Redemption (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | salvation |
| Original title | Flaskepost from P |
| Country of production | Denmark , Germany , Sweden , Norway |
| original language | Danish , Norwegian |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Petter Moland |
| script | Nikolaj Arcel |
| production |
Peter Aalbæk Jensen , Louise Vesth |
| music | Nicklas Schmidt |
| camera | John Andreas Andersen |
| cut |
Olivier Bugge Coutté , Nicolaj Monberg |
| occupation | |
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Redemption (original title Flaskepost fra P ) is a thriller by Hans Petter Moland , which was released in Danish cinemas on March 3, 2016 and in German cinemas on June 9, 2016. It is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by the Danish writer Jussi Adler-Olsen , which appeared in 2009 as the author's third work in a crime book series for the Carl-Mørck-Dezernat-Q series.
Literary template
Redemption is the third film adaptation of a thriller by Jussi Adler-Olsen . The novel, which served the film as a template, ie the Danish original Flaskepost fra P , which literally means a bottle of P means. This is the third novel in the crime book series for the Carl Mørck Dezernat Q series and was published in Denmark in 2009. Of redemption , were after the novel was translated, sold in Germany within a short time of 1.6 million copies, and Adler-Olsen managed jumped immediately ranked number 4 in the Spiegel bestseller list. In total, Adler-Olsen's books have sold more than five million copies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and it has eight million readers in 42 countries. After mercy and desecration , redemption is the third filmed case of the character Carl Mørck.
action
The film begins with a scene in a dark room, partly filled with water, in which someone laboriously writes a letter and throws it into the water in a bottle. Years later, the message in a bottle is found and the letter ends up in Carl Mørck's Q department . His employees, Assad and Rose, begin deciphering the difficult-to-read message. It is signed with P. Mørck and Assad are doing research in schools to find children who disappeared when the message in a bottle was dispatched. In fact, they find Trygve, who was kidnapped along with his brother Paul.
At around the same time, John, posing as a missionary, attends the service of a religious sect. In the evening he eats with sect member Elias, his wife Rakel and their two children. A few days later he spotted the children on their way back from school and kidnapped them. However, he is being observed. The local police forwards the information to Department Q. Assad and Mørck begin investigating. Their work is made more difficult by the fact that the blackmailed parents initially refuse to cooperate with the police out of fear. Johannes has demanded the couple's entire fortune so that he can release the children again. Upon his call, Elias is supposed to deposit a bag with the ransom in the Intercity to Hamburg.
Mørck raised a large number of police officers on the route and on the train after he was able to convince the police chief: the serial killer kidnaps two children from religious families, demands a ransom, kills one child and releases the other. In this case, the kidnapper Elias has the money thrown off the train at an inaccessible place in a wooded area. Elias himself also jumps off the train. Johannes meets Elias and injures him badly. Mørck and Assad have followed the train with their company car and Mørck can fire a few more shots at the car of the fleeing Johannes before he takes care of Elias and has him taken to the hospital.
The children's mother makes Mørck grave allegations. The ransom is gone, Elias is wrestling with death, and the children are still not free. Mørck is at the end of his nerve. Suddenly he has the idea that Johannes is in the hospital. He disguised himself as a doctor and turned off Elias' treatment equipment. The kidnapper lures Mørck into the hospital's underground car park . When Mørck takes care of a seriously injured police officer, Johannes overpowers him and takes him to the lonely boathouse by the sea, where he also hides the kidnapped children. Chained Mørck has to watch as Johannes pushes the kidnapped boy under water. Before he can kill the other child, he is distracted by a flying helicopter. Later, Mørck succeeds in getting the boy out of the water at the last second and resuscitating him.
In the meantime, Assad and his colleagues have found the hijacker's hiding place. He lets himself be dropped by the helicopter pilot and, although injured, can defeat Johannes by drowning him in shallow water after a fight. Investigators find the remains of other kidnapping victims under the boathouse. Thrygve's brother Paul - the writer in a bottle - is buried after a memorial service .
production
Staff and cast
The direction was taken over by Hans Petter Moland . It is his first Olsen film adaptation. Moland based his work on that of his predecessor, Mikkel Nørgaard , who directed the first two Mørck cases. The scriptwriter was Nikolaj Arcel , who had previously worked with Adler-Olsen on the scripts for the first two films in the series and had translated the story into dark and opulent images that are typical of Scandinavian cinema.
The roles of the two investigators Carl Mørck and Assad were taken on by the Danish actor Nikolaj Lie Kaas and the Lebanese-Swedish actor Fares Fares . The role of Johannes was cast by Pål Sverre Hagen .
Filming
Most of the shooting took place in Hamburg .
reception
Age rating
In Germany the film was only approved by the FSK from the age of 16, because some threatening scenes and drastic depictions of violence could overwhelm younger children and young people. The certificate of release states: The story is told using the familiar means of the genre, with a clear distinction between good and bad and the police officers being suitable as personable and courageous characters to identify with.
Reviews
The film has so far convinced all Rotten Tomatoes critics .
Frank Schnelle from epd Film thinks that the sympathetic old-fashioned novel has become a booming, pretty random film adaptation: It concentrates entirely on emphasizing the serial and maintaining the basic tone of the two predecessors, that idiosyncratic mixture of Weltschmerz and sarcasm , thrill and Contemplation , realism and heavy tobacco.
In the Hamburger Abendblatt you can read: The fact that the film is so exciting, although the question of the murderer is cleared up so quickly, is not only due to the race against time. Finally, the investigators hope to find the recently kidnapped siblings still alive. It is also because the motives of the perpetrator are completely in the dark until the end - and above all because of the outstanding performance of actor Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen .
The film service says: The third crime film based on a submission by the Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen around the special department Q and his grouchy investigator Mørck convinces with its routine narrative and cleverly placed suspense. Nevertheless, it is noted that the material and the staging lack originality in order to stand out from the large range of comparable Scandinavian crime novels.
Awards (selection)
- Nomination for the best adapted screenplay ( Nikolaj Arcel )
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016
- Nomination for the audience award ( Hans Petter Moland )
- Nomination for best international feature film (Hans Petter Moland)
Robert 2017
- Nomination for Best Actor ( Nikolaj Lie Kaas )
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actor ( Fares Fares )
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actress ( Amanda Collin )
- Nomination for Best Film Music ( Nicklas Schmidt )
- Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay (Nikolaj Arcel)
- Nomination for Best Costume Design ( Manon Rasmussen )
- Nomination for Best Editing ( Nicolaj Monberg , Olivier Bugge Coutté )
Web links
- Salvation in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Redemption at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Film on dfi.dk in Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish)
- Film on danskefilm.dk in the Dansk Film Database (Danish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for redemption . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 158445 / V).
- ↑ Hannes Hintermeier: Jussi Adler-Olsen: Redemption You shouldn't rise above others In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 13, 2011.
- ↑ a b c d e Message in a bottle of horror: Adler-Olsen's 'Redemption' In: Hamburger Abendblatt, June 4, 2016.
- ↑ Elmar Krekeler: Der Gott und das Gemetzel In: DIE WELT, June 10, 2016.
- ^ Reason for release for redemption In: Voluntary self-control of the film industry. Retrieved June 28, 2016.
- ↑ A Conspiracy of Faith (Flaskepost fra P) In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
- ↑ Frank Schnelle: Critique of Redemption In: epd Film, May 24, 2016.
- ↑ Salvation In: Filmdienst. Retrieved June 29, 2016.