Guilt and vengeance
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| Original title | Guilt and vengeance |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Martin Enlen |
| script | Detlef Michel |
| production | Eberhard Jost for ZDF |
| music | Dieter Schleip |
| camera | Philipp Timme |
| cut | Monika Abspacher |
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Guilt and Vengeance is a 2006 thriller by director Martin Enlen . Katharina Böhm and Justus von Dohnányi play the leading roles of Corinna and Max, who seriously injure the cyclist Tina ( Lisa Martinek ) during a drunk drive .
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Corinna and her husband Max are in an inn outside of Munich to enjoy dinner together. In doing so, she expresses her displeasure that, for his sake, she renounced a professional career in Berlin so that she could always be with him. She bothers the fact that she always sits at home alone in the evenings because he often goes out alone. She expresses the suspicion that Max has a relationship with another woman, which Max denies.
When the visit to the inn is over, they both drank too much alcohol to be able to drive. Nevertheless, Max wants to get behind the wheel, but fails to get the car key into the door lock. So Corinna gets behind the wheel, although she is no longer sober either. When driving at night, both are dazzled by the headlights of an oncoming vehicle and only by violently evasive movement does it prevent a collision with the other vehicle. Then Corinna has had enough of driving a car, and Max gets behind the wheel. Because of his tiredness, he nods off briefly.
A short time later he wakes up again with a violent bang. He stops, gets out and realizes that a cyclist has fallen behind the vehicle. Tina, the cyclist, lies motionless on the floor next to her bike. Max and Corinna cannot see other accident witnesses, so they both decide to drive away and not worry about the injured accident victim.
Suddenly Corinna gets a severe stomachache and asks Max to drive her to the hospital immediately. Once there, an examination found that she was two months pregnant, but due to difficulties she was unable to give birth to the child. The pregnancy is then prematurely terminated by a medical intervention.
Corinna and Max then decide not to tell anyone about the accident. When Corinna is released from the hospital, she deliberately drives the car backwards against a wall in order to cover the traces of the accident that can be seen on the rear of the vehicle.
A short time later, the injured cyclist is found on the street and taken to the hospital, where she wakes up. The doctor explains to her that she will never be able to walk again because of paraplegia. An ironically executed rehabilitation measure improves her situation, now she can at least move around independently in a wheelchair. As soon as she is physically able to do so, she decides to continue working in a tax office.
But she is of little help to the police officer who is trying to reconstruct the course of the accident, as she can hardly remember the accident. Only the three letters S, T and A remain in her memory, which she must have seen on the vehicle. She also remembers that she saw a pair of woman's legs disappear into the car that then drove off. Since she cannot remember any further details, the police investigation petered out.
That, in turn, doesn't bother Tina too much because she doesn't care about a complaint against the person who hit the hit. Rather, she wants revenge in a different way, she wants the person to suffer from feelings of guilt for a lifetime. To do this, she has to find out who it was who committed the hit-and-run.
One day Tina accidentally discovers a delivery truck with the label “Möbeltischlerei Staamann”. At that moment, it occurs to her that it was exactly the writing that she had seen on the vehicle involved in the accident just before the accident happened. Tina suspects that she is now on the right track and lets herself be driven to the carpentry shop to commission shelves for the tax office, hoping to find the person who was hit and run.
Max, who is processing the order for the production of the shelves, has no idea who he is making the shelves for. He even falls in love with the young woman, and in order to have more frequent contact with her, he hires her as a tax advisor. Corinna notices that Max has been with Tina a lot lately and starts to watch them. She notices that Max met Tina in a café and then went to the park with her. Full of jealousy, she asks Max what this is all about, but he claims that the meeting and the walk together in the park are only for business reasons.
Tina invites Max and Corinna to dinner, but Max lies and claims that his wife is sick and lives very secluded. Corinna then asks Nils, with whom she had a relationship before their marriage, if he knows anything, whereupon Nils admits that Max had confessed everything to him.
However, when Max realizes that he is putting his marriage at risk because of the looming relationship with Tina, he begins to avoid Tina.
Corinna then asks Nils, with whom she had a relationship before their marriage. Nils, who still wants to win Corinna back, tells her that Max has confessed everything to him. Tina continues to believe that Corinna committed the hit and run. She can't imagine Corinna telling Max about her hit-and-run, and asks Max why he suddenly avoided contact with her. Max admits to Tina that he still feels guilty because he hit a cyclist and left her injured on the street. By meeting Tina, Max claims, all the bad memories would have come back to him.
