Death sleeps softly
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| Original title | Death sleeps softly |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 130 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Marco Kreuzpaintner |
| script | Holger Karsten Schmidt |
| production | Hans-Hinrich Koch |
| music | Tim Stanzel , Moritz Denis , Eike Hosenfeld |
| camera | Peter Joachim Krause |
| cut | Claus Wehlisch |
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Gently sleeping death is a German television - psychological thriller from the year 2016. The premiere was on October 5, 2016 the Munich Film Festival , the premiere on October 7, 2017 First .
action
Anja and Frank Wendt take their two children Leila and Finn on a sailing excursion on the Baltic Sea off Binz on Rügen . When the parents briefly go ashore, the boat with the children on board is kidnapped. When the parents report the kidnapping to the local police, Frank Wendt's father Herbert Winter appears there, who found out about the kidnapping.
Frank broke off contact with his father years ago because he was an investigator for the Stasi during the GDR era . Herbert Winter now wants to help find the kidnapper. Shortly before the fall of the Wall, he investigated a similar kidnapping case in which the perpetrator was never caught. Winter believes he is dealing with the serial offender from back then, who has now become active again.
Together with the police officer from Binz, Vogt, the father and son follow a lead that leads them to Lübeck, while the experienced LKA investigator Kempin and his people follow other leads. The police hope that a television call from the mother will lead the kidnapper to possible activities.
He contacts Anja Wendt by phone and announces that he will return the children if she deserves it. You mustn't tell anyone about this phone call, otherwise he will kill the children immediately. He tries in vain to force Anja to decide which of the children she loves more. When confronting possible suspects, she recognizes the caller's voice, but does not reveal him out of fear for her children.
After Winter finds out that the kidnapper is obviously not interested in the children, but in the mothers, Anja is monitored around the clock. During their investigations, Winter and Kempin come across Bernd Peters, the victim of a serious traffic accident in the Rostock area, who has been leading an independent life for almost two years after years in rehab. He was given up for adoption by his mother as a child, while his sister was allowed to stay.
When Peters guides Anja to an old, dilapidated building outside the city, the police overhear and Kempin follows her. He is killed and so Anja is on her own. Peters gives her instructions over the phone and explains that she can only save one of the children. Both would have received a slow-acting, deadly poison. She can find the antidote for one child in her car and should decide which child she wants to save. She refuses to make a decision because she loves both children equally. Peters gets off guard, gets careless and Anja can overwhelm him at first. Then she gives both children the antidote she found in his pockets. Meanwhile, Frank and his father also arrive. When Peters comes to, he and Winter die in an exchange of fire.
reception
Reviews
The film received mostly positive reviews in the press. Heike Hupertz from the FAZ praises the book as refined, calls the camera work lucid and praises the actresses Marleen Lohse and Christina Große, who make the film atmospheric.
Rainer Tittelbach believes that the film “doesn't want to tell more than an exciting, winding story - but according to all the rules of genre art”. The author orientates himself on classic Hollywood directors like Alfred Hitchcock or Howard Hawks and does not deal with any big topics. The actors, especially Marleen Lohse, showed precise emotions and a strong physique.
For Stefan Fischer from the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the film starts a bit woodenly, but then increases in the second and then again in the last part, where the film effectively focuses on a highly emotional, abysmal antagonism between two characters.
In ZEIT, Heike Kunert criticizes the confusion of the plot, which in her opinion is overloaded, but which a grandiose Matthias Brandt in the role of the mentally ill kidnapper Bernd Peters unravels through his acting performance.
Audience ratings
When it first aired on October 7, 2017, 6.09 million viewers saw the film in prime time . This gave him a market share of 20.8 percent.
Web links
- Death sleeps softly in the first.
- Gently sleeping death in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Death sleeps softly at filmportal.de
- Trailer
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Death Sleeps Softly . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Heike Hupertz: TV film "Softly sleeps death": He plays his dark game with the heart of the family. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 7, 2017, accessed on October 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Death sleeps softly - review of the film on Tittelbach.tv. Retrieved October 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Stefan Fischer: Duel of the Men of Sorrows. Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 7, 2017, accessed on October 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Heike Kunert: "Death sleeps softly": A somnambulist devil. Die Zeit , October 7, 2017, accessed October 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Death sleeps softly. new German film company, accessed on October 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Over six million viewers: "Death sleeps softly" clearly depends on Nena. Odds Meter, October 8, 2017, accessed October 10, 2017 .