Murder thing Holm
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| Original title | Murder thing Holm |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1938 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Erich Engels |
| script |
Georg C. Klaren , Ilse Paul-Czech based on the novel “The Red Thread” by Axel Rudolph |
| production | Erich Engels for NFK Neue Film KG Erich Engels (Berlin) |
| music | Nico Dostal |
| camera | Edgar Ziesemer |
| cut | Walter Wischniewsky |
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Mordsache Holm is a German crime film from 1938, which was directed by Erich Engels . The feature film is based on the novel Der Rote Faden by Axel Rudolph . The premiere took place on June 18, 1938 in Regensburg .
action
In Bremen, the variety dancer Graziella Holm receives a surprising visit from Dr. Körner from Berlin, a friend of her sister Jenny's. He wants to convince Graziella to end her career as a dancer. Since she urgently needs to go to Hamburg, she takes him with her in her car. When there was an argument while driving, she stopped in the middle of the highway and Körner left the car.
A short time later, the crashed Holms car is found by the police on the highway. Graziella is dead in the car. The investigators later found out that she was strangled. Under one of the murdered's fingernails, they find a thread that does not match their clothes. Murder commissions at the criminal police in Bremen and at the Reich Central Office for Combating Capital Crimes in Berlin start the investigation. In Bremen, Graziella's dance partner, Manuel Albano, and the English agent Budger, who wanted Graziella to find an engagement in London, are interrogated. The investigators learn about the visit of an unknown man from Berlin (Körner), who was last seen with Graziella and is said to have driven to Hamburg with her. Then a manhunt for this stranger is triggered.
Koerner faces the murder commission in Berlin under Kriminalrat Wiegand, who, after further investigations, sees Koerner's information about the events on the motorway confirmed. In the meantime, Jenny Nerger receives a ransom note, which charges Körner and contains a demand of 10,000 marks for the concealment of the incriminating moments. Out of concern for grains, Jenny decides to pay the 10,000 marks from her private fortune. Her husband, who has nothing to do with the murder of Graziella, is arrested as a blackmailer.
The investigators are now targeting the convicted August Schmoll, who was in Bremen on the day of the crime. During his interrogation, Kriminalrat Wiegand becomes aware of the red belt that Schmoll is wearing. It turns out that this is where the common thread that was found at Graziella comes from. The police believe that she was strangled with the belt. Having come under urgent suspicion of murder, Schmoll describes how he got the belt. A certain Alfred whom he knew from Berlin had given him clothes to be cleaned. Since he did not pick up the clothes, the belt remained in his possession. After further investigations, Schmoll's information is ultimately confirmed. The wanted Alfred is the man who pretended to be Agent Budger in Bremen.
His trail leads to Copenhagen. Jenny Nerger also went there to take part in the opening of a will. The detectives assume that Graziella's murder is linked to the estate of her wealthy aunt and that Jenny's life is in danger. A race against time begins. Kriminalrat Wiegand flies to Copenhagen with Körner. In cooperation with Detective Inspector Haakonsen from the Copenhagen Criminal Police, "Alfred", another nephew named Morton Beck, who is entitled to inherit, can be overpowered at the Hotel Merkur.
background
The shooting took place from the beginning of February to March 1938 in the Terra-Glashaus in Berlin-Marienfelde, the exterior shots on a part of the Reichsautobahn in Berlin.
The murderer is played by the later director Wolfgang Staudte .
The film was awarded the title “politically valuable” by the film inspection agency in National Socialist Germany .
criticism
The film received positive reviews from later critics in Germany:
"Based on English and American models, a straightforward narrated and factually presented crime film."
"Engels' 'Mordsache Holm' (1938) turns out to be an exciting crime thriller with socially critical and funny tones."
The radio feature Between Entertainment and Propaganda - The Crime in the Third Reich of the Deutschlandfunk puts, using the example of Holm's murder case , crime stories in National Socialist Germany in a contemporary historical context and notes:
“These investigators, the young brisk and yet charming, the older ones like old-fashioned people, as well as the constitutional background should have been viewed by contemporaries as a mockery in view of the murderous practice of the regime. Perhaps these stories also met the wishes of the regime and the millions of readers and moviegoers. Some wanted to convey such a picture of the Nazi Reich against all reality and others wanted to believe it. Very few crime authors tried to allude to this obvious discrepancy between popular, beautiful appearances and the reality of the Nazi state. "
See also
Web links
- Mordsache Holm in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mordache Holm at filmportal.de
- Mordsache Holm ( Memento from July 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at deutscher-tonfilm.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The game is from Arthur Nebe - Glanz und Elend der Deutschen Kriminalpolizei 9th sequel. In: Der Spiegel issue 49 of December 1, 1949, pp. 22ff, 27. Retrieved from Spiegel Online on February 8, 2014.
- ↑ Holm's murderous matter. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ quoted from DVD cover, Edition Film 101 Munich
- ↑ Between entertainment and propaganda - The Crime in the Third Reich . Radio feature by Carsten Würmann and Ralph Gerstenberg, Deutschlandfunk , May 29, 2007, uncorrected manuscript pp. 21–22. Retrieved from deutschlandfunk.de on February 8, 2014.