Palace Beach Hotel
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Palace Beach Hotel |
| Original title | Palace Beach Hotel |
| Country of production | France |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Philippe Venault |
| script | Jacques Forgeas and Philippe Venault |
| production | Fabienne Servan Schreiber and Jean-Pierre Fayer |
| music | Alexander Zekke |
| camera | Marc Romani |
| cut | Véronique Bruque |
Palace Beach Hotel is an anti-war film by Philippe Venault from 2014 and produced for the Franco-German TV channel Arte .
action
Elsa, her partner Franck and Mario fought as soldiers in the French armed forces in the war in Afghanistan . They were part of a Kobra Sonderkommando (in the German version: Kolibri ) and had to watch one of their comrades have the throat cut by a Taliban . Your unit will return to France together with other soldiers after the deployment. But first they should get the opportunity to come to terms with their traumatic experiences in a beach hotel in Cyprus . Colonel Letelier has therefore assigned the recognized psychiatrist Di Vanno to the hotel, with whom he is having an affair.
Letelier also received an order from Paris to investigate the death of his comrade. All those involved are therefore questioned one after the other. His aim is to handle the matter as quietly as possible. What he does not know at first, however: Mario found around 1.2 kg of heroin from the shot Taliban and took it. With the help of Franck and Elsa, who was trained as a nurse , he swallowed the opioid in small capsules made from medical gloves. The three of them want to bring the drug to France and sell it there. Mario does not only suffer from acute constipation , but also much more from post-traumatic stress disorder . The images of the deceased comrade can no longer get out of his head. Franck and Elsa persuade him to hold out, but one evening Mario explains to the psychologist.
The next morning he is found dead in the hotel swimming pool . Through the autopsy , Colonel Letelier also learns about the heroin in Mario's stomach. He puts pressure on the attending doctor, who illegally had to do the autopsy without a police officer , and takes the drug. The superiors explain to the troops that Mario slipped and drowned. So his death is a tragic accident.
Franck and Elsa are shocked and start looking for the drug. Elsa seeks out Di Vanno in her hotel room, threatens her with a weapon and demands that she surrender the heroin. The psychiatrist calls the colonel, who is also threatened with a gun by Elsa. He hands her the heroin, which destroys the evidence in the hotel room toilet. The Colonel is able to overwhelm her and makes it clear to her that he wants to cover up the entire incident. Franck learns of the incident and is beside himself. He is overwhelmed and immobilized by several soldiers.
Di Vanno and Elsa leave for France the following day. Franck is also brought to his home in an ambulance and Letelier travels home too.
Own representation
The producing TV broadcaster Arte sees the work of Venault as a "disturbing drama" that makes the "emotional burden of three soldiers, whose experiences they follow after their return, understandable".
criticism
For TV Spielfilm , the film is a “disillusioning thriller about the great failure”. The Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , however, is not enthusiastic. In the combination of “coping drama, crime story, thriller with some military-political references”, she sees too much “that needs to be negotiated in 90 minutes”.
Web links
- Palace Beach Hotel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Palace Beach Hotel ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of arte.tv, accessed on November 15, 2014.
- ↑ Palace Beach Hotel , TV Spielfilm website , accessed on November 15, 2014.
- ↑ Vernaut's film “Palace Beach Hotel” wants too much. NOZ website, accessed on November 15, 2014.
