Shadowmoor
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Shadowmoor |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK unknown |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marc Schießer |
| script |
Marvin Machalett , Ben Twenty |
| production |
Carsten Kelber , Karsten Roeder |
| music | Marcel Becker-New |
| camera |
Daniel Ernst , Tobias Lohf |
| cut | William James |
| occupation | |
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Schattenmoor is a German television film by Marc Schießer from 2019, which combines elements from mystery , horror film and thriller . The film was first broadcast on December 11, 2019 on ProSieben ; It was the station's first self-produced television film in seven years and a multimedia production. Caroline Hartig is cast in a double role, the other leading roles are played by David Hugo Schmitz , Farina Flebbe and Max von Thun as teacher Raphael Vidal.
action
The film takes place on two time levels. In addition to the main plot about Emma Müller, the fate of Ann-Sophie Rellinger is revealed in several flashbacks . The flashbacks are shown in italics below.
Emma Müller is a new student at the Schattenmoor boarding school and is welcomed there by the student representative Leon. As she walks through the building with him, the other students look at her strangely. Because she looks very similar to Ann-Sophie Rellinger, who disappeared three weeks ago just like her classmate Ole Siebert. After seeing a photo of the missing, Emma meets the arrogant Chris, who, according to Leon, was betrayed by Ann-Sophie. In the room she meets her roommate, the artist Kiki. Kiki is friends with Leon, the computer nerd Woddy and Ole; the latter presents himself as the magician At Loki. During the night Emma is woken up by a dripping tap. Through the window she sees a figure clad in a black hoodie in front of the neighboring forest and a five written in red on the bathroom mirror. But after she woke up all the girls on the floor and the boarding school director Strehlow, all signs have disappeared.
The next day, the story gets around and the bullying against Emma increases. While Chris is stammering a lecture about Guernica in art class with the trust teacher Raphael Vidal , Emma sees the black figure again and runs in panic into the forest, where she discovers an old circus trailer. A little later, Vidal's car burned down and Emma is a suspect because Vidal had previously given her a spray can. Emma sees a red four on the bottom of the can. However, Vidal speaks of a short circuit in the car and thus protects Emma. In private, he talks about the fact that they are both adopted children and that he knows how an outsider feels. When Emma wakes up the next morning, there are suddenly several snakes and a red three in her room. The numbers obviously form a countdown. Outside, Emma and Kiki meet the policeman Tomek, who also reacts irritated to the new one. Emma expresses the suspicion to Leon and Kiki that Chris might be behind the mysterious event, possibly supported by his friend Fiete. Ann-Sophie, as the reigning student representative, faced competition from Leon, who was supported by the school newspaper with editor Kiki, and after her defeat spoke to Chris about revenge.
Emma searches Ann-Sophie's room and finds a pistol and a nude drawing signed by Vidal before she is caught by the teacher. During the forest run, Chris and Leon face a confrontation before Emma sees the black figure again. Since Ann-Sophie was sexually active with Vidal, Emma now also suspects the teacher in relation to the missing person and puzzles in conversation with Leon about Ole. However, Leon does not respond to their attempts to flirt.
The next day, Emma is in the shower with Kiki, when suddenly what appears to be blood is running out of her bathing suit. Photos of the scene are spreading across the internet and one of them is marked with a red two. Emma then wants to leave the boarding school, but Kiki and Leon stop her. Ann-Sophie secretly photographed Kiki when she was having sex with Tomek in the car. Kiki points out to Emma that Leon and Ann-Sophie were once THE couple at school. In the evening, the Shadowclash party rises. Emma styles herself like Ann-Sophie and provokes both Leon and Vidal. Ann-Sophie annoyed Kiki by lighting a work of art and posting the sex video. The latter wanted to take revenge for it. Emma sees the black figure outside again, runs into the forest and enters the trailer, in which she sees some disturbing photos. Then Ole comes in. He shows Emma a video: As a magician, he wanted to perform a Houdini- style escape trick in the moor , using Ann-Sophie's popularity. But the straitjacket was too tight. Ann-Sophie left the lifeless Ole behind, but the latter woke up and planned an act of revenge. The wicked classmate should die.
On the night of the party, Kiki shows Emma a photo that shows that Vidal has kidnapped Leon. Woddy insists that Emma pick up the gun. Ann-Sophie also annoyed Woddy by deleting data on the computer and Ole by killing his rabbits. She also put pressure on Leon after the student representative election. In the forest, Vidal forces Emma to burn the nude drawing and stabs Leon anyway. In the reflection of a puddle, Emma sees a red one on Vidal's chest; the countdown is complete. Shivering, she points the gun at the teacher and is urged by Kiki to shoot, but then she holds the gun to her head and pulls the trigger.
