Love, death and railroad
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Love, death and railroad |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK / JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gert Steinheimer |
| camera | Real Estate Rentz |
| cut |
Heike Hansen , Wolfgang Raabe |
| synchronization | |
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Love, Death and Railroads is a German black comedy from 1989. Directed by Gert Steinheimer are Heiner Lauterbach and Christina Scholz seen in the lead roles. The television film was first broadcast on February 12, 1990 on ZDF .
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Raimund and Karin move into a new apartment. The owner shows Raimund his model railway system and gives it to him. Raimund soon fell into this hobby too, continued to expand the facility and devoted all of his free time to expanding and playing with the railroad. Karin endures his hobby at first. But when Raimund turned more and more away from her and turned to his railroad, she became increasingly frustrated. She tries in vain to make him jealous and at some point, out of bitterness, even decides to kill him. She is preparing a trap for an electric shock. Surprisingly, however, Raimund reveals to her that he now sees that he has gone too far and that he is now giving up his obsession and will dismantle the system the next day. Overjoyed and relieved, Karin forgives him and forgets about the electric trap. While she is preparing the meal, Raimund goes to the model railway location again, looks at it briefly and wants to let a train run one last time. He switches on the transformer, closes the prepared circuit and falls dead from an electric shock. To hide the corpse, Karin builds it into the model mountain landscape. The policeman suffers the same fate, who accidentally discovers the body in the model railroad layout while questioning Karin.
The film ends with a surreal scene in which Karin wakes up in the model railway landscape modeled on the Alps , in which (from her point of view) she encounters life-size model figures. She climbs a mountain that turns out to be the one she modeled from Raimund on the model railway. In the end, she became part of the mountain landscape as a plastic figure next to the summit cross .
Reviews
The TV Spielfilm described the black comedy as "Bitter Evil!".
Der Spiegel praised: "Gert Steinheimer [...] with his black humor has proven to be one of the few bright spots on the gloomy horizon of German TV entertainment."
Web links
- Love, Death and Railroads in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b television, Monday, February 12, 1990 . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1990, pp. 254 ( online ).
- ↑ Love, Death and Railroad on TVspielfilm.de, accessed on September 7, 2017