Falling rocks
Falling Rocks is a thriller by the Austrian director Peter Keglevic .
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Falling rocks |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Keglevic |
| script |
Ron Peer , Ed Gardiner |
| production |
Timothy Tremper , Thomas Zickler , Daniel C. Witte , Herbert Gehr |
| music | Jürgen Corner |
| camera |
Hans-Günther Bücking , Alexander Fischerkoesen |
| cut | Moune Barius |
| occupation | |
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action
Five long-time friends from Germany and Austria arrive in Cape Town , from there they want to start on an adventure holiday. They are the wealthy couple Jessica and Louis, the couple Barbara and Michael and Fiona, the younger sister of Jessica, who dominates the group. Fiona meets the Belgian Phil at the hotel swimming pool, spends the night with him and invites him to take part in the backpack hike through the Kalahari desert, which, however, arouses the displeasure of the other four.
A DC-3 cargo plane takes the group to a small airport on the border with Namibia . Louis secretly gives the pilot a small flat tin can before his return flight. But the next day the group found the dead pilot who had jumped off with the parachute in a river. The tin can is discovered: it contains rough diamonds. Louis gives their value at twelve million marks, but withholds the fact that they come from him.
Since the cell phones have no reception, the deceased is buried and the location of the grave is drawn on a map. In the group, differences of opinion about what to do with the diamonds become apparent. Fiona would like to divide them among the participants, but hand over her older sister Jessica to the police. The next morning Barbara wakes up alone in the tent, Michael has disappeared. He is eventually found dead under a rock. The group decides to cancel the trip and return. Michael's friend Barbara, however, shoots herself the next day with the pistol that Louis has in his backpack for an emergency.
While taking a break, Fiona and Phil discover the cave of a gold digger. The man feels threatened by the two of them, he attacks Fiona and kills her with a hoe. Thereupon Jessica and Louis rush to, Jessica shoots the gold digger. The following day an argument breaks out between the two surviving men, during which Louis is thrown into an abyss by Phil.
Finally, the two survivors, Jessica and the Belgian Phil, who originally did not belong to the group, see from a distance the highway where they parked their Land Rover . You take a rest before the last section. While Phil explores the area, Jessica places her video camera between several boulders to record the final log of "this terrible journey". Phil comes back, tears the film out of her camera, burns the card with the marking of the graves and Jessica's diary. Then he explains to her that he killed the others because he wanted the diamonds to himself. Jessica lunges at him, he wrestles her down and shoots her with the pistol that was laid out earlier.
Then Phil goes to the highway. A police car happens to pass by, the policewoman takes him to the next place. In the meantime, however, a local shepherd boy has found the video camera. When he discovered Jessica's fresh grave, he took the camera and immediately ran to the village school. Together with the director, he watches the recording of the murder of Jessica. When they look out the window, they see that Phil is standing on the balcony of the hotel across the street, smoking a cigarette. You recognize in him the murderer of Jessica.
background
The German-South African co-production was created in 1999 on original locations in the Kalahari desert, the scenic charm of which is savored by the CinemaScope camera. Peter Keglevic staged the thriller based on the principle of Agatha Christie's novel And Then There Was No More . The film premiered at the Munich Film Festival . Further festival screenings followed at the Montréal World Film Festival .
First broadcast: September 28, 2000; Quota: MA% 15.3, 14-49 1.82 million
criticism
"[...] Full story, perfidious dramaturgy, perfect ensemble - this cunning outdoor thriller was opaque, fast-paced and breathtaking like an 800 meter finale!"
“[…] The final complex is a brilliant example of cinematic storytelling that relies on images and montage and not on explanatory nonsense. A class of crime "
"[...] Total tension"
"[...] In shimmering desert heat, coolly staged, straightforward and straightforward thriller adventure with excellent actors."
Web links
- Falling Rocks in the Internet Movie Database (English)