Sanatoriums
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Sanatoriums |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael David Godfather |
| script | Michael David godfather Eckehard Ziedrich |
| production | Till Schmerbeck |
| music | Andrew Reich |
| camera | Pascal Schmit |
| cut | Michael David Godfather |
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Heilstätten is a German horror film directed by Michael David Pate from 2018 .
action
During the Nazi era , tuberculosis patients were murdered in human experiments in the Beelitz sanatoriums near Berlin . The 25-year-old Irina W. also fell victim to euthanasia in 1942 . In the present, there are said to be strange murders and paranormal apparitions in this place .
The Youtuber Marnie, who with her claustrophobia passed a challenge in an elevator, confronts her colleague Torge with a horror film. The "Prankstaz" Charly and Finn also love challenges, for example at night in forensic medicine. Now they want to spend 24 hours in the old healing facility with beauty Youtuber Betty. Their old friend Theo, who works as a tourist guide, gives them access, but they still have to break open a gate at the driveway. Theo also sets up some rules upon arrival: No internet should be used and the action must (for the time being) remain secret. Emma is also there and while the group is exploring the location and setting up cameras, she tells stories like that of the Beelitz Beast . Marnie follows the group and tries to persuade her ex-boyfriend Theo, with whom she has already been to the sanatorium. After some exploration and allusions to the paranormal, Finn's friend Chris causes a stir with a tasteless short appearance in which he alludes to the beast. Then he gets lost outside Theo criticizes the actions of the Prankstaz. Then the group misses Betty and looks for her. Betty is alone in the building with her camera and discovers a woman in a bathtub full of blood. When the group returns to the room together, however, the tub is empty. On the wall, however, the adventurers discovered traces of blood and a text with a cry for help in Sütterlin script .
Then it gets dark and a film projector starts up. On old photos from Beelitz, Betty recognizes the woman from the bathtub. At Marnie's pressure, Theo tells the story of patient 106, who had an affair with a doctor and became pregnant before cutting open her wrists. The ghost of this woman is said to later kill several people, u. a. of a photographer and a homeless man . The excitement is great. Finn and Betty go outside to check on the cars, but they don't start. Marnie thinks that the dead woman's ghost might need help and tries to contact them like a medium .
When Finn and Betty are back in the building, they discover Chris' body and panic. They learn from the others that Theo is supposed to be in the basement with the generator. Betty accompanies Finn, who absolutely wants to look for Theo. Charly leaves Marnie and Emma alone to get Chris' cell phone, but can't find it. Finn and Betty meet Theo, who is dragged into a dark corridor before their eyes. Betty falls into a hole. A little later Finn sees Theo hanging on the rope and next to it the word "escape" on the wall. Betty is dragged out of the hole by an unknown force. The equally frightened Charly suddenly disappears. Marnie and Emma, who previously sat in the same room, are now out and about in the building. Emma panics when she is splashed with blood and falls into an elevator shaft. Finn sees a ghost and disappears. Marnie falls into the same hole as Betty before, but manages to free herself with a bolt cutter that Finn dropped there.
She notices a lighted round window and sees Theo and his girlfriend in the room, who has dressed up like the ghostly patient. Behind the couple, Betty, Charly and Finn are tied to the operating tables. Theo now reveals that the events in Beelitz so far were an “ultimate prank ” that he and his girlfriend had elaborately staged. He criticizes today's smartphone users who want to attract attention with "blatant videos". He cuts off Betty's nose and threatens to injure Charly's vocal cords. He is angry with Finn because he turned away from him because of Charly. When he starts cutting open Finn's chest, his girlfriend tells him that Marnie has disappeared from the hole. He chases Marnie through the gloomy corridors, but the young woman manages to escape from the grounds.
Theo and his girlfriend put all previous scenes together into a YouTube video, which they can then upload to Betty's and Charly and Finn's channel. He asks about the scenes with Chris and asks whether he has already uploaded anything. She weighs in that she'll cut that later. His girlfriend says that they still have to shoot the last scene. He starts to protest, but she insists they have to stick to the plan. So he made one last speech to the fans, at the end of which he committed suicide with a shot in the head. His girlfriend watches Chris' footage of her chasing and killing him and finishes editing the video. A moth flies to the camera, the friend is watching her, her eyes turn white and she suddenly shoots hissing at the camera - which is either another prank or means that she is the ghost of patient 106 and Theo - like the others before - in committed suicide.
production
The film could not be produced at the original location of the Beelitz Heilstätten . The administrators feared that the film might attract horror tourists. This was also confirmed after the publication. In addition, because of a main street, the impression of complete seclusion was not possible. The activities for the Hollywood film A Cure for Wellness , during which the sanatorium was renovated, also did not fit in with Father's ideas.
Instead, the Grabowsee sanctuary served as the filming location . The shooting took place there in February and March 2017 in unheated rooms. Medical props from the Babelsberg studio were used and an auditorium was rebuilt in a former operating room. The Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg sponsored the production with 150,000 €.
Reception and success
Antje Wessels writes at film releases that the film works “surprisingly well as a horror shocker with satire elements in the overall package. [...] The rather high-profile young talent acts across the board very realistically, with the heavily improvised dialogues matching the style of today's YouTube youth language perfectly. [...] especially because of the provocative idea behind the twist, the film will definitely stay in your head for a while. ”Leonie Bartsch's review of Welt online comes to a negative conclusion:“ The tension is already overused in the first half and stays broken in the corner. With the one-dimensional figures, flat dialogues, peppered with even flatter humor, you are happy about every drone shot in which none of the protagonists have to speak. If they do, you want a dose of Ritalin for each of these hyperactive adolescents. "
The film had around 200,000 moviegoers in Germany.
Heilstätten celebrated exceptionally great success worldwide, especially in Latin America. The film had around 365,000 admissions in Mexico, plus 120,000 from Peru and 110,000 from Brazil. With a total of 780,000 moviegoers, Heilstätten has been the most successful German film in Latin America for years. The film was sold in a total of 55 countries worldwide.
Web links
- Sanatoriums in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Heilstätten in the online film database
- Information from Crew United
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for sanatoriums . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ^ A b c Heinz Helwig: Horror film start: Fear of fan invasion. In: Märkische Allgemeine . February 27, 2018, accessed May 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Animated by the film "Heilstätten": Police provide twelve horror tourists in Beelitz. In: BZ February 26, 2018, accessed on May 26, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Julia Frese: The horror of influencers. In: Der Tagesspiegel . February 13, 2018, accessed May 26, 2019 .
- ^ A b Matthias Gebauer: On the set of "Heilstätten" at Grabowsee. In: Filmtourismus.de. February 22, 2018, accessed May 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Claudia Palma: Michael David Pate on the film "Heilstätten". In: Märkische Allgemeine. Retrieved May 26, 2019 .
- ^ Antje Wessels: Heilstätten. In: Filmstarts.de. Retrieved May 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Leonie Bartsch: "Because of what you do there, the youth dumb up". In: world. February 23, 2018, accessed May 26, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Jochen Müller: "sanatoriums" successful in Latin America. In: beta.blickpunktfilm.de. April 16, 2019, accessed February 2, 2020 .