Ole hypnotized Ann-Sophie in the trailer and talked her into her new identity as Emma. She is an adopted orphan, has been to several schools and now has certain friends at the boarding school. Since it was just a blank gun, "Emma" survived in the forest and now hears the others as they discuss whether the hypnosis action was successful as a joint act of revenge. She learns that the sensitive identity as Emma was created because the emotionally cold Ann-Sophie could not feel any harm. Then "Emma" is the only one who sees the dark figure approaching her, whereupon she becomes the evil Ann-Sophie again. This loads the pistol with a sharp bullet. She locks the others up in the trailer. Shortly before she sets the car on fire, which is doused with petrol, "Emma" answers and tries to talk to her. While the imprisoned fear for their lives, Ann-Sophie and "Emma" fight before the good character sinks the bad in the moor. With the words "The Bitch is dead" the now positive Ann-Sophie frees the locked up. Ole's father was in a psychiatric ward and at the trailer there was an argument between Ann-Sophie and her disappointed friend Leon. After returning from the forest, Ann-Sophie and Leon talk about a future together without hatred and bullying.
production
The film was produced by Talpa Germany Fiction GmbH. The shooting took place from June 17 to July 18, 2019. The scenes in the forest were created in a wooded area between Birkenwerder and Borgsdorf near Berlin. The Neue Hakeburg in Kleinmachnow served as the backdrop for the boarding school.
background
ProSieben marketed the film using multimedia. Before it was broadcast on free TV, the film was shown on the schattenmoor.de website from December 1, 2019 in eight episodes, each between eight and 24 minutes long, but without the finale. There are also short portraits of the main characters on the website. Instagram accounts and a YouTube channel have also been created for some characters . The website internat-schattenmoor.de was set up for the fictitious location.
The film is based on the New Zealand format Reservoir Hill , which won an Emmy in 2010 for its interactivity .
Since hypnosis plays an important role in the film, ProSieben showed the documentary Schattenmoor immediately after the first broadcast . The experiment: from film to reality . The leading actress Caroline Hartig carried out some experiments with the hypnotist Jan Becker at the location of the film. Together with the Swiss expert Nicole Wackernagel-Holzer , she also tested whether hypnosis could trick you into shooting at someone else.
reception
Reviews
Pro Sieben did not show the film to the critics in advance in order to build up tension through the online episodes and to prevent spoilers .
Following the broadcast, Julian Miller came in quotenmeter.de to a negative conclusion: "In addition to Shadowmore sees itself an uninspired Voodoo dud as the forgotten village of Grimme Prize -würdigem TV from." The "cliched stringing together [was] stressful to watch [ Because of Caroline Hartig's well-versed alternation between the two characters,] seldom crosses the line of embarrassment. ”On the other hand, the finale with the“ psychological selectivity of the “ Satansweber von Tittfield ” [sic!] and the narrative wealth of nuances of “ Das Ding aus the swamp »“.
In the Berliner Zeitung, Torsten Wahl criticizes the "figures from the construction kit of American teen drama" and "the forced language of young people"; there are also sex scenes that are too intrusive. So the film leaves “at least the older viewers cold”. The reviewer from filmdienst.de comes to a similar assessment and adds: "The story innocently accepts hair-raising incredibilities and loses itself more and more in its absurdity."
Tilmann P. Gangloff expresses himself more positively on the website tittelbach.tv. Above all, he praises the leading actress: “Caroline Hartig is definitely worth seeing without reservation. [...] The attraction lies in the discrepancy between the characters: here heroine Emma, a good girl and therefore immediately popular; there her doppelganger, who looks like Snow White's evil twin sister. ”He also likes the“ delightfully puzzling flashbacks [...] many transitions are pretty clever, implemented with great care and almost lovingly. ”Only the finale is“ a little out of hand ran".
spectator
The first broadcast of Schattenmoor on December 11, 2019 saw 1.15 million viewers in Germany. The market share of 4.1% was below the station's annual average. In the target group of 14 to 49 year olds there were 650,000 viewers and a market share of 7.8%. The documentary on the film achieved market shares of 2.4% among the total audience and 5.4% among 14 to 49 year olds.
Web links
- Schattenmoor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Schattenmoor in the online film database
- Schattenmoor at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d ProSieben film as an event: What the mystery thriller is all about. Südwest Presse , December 11, 2019, accessed December 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Shadowmoor. Talpa Germany, accessed December 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Shadowmoor. Crew United, accessed December 26, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Film shooting in Briesewald. Märkische Allgemeine , July 8, 2019, accessed December 26, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Teen thriller "Schattenmoor": Sex and clichés. Berliner Zeitung, December 10, 2019, accessed on December 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Shadowmoor. The experiment: from film to reality. ProSieben, December 11, 2019, accessed December 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Crime under hypnosis. Swiss Hypnosis Institute, accessed December 26, 2019 .
- ↑ a b "Schattenmoor": Ripe for the loony bin. Odds Meter, December 11, 2019, accessed December 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Shadowmoor. Film service, accessed December 26, 2019 .
- ↑ TV film "Schattenmoor". tittelbach.tv, accessed on December 26, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c ProSieben's “Schattenmoor” flopps, RTLs “Rütter is enough” collapses, “Aktenzeichen: XY” wins. Meedia, December 12, 2019, accessed December 26, 2019 .