Murderer on Amrum

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Movie
Original title Murderer on Amrum
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2009
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Markus Imboden
script Holger Karsten Schmidt
production Claudia Schröder
music Detlef Petersen
camera Peter von Haller
cut Ursula Höf
occupation

Murderer on Amrum is a German crime film by Markus Imboden . It premiered on September 25, 2009 at the Hamburg Film Festival and was shown on January 11, 2010 on ZDF . It was also released on DVD .

The film was shot from March 19 to April 24, 2009 on the North Frisian island of Amrum . The role of the postwoman Carla Labahn was Barbara Rudnik's last . She died in 2009 a few weeks after filming ended.

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Helge Vogt, a young police officer who loves nature, leads a peaceful life on the North Frisian island of Amrum . After a few days in Berlin , he returns to the island and in the evening meets his superior Heinz Koops and his friends in the local pub that his girlfriend Lona runs.

The next day, however, the tranquility is over: The BKA officer Agnes Sonntag, who is bleeding heavily from a serious gunshot wound, appears at the police station, accompanied by the Moldovan Mathilda Hervas.

Mathilda, who lived illegally in Berlin, witnessed a murder there by a leading member of the Russian mafia and is due to testify against him in court in a few days. Because her life is in danger, she was included in the witness protection program and hidden on the supposedly safe island. But the shot officer suspects a mole in the BKA who betrayed the hiding place to the Russian mafia. Now in the morning her partner was shot by a killer squad and she was shot herself, but she was able to take out the killers. She instructs the two island police officers, Helge and Heinz, to only contact one BKA man, Simon Rost, whose characteristic is a walking error caused by a skiing accident. Then she succumbs to her injuries.

Helge and Heinz take on Mathildas. In their hiding place they come across the corpses of the second policeman and the killer. They telephone BKA man Simon Rost about the situation, who promises to arrive the next day with the morning ferry . Mathilda finds shelter with Helge for the night.

The next morning they await rust at the jetty. However, he was murdered on the crossing by a killer named Vitja Kerensky, who now pretends to be rust and imitates the walking error. Since the two island policemen still distrust him, Helges boss Heinz tries to find out with a trick whether he is the real Simon Rost. However, the trick fails and the killer kills the cop. Helge Vogt, who has to stand by and watch, is now on his own to protect Mathilda. Due to an approaching storm, they cannot leave the island by sea or air - only a ferry still reaches the island. With her three other accomplices of Kerensky reached Amrum.

Helge's friends, who had initially promised their support, are gradually leaving. Nevertheless, Helge manages to take out two of Kerensky's killers while on the run. Finally, Kerensky takes Lona, Helges' friend, and Carla Labahn, the island's postal worker, hostage and demands Mathilda's delivery. To reinforce his demand, he shoots Carla.

Helge uses a trick to save Lona's life by faking Mathilda's presence with a disguised doll . In the meantime, she ran away with Helge's car out of fear. Only the undertaker Jörg Riemann is present at the handover, armed with a shotgun. First the two killers can be deceived, but then an exchange of fire breaks out in which the last of Kerensky's helpers is killed. Mathilda, whose guilty conscience forced her to turn back, saves Helge's life by almost running over Kerensky just as he is about to kill the injured Helge. Finally, Kerensky von Riemann is also shot.

Led by bodyguards, Mathilda later testified against the Russian mafia in court. Then she should leave Germany. However, Helge stops her and makes her a marriage proposal, which she accepts. In the final scene, Lona and Mathilda, both pregnant, sit amicably on a bench in front of Helge's house while the latter washes his police car.

criticism

The Tagesspiegel judged: “The film by Markus Imboden (director) and Holger Karsten Schmidt (book) is a wonderfully nasty gem in German crime television, funny and grotesque, full of weird characters and with moments of real horror - you sometimes think you're in a film Brothers Coen . "

Kino.de described the film as an "extremely attractive North Sea Western" and Hinnerk Schönemann as "the ideal cast for the somewhat naive-looking officer who even various gunshot wounds cannot prevent from protecting the young woman (Irina Potapenko)."

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for murderers on Amrum . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2011 (PDF; test number: 125 327 V).
  2. ↑ a b Killer with the ferry In: Tagesspiegel online from January 11, 2010, accessed on January 28, 2013
  3. ↑ Kino.de , accessed on November 6, 2014
  4. ↑ Filmfest-Preis for “Mörder auf Amrum”, Abendblatt.de, October 3, 2009, accessed on January 28, 2013
  5. ↑ Grimme Institute: Prize Winners 2010 ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 28, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grimme-institut.de
  6. ↑ Hamburg Crime Prize in honor of Jürgen Roland 2010 , accessed on January 28, 2013
  7. ↑ "Murderer on Amrum" receives two nominations. Bavaria Film, accessed January 28, 2013