Hager (film)
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| Original title | Gaunt |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2020 |
| length | 78 minutes |
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| Director | Kevin Kopacka |
| script | Kevin Kopacka, Hk DeWitt |
| production | Kevin Kopacka, Lili Villányi |
| music | Kevin Kopacka, Aiko Aiko, Michael Mcfly, LS Shunt |
| camera | Lukas Dolgner |
| cut | Kevin Kopacka |
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Hager is a German Mystery - Thriller by Kevin Kopacka from the year 2020 . The central figure is the undercover agent Till Hager, who has to investigate a new psychedelic drug that supposedly triggers visions from hell .
action
There is a new drug around. Abaddon - ABD for short - is rumored to trigger visions of hell and lead to the darkest corners of one's own psyche.
Civil policeman Till Hager is assigned to search for the drug and its origin. Despite professional success and a longstanding relationship, Till is dissatisfied with his existence. He leads a double life in which he becomes increasingly entangled. He is secretly having an affair behind the back of his girlfriend Sara Weidel. The relationship with his family is ambivalent, only with his sister Maria he maintains regular contact. The mysterious disappearance of his work colleague Julius Schweitzer finally triggers the confrontation with his repressed family history. Private and professional merge to form an opaque mass, from which Till can no longer free himself.
subjects
Hager is thematically referring to The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri . In addition, the film deals with topics such as subjective perception of reality, as well as the idea of hell and the consequences of suicide .
background
In 2015 the Austrian director Kevin Kopacka completed his short film Hades , which was to become the unplanned start of a trilogy. The sequel TLMEA opposed the predecessor with a no less nested but much cooler thriller narrative. The open links between Hades and Tlmea , as well as the novella Boogaard & Cobain by Hk DeWitt, inspired the third part of the story Hager. The story of the undercover agent, which gave the title, became the binding piece and the core of the trilogy, which finally ended in a completed feature film after a five-year trial. The film was released through the production company Crossbones GmbH.
criticism
"Hager is tiny and yet so committed, talented and in many ways already so competent that some established uniform mercenaries can learn a big slice of it." Wrote Jacko Kunze for Moviebreak.
“The aesthetics of the film and its disturbing soundtrack are particularly impressive. So Hager is an 80-minute horror trip that pulls the audience under its spell, "wrote Bernd Leiendecker for mindfuck-film.de
"The focus is on the atmosphere and the crazy pictures that live from bright colors and alienations. This is actually worth seeing and shows how a nice little nightmare can be created with few resources, which confuses, sometimes disturbs, as a surreal trip." wrote Oliver Armknecht for film-rezensions.de
Web links
- Hager in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hager Crossbones GmbH (English)