Escape through Hell Valley

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Movie
Original title Escape through Hell Valley
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2019
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Marcus O. Rosenmüller
script Marcus O. Rosenmüller
production Hans-Hinrich Koch ,
Anna Neudert
music Boris Bojadzhiev
camera Peter Joachim Krause
cut Raimund Vienken ,
Claudia Klook
occupation

Flucht through Höllental is a German TV film from 2019 by Marcus O. Rosenmüller with Hans Sigl , Marleen Lohse , Christian Redl , Tonio Arango and Leonie Wesselow . Rosenmüller's script is based on a template by Wolf Jakoby.

The thriller was first broadcast on July 3, 2019 on ORF on the occasion of Hans Sigl's 50th birthday. At the end of August 2019, the film was presented at the Festival of German Films , and the film was shown at the 26th Oldenburg Film Festival on September 13 and 14, 2019. The first broadcast on ZDF was on September 23, 2019.

action

Klaus Burg is a busy criminal defense attorney. His wife died of cancer, and he barely has time for his 17-year-old daughter Alina, who he has placed in a boarding school, and the relationship between the two is therefore tense. To smooth things over, he wants to spend a weekend in the mountains with his daughter. After a loud argument in front of other hotel guests, Alina is missing. There is a large amount of blood in their hotel room, which is why the police suspect Klaus Burg of murdering his daughter.

Klaus Burg is blackmailed by Enzo Battista, a leader in organized crime. Burg is supposed to lead Battista to Georg Wendt, one of Burg's clients. Otherwise, Alina would die. Although Burg himself does not know Georg Wendt's whereabouts, he flees from the criminal investigation department via the hotel's balcony. Wendt's daughter Maja supports him in his search for Georg Wendt and the escape through the Höllental from the officials of the State Criminal Police Office, including investigators Barbara Leyendecker and Arndt Schubert and Andreas Frey from the SEK Alpin. She worked as a mountain guide until a customer of her fell fatally because he wanted to climb without safety.

Battista first demands business reports and balance sheets of the Mafia from Georg Wendt from Burg. Wendt is a detective who investigated the 'Ndrangheta . An internal investigation is ongoing against him because he allegedly prevented a raid on Isabelle Battista, Enzo's sister-in-law, in the restaurant. Wendt had the documents from her. After the documents were handed over to Wendt, she was murdered, and Wendt then flees to the mountains with the documents. Based on her investigations, Leyendecker now suspects that Burg is being blackmailed, that his daughter was taken hostage and that Burg is not on the run from the police, but is looking for the hostage-taker and his daughter.

At a later point in time, Battista also requests Burg to kill Georg Wendt. Burg finally reaches Georg Wendt at a mountain hut, where Burg shoots at Wendt, who, however, survives. Battista follows the scene with a camera drone , after the shot at Wendt, Burg also shoots the drone. Battista assumes that his assignment has been carried out.

Burg makes his way to Battista with the requested documents. Burg and Battista meet in a church where the documents are handed over, in return Battista releases Alina. Wendt also uploaded the documents to the cloud . Burg informs Battista that the password will be forwarded to the authorities if anything should happen to him or his daughter. Burg also decides to take advantage of a witness protection program and to start a new life with his daughter under a new identity.

production

The shooting took place in two blocks from April 10, 2018 to August 8, 2018 in Munich , Tyrol and Salzburg . Filming locations were in the region around the Tyrolean community of Brandenberg , such as the Kaiserklamm , the Rofan Mountains , the Brandenberger Ache , the Kaiserhaus and Breitenbach am Inn . The final sequence in the fictional Weißkirchen was created in the Maria Kirchental church in Sankt Martin bei Lofer , the Salzburg candidate from the ORF program 9 Places - 9 Treasures 2018.

The film was produced by the German ndF Berlin GmbH , Österreichischer Rundfunk and ZDF . In addition, the production was supported by Cine Tirol .

Peter Rösner and Marcus Oelschlegel were responsible for the sound, the production design was designed by Cordula Kerner and the costumes by Birgitta Lohrer-Horres.

For his role, Hans Sigl gained fifteen kilos and lost it again after filming.

reception

Reviews

Eric Leimann found in the Weser-Kurier that the plot was loaded with clichés. Qualitatively, the film could not convince in any of the targeted genre categories, neither as an action thriller nor as a crime story or as a relationship drama. Bergdoktor fans might not be bothered by these weaknesses in terms of content. In part one of the film, characters that even a child could easily sort into the categories “good” and “bad” would exchange crime fiction dialog dances. All this done, about an approximately 45-minute action sequence to prepare, "with increasingly pummeled body and pain" in "in Cluj to Bruce Willis -like Die Hard aufopfere -style" for his late rehabilitation as a father.

Heike Hupertz, FAZ , describes the film under the heading “Crash on the steep face” and comments ironically on the scenes. For example, she describes how the main character finds a mountain bike on a spruce stump and uses it to escape, then rams a branch deep into his thigh when he falls, pulls it out "with a full pop" and climbs a steep face despite the severe wound. The rest of the way up to the final in a Catholic church is just as laughable as anything else. In summary, it says: "Seldom have you been so bored with a 'thriller', seldom have you found so much involuntarily funny."

For Kathrin Hollmer from the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the “landscape images from the foot of the Zugspitze massif, captured by Peter Joachim Krause's camera, are spectacular.” However, she rates the thriller as “flat, which is due to the exaggerated hunt through the Hell Valley, and because that you simply don't buy the action you want from Hans Sigl. ”On his breathless escape, he seems overwhelmed, but escapes dog squadrons and helicopters before the kitschy end approaches.

Joachim Huber said in the Tagesspiegel that the escape had its visual and tension values. The director Rosenmüller puts the challenge of the mountain region and his hero castle in the picture profitably. Author Rosenmüller is so ambitious and clever that Burg does not put the calendar sayings into his mouth that Hans Sigl, as a mountain doctor, secretes every minute. The action, which sometimes jumps forward, is credible.

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv wrote that the film was one of the weaker directing work that Rosenmüller's filmography had to offer. The film is not gripping enough for a thriller, it also has some logic gaps and the leadership of the actors is not always happy. "The whole thing seems like a favor for the main actor Hans Sigl, who after more than a hundred Bergdoktor episodes finally wanted to play a scoundrel."

Audience rating

The first broadcast on ZDF on September 23, 2019 was seen by 7.08 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 23.6 percent.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Happy Birthday Hans Sigl! ORF premiere for the fast-paced ORF / ZDF thriller “Escape through Höllental” on July 3rd. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ ORF premiere: Escape through Höllental: high-speed alpine thriller. Retrieved June 26, 2019 .
  4. ^ Festival of German Films: Escape through Höllental. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
  5. ^ Devil's Valley 26th International Film Festival Oldenburg. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
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  15. ↑ Celebrating the 50s: For his new film, Hans Sigl gained 15 kilos - and then lost it again. July 4, 2019, accessed July 4, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Eric Leimann: Run, Bergdoktor, run! In: Weser courier . August 30, 2019, accessed August 31, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Heike Hupertz: Crash on the steep face . In: faz.net. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
  18. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung . Retrieved September 24, 2019.
  19. ↑ Joachim Huber: ZDF crime thriller "Escape through Höllental": Hans Sigl can also do different things. In: Der Tagesspiegel . September 22, 2019, accessed September 24, 2019 .
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