My flesh and blood

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Movie
Original title My flesh and blood
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2016
length 95 minutes
Rod
Director Michael Ramsauer
script Michael Ramsauer
production Helmut Grasser ,
Constanze Schumann
music Matthias Weber
camera Josef Mittendorfer
cut Karin Hartusch
occupation

Mein Fleisch und Blut (also A Safe Place ) is an Austrian feature film from 2016 by Michael Ramsauer with Ursula Strauss and Andreas Kiendl in the leading roles. The theatrical release of the psychological thriller took place in Austria on September 30, 2016.

action

Martin Trummer, who is at home after a burnout , has a six-year-old adoptive son Tobias with his wife Katharina who suffers from a developmental disorder. The Trummers adopted the orphan as a baby, and according to Katharina, the birth parents died in a car accident shortly after the birth. Since then, the Trummers have endeavored to give their son an orderly and normal family life. Tobias lives in his own world, doesn't speak much, is afraid of water, his everyday life always has to follow a certain routine. If something goes differently than expected, he breathes heavily. Katharina and Martin don't know whether Tobias suffers from autism or has experienced something traumatic .

Nicole, a trained children's nurse, and Christian, a young couple from the Mostviertel, move into the neighboring house, which has been empty for a long time. This looks very nice, Tobias gets on remarkably well with Nicole and begins to open up in her presence. She immediately has a line to the boy, who suddenly is no longer afraid of even the water. Nicole tells Martin that she had a brother Stefan who had killed himself.

Katharina and Martin are initially happy with Tobias' progress. However, Martin happens to find out through the real estate agent that the couple are squatters , Nicole admits this to him. She lets Martin believe that her boyfriend hit her because of it and seduces Martin.

Martin becomes suspicious and begins to spy on the two of them. Through his brother, the police officer Thomas, he has the two and the license plate number of the couple's VW bus checked. Nicole is identified by Thomas as Judith Haller, Nicole / Judith was until recently in psychiatry after trying to murder her own child a few years earlier. She was released as cured. Christian blackmails Martin that he wants Martin to buy the neighboring house for him and his girlfriend, otherwise he would report to Martin's wife about the affair with Nicole.

Nicole / Judith claims that she is the mother of Tobias, she wants her son back, whom she wanted to drown in the water a few years ago. The police records contain the date of birth of Nicole / Judith's son, which is identical to Tobias'. The real estate agent, Ms. Berger, has disappeared after being seen in the neighboring house a few days earlier. After a tip from Martin, the police want to evict the couple for trespassing , but the two also disappeared the next day. During a house search, Thomas and Martin find a camera, on which there is a film that shows Nicole / Judith and Martin having sexual intercourse.

Martin pays a visit to Nicole / Judith's parents' house, which is decorated with religious symbols and pictures, but only finds it abandoned and a bit neglected. The child's witness and savior at the time, Alois Riederer, describes the course of Judith's act to Martin. At the scene of the crime, Martin finds a shoe in the lake that leads him to the corpses of Judith's parents. Meanwhile, Katharina moves into a hotel with Tobias after seeing the video of Judith and Martin. Martin succeeds in deciding part of Judith's coded diary, from which it emerges that she suffered from her religious parents and that she had hidden her pregnancy out of fear from them.

After Katharina reads the headline Adoption Mediator was bribed , she checks out of the hotel again. On the way home she is followed by Judith and her boyfriend. After a car breakdown, Katharina and Tobias flee from the two of them into the forest. There Judith tells Tobias that she is his real mother, after which Judith and Christian's trace disappears again. According to the newspaper report, the adoption broker was murdered, Judith and Christian are considered suspects by the police. The adoption broker had also forged some children's files, including those of Tobias.

Christian and Judith break into the Trummers' house armed, forcing Tobias to be left to them. Katharina is seriously injured by a shot from Judith, Martin takes her to the hospital, where the projectile is removed from her lungs. In the meantime, the missing real estate agent was found dead in the Danube. On their website, Martin finds an offer for a house on Lake Weissensee . There he locates Christian, Judith and Tobias. Christian confesses to Martin that Judith should kill her son at the insistence of her very religious mother. It also turns out that Christian is not only Tobias' father, but also Judith's brother. She takes her own life with a gun. Martin manages to get Tobias to safety and the two return to Katharina.

production

The film is the cinema debut of the director Michael Ramsauer . The shooting took place in spring 2015, and the shooting took place in Vienna , Lower Austria and Carinthia . The shooting locations included the Ernstbrunn Wildlife Park and the Weissensee . The film was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund as well as the Province of Carinthia and Filmstandort Austria ; Austrian Broadcasting was involved . The film was produced by Allegro Film . Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson was responsible for the sound, Monika Buttinger for the costume design and Martin Reiter for the production design.

reception

The cinema magazine Skip wrote: A story like from a really good Criminal Minds episode, elegantly implemented with top actors in large cinema format: Michael Ramsauer's feature film debut is a fine psychological crime thriller made in Austria that dares to do a lot and to the end remains exciting.

The daily Kurier described the film as a rapid, action technically something outrageous psychological thriller, which is a bit of an ORF with its experienced imagery Country Crime recalls. where most of the work falls to Kiendl: his effort pays off, however, producing a thoroughly exciting crime story.

The Kleine Zeitung compared the film with Ich seh Ich seh , whereby My Flesh and Blood is not as aesthetically adept and sophisticated [...] but solid genre food and judged: The bottom line is that the psychological thriller is a solid variation of a well-known theme with red -white-red local color.

The cinema platform film.at judges: Michael Ramsauer makes a convincing cinema debut and proves with this psychological thriller from Austria that he is a really good storyteller who skilfully pulls the tension. Ramsauer can also rely on excellent actors. In the role of young Nicole, Lili Epply manages to appear harmlessly sympathetic, but can quickly become unpredictably psychopathic; and Nikolai Klinkosch appears in his first role as a child with suspected autism like a real professional actor.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved August 30, 2016 .
  2. ^ Vienna Film Fund: My flesh and blood . Retrieved August 30, 2016.
  3. ↑ Skip: My flesh and blood . Retrieved August 30, 2016.
  4. ↑ Courier: "My flesh and blood": When nice neighbors become a psychological nightmare . Article dated September 30, 2016, accessed September 30, 2016.
  5. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Local psychological horror with Kiendl and Strauss . Article dated September 29, 2016, accessed September 30, 2016.
  6. ↑ franco schedl: "My flesh and blood": Psycho Thrill Made in Austria. September 28, 2016. Retrieved November 20, 2016 .