Sleepless (film)

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Movie
Original title Sleepless
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2009
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Isabel Kleefeld
script Norbert Ehry
production Anette Kaufmann
music Annette Focks
camera Rainer Klausmann
cut Andrea Mertens
occupation

Schlaflos is a German television film by Isabel Kleefeld from 2009, for which the leading actress Senta Berger received both the German Television Award and the Golden Camera .

action

After twelve years in prison, the actress Carla Sagmeister is released from prison. Due to an incorrect report by the renowned forensic scientist Dr. Borchert she was once convicted of manslaughter of her lover Erik Vonhoff. Back in the wild, she got hold of a pistol, which she used to kill Dr. Borchert wants to force her to reopen her case in order to be able to prove her innocence. After all, the scientist himself had doubts about his research at the time. He decides to reevaluate the blurry images from a surveillance camera that show the last visitor to the murder victim.

Meanwhile, Carla wants to get in touch with her family and friends, most of whom have turned away from her during her detention. Especially her daughter Yvonne, who only knew her mother as a selfish woman, continues to be extremely dismissive towards Carla. To her horror, Carla only now learns that Yvonne has a son named Fabian, whom Erik had fathered before his death. Only Erik's sister Sabine, who suffers from multiple sclerosis and now lives in Erik's villa, had kept in touch with Carla over the years.

While Carla tries to find the real killer, she is confronted with persistent silence from her family and friends. Only when she moves into the villa's guest house at Sabine's request does Carla finally come closer to the truth. It turns out that Yvonne was the woman on the surveillance camera recordings, but ultimately Sabine confesses that she shot her brother. Sabine's son Lukas wants to spare his sick mother a trial, which is why he asks Carla not to reopen the trial. Dr. Borchert and even Yvonne want to go public with the new results. However, Carla ultimately waives any compensation.

background

Director Isabel Kleefeld had previously staged the suspected crime thrillers Ein neue Leben (2006) and The False Woman (2008) with the leading actress Senta Berger . The shooting of Schlaflos took place from the end of March to the beginning of May 2008 in Cologne . The world premiere followed in March 2009 at the Wiesbaden TV Crime Festival. On April 8, 2009, the film was first broadcast on television by ARD . The audience rating was 5.78 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 18.8%.

Reviews

For the lexicon of international films , Schlaflos was an "[i] ntensively played (television) psychological thriller". According to Cinema , the film is a bit "psychodrama", but "in the end a good thriller". In short, it is a "[great] psychological study with a brilliant Berger". Prisma praised how director Isabel Kleefeld shows "in calm pictures a woman", "who is only interested in the truth in a social setting". This is also "masterfully portrayed by Senta Berger".

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv saw "Senta Berger in top form again". In Schlaflos , "she even surpasses her performance" in the ZDF series Unter Suspicious . The result is a genre film "that tells an unusual story beyond the usual TV patterns".

Awards

Senta Berger was awarded the German Television Prize in 2009 for her acting performance in Sleepless as Best Actress in a Leading Role and another prize at the Wiesbaden TV Crime Festival. In 2010 she also received the Golden Camera for Sleepless as Best German Actress and Ms. Boehm says no .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. tittelbach.tv
  2. ↑ Insomniac. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ cf. cinema.de
  4. ↑ cf. prisma.de