The Hunt for the Holy Lance
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| Original title | The Hunt for the Holy Lance | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Publishing year | 2010 | ||
| length | 111 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
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| Director | Florian Baxmeyer | ||
| script | Derek master | ||
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Stefan Raiser Felix Zackor |
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| music | Klaus Badelt | ||
| camera | Peter Joachim Krause | ||
| cut | Martin Rahner | ||
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The Hunt for the Holy Lance is a German adventure film from 2010 . The film was first broadcast on April 1, 2010 on RTL . It is the second film in a series that began with The Hunt for the Treasure of the Nibelungs .
action
The archaeologist Eik Meiers and his future wife Katharina Berthold are looking for Professor Bachmann. The old scientist was kidnapped after discovering an old laboratory in a cave below the Bastei Bridge. In the laboratory, Eik and Katharina find a video message from the kidnapped professor in which the professor holds a diary in the camera. Her friend Justus uses the pictures to identify the handwriting of the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . The scientifically interested writer was therefore a confidante of the French ruler Napoleon Bonaparte , who was in possession of the Holy Lance . In order to protect the spear with which the soldier Longinus stabbed the crucified Jesus Christ , Goethe hid all references to the hiding place of the precious relic . In addition to the video camera, Eik and Katharina also found a staff in Goethe's laboratory. With this they decipher a Skytale encryption and reconstruct a poem that refers to Goethe's friend Friedrich Schiller .
Its skull is the next clue on the way to the Holy Lance. To find him, the treasure hunters break into Schiller's crypt in Weimar . There they discover a picture of Mephisto with the help of a large camera obscura , but suddenly they are faced with the criminal Erlanger, who kidnapped Professor Bachmann and now wants to obtain the Holy Lance with the support of the martial artist Judith. He is acting on behalf of Baron von Hahn, who sees himself as Napoleon's successor and thus the rightful owner of the relic. Eik, Katharina, Justus and their opponent Judith are almost killed by a wall of thorns, but the treasure hunters can escape for the time being. You open Schiller's skull and find a kind of clockwork. This mechanism projects a city coat of arms with a mouse in a church on the wall. While they identify the coat of arms of St. Bartholomä am Königssee , the treasure hunters are visited again by Erlanger and put under pressure. In the church they disturb a wedding and discover a telescope with symbols and a cross-shaped map. After exchanging the incomplete telescope for an opponent disguised as Bachmann in a feigned trade, Eik and Katharina use a family celebration for the baron to save the professor.
Katharina is happy with it, but Eik really wants to find the lance. Justus and Bachmann identify the building shown on the map as the Walhalla . There they meet Eik's daughter Kriemhild ("Krimi"), who wanted to see her father after an argument with her boyfriend. Together they locate four busts in the Walhalla with the help of the telescope. Thriller connects the four heads with the thread of their knitting boa , and at the intersection of the lines a relief in the base plate indicates the next clue. It's the quadriga on top of the Brandenburg Gate . In addition, they will find a great key. As Eik climbs onto the quadriga, he finds the matching keyhole on the back of the Victoria statue and opens a door that leads to a temple below the Brandenburg Gate.
When the treasure hunters stand in front of a passage protected by flamethrowers, von Hahn also arrives. The baron reads out an entry from Goethe's diary, which says that one should go ahead courageously and freely. Eik then enters the passage and can switch off the flames one after the other using switches in the floor. Behind it he discovers the Holy Lance together with Napoleon's extensive spoils of war. Eik stops the flame mechanism with a lever, and the other treasure hunters also enter the interior. When von Hahn tries to get the lance, Eik refuses to give it up. The baron then shoots Eik, but the lance blocks the shot. But the baron does not give up and threatens crime thriller, so that Eik has to give him the lance. When the baron tries to escape with it, the anti-theft device is activated again and he burns to a pile of ashes. Eik retrieves the lance and the four treasure hunters leave the underground room. At the subsequent reception in the museum, only Napoleon's treasure is presented, while the lance itself is hidden in a statue. Jupiter receives a call pointing to the Amber Room .
production
Dreamtool Entertainment produced the film on behalf of RTL . The production was funded by the Filmstiftung NRW and the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern. The shooting took place in summer 2009. Original locations in Germany are the Walhalla near Regensburg , St. Bartholomä am Königssee , the Bastei Bridge in Saxon Switzerland , Eltz Castle in the Eifel , Burg near Solingen, the Hofgarten of the University of Bonn and the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin . The rest of the scenes were created in a hall in Cologne .
After the first film in the series, there were some personnel changes. Instead of Ralf Huettner , Florian Baxmeyer directed. In addition, the male lead was exchanged; Kai Wiesinger took over the role of Eik Meier from Benjamin Sadler . The role of the daughter was also re-cast with Sonja Gerhardt instead of Liv Lisa Fries . In addition, Hubert Mulzer took on the role of Professor Bachmann, who was previously played by Michael Abendroth . The then professional athlete Christine Theiss first appeared in a feature film. The basic concept of the film remained the same. Again there is a treasure hunt at original locations in Germany, in which real historical personalities and relics are linked with a fictional story.
Reviews
In the Tagesspiegel, Kurt Sagatz praises the “courageous mixture of limitless imagination (book: Derek Meister), strong images (director: Florian Baxmeyer) and great music (Klaus Badelt,“ Pirates of the Caribbean ”). You can break a lance for this film. [...] Part of the success is that even under the surface of this shallow film there is a spark of truth. "
Marco Croner fromquotemeter.de praises the progress made by the actors compared to the first film: “From the point of view of the acting performance, you have clearly gained traction.” Overall, despite some criticisms, he comes to a positive conclusion: “It is a pattern , there are no surprises, but when Jürgen Prochnow and professional kickboxing world champion Christine Theiss Bettina Zimmermann and Kai Wiesinger want to get on with the leather, there is really only one thing to say: Switch on, be entertained for two hours and hopefully look forward to an even better one third part happy. "
Andreas Böhme from Der Westen praises some elements, but feels too reminded of other adventure films: “The sets and equipment are really impressive. The pace is brisk, the humor not quite as flat as feared. Otherwise, Indiana Jones sends his regards on every corner, and from a distance, the sacrilege symbolologist Robert Langdon waves. Logic and historical truth, on the other hand, shine through their absence. "
Jens Schröder from Meedia considers the characters Judith and Krimi to be superfluous and, compared to some American adventure films, misses the pace: “The individual places that are searched are ticked off as if on a checklist, the bad guys keep finding the good guys and the good guys are always a bit wiser. If you consider all these weaknesses, it would have been quite possible to make the film a bit shorter and therefore faster. "
Web links
- The Hunt for the Holy Lance in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Hunt for the Holy Lance in the online film database
- Information from the production company Dreamtool Entertainment
Individual evidence
- ↑ In short Sagatz: Taking it to the extreme. Tagesspiegel, March 31, 2010, accessed April 1, 2010 .
- ↑ Marco Croner: The Critics: «The Hunt for the Holy Lance». Quota meter, March 31, 2010, accessed April 1, 2010 .
- ↑ Andreas Böhme: "Hunt for the Holy Lance" - Indiana Jones sends his regards. The West, March 31, 2010, accessed June 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Jens Schröder: "Holy Lance": Popcorn TV with weaknesses. (No longer available online.) Meedia, April 1, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 1, 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
