Killer game
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Killer game |
| Original title | Murderer's game / Le jeu de l'assassin |
| Country of production | Germany , France |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Helmut Ashley |
| script |
Thomas Keck Helmut Ashley |
| production |
Utz Utermann Claus Hardt |
| music | Martin Böttcher |
| camera | Sven Nykvist |
| cut | Walter Boos |
| occupation | |
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Mörderspiel is a German-French feature film by Helmut Ashley . The film was based on a novel by Max Pierre Schaeffer and was shot in black and white in 1961 .
action
Klaus Troger leads a double life: Out of misogyny, the successful fashion designer murders women in the best of society. His marriage to Eva only exists on paper. She has been cheating on him for a long time with the handsome businessman Dahlberg.
Troger has committed another murder. Not far from the crime scene Troger is seen by Kersten, an old friend. He persuades him to come to a party given by the wealthy industrialist Hauser. Troger still has the apartment key with him, the pendant of which is equipped with a music box. He tries to get rid of the key, but fails.
At the party, which his wife and her lover Dahlberg also attend, Troger tries to get rid of Kersten as a pesky witness. The "murderer game" that is played at the celebration should offer him the opportunity to do so. The light is extinguished and a guest who was previously determined by lot as a “murderer” has to “kill” one of those present. The “murderer” must now be determined by means of specific questions from a “commissioner” who was also drawn. At first everything takes its usual course until one of the players is actually dead on the ground. But it is not Kersten, but Dahlberg, whom Troger confused in the dark: like Kersten, he wears a carnation in his buttonhole that Troger's wife of all people had pinned to his lapel a short time before.
After the murder, the police arrive and question the party guests one by one. Kersten becomes very restless because he had borrowed his boss' car without his permission. He wants to flee. Troger offers him his help and makes sure that Kersten falls from the skyscraper while trying to escape. The case now seems to be resolved: the police consider Kersten to be Dahlberg's murderer. Troger thinks he is in a deceptive security.
When the last of the party guests want to leave the house, the drunk Dr. Rosen mixed his cloak with von Troger's. When he notices the mistake, he throws Troger's coat. The key to the apartment of the last murder victim falls out of his coat pocket and the music box starts. Inspector Lohmann presents him with the second key to the apartment, which has a corresponding music box. Troger is now exposed as a murderer.
background
The shooting took place in July and August of 1961 in the Bavaria studio in Munich - Geiselgasteig . The premiere took place on October 19, 1961 in the Savoy Film Theater in Düsseldorf .
The French actors had to be synchronized afterwards. Magali Noël was voiced by Rosemarie Fendel , Georges Rivière by Jan Hendriks .
Reviews
- "Modernist photographed crime piece. Thanks to his image design (Sven Nykvist) far above the German average. "
Web links
- Murderer game at deutscher-tonfilm.de ( Memento from December 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Killer game at filmportal.de
- Deathtrap in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Film review at udorotenberg.blogspot.de
Remarks
- ↑ In the cast lists published on the Internet and in the Illustrierte Film-Bühne , the first name is incorrectly given as "Andreas".
- ↑ Strangely enough, Hans Paetsch does not appear in the current cast lists. In the opening credits of the film, however, he appears in the penultimate position.
- ↑ cf. Lexicon of International Films , 1990 edition, page 2659.