Love death (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Love death |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Stephan Wagner |
| script |
Donald Kraemer , Bernd Schadewald |
| production | Gabriele Graf |
| music | Arno Steffen |
| camera | Thomas Benesch |
| cut | Christel Maye |
| occupation | |
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Liebestod is a German television film directed by Stephan Wagner and starring Henry Hübchen and Ina Weisse from 2000.
action
After a few years together in a small town in the Rhineland, the daily grind has crept in with Chief Detective Robert Nebe and his much younger wife Julia . Julia, a former police officer, increasingly longs for a change and finds it in the arms of the woman hero and artist Christian Bannert. Meanwhile, a woman's body is being recovered from a lake. The officers suspect suicide. Hartmut Baum, the man of the dead, is devastated and tells the officials that his wife Sabine had a relationship with Christian Bannert. Robert Nebe and his colleague Volker then visit Christian in his house. Before they go in, Christian hides one of his painted pictures, which shows Julia in a half-naked pose. After a brief questioning, Robert and Volker warn the artist about Hartmut Baum, who threatened to kill him.
Julia learns that she is pregnant and then meets with her best friend Marion. She confesses to having an affair and not knowing who the child's father is. Robert, who has suspected for a long time that Julia is cheating on him, follows her the following day. In a gallery he sees Julia together with Christian. Driven by jealousy, he drives to Christian's remote house in the evening and sees him through the window closely embraced by a woman. Now fully convinced of Julia's infidelity, Robert takes up his service weapon and shoots the couple while making love. Julia, who broke up with Christian in the gallery and later went to the cinema with Marion, finally comes home and finds Robert in a shocked state. He bursts into tears at the fact that it wasn't Julia he saw and killed at Christian's. That same night Robert returned to the scene of his crime. To cover his tracks, he sets the house on fire. Hartmut Baum is arrested as a suspected murderer because he has a motive for murder and no alibi.
When Julia learns of Christian's death while shopping, she passes out. At the hospital, a doctor tells Robert that Julia is pregnant. Robert, who doesn't care who the child's father is, hopes for a happy family life. Julia agrees and both seem happier than they have been for a long time. When Hartmut Baum committed suicide in his prison cell and a letter was found stating that he was innocent and that he had been forced to confess, the case was reopened - especially since the murder weapon was never found. In the basement of her house, Julia finally finds the picture that Christian had painted of her. When she confronts Robert, she realizes that it was he who killed Christian and the other woman. Julia is shocked, but she also feels guilty and therefore decides to keep her discovery to herself and to continue living with Robert. But when Marion, a policewoman and colleague of Robert, suspects, Julia can no longer withstand the pressure. She leaves Robert and finds temporary shelter with her mother. In order to divert suspicion, which Volker now also has, Robert shoots a couple in love in a car and sets the vehicle on fire. His colleagues then assume a serial killer. Only Marion remains suspicious of Robert. One evening when Robert believes that Marion will expose him as a murderer, he follows her in his car. Marion tries to escape him, loses control of her car and has an accident. Shaken by the death of her best friend, Julia returns to Robert. However, when she sees the press conference on the murder cases on television and speaks of the same murder weapon, she takes Robert's gun and goes to police headquarters. In the end, however, she cannot bring herself to tell Volker the truth. When she returns to the shared house on the lake, Robert's boat is circling on the water. Robert had in the meantime dropped out of the boat and drowned. At the funeral that followed, Julia stayed longer than the other mourners at her husband's grave. She throws in his gun and leaves the cemetery thoughtfully.
background
Director Stephan Wagner , who had previously made a number of short films, directed his first film for television with Liebestod . Produced by Eyeworks , Liebestod was shown on television for the first time on August 30, 2000 by ARD .
Reviews
Liebestod begins like “a classic thriller” and ends “as a multi-layered marriage drama with strong characters also in the supporting roles,” said the Tagesspiegel . For the lexicon of international films , Liebestod was a “confused (television) crime thriller that gives the viewer an overview of what was happening while everyone involved gropes in the dark”. According to TV Spielfilm , “a German film rarely gets under your skin more than this dark crime novel”. Prisma attested the psychological thriller "a run-of-the-mill story", which, however, thanks to "the good actors and a few tips against a crumbling bourgeois facade, is very entertaining".
Web links
- Love Death in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures of the film on tvspielfilm.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Liebestod": Truly a failure . In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 29, 2000.
- ↑ Love death. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. tvspielfilm.de
- ↑ cf. prisma.de