Kehlsteinhaus , also known as the Eagle's Nest. In the meantime, you will find pieces of metal enclosed in the amber chain, which when put together make a key. In the Kehlstein lift , the key opens an access to a shaft, at the end of which there is a room with a Zuse Z3 that blocks the next passage with a puzzle. Through Einstein's statement “ God does not throw the dice ”, the treasure hunters receive the decisive clue to the riddle and the door opens.

Behind it are actually the amber room and the medicinal plants. When Van Hassel and Mila, who followed them, also have to solve the puzzle of the Z3, Mila types in the wrong solution. They also get access to the Amber Room, but they have also triggered a self-destruct mechanism that works with nitroglycerin . While the treasure hunters manage to escape through a shaft, van Hassel and Mila are killed in the explosion, which also destroys the Amber Room. The treasure hunters drive to the beach, where the crime thriller shows them a ring that the old lady gave them. Justus sees a reference to the ark in this .

background

It was first broadcast on September 16, 2012 on RTL , and the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray the following day. The film was produced by Dreamtool Entertainment on behalf of RTL and shot on 41 days with a budget of five million euros. The project was funded by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW , the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg. Original locations in Germany are Berlin , Sankt Peter-Ording , the Völkerschlachtdenkmal in Leipzig, the German Museum in Munich and the Kehlsteinhaus in the Berchtesgaden Alps. The interior shots were taken in a hall in Cologne .

The producer Stefan Raiser explained that depending on the success of the film, a fourth part might be possible, which should then have the ark as the theme. So far, however, no other film has been produced in this series.

Awards

The film was nominated as “TV Movie of the Year” for the 2012 audience Bambi .

Reviews

In the lexicon of international films , The Hunt for the Amber Room is described as “a television adventure film about a treasure hunt across Germany, produced with great external effort”. In his review for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Hans Hoff shows how the producers turn a scientist's adventure into a veritable popcorn comic. "Every now and then the director Florian Baxmeyer tries to interpret the trace of irony that gives the Indiana Jones films the allure of being completely crazy, but unfortunately the highly acclaimed student Oscar winner only perseveres with this project for a short time. Then the film crashes again into the boisterous art trade. " Ernst Corinth comes to a similar conclusion in his review for the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung :" This scavenger hunt, which is staged for five million euros for a TV film, is for fans of brightly colored adventure films just delicious fun. Especially because not only the absolutely meaningless story is told with a wink, but even the most explosive action interludes are deliberately more funny than dramatically serious. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Hunt for the Amber Room. RTL.de, August 6, 2012, archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; Retrieved April 20, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Kai Wiesinger goes on a treasure hunt through Germany for RTL. The West , September 14, 2012, accessed April 20, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Hans Hoff: Of course you hunt. Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 16, 2012, accessed on April 20, 2016 .
  4. ^ Ernst Corinth: Popcornkino made in Germany. Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, September 14, 2012, accessed on April 20, 2016 .