Love up to murder
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| Original title | Love up to murder |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Thomas Nennstiel |
| script | Jürgen Werner |
| music | Enjott Schneider |
| camera | Pure louder |
| cut | Corina Dietz |
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Love to Murder is a German thriller by director Thomas Nennstiel and screenwriter Jürgen Werner . The main roles are played by Felicitas Woll , Gabriel Raab , Thomas Unger and Gisela Schneeberger . The TV premiere was on September 19, 2016 on ZDF.
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On the evening of her future mother-in-law's birthday party, Sonja is raped on the way home by her childhood friend Adrian, with whom she exchanged her first kisses when she was 15 and swore eternal love. After Adrian tells her that he still loves her and has only taken what is due to him, he disappears. The traumatized Sonja drags herself to her sister Birgit, who advises her not to report the crime because her future mother-in-law Katharina rejects her anyway and she may lose her fiancé Thomas.
Fifteen years later Sonja is happily married to Thomas and has a 15-year-old daughter named Anna. Thomas is now managing director of the local dairy together with his mother . The fate of numerous families in the village is tied to the tight financial situation of the company. Thomas turns to his bank advisor Siegfried Westphal when Adrian turns up unexpectedly. He had founded a successful company that he sold for a profit and now wants to invest his assets in the local dairy. Katharina and Thomas are delighted with the unexpected opportunity to save the company, and Thomas spontaneously invites Adrian to dinner. Sonja is shocked by the surprise, especially when Adrian frankly tells over dinner that he is probably Anna's father, since he and Sonja had a secret relationship 15 years ago. Thomas, who doesn't know the truth, puts Adrian in front of the door and confronts Sonja, but she dismisses the story as a lie.
Soon the whole village knows of the rumors about the alleged fatherhood, which Katharina takes as an opportunity to secretly let Adrian and Anna carry out a DNA analysis . The result confirms the paternity of Adrian, whereupon Sonja confesses to the rape at the time and reports Adrian. Thomas sticks to her, while Katharina rejects her all the more. She was always against Sonja, who comes from a humble background and Katharina didn't seem good enough for her son. The village policewoman Baumgartl asks Sonja's sister about what happened fifteen years ago, but Birgit testifies that she cannot exactly remember any abuse. The fate of their farm also depends on the dairy. Meanwhile Adrian does everything to win Sonja and Anna over. Since many jobs in the village depend on his investment in the dairy and Sonja wants to get rid of him, she soon has the whole village against her.
Finally, Thomas dies in a mysterious motorcycle accident. Sonja suspects that Adrian caused her husband's death. Since she has no evidence for this or for the abuse, her situation seems helpless. So she goes on the offensive and invites Adrian to dinner. Policewoman Baumgartl has since found out that Adrian changed his rental car because he allegedly caused paint damage while parking. She has the rental car and Thomas' motorcycle examined and asks about Adrian's past life. Some time ago he lost his wife and daughter in an accident. Both looked very similar to Sonja and Anna. Birgit Sonjas is now delivering clothes from back then, which she kept secretly in an old closet, to the police.
In the evening over dinner, Sonja initially seems to want to seduce Adrian, but then provokes him, obviously with the aim that he rapes her again and that she finally has evidence of her act. When Adrian threatens her with a knife, she knocks him down with a vase, runs upstairs and looks for Thomas' rifle. Then Birgit appears and is taken hostage by Adrian with a knife. Sonja stops him with the rifle when the policewoman appears and arrests him. Due to her successful research, Sonja's old clothes with the marks of that night and Birgit's hostage-taking, she now has enough evidence of Adrian's guilt.
Finally, based Sonja as a new managing director, against the will of Catherine, with the bank and the farmers a cooperative and so can the financial difficulties the dairy turn away and Anna begins the reconciliation of Catherine and Sonja.
criticism
“In addition to Felicitas Woll, Gabriel Raab is particularly convincing with a provocative mixture of malice and confident self-confidence. Gisela Schneeberger's role might have given a little more, she remains a bit too schematic as an angry mother-in-law. However, this only marginally tarnishes the good impression that the film makes. The fact that the viewer hardly pays any attention to the beautiful mountain panoramas that appear again and again in the course of the plot speaks for a high level of tension, because Sonja's fate is far too captivating. "
“Gisela Schneeberger beats the bad old woman down a bit, and Gabriel Raab as rapist and revenant lets his Adrian oscillate between high-gloss charmer and picture book villain that the punch of less-would-be-more fits perfectly. All of that matters, but not so much that the film is pushed into the red. The production is undoubtedly better than the title, love to the murder - an alpine thriller . "
Web links
- Love to the murder in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Love to the point of murder. In: zdf.de. ZDF , accessed on September 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Ulrich Feld: Liebe bis in den Mord , fnp.de from September 20, 2016, accessed on September 21, 2016.
- ↑ Joachim Huber: Liebe bis in den Mord , tagesspiegel.de of September 18, 2016, accessed on September 21, 2016.