Tina is horrified by the fact that she was wrong the whole time and that it was not Corinna who hit the hit, but Max, the man with whom she has already spent a lot of time. Tina now reveals herself to Max as his accident victim.
When Max takes note of this, everything becomes too much for him. Distraught, he goes home and tells his wife what he has learned. Corinna calls a doctor who gives her completely distraught husband a soothing injection.
Corinna secretly telephones Nils. She expresses the concern that Tina could use her knowledge of the financial possibilities that she has acquired as a tax advisor in the carpentry shop to drive the company, which is financially in difficulties anyway, into bankruptcy and thus to take revenge for the accident . As soon as Max is reasonably fit again, Nils will inform him about it. Max doesn't want to hear about it, however, because he can't imagine that such a lovable woman like Tina could harbor such thoughts of revenge.
Shortly thereafter, however, Max receives an anonymous letter demanding that an envelope with 20,000 euros be deposited at the scene of the accident, otherwise the police would report him for a hit and run. Stunned, Max goes to the police to turn himself in, but is stopped by Nils. Nils claims that Corinna could have written the letter to strengthen the bond with him. To get to the bottom of the matter, Max brings the money to the place of the accident, while Nils observes the situation from a distance. Connected to each other via their cell phones, Nils reports that a car has just stopped next to the envelope with the money and the driver has got out to relieve himself. Obviously he saw the envelope, picked it up and drove away with it. While Nils is telling this story of lies, he is surprised by Corinna, who suddenly appears behind him. The two get into an argument, Max joins them and decides together with his wife that he should keep the 20,000 euros as his share of the joinery. Both want nothing more to do with him.
Max then learns the whole truth about the accident from Corinna. In truth, it was she who caused the accident. On the night of the accident they changed places twice, Max just couldn't remember them. She let him believe, however, that he tried the accident because she feared that otherwise he would have abandoned her.
Max then meets up with Tina again in the park to tell her what happened in the accident. Corinna then comes to the two of them and explains that she has just been to the police to put her statement on the record. The police now know that they caused the accident.
Max says goodbye to Tina and follows Corinna, who needs his help right now.
Production notes
ABC-Studio GmbH in Wiesbaden produced the film on behalf of ZDF . Rick Ostermann assisted Martin Enlen in directing. Erika Hauri was the still photographer , Sebastian Grundt assisted Philipp Timme with the camera work and Su Proebster was responsible for the film construction. Gabriele Heuser was the film editor, Michael Meister headed the film production.
Publication dates
Guilt and Vengeance was first broadcast on ZDF on February 12, 2007 . The film was shown at the Munich Film Festival on July 19, 2006 .
Reviews
The lexicon of international films believes that the film is a "psychological (television) thriller full of logical leaps and bounds, which primarily suffers from the grotesque over-construction of the events."
TV Today certifies that the film is a brilliantly played TV thriller drama in which everything turns out differently than expected.
Kino.de is of the opinion that Martin Enlen with guilt and vengeance [presents] a "(...) atmospherically dense psychodrama (...)."
Rainer Tittelbach sums it up with simple, clear words: "Captivating script, intensive staging, strong actors."
The TV magazine prisma is of the opinion that thanks to “sophisticated psychology” and “strong actors”, Martin Enlen has created a “gripping drama about guilt, feelings of guilt, love, betrayal and revenge”.
TV Spielfilm says succinctly that guilt and revenge are "[t] deceitful, strongly played chamber play [is]".
Web links
- Guilt and revenge in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Guilt and Revenge in the Lexicon of International Films
- Guilt and revenge in TV feature films
- Guilt and revenge at Kino.de
- Guilt and revenge at dieterwunderlich.de
- Guilt and Revenge on TV Today
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Guilt and Vengeance. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved September 26, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Guilt and Vengeance in the Lexicon of International Films
- Jump up ↑ Guilt and Vengeance - TV Today. In: tvtoday.de. Retrieved September 27, 2015 .
- ↑ Guilt and Revenge Film (2005) · Trailer · Criticism · KINO.de. In: kino.de. Retrieved September 27, 2015 .
- ↑ Guilt and revenge - criticism of the film - Tittelbach.tv. In: tittelbach.tv. Retrieved September 27, 2015 .
- ↑ Guilt and Revenge (2005) - Films. In: prisma.de. Retrieved September 27, 2015 .
- ↑ Guilt and Revenge - Film Review - Film - TV SPIELFILM. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved September 27, 2015 .