God Protects Lovers (2008)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | God protects the lovers |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carlo Rola |
| script | Sarah Kirkegaard , Günter Schütter |
| music | Georg Kleinebreil |
| camera | Frank Küpper |
| cut | Friederike von Normann |
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God protects the lovers is a film drama by Carlo Rola from 2008. The literary film adaptation is based on a novel by the writer Johannes Mario Simmel .
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Paul Holland, a war photographer by profession, returns from abroad disabled by the war. It is shocking for him to realize that his great love, Sybille, cannot be found. He sees that there is blood in the shared apartment and suspects that it came from her. The notified police are puzzled. Later on, Paul realizes that he actually knows very little about his girlfriend.
In Salzburg , Paul meets Petra Wendt, who Sybille knows from earlier days. However, it turns out that she was then called Victoria Brunswick. She was smuggled into the German terror scene by the police as a mole , but there she switched sides, shot a lawyer and has since gone into hiding under a false name. She should be in possession of documents that incriminate the state.
Since the police assume that Sybille will contact Paul, Paul is held in Salzburg. In fact, she reports to him. Although he does not want to have anything to do with a "murderer", he wants to help her escape. He smuggles them and himself in a tourist bus from the city to the Dachstein , where he hides them in a small mountain hotel that can only be reached by cable car . A storm there prevents him from returning to the city immediately, so that an overnight stay together is necessary. He learns from Sybille that a few years ago she shot her former police officer Günter Enders in his private house, where he lived as Emilio Trenti. After a night of love, Paul changes his mind and decides that he wants to live with Sybille in Brazil, where he has the prospect of a correspondent position . For this he wants to get Sybille a false passport with a visa.
When Paul wants to pick up the false papers in Salzburg, Petra arrives and forces him with a gun to order Sybille back to the city. When she is picked up at the train station , Petra identifies herself as a police agent and daughter of Trenti, who was shot by Sybille. In vain she asks for the non-existent incriminating papers and leaves to make room for the task force that Sybille is about to arrest. Then she takes a sawed-off shotgun out of her pocket and shoots herself. In a previous scramble for the gun, Paul is also hit in the chest, but barely survives.
After recovering, Paul quarrels with God that he was not allowed to die with his beloved, although God usually protects the lovers. He is writing a novel with the story of himself and Sybille as the last gift. Paul is then sent to Africa by his agency, where his plane crashes.
Production notes
The film premiered on German television on December 3, 2008 in Germany .
Reviews
"Bleak terror melodrama"
Web links
- God protects the lovers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ God protects the lovers (TV Movie 2008) - IMDb. In: imdb.com. Retrieved June 7, 2015 .
- ↑ God protects the lovers - film review - film - TV SPIELFILM. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved June 7, 2015 .