Siegburg (film)

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Movie
German title Siegburg
Original title Stoic
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 18, SPIO / JK
Rod
Director Uwe Boll
script Uwe Boll
production Uwe Boll,
Dan Clarke ,
Shawn Williamson
music Jessica de Rooij
camera Mathias Neumann
cut Kate Kroll
occupation

Siegburg ( original title: Stoic ) is a Canadian film drama directed by Uwe Boll based on a true story.

action

The four young criminals Harry, Jack, Peter and Mitch pass the time in their prison cell with card games, whereby the slightly unstable Mitch suggests out of boredom that the loser of the next round should eat a tube of toothpaste . After winning almost every game so far, this time it is Mitch himself who loses the round. However, since he refuses to redeem the bet, the others beat him and force him to do so. But even after that they don't let go of him anymore and force him to work. a. Drinking salt water and urine , eating his vomit and licking the edge of the toilet, he is also raped, anally penetrated with a broomstick and almost drowned in the toilet. After hours of torture and abuse, they decide to hang the now traumatic-looking Mitch to fake suicide . They believe they are covering up the crime and will be released early from prison because of the tragic suicide of their friend. While they give Mitch one last cigarette, Mitch has to put a noose from a bed sheet around his neck and stand on a bucket, which is then kicked away, whereupon Mitch dies after a short agony. Then they pretend to panic, alert the guards and can initially convince them of an unnoticed suicide by their cell colleague. At the end of the film, the four prisoners are introduced in more detail, and you can learn why they ended up in prison and what high additional sentences the three perpetrators were later sentenced to for the murder.

background

The drama is a film adaptation of a torture murder that occurred on the night of November 12, 2006 in cell 104 of the Siegburg correctional facility . Three young convicts beat up, humiliated, abused and tortured their 20-year-old cellmate Hermann H. for more than twelve hours until he obeyed his tormentors and participated in his hanging. The truth only emerged during the autopsy of the corpse. The main perpetrator, Pascal I, was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment with subsequent preventive detention. Danny K., who was considered to be the initiator of the torture orgy, was sentenced to the highest possible youth sentence of ten years in prison. Ralf A. received a prison sentence of 14 years for his involvement in the torture murder.

reception

After various video game adaptations mocked by critics, Boll tried to film a tragedy based on real events. Since the film was released direct-to-DVD , so it was not shown in cinemas, it was hardly discussed in comparison to other of his films. The judgments on German film portals were different. Some described the film as Uwe Boll's best work to date, others rejected it. The film received the poor rating of 4.6 / 10 stars on the Internet Movie Database film portal (as of August 2014).

“Siegburg” is the conceptless manifesto of a disguised misanthropist. To abuse the martyrdom of Mitch's real role model as a blueprint for a violent excess is already sufficiently disrespectful. But then to present the torture, filmed amateurishly with a hand-held camera and arbitrarily cut, as an authentic-psychological chamber play, causes a new low point in Uwe Boll's oeuvre, which is rich in total failures "

- Jan Hamm on filmstarts.de

“Not a movie to watch for entertainment. A psychologically gripping, disturbing and historically shattering work. A compliment to the director! "

- Peter Osteried on movieman.de

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