Cheating (film)

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Movie
Original title To cheat on
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2010
Rod
Director Jeanette Wagner
script Jeanette Wagner,
Ulrike Molsen
production Juri Wiesner
camera Mathias Schöningh
cut Andreas Wodraschke
occupation

Cheating is a German television film from 2010 . Directed by Jeanette Wagner , who also wrote the script .

action

The married lawyer Nikolas Merz has a relationship with the Turkish Meryem, who works as a cleaning lady in his office . One day he leaves his wife Lilith because he wants to move in with Meryem. But she is afraid that her husband Rohad would kidnap their son Baran to Turkey in this case, and therefore does not want to leave him. After Rohad discovered the affair and threatened Nikolas, she left him anyway.

When Meryem has a miscarriage and has to go to the hospital, she cannot reach Nikolas and calls Rohad for help. So both men meet in the clinic. On the way back, Rohad stops, pulls Nikolas out of the car and knocks him to the ground. Nikolas then kills Rohad with a stone that he picked up from the ground.

Nikolas reports the incident to the police and waits in the house with Lilith, whom he has come closer to, for his arrest. Both dream of a trip while waiting. Meanwhile the police pull up.

background

Cheating was filmed in Ludwigshafen and first broadcast on December 20, 2010 on ZDF .

reception

Lena Bopp from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung judged the film to be “sensitive and close to the truth” and praised the acting performance of the main actors Thomas Sarbacher and Antje Schmidt .

Rainer Tittelbach found that cheating was "the ideal film to take care of your own winter depression."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lena Bopp: Late film on ZDF: I'm not happy either . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 20, 2010. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
  2. ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Cinema co-production "Fremdiegen" . In: Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved September 10, 2014.