Come on, sweet death (film)

Movie
Original title	Come on, sweet death
Country of production	Austria
original language	German
Publishing year	2000
length	108 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16 JMK 14
Rod
Director	Wolfgang Murnberger
script	Wolf Haas Josef Hader Wolfgang Murnberger
production	Dor movie
music	Sofa surfers
camera	Peter von Haller
cut	Evi Romen
occupation
Josef Hader : Simon Brenner Barbara Rudnik : Klara Simon Schwarz : Berti Nina Proll : Angelika Lanz Michael Schönborn : Junior Bernd Michael Lade : Gross (Piefke) Reinhard Nowak : Munz Karl Markovics : Heinz Jäger Ingrid Burkhard : Imbiss-Rosi Reinhard Simonischek : Lanz Jutta Fastian : Irmi Gottfried Breitfuss : Detective man Hermann Scheidleder : Buttinger Ulli Fessl : secretary Elisabeth Stiepl : pensioner Bernd Jeschek : Jürgen Palina Brigitte Antonius : Mrs. Ruprecht Gerhard Ernst : Walter Watzek

Come on, sweet death is the film adaptation of the crime novel of the same name by Wolf Haas , who also wrote the screenplay with Josef Hader and Wolfgang Murnberger . The film, shot in Austria in 2000, was awarded the Romy 2001 for the most successful Austrian film. In 2004, 2009 and 2014, the same team filmed three more novels by Wolf Haas: Silentium , The Bone Man and The Eternal Life .

With around 231,000 visitors, the film is one of the most successful in Austrian cinemas since the nationwide census began in 1981. The film is distributed by Hoanzl and is also part of the DVD series “ The Austrian Film ”.

action

The ex- police officer and failed private detective Brenner is doing his job with the rescue organization “Die Kreuzretter”. However, the competition from the “Rescue Association” repeatedly snatches injured people away from them in order to collect more money from the City of Vienna . Together with his colleague, the civil servant Berti, Brenner drives through the streets of Vienna to get injured people to a hospital as quickly as possible.

One night, when his colleagues Munz and Gross (the latter is a German , therefore called Piefke ) return from an assignment, Gross walks unnoticed into an office in the hospital and shoots the administrative director Stenzl and the nurse Irmi while making love.

Gross is soon exposed as the perpetrator, but then he is murdered himself. Brenner meets his former school friend Klara again on an assignment. Annoyed by Berti and to impress Klara, Brenner rather sullenly deals with the background of the deaths, always under the observation of his ex-colleagues from the criminal police.

Little by little he finds out the unsightly truth about the bitter competition between the cross rescuers and the rescue association and about the "special unit" of the cross rescuers. The former rescue worker Heinz Jäger, who is sitting in a wheelchair after an alleged work accident caused by Gross, helps him decisively. So he learns that Irmi was Jäger's girlfriend, and that she must have been the real target of the murder because she had investigated herself. Klara, the IT specialist, helps read the duty roster from the computer of the cross rescuer chief, who is personally trying to eliminate annoying witnesses. This one, the hunter and the Gross have jointly stolen the inheritance from widows who were diabetics and let them die of a sugar shock during an ambulance transport . In the end it is Berti who shoots the boss in order to save Brenner, Klara and Jäger from death by poisoning.

background

The City of Vienna has its own rescue service, the Wiener Berufsrettung . The lucrative ambulance and medical services are carried out in competition by both the Red Cross and the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund . The names "Die Kreuzretter" and "Rettungsbund" used in the film refer to these two organizations.

criticism

“A film adaptation of a successful Austrian novel that hides its qualities in a friendly way rather than peddling them. The gesture of the film thus corresponds exactly to that of the "hero" who is at its center. A surprising proof that the genre of the crime comedy is not yet lost for the demanding German-language film. "

- Lexicon of international film

"Come on, sweet death is the first film adaptation of the" Brenner crime novels "and it couldn't be better."

- Markus R., filmempfoice.com

Awards

• Austrian Film Award 2001

literature

• Wolf Haas : Come on, sweet death. Novel. The third case for Brenner . The six Brenner novels, part 3. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2006, 229 pages, ISBN 978-3-455-40003-8 or ISBN 3-455-40003-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Age designation for Come, sweet death . Youth Media Commission .
2. ↑ Come on, sweet death. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 6, 2017 .  
3. ↑ Critique of Come, Sweet Death on filmempfoice.com

Web links

• Come on, sweet death at Dor-Film
• Come, Sweet Death in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Come on, sweet death at filmportal.de
• Come on sweet death in the online movie database