The Murderer's Muse (film)

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Movie
Original title The muse of the murderer
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2018
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Sascha Bigler
script Sascha Bigler
Axel Götz
production Thomas Hroch
Gerald Podgornig
camera Gero Lasnig
cut Birgit Alava Ordoñez
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The Murderer's Muse is an Austrian television film from 2018 by Sascha Bigler with Christiane Hörbiger as Madeleine Montana, Florian Teichtmeister as her son Oliver, Fritz Karl as Commissioner Bäumer and Cornelia Ivancan as his assistant Flo. The first broadcast took place on October 6, 2018 on ORF , the film was shown on ZDF on October 8, 2018.

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Madeleine "Mado" Montana, actually Magdalena Sandberg, is a former bestselling author. Her great successes were a long time ago, she reacts to her environment with cynicism , also towards her own son Oliver.

In Vienna , a murderer realizes fictional crimes and scenarios from Madeleine Montana's "Tanner" crime novels. Montana learns from a newspaper article that a prostitute was found murdered in the Liliputbahn . Madeleine is shocked and informs the police, where they initially ignore her. In addition, the police found body parts from a second body in a shower at an outdoor pool, which was cut up with a saw. It was only when Montana received an eye in the mail in a parcel and then informed the police again that the police began to believe them and the investigating commissioner Rupert Bäumer and his assistant, Lieutenant Florentine Gstöttner, called "Flo", paid her a visit.

It turns out that Montana and Bäumer know each other from before. Bäumer tells his colleagues Flo and Jonas that they know each other from researching Montana with the police for their books. While Flo believes in a serial offender, Bäumer does not initially want to hear about this thesis. With the package, Montana also received a book page from her novel The Lifeguard's Eyes , on which the second murder case is described. She had previously received a page from another novel describing the first murder case.

Via a message on Oliver's mobile phone, Montana finds out that her son has an artistically designed trophy made of Murano glass for the Venetian crime thriller, the Arlecchino rosso , stolen from her display case and auctioned off at the Stein auction house. The auctioneer Marie Stein is married to Serge Stein, Montana discovers that Oliver is having an affair with Marie.

Montana also informs the press about the two murders based on their book. At a book presentation by the author Suzie Marx and her joint publisher Bernhard “Berny” Traven, editor-in-chief Baumgartner confronts Montana with the two murders based on their books in front of an assembled audience. Montana quickly begins to enjoy the feeling of being in the center of public interest again. On the other hand, she feels threatened and fears that she will become the next victim of the serial offender.

Gstöttner begins by studying the Tanner novel The Lifeguard's Eyes in order to learn more about the perpetrator and his world of thought. She finds out that Bäumer served as a template for Inspector Tanner. Montana outed Bäumer as homosexual around 30 years ago , which is why he is still angry with her. Montana had an argument with her husband while driving a car, as a result, the distracted Montana ran over her son in the car. Bäumer was at the scene of the accident as a young police officer and was able to successfully reanimate Oliver. As a result, he was operated on several times, and on the night of her son's third operation, Montana's husband committed suicide.

Montana finds her publisher murdered in the greenhouse in her garden, he was stabbed with a knife. Montana fears all the more that it will be the next victim. A few hours later, Marie Stein is found murdered under a bridge in a sports car. Montana's son Oliver can be seen on the video recordings of a gas station nearby, where Gstöttner finds the murder weapon in a barrel of the car wash as described in the book.

After Montana identifies her son Oliver as the murderer due to the missing pages from her own book, he kidnaps her to her hunting lodge, where the accident happened 30 years ago. There he begins to play Russian roulette with her. Oliver can be overpowered and arrested by the WEGA in good time and is sent to an institution.

production

The shooting took place from May 2nd to June 3rd, 2016 in Vienna and the surrounding area. The film was produced by the Austrian Mona Film , the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation and ZDF were involved, and the production was supported by the Austrian Television Fund and the Vienna Film Fund .

Alex Traun was responsible for the sound, Maria Gruber for the production design and Caterina Czepek for the costume design . After the films Anna's Second Chance (2009) and My Sister (2011), this is another collaboration between Christiane Hörbiger and her son Sascha Bigler .

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reception

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv found that the acts were predominantly gruesome and the pictures were accordingly bloody and that the film was therefore not a family thriller, especially since black humor is not for everyone anyway. However, it is precisely this break that makes the film so attractive. “The dialogues are also saturated with a rare bitterness. Fritz Karl as a commissioner, Hörbiger is a worthy teammate and opponent, but the Viennese woman is the absolute star of this film. "

Elmar Krekeler gave a similar verdict in Die Welt that the film was very funny, very nasty and very Viennese, but only to be recommended to people with good nerves.

In Germany, 6.24 million people saw the film when it was first broadcast, with a market share of 20.6 percent.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurier: Christiane Hörbiger: "Why I want to stop slowly" . Article dated September 16, 2018, accessed September 16, 2018.
  2. ↑ orf.at: Anl.des 80th GT by Christiane Hörbiger on October 13th: ORF premiere: The Murderer's Muse . Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ filmstarts: The Murderer's Muse . Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b Christiane Hörbiger is “The Murderer's Muse” (AT) . Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  5. ↑ Christiane Hörbiger is "The Murderer's Muse" / ZDF / ORF thriller is created in and around Vienna . ZDF press release of May 8, 2016, accessed on August 27, 2018.
  6. ^ Vienna Film Fund: The Murderer's Muse . Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  7. ↑ The muse of the murderer at crew united . Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  8. ↑ a b c Tilmann P. Gangloff: TV film "Die Muse des Mörders" at tittelbach.tv , accessed on September 25, 2018.
  9. ^ Sentences with the little finger spread . Retrieved October 8, 2018.
  10. ↑ “Like a child in the pedestrian zone. You only see asses. " . Retrieved October 8, 2018.