Franz Fuchs - a patriot
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Franz Fuchs - a patriot |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Elisabeth Scharang |
| script |
Karl Goldblat Elisabeth Scharang |
| production | Dieter Pochlatko |
| camera | Helmut Wimmer |
| cut | Alarich Lenz |
| occupation | |
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Franz Fuchs - A Patriot is the title of a semi-documentary feature film, the plot of which is one of the greatest criminal cases in Austrian history - the letter bomb attacks by Franz Fuchs .
action
October 1997: In the southern Styrian town of Gralla , a police patrol checks a car whose driver has molested the women in front of him. Suddenly a hand grenade explodes, severing both hands of the driver.
During the interrogations of the driver named Franz Fuchs, it turns out that it is he who has sent numerous letter bombs to public figures, including the Mayor of Vienna Helmut Zilk , the politician of the Greens Madeleine Petrovic and the television presenter Arabella Kiesbauer . He is also responsible for a booby trap that killed four men in Oberwart in February 1995 . The booby trap consisted of a street sign that had been prepared with a bomb and read "Roma back to India". When four Roma tried to remove the sign, the bomb set off and killed the four men.
During the interrogations, Franz Fuchs presents himself as a xenophobia and claims to be acting on behalf of a fictional "Bavarian Liberation Army". He was sentenced to life imprisonment in Graz in March 1999 . A year later, in February 2000, he commits in his cell in the prison of Graz-Karlau suicide by hanged himself with a cord of a razor.
Parallel to the plot of the film, the then judge, prosecutors and detectives have their say, including the profiler Thomas Müller .
Background information
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the arrest of Franz Fuchs, the ORF organized a theme evening on October 2, 2007, which, in addition to the feature film, also included a documentary and a subsequent discussion.
The film, whose script adheres exactly to the interrogation protocols, is not just a film biography in which the viewer can follow the development of a character; it is even more an inventory of the psychology of the letter bomber. In addition, Fuchs' motives that led to the crimes, such as his xenophobia and right-wing extremism, are disclosed.
In order to make the film interesting for an audience in Germany as well, the dialogues were presented in standard German - with no authentic representation.
The film was shot in April 2007 mainly on original locations in Styria. Only the room in which Fuchs was interrogated during his detention was reconstructed in an ORF studio.
Awards
- 2007: Erich Neuberg Prize
- 2007: Austrian Adult Education TV Prize to Karl Markovics and Elisabeth Scharang
- 2008: FIPA d'Argent at the 21st FIPA TV Festival (Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels) in Biarritz, France, in the main "Fictions" competition
- 2008: Nomination for the Emmy Award
Web links
- Franz Fuchs - A Patriot in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- epo-film Vienna-Graz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article about the ORF theme evening on the Franz Fuchs case in the Kleine Zeitung (from September 27, 2007)
- ↑ "Franz Fuchs - A Patriot" saw up to 663,000 viewers on ORF 2 on October 2, 2007 at 8:15 pm ( source ORF ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )
- ↑ Article: Game documentary "Franz Fuchs" with Karl Markovics in the Kleine Zeitung (from September 27, 2007)
