Kidnapped (2009)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Kidnapped |
| Country of production |
Germany United States |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 180 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Matti Geschonneck |
| script |
Hannah Hollinger , Jörg von Schlebrügge |
| production | Reinhold Elschot, Andrea Rullmann |
| music | Florian Tessloff |
| camera | Ngo The Chau |
| cut | Inge Behrens |
| occupation | |
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A German TV film from 2009 produced by ZDF is kidnapped . The two-part production was first broadcast on March 2 and 4, 2009 on ZDF.
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The Bergmann family seem to lead happy, carefree lives. Mother Liane is a surgeon, father Frank is an architect, and both have a 13-year-old daughter named Hannah. The family has been secretly observed for some time, however, and there are signs of a planned kidnapping. Several storylines initially introduce different people independently of one another; The relationship between these two remains unclear for the time being.
When Hannah has to go to school late one morning, her father takes her to his current construction project. Since the kidnapping of the daughter was planned for that day, the kidnappers unceremoniously take both Hannah and Frank prisoner and keep them in an old, abandoned train station. Liane is called while she is working and asked to go home. She immediately suspected a kidnapping and alerted the criminal police, which began the investigation in the person of Chief Inspector Thomas Danner. Liane's hunch is soon confirmed by an unusually high ransom demand of 22 million euros.
The Bergmann family will never be able to raise this amount. Liane's father, Albert Targensee, a multi-million dollar industrialist, is willing to pay the ransom for his granddaughter and son-in-law without Liane having to ask him. It becomes clear that the father-daughter relationship is heavily burdened. When his mother had divorced 20 years ago, Albert had remarried very soon. Liane, who blames her father for her mother's suicide, then broke off contact completely and forbade him to interact with his granddaughter.
Now it turns out that Liane's husband, who was recently not very happy professionally, asked Albert for money without her knowledge, but who only helped him financially in part. At first, Frank is suspected of trying to extort the necessary money through a staged kidnapping. Liane is outraged by these allegations, which undermines the relationship of trust with Commissioner Danner and makes her cooperation difficult. The assumption that the ransom demand applied to Albert Targensee's assets from the beginning is confirmed when he is asked to hand over the money personally. Meanwhile, the situation in the hijackers' hiding place escalates and Frank is killed trying to escape.
In the course of the film, the family history of the Targen lakes is revealed more and more. It leads to New York, where parts of the film are set. Albert Targensee, who was once taken in as a foster son by the Brand entrepreneurial family, grew up there. As a young man, he brought the young Maximilian Kessler, now authorized signatory in the pharmaceutical company and stud manager Targensees, to give false testimony as a witness to a fatal fire car accident. In doing so, he drove his wealthy foster parents to suicide and then founded his own company with parts of the brand company. Her biological son, Albert Brand, is now taking revenge on him after more than 50 years by initiating the kidnapping to financially ruin Albert Targensee and drive him to his death.
Targensee's second daughter Vera, who made a career in her father's company, has made important contacts in New York in recent years, which ultimately lead to a deal that is also closely related to the kidnapping. With the agreement, Albert Brand succeeds in subordinating the Targensee subsidiary to subcontractors in the pharmaceutical industry, which are associated with considerable claims for damages, which may mean the ruin of the Targensee empire.
It also turns out that Liane's mother Dorothea is by no means dead, but, as an ex-terrorist from Targensee, was forced to go into hiding abroad with a forced confession. Dorothea is also involved in the kidnapping, but cannot decisively control its course from North Africa.
In the end, the connections and motives of all those involved are clarified, the consequences of the financial and human losses incurred remain open.
Reviews
"Actually excellent (television) crime film, which does not condense the numerous characters, entanglements and secrets completely convincingly."
"Nerve-racking family tragedy with a star cast, where concentration is necessary in order not to lose the thread and to see through the person constellations."
"'Kidnapped!' is a more mainstream film for Matti Geschonneck: a classic high-gloss thriller, but with a suspense setting that is well above average for German TV films. "
“Like a good novel, the film jumps back and forth between very different conflicts in the first half, only to bundle them into a big narrative in the second. A story [...] that does not fit into the genre grid of German television. Crime drama and family psychogram, financial thriller and business request - "Kidnapped!" is all of this and [...] is [...] excellent as a fictional accompanying program for the very real twilight of capitalism. "
Awards
- 2010: Golden Camera for Best German TV Film
- 2010: Nomination for the Adolf Grimme Prize in the fiction category
Web links
- Kidnapped in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of the film at ZDF ( page no longer available )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kidnapped. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed July 16, 2011 .
- ↑ Kidnapped at Cinema.de, accessed on February 11, 2010.
- ↑ Fast-paced confusion , accessed February 11, 2010.
- ^ Geldadel, destroyed , accessed on April 2, 2010.
- ↑ The subsequent nominations 2010 ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Grimme Institute, accessed on January 13, 2010.
