Beyond Fear (2019)
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| Original title | Beyond fear |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Thorsten Näter |
| script | Thorsten Näter |
| production | Eberhard Jost |
| music | Axel Donner |
| camera | Joachim Hasse |
| cut | Julia von Frihling |
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Beyond fear is a German television film from 2019 by Thorsten Näter with Anja Kling in the lead role. The crime film was broadcast for the first time on September 16, 2019 on ZDF .
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Lisa Hembach is a fashion designer and has a thriving fashion company in Berlin, which she inherited from her father. Actually, she would much rather work with her own little label and sell the company. She has already found interested parties, but lately she has been plagued by doubts about her mind and she is not pushing this seriously planned sale for the time being. She sees things that are supposedly not there, hears voices and she has just canceled an important delivery of fabrics, even though the fabrics are very important for the date of their current production. Her husband Ronald Kärger tries to calm her down and her friend Susanne also advises her to first “shift down a gear” and maybe drink a little less alcohol. Her delusions reach a climax when she is convinced at a fashion show that her husband is cheating on her. She sees him very intimate with one of the models in his car and leaves the event indignantly, not without making a scene for the model and her husband in front of everyone. In anger, Lisa sits down in her car, races off and runs over the model, who is standing in front of her car out of nowhere. Her husband had rushed after her and is now taking care of the disposal of the body. He also sinks her accident car in the nearby river. Ronald assures his wife that she only imagined everything and that "nothing" would have happened to the model. Gradually she has to admit that something is really wrong with her, because since the accident she suddenly sees the model almost alive and standing next to her. In desperation, she thinks about killing herself, but is prevented from doing so by one of her employees. Stefan Welsner is the company's IT manager and is secretly in love with his boss. He encourages her and assures her that she is not crazy and that her husband is deliberately driving her insane. Lisa doesn't want to believe this at first, but Stephan has unmistakable evidence. He advises her to only eat and drink for the next few days what she would prepare herself, and to change her asthma spray and get a new one.
Lisa takes the advice to heart and actually realizes that she is feeling better after a few days. She must realize that Ronald's caring about handing her drinks and bringing the food was only to put her on hallucinogenic drugs. In addition, he obviously has a relationship with her friend, because she sees them both in the hospital where Susanne works. With that she doesn't know who she can still trust and fled to Stefan Welsner. He now explains to her that her father had asked him to take care of Lisa because Hembach did not trust his son-in-law and had even had research done about him. Shortly afterwards, the company boss had a fatal car accident. Now Kärger would have been targeting his own wife because she wants to sell the company and the auditing would recognize that he, as an authorized signatory, has been diverting funds from the company for years.
Kärger, who realizes that his plan to prevent the company from being sold does not work, is now trying to destroy the evidence of his financial transactions. With a cleverly staged short circuit, he paralyzes all of the company's computers and hopes that all data has been deleted by the fire that has broken out. In this chaos, the police unexpectedly contacted him, saying that his wife's car was found in the water. Commissioner Ritter suspects a criminal offense, but does not rule out a suicide either. Meanwhile, Lisa hides at Welser's home and learns from him details about the model she allegedly ran over. She is alive and it's a drug addict who works not only as an actress but also as a stunt woman. Best conditions for Lisa's husband to abuse her for his perfidious plan. This comes under increasing pressure when Welser manages to transfer the funds from Kärger's secret accounts and to provide the police with information about a possible murder of his wife anonymously. As a result, Kräger actually comes under suspicion of murder. Meanwhile, Lisa contacts her friend and confronts her. Since Susanne is now very sorry for the whole matter, she is ready to support Lisa in the fight against her husband. She makes an appointment with Kräger to bring him an offer to negotiate from Lisa. If he didn't respond, she would be gone and he would remain under suspicion of murder. When he says that he will kill her if she would pretend to be dead, Susanne takes this statement so seriously that she writes Lisa a message and wants to leave immediately. However, Kräger does not allow this and in the scuffle he throws Susanne out of the window of the hotel where they had just met. Via an ally, he has the location of Lisa's cell phone determined, to which Susanne had just sent the message, and goes there. Lisa is currently being informed about Susanne's death by Welser, which makes it clear to her that her situation is dangerous. She calls Commissioner Ritter, tells him where she is hiding in her company and asks him to come immediately. Meanwhile, her husband is already in the room. He knocks Welser out and then grabs Lisa. She loses her cell phone, so that Knight Kräger overhears involuntary confession and also the clear intentions to murder his wife. She can grab a pair of scissors and rams them into her husband's heart. When Ritter arrives, Kräger is dead and the inspector asks Lisa whether she might have planned everything that way. All she admits is that she faked her suicide to save herself from her husband.
background
Beyond fear was shot in Berlin from February 13th to March 15th, 2018 and broadcast in September as ZDF “TV film of the week”.
