Murder on Hell's Ground
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Murder on Hell's Ground |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
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| Director | Maris Pfeiffer |
| script | Douglas Wissmann |
| production | Eberhard Jost |
| music | Jörg Lemberg |
| camera | Gunnar foot |
| cut | Monika Abspacher |
| occupation | |
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Mord am Höllengrund is a German TV film made by ZDF in 2014 .
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The young freelance artist Sabine Sonntag is the single mother of her 18-year-old son Ilya, who never met his father. Both the village police officer Peter Asam and the museum director Markus Wenger are interested in the single woman, but are kept at a distance by her. Ilya is with his girlfriend Cora, but Sabine knows that she is cheating on him.
Ilya and Cora are planning a trip to Lake Garda together. Before that, Cora spent the night with buddy Dominik Haller, son of the pharmacist Barbara Haller, in a cave on Höllengrund above the village, which had recently been exposed by lightning. When Ilya wants to pick up Cora the next day and she is not there, Sabine finds Cora's body in the cave. Sabine tries in vain to contact Ilya.
The next day, Asam finds Ilya's broken car on the side of the road. Assuming Ilya killed Cora, Sabine hides what she found in the cave and begins to lie to protect her son. The tense Dominik tells Sabine that he was in the hut with Cora; Cora would have gone to the cave alone. With her mother Margot, Sabine visits the cave again, inside the two women find a skeleton in the ground; Sabine and Margot take the skull with them.
After the police find Cora's body, Commissioner Bach takes over the investigation. Sabine continues to try to keep suspicions away from her son by lying, but her behavior makes herself suspicious. According to Peter Asam, Cora had texted Ilya shortly before that she no longer loves Ilya and does not want to go to Italy with her.
When the skull is stolen, Sabine and Margot tell Commissioner Bach about their skeleton find in the cave. According to Commissioner Bach, however, the police did not find a skeleton in the cave. Sabine reconstructs the face belonging to the skull on her PC and recognizes Ilya's father Max. She tells Asam of her assumption that Max did not flee from his responsibility at all, but was killed and buried in the cave. Accordingly, when the lightning exposed the cave, the perpetrator wanted to make the skeleton disappear, was disturbed by Cora and killed her.
Desperate, Dominik confesses to his mother that he was at the cave with Cora and that he accidentally pushed her. Barbara Haller now meets Ilya, who is returning from Italy. He and Dominik got into an argument about Cora, whereupon Ilya hitchhiked to Italy; there he realized that he had to let go of Cora. Ilya leaves a message on Sabine's mailbox that he has returned from Italy.
In the cave Sabine searches in vain for the skeleton and only finds a single bone. Sabine realizes that Asam, who was already in love with Sabine, had killed Max when he was afraid of his responsibility; Cora caught him trying to get the skeleton away. Sabine and Wenger, who has joined them, manage to strike Asam down and inform Commissioner Bach.
Meanwhile, in order to protect her son, Barbara Haller threatens Ilya with a gun and wants to force him to confess to Cora's murder. Sabine receives Ilya's message on her mailbox. She suspects that Ilya is being threatened by Barbara Haller. The new Dominik manages to take the rifle away from his mother. Sabine and Wenger tell Commissioner Bach that a shot was released when Barbara tried to show them the rifle.
Reviews
“Two men ensnare the single artist, but she only focuses on her son, who is suspected of murder. The ZDF crime thriller 'Mord am Höllengrund' offers exciting entertainment that is well worth seeing. Actor Barnaby Metschurat impresses as a village policeman with his diabolical game. "
“Are mothers at the bottom of their hearts really so attached to their sons that they would cover everything? Isn't that ultimately taking away their freedom? Undermine the growth of responsibility? Such questions briefly flash up. Playing it through consistently could have been very interesting. But it stays with the subjunctive, because unfortunately such questions in the increasingly absurd script by Daniel Douglas Wissmann, which does not even dare to do without a kind of happy ending, are covered with the usual crime fiction. [...] But not only the plot is implausible and cramped. Under the direction of Maris Pfeiffer, the characters get something one-dimensional and sometimes almost foolish, whereby the only intention seems to be to make everything easy to digest. That is a shame, one underestimates the medium and the audience alike. "
“'Mord am Höllengrund' is essentially a women’s film, the men are little more than accessories. And the trio Katharina Wackernagel, Eva Mattes and Aglaia Szyszkowitz as Dominik's mother are doing an excellent job. Many exciting scenes and the very cleverly constructed finale also contribute to this. "
Web links
- Murder of Höllengrund in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Overkott: "Mord am Höllengrund" - diabolical game of the village policeman. In: DerWesten . September 7, 2014, accessed August 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Oliver Junge: TV review: "Mord am Höllengrund": When the thickness of the blood is decisive. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 8, 2014, accessed August 30, 2018 .
- ↑ NN: This crime thriller is capable of captivating - "Mord am Höllengrund": A real treat. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse . June 13, 2016, accessed August 30, 2018 .