Murder in the dunes
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| Original title | Murder in the dunes |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
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| Director | Tim Trageser |
| script | Johannes Betz |
| production |
Wolfgang Cimera Andrea Rullmann |
| music | Andreas Weidinger |
| camera | Eckhard Jansen |
| cut | Gisela Castronari |
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Murder in the Dunes is a German crime film directed by Tim Trageser . It premiered on June 25, 2013 at the Festival of German Films in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and was shown on ZDF on October 14, 2013 .
The film is set in Berlin and on the Baltic Sea peninsula Darß and is about a street worker who is looking for a kidnapped girl.
action
The street worker Lisa Hirth cares in Berlin to girls on the street live. One day Pia, who was able to find her a training position recently, disappears without a trace. Lisa finds a strange message in her mailbox that was sent from Pia's cell phone . It's the 1970s hit I'll Be There by the Jackson Five, played backwards , a song that Lisa's guess is that Pia couldn't possibly know.
Since Lisa suspects a kidnapping, she gets in touch with the policewoman Karla Hünsgen, who at first doesn't believe her. Nevertheless, she learns that Pia's cell phone was located on the Darß peninsula on the Baltic Sea. Without further ado, Lisa takes a vacation and goes to Born a. Darß , where she meets her former childhood friend Enno, who is now an island policeman and who recently had himself transferred there. District manager Erichsen is anything but enthusiastic that the quiet island should be the scene of a crime. Enno, on the other hand, goes to look for Pia with Lisa, and finally they find a girl's corpse in the beach dunes that was cut up, wrapped in plastic bags and buried there.
Police psychologist Dominik Hofer arrives on the island together with an investigation team from the LKA . An investigation shows that the body has been lying there for at least a year and therefore cannot be Pia. In Hofer's opinion, Lisa is the trigger for the incidents. It turns out that Lisa spent her vacation on Darß 22 years ago as a teenager with her parents. Together with other young people, including Enno, she celebrated boisterous parties with alcohol and other drugs , during which she and Enno got closer. After the end of their vacation, however, they lost sight of each other.
Finally, Enno and Lisa find the bodies of five other girls who, like the first found body, are lying in pieces and wrapped in plastic and buried in the beach dunes. The girls can be identified more or less well on the basis of found objects, and it becomes apparent that they were also street children who had been cared for by Lisa in Berlin over the past few years and then disappeared in an unexplained manner. Further evidence suggests that the perpetrator is playing some kind of game with Lisa. She remembers that she was threatened in Berlin by a Doberman who was wearing the same scarf as one of the girls. TUA CULPA can be found carved into the wood on a bench on the beach not far from where the bodies were found - "It's your fault". The same slogan is on the dirty rear window of your car in the morning. Then Lisa's friend, who takes care of her apartment, finds a freshly torn fingernail in Lisa's aquarium , which may have been Pia's.
The suspicion falls on Enno, in whose apartment photos of Lisa are found, which he recently took secretly in Berlin. He confesses that he could never forget Lisa, but that he lacked the courage to reveal himself to her. Hofer uses a trick to find out that Enno cannot be the murderer. He urges Lisa to take another look at the vacation experiences of that time. She remembers that there were seven of them. From six of them, three couples formed into a holiday love affair , and the remaining seventh, a reserved boy named Felix, they then called "the seventh bike". One evening they took control of a fishing boat and took it out to sea. When a fire suddenly broke out, they had to jump overboard to save themselves. Felix, who obviously couldn't swim, was dragged overboard by Lisa and then saved by her from drowning.
Hofer now recognizes the connections: the boy had planned his death and set the boat on fire, but Lisa prevented him from dying. As a result, from his point of view, he is not responsible for the murders he has committed, but projects the guilt onto Lisa. All of his little hints were signals that he finally wanted to be found and redeemed.
The psychologist and Lisa contact Felix's sister, who a few years ago disappeared without a trace for two days. They suspect that Felix had kidnapped her at the time, too, but she is silent. Finally, the Doberman appears again in front of Lisa's hotel room. She follows him to a residential container located away from the campsite . She penetrates and is surprised by Felix, who stuns her with a taser and takes her to his boat, where Pia is also. The police are now on his trail, but appear too late at the container. When Lisa wakes up, they are in the open sea and she is tied up on the boat deck, on which Felix pours gasoline, then sets it on fire and lets herself fall into the water. Lisa can loosen her bonds and free Pia. Together they jump into the water and a short time later they are found by a helicopter, while Felix sinks into the depths and drowns.
At the end of the film, Lisa announces that she will withdraw from Berlin. When she says goodbye to Enno, she gives him one of the photos from that vacation, on the back of which she wrote her phone number.
criticism
The reviews varied. Jürgen Overkott from derwesten.de praises the insistent credibility of the Berlin street worker as well as the direction and script. He even certifies the dazzling, almost greasy police psychologist Dominik Hofer a brilliant game.
Rainer Tittelbach has a mixed assessment of the film: a straight-narrated crime drama with quiet thriller moments that once again tells the same story behind an attractive aesthetic facade - of a threatened woman, on whose life the much-invoked "shadows of the past" fall. Well done, Markovics top - and yet you won't want to see it anymore! . He criticizes that the film relies on the well-known and that the cast with Anna Loos for the third time in a similar role is getting boring.
Max Schlösser from quotenmeter.de has a similar opinion . He also praises the portrayal of Karl Markovics as a police psychologist, but does not recognize anything more than a well-known story . Although the film is not a bad crime thriller, it has given away potential.
Web links
- Murder in the dunes at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Murder in the dunes at filmportal.de