Titles from the Berlin group “Boiband” were used for the soundtrack. “Boiband” is a project of vocals and drums by the artist Tucké Royale and the experimental musician Hans Unstern .
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast on September 16, 2019 on ZDF reached 4.30 million viewers and a market share of 14.4 percent.
Reviews
Tilmann P. Gangloff from Tittelbach.tv rated: “Beyond fear” “is a thriller in the style of classics such as Lady Alquist's House or Lullaby for a Corpse : A man wants to drive his wife crazy. Thorsten Näter pulls out all the stops of the genre thanks to an exemplary interplay of image design (Achim Hasse) and music (Axel Donner) and in this way ensures a level of tension and quality that is second to none. The multi-layered, perfectly complementary game of Benjamin Sadler and Anja Kling is equally outstanding: he as a supposedly worried husband who plays a perfidious game with his wife. "
The editorial staff of the Golden Camera said: “The psychology, the character development and the dramaturgy are right. Even if the story is not new, it is still exciting, especially at the beginning, to puzzle over what is reality and what is imagination. The well-chosen music and the gloomy atmosphere underline this thrill. "" Halfway through, however, the film takes the expected turn and slips a little too much into the bold. And especially towards the end, the dialogues could be a bit more inventive. "
Frank Preuss of the Berliner Zeitung criticized: “You don't have to compete with the US classic Gaslight from 1944, in which the manipulative power of a man to destroy his wife was masterfully staged. But it should be a little more tension, a little less predictability and a little more subtlety. When Sadler dismantles the small loudspeakers under the sofa with which he produced creepy background noises, it involuntarily becomes weird. "
Julian Miller judged for quotenmeter.de : Exactly “punctually at halftime [a first] dissolution takes place. That may have been difficult to avoid dramaturgically in order to continue telling the story the way one obviously wanted it to. Nevertheless, from this point on, the film loses a lot of its charm as a genre material, which although never fully exploited its thriller possibilities, was nonetheless unusually dense and exciting. But the initially very well interlinked plot and the cleverly worked out dilemmas that drive the characters deeper and deeper into the escalation become increasingly obvious over time and lead to a jittery finale, the climax of which almost crosses the border to parody. "
Manfred Riepe wrote at medienkorrespondenz.de : “You can't deny certain ambitions to this thriller-like crime thriller (4.30 million viewers, market share: 14.4 percent)," which in some cases has high "atmospheric qualities". “You look for such atmospheric moments in vain in the rest of the film.” “The staging has no really surprising twists. Even supposedly incidental observations act like a wink with the fence post. "
Web links
- Beyond the fear in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Beyond the fear at Fernsehserien.de
- Beyond fear at crew united
- Beyond fear official website of ZDF
Individual evidence
- ↑ Against the fear at crew united . Retrieved January 19, 2020.
- ↑ a b c Tilmann P. Gangloff : Anja Kling, Benjamin Sadler, Thorsten Näter. It's about bare survival at Tittelbach.tv , accessed on January 19, 2020.
- ↑ Juliane Reil: “Boiband” on Kampnagel A queer, progressive pop show at deutschlandfunkkultur.de, accessed on January 19, 2020.
- ↑ In "Jenseits der Angst", Anja Kling is on the verge of madness at goldenekamera.de, accessed on January 19, 2020.
- ↑ Frank Preuss: Beyond the fear criticism of the film at morgenpost.de , accessed on January 19, 2020.
- ↑ Julian Miller: Beyond fear at quotenmeter.de , accessed on January 19, 2020.
- ↑ Manfred Riepe: Nervenkitzellos at medienkorrespondenz.de, accessed on January 19, 2020.