The bodyguard
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| Original title | The bodyguard |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 88 minutes |
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| Director | Markus Imboden |
| script | Harald Göckeritz |
| production | Christian Granderath |
| music | Annette Focks |
| camera | Jo home |
| cut | Ursula Höf |
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The Bodyguard is a German thriller or love film by director Markus Imboden from 2005. In the main roles , Ulrike Folkerts act as bodyguard and Barbara Rudnik as MEP Johanna Sieber, who, in her capacity as a politician, advocates the abolition of tobacco subsidies.
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Johanna Sieber, a member of the European Parliament, does not understand that Brussels is increasingly warning of the consequences of tobacco consumption, while at the same time the cultivation of tobacco is still being promoted in various countries.
Four weeks before the time when she wanted to go through a manuscript she had written for a speech in the Brussels Parliament with the bodyguard Mona Dengler, who was provided for her by the State Criminal Police Office , she was knocked down from behind. The assassin escapes undetected.
As a result, headlines suggest that Johanna Sieber allegedly has a lesbian sexual orientation and that her husband Till is probably only leading a pseudo marriage. However, the MP does not allow herself to be unsettled by this public disinformation. Johanna suspects that the tobacco lobby is behind the physical attack and the false news in the media.
Sometimes amused, Johanna kisses Mona on the mouth, not without admitting that she has a certain interest in her. The divorced bodyguard Mona would like to show her feelings for Johanna, but fears that this will further discredit her because she is the center of public attention.
What Mona hides from Johanna is the fact that two years ago she bought a considerable amount of 500 grams of heroin from a dealer who had stolen these drugs from the evidence room of the State Criminal Police Office. Her then fourteen-year-old son Philipp was a drug addict at the time and by buying the stolen drugs Mona hoped to protect her son from further investigations into drug-related crime and from contaminated substances.
But now Mona is being blackmailed: A certain Frank is obviously informed that Mona had illegally obtained drugs. He blackmailed her into making the information available to him public if she didn't reveal intimate details about Johanna.
During a drive, the car Johanna is traveling in is pushed off the road by a truck and ends up in the ditch. The politician assumes an accident, but Mona is firmly convinced that it was another planned attack on Johanna's life.
When the blackmailer threatens to give Mona's son Phillip access to the addictive drug heroin again, she almost gives in to the blackmailer's demands. But prudently she decides to track down the blackmailer's clients. A short time after she finds the body of a major drug dealer , Frank knocks her down from behind and then transports her unconscious to his apartment, where he tries to force her to kill herself with a heroin overdose . However, Mona only manages to give the appearance of having injected the entire contents of the syringe. Only a small remnant gets into her bloodstream, whereupon she passes out. The blackmailer's goal has thus been achieved: He believes Mona is dead. After she woke up from her faint, she contacted her former husband, who was also employed by the State Criminal Police Office, and told him about what had happened.
At the end of the film, the plot takes a dramatic turn: Mona visits Johanna and confesses everything to her. She is shocked and expelled from the house by Johanna. After a moment of reflection, Johanna runs after Mona, who has been rejected by her, into the street. A hired assassin aimed at Johanna fires a shot there, whose projectile hits Mona. In her role as a bodyguard, Mona pulls her pistol and kills the assassin. Seconds later she collapses in Johanna's arms.
Production notes
Christian Granderath produced for Colonia Media on behalf of ZDF. The film was shot on the Baltic Sea , in Berlin and in Brussels .
Publication date and additional title
The bodyguard was first broadcast on ZDF on October 17, 2005 . The international film title is: The Bodyguard .
Reviews
TV Spielfilm sums up: "Well played, but the blackmail plot is banal". The summary of the program magazine is: "Krauser Krimi meets great women's romance".
Rainer Tittelbach is of the opinion that The Bodyguard "[...] the story of a female bodyguard [reproduces] who is supposed to protect a daring politician and at the same time has to betray in order to save the life of her son". The film critic's final sentence reads: "Folkerts & Rudnik shine - sometimes hard, sometimes soft, always focusing on the game between private and public, they drive the action and carry the strongly staged film over all inconsistencies".
The book author Dieter Wunderlich sums up his criticism with the word “worth seeing”, but restricts the fact that Die Bodywächterin is “a seemingly constructed mixture of political thriller, melodrama and family drama”, and “actually only because of Barbara Rudnik and Ulrike Folkerts, the two strong ones Representing women ”, received this evaluation.
The lexicon of international film saw it differently and stated: “Modern melodrama about guilt, entanglement and cover-up. If you take the homoerotic component out of the story, there would be little more than a dozen (television) items. The actresses also remain below their acting capabilities. "
Web links
- The bodyguard in the dictionary of international films
- The bodyguard in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The bodyguard in the online film database
- The bodyguard at TV Spielfilm
- The bodyguard at Moviepilot
- The bodyguard at Kino.de
Individual evidence
- ^ The Bodyguard (TV Movie 2005) - Filming Locations - IMDb. In: imdb.com. Retrieved November 23, 2015 .
- ↑ a b The bodyguard. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 29, 2017 .
- ↑ The Bodyguard (TV Movie 2005) - Release Info - IMDb. In: imdb.com. Retrieved November 23, 2015 .
- ^ The bodyguard - film review - film - TV SPIELFILM. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved November 23, 2015 .
- ^ The bodyguard - review of the film - Tittelbach.tv. In: tittelbach.tv. Retrieved November 23, 2015 .
- ↑ The bodyguard on the page dieterwunderlich.de