Kidnapping Stella

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Movie
German title Kidnapping Stella
Original title Kidnapping Stella
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2019
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Thomas Seven
script Thomas Seven
production Henning Ferber
music Michael Kamm
camera Sten Mende
cut Robert Rzesacz
occupation

Kidnapping Stella is a crime film directed by Thomas Sieben . Clemens Schick and Max von der Groeben play the kidnappers Vic and Tom, Jella Haase can be seen in the title role of the kidnapping victim Stella.

The film is a German adaptation of the British thriller Spurlos - The Kidnapping of Alice Creed and has been available on Netflix since July 12, 2019 . The film celebrated its world premiere on June 29, 2019 during the film festival in Munich .

action

A young woman named Stella is kidnapped in the street by Tom and Vic and taken to a remote apartment. The perpetrators take pictures of Stella and ask her to give her father's email address and telephone number in order to extort a ransom . While Vic contacts her father, Tom is supposed to take care of her. But when she has to go to the toilet, Stella is able to outsmart the perpetrator and tear the mask off his face. She immediately recognizes him as her ex-boyfriend Tom. Stella destroyed his life, which is why he chose her. He can regain the upper hand and tie her to the bed again. Vic mustn't know anything about the whole thing, otherwise he'll kill both of them. He just read a newspaper article across from Vic about Stella's rich father, which included her name. He knows nothing of the relationship between the two of them.

Vic returns without result. The father doesn't want to pay. Therefore, they want to show that they are ready for anything. Tom is supposed to film Vic cutting off Stella's little finger. But after she screams and in the direction of the camera asks her father to pay the requested money and mentions that she is four months pregnant, Tom calls out that Vic should stop. You'd have enough material on tape. Vic actually stops at this but is upset.

The relationship between the kidnappers is increasingly mistrustful. Tom can only thwart Stella's attempt to escape with difficulty. As part of the ransom delivery, Stella is taken to a boathouse and Vic tries to shoot Tom in the woods. The injured Tom drags himself to the boathouse and can just prevent Vic from killing Stella with an injection of poison; Both kidnappers are fatally injured in the subsequent exchange of fire.

The dying Tom can just push the keys to Stella so that she can loosen her bonds. Stella drives away with the ransom.

production

The film is a remake of Without a Trace - The Kidnapping of Alice Creed by J Blakeson from 2009. For this, the original was only changed in a few points, the subplot about the homosexual relationship between the kidnappers and the Stella's pregnancy supplements.

The shooting took place from November 17 to December 20, 2017 in Berlin and Brandenburg . The film was funded with 261,628.29 euros from the German Film Fund and 600,000 euros from the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg . The filmmakers had the filthy prefabricated apartment in which the kidnappers hold Stella completely rebuilt in the studio. This forms the perfect backdrop for the feverish, almost claustrophobic and sometimes surprisingly brutal chamber play , says Lars-Christian Daniels from Filmstarts .

The film was originally scheduled to hit German cinemas on May 9, 2019. However, the theatrical release was canceled and instead the film debuted on Netflix on July 12, 2019 . The premiere took place on June 29, 2019 at the Munich Film Festival .

reception

Lars-Christian Daniels from Filmstarts writes that the really noteworthy changes that director and screenwriter Thomas Sieben makes in his adaptation of the story can be counted on two fingers: “The homosexual relationship of the kidnappers, which is already little in the UK version of the story was convincing and brought the story that was so thrilling to date off the course, Sieben deleted for good reason - instead he added a pregnancy in Kidnapping Stella to give the already special relationship between Stella and her ex-boyfriend and kidnapper Tom additional explosiveness . “With the remake, he succeeds in creating an exciting and convincingly played kidnapping thriller that gets a lot out of the budget, which is also low, continues Daniels, even if the original was only copied with a few exceptions instead of using your own scent brands. Jella Haase and Max von der Groeben harmonized perfectly in their demanding roles as tortured kidnappers and stressed kidnappers with a shared past, while Clemens Schick even overshadows his British colleague Eddie Marsan with his expressive performance as a slightly exaggerated boss in the ring.

Frédéric Jaeger from Spiegel Online, on the other hand, found the modification of the plot to be “questionable” and criticized the film's “honesty”. This “continues in the look, which lacks any form of stubbornness, and in the work with the main actors only use the film as a type. As a result, the film "always seems very stiff" and "sooner or later tends to become involuntarily funny".

By August 20, 2019, around 19 million subscribers had seen Kidnapping Stella on Netflix.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Kidnapping Stella . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 183801 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ a b http://www.quotenmeter.de/n/110488/kidnapping-stella-aus-gemma-arterton-wird-jella-haase
  3. ↑ a b c http://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/257180/kritik.html
  4. ^ A b Frédéric Jaeger: German cinema at the Munich Film Festival. In: Spiegel Online, July 4, 2019.
  5. ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  6. ↑ Sebastian Feurer: Netflix novelties in July 2019: The hype series par excellence returns. In: chip.de, June 30, 2019.
  7. ↑ Kasey Moore: Every Viewing Statistic Netflix Has Released So Far (May 2020). In: whats-on-netflix.com, May 24, 2020.