Kennedy's brain
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Kennedy's brain |
| Country of production | Germany , Sweden |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 170 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Urs Egger |
| script | Nils-Morten Osburg |
| production | ARD |
| music | Marius Ruhland |
| camera | Martin Kukula |
| cut | Andrea Mertens |
| occupation | |
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Kennedys Hirn is a film drama by the Swiss director Urs Egger from 2010. The literary film adaptation is based on the novel of the same name by Henning Mankell .
action
Louise Cantor, a dedicated archaeologist, travels to her hometown Gothenburg for a guest lecture from Kenya. When she arrived at her son Hendrik's apartment, she saw him lying dead in his bed. The official investigations leave no doubt that the cause of death was suicide, because the autopsy reveals that he had taken an overdose of sleeping pills. In addition, it comes to light that Hendrik was traveling as a reporter in Africa and became infected with HIV .
What seems credible at first glance raises doubts in Louise. So your son is supposed to be a suicide? On her own, she tries to research what happened before her son's death. She finds out that Hendrik was apparently on the trail of a scandal in South Africa. Louise contacts her husband Aron, who left the family 25 years ago. She would like to tell him about the death of their son. In doing so, she learns from Aron that Hendrik has borrowed a large amount of cash from him. In the room there is the assumption that Hendrik wanted to buy information with it.
Louise flies to Cape Town with Aron to do more extensive research. The trail leads to Diana Botha, an employee in a freight forwarding company. However, she pretends not to know Henrik.
In the further course, Aron is suddenly found dead. The investigations show that it was a common robbery of a European tourist in Africa. Louise then decides to return home. However, shortly before starting the return journey, she decides to explore the capital, Maputo . There she falls victim to a robbery. When she ran out of papers, the embassy employee Lars Hakansson turned out to be very helpful. He gets her new identification papers and in conversation with him it turns out that he knew her son Hendrik well. It turns out that her son volunteered in a clinic for AIDS sufferers. Now of course there is the suspicion that he was infected with HIV there.
Louise succeeds in her further research. She discovers that Henrik had a friend named Lucinda and tracks her down. Lucinda worked as a nurse in the clinic in question. Hendrik wanted her to give up this job, because during his research he had found that the HIV tests in the clinic by no means had the aim of testing the patients for HIV, rather they were specifically infected with HIV in this test so that you can can later test a new vaccine on them, which offers the manufacturer of the serum extremely lucrative prospects. As the film progresses, when Louise discovers a mastermind behind this process, she experiences a bitter surprise.
Production notes
Kennedy's brain was filmed in Germany , Sweden , South Africa and Mozambique . The film premiered on German television on April 3, 2010 in Germany.
Reviews
"A stirring odyssey with a political claim."
"Elaborately staged (television) thriller at original locations based on a novel by Henning Mankell, who lives primarily from the good cast of actors."
Web links
- Kennedy's brain in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ DasErste.de - Kennedy's brain - The stick. (No longer available online.) In: daserste.de. Archived from the original on July 13, 2015 ; Retrieved June 6, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kennedys Hirn (TV Movie 2010) - Release Info - IMDb. In: imdb.com. Retrieved June 6, 2015 .
- ^ Henning Mankell: Kennedy's brain - film review - film - TV SPIELFILM. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved June 6, 2015 .
- ↑ Kennedy's brain. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 6, 2015 .
