Deadly connections
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Deadly connections |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Edgar Kraus Markus Kleinhans |
| script | Edgar Kraus Markus Kleinhans |
| production | Edgar Kraus Markus Kleinhans Johannes Kraus Andreas Jordan |
| music | Laurie Jones Luky Zappatta Michael Armann Bananafishbones |
| camera | Edgar Kraus Andreas Jordan |
| cut | Edgar Kraus Markus Kleinhans Burkhard Feige |
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Deadly Connections is a German cinema film from 2006. The film, basically a crime film , mixes this genre with that of the Heimatfilm and comedic aspect, comparable to the television series Der Bulle von Tölz . Like this one, it is completely in Bavarian language.
The production, which began in 2006, was shown temporarily in a Tölzer cinema in the same year (test run) and revised on April 22, 2007 in Karlsruhe at the Independent Days film festival . It was officially released in theaters on September 13, 2007 through Stardust distributors . The two filmmakers Edgar Kraus and Markus Kleinhans from Bad Tölz were responsible for essential parts of the production, such as script and direction. The film advertises with the subtitle Eine Tölzer Mordsg'schicht from the 70s .
action
In the spring of 1978 a woman, Angelika Fritsch, died in Bad Tölz from hydrocyanic acid poisoning. However, it is a mystery how the poison got into the body of the single saleswoman. The Tölz commissioner Walter Degenhardt and his Miesbacher colleague Rio Hartmann are scheduled to investigate the case. The completely different personalities of the two often lead to quarrels and are not exactly useful for the investigation. When the woman dies, nothing points to murder or even suicide. But the secret lover, a married employee of a chemical company from Dachau, does not seem very safe to the two inspectors. To make matters worse, the life artist Rio starts an affair with the witness Conny Sageder, much to Walter's chagrin. Ultimately, the tumultuous events lead to a furious finale in the mountains.
True backgrounds
The plot of the film is based on real events. The filmmakers were inspired for the film by the book Mordgeschichten , a collection of curious criminal and above all murder cases from the Isarwinkel from the last centuries.
In the underlying case, which went down in criminal history as the tampon murder , the victim's 54-year-old lover, a chemical unskilled worker from Dachau, poisoned the 34-year-old woman by soaking her tampons in hydrogen cyanide, which contained the unsuspecting victims then used them, resulting in potassium cyanide poisoning and their death. The investigations were extremely difficult at the time, as the exact causes of death and reasons were initially a mystery, as well as the search for the perpetrator and the determination of his motives. The finally accused initially denied acquaintance with the woman. He had sunk a film cartridge with pictures of the two in a pond, where it was then recovered by police divers.
While in custody, the defendant attempted suicide , which brought him to the intensive care unit of the Neuperlach hospital . The accused, who tried to poison a person as early as 1955, was classified as unskilled by psychologists , who further doubt that this ingenious method of murder came from himself. During the trial, at which 8 experts and 39 witnesses were summoned, he refused to testify and let his lawyer speak for him. During the trial, the theory emerged that it was neither willful murder nor accident or suicide, but negligent homicide . The defendant had been impotent for years and was therefore prone to fancy sex games. There was no evidence of suicide and the prosecutor struggled to justify his life imprisonment for murder with a motive for murder , but pointed to the defendant's below-average intelligence. Ultimately the accused to imprisonment of two years was sentenced for manslaughter, of which these are already 19 months in pre-trial detention had served. This judgment was in part sharply criticized and both the accused and his lawyer were accused of having reached this judgment with their peasant cunning .
Due to the film's release in theaters, the Tölzer Kurier reported again on this criminal case. Several times, including by police officers, there was talk of a miscarriage of justice , because today it can be assumed that the whole matter was actually just a tragic sex accident.
Others
- The film was originally planned as an amateur project, but quickly developed into a serious and complex film project of high quality despite a tight budget. In addition to some professional (local) actors, there are numerous lay people in the film who were chosen for their authenticity.
- Deadly Connections was filmed on 41 days of shooting within 9 months, followed by another 15 months of post-production.
- Band members of the Bananafishbones , who also wrote pieces for the film, took on small guest roles, as did Hank Houzer, the bassist for the Milestones.
- Co-director and screenwriter Edgar Kraus no longer experiences the premiere of his film. On December 27, 2006, he had a fatal accident on Lake Garda in a sports accident during a base jump at the Italian Terminal Wall .
- A lot of effort and effort was put into the film, which is set in 1978, in a 70s style as authentic as possible and appropriate equipment and atmosphere.
- In the film, the young Benno Berghammer, who later became the bull of Tölz , played by Florian Gmeiner, has a guest appearance. His voice was dubbed as a gag by the real Ottfried Fischer , his film mother Resi, spoken by Ruth Drexel , can also be heard briefly in the off.
- The film was shot on original locations in Bad Tölz and the surrounding area.
- The DVD of the film was released on November 17th, 2008 and contains extensive bonus material, such as an 80-minute making-of.
- Ten years later, in 1988, there is another case involving Commissioners Hartmann and Degenhardt. The film Pension Freiheit by directors Markus Kleinhans and Marcus H. Rosenmüller was released in 2012.
Reviews
- Filmz.de thinks that despite the tight budget, the original amateur project has turned into a rather complex and well-worth seeing film, which is now also suitable for the cinema thanks to its professional revision.
- The lexicon of the international film judges: “ [...] the filmmakers tinkered with the help of amateur actors a weird crime thriller that alternates between homage to the German B-movie of the 1970s, soft porn, crime scene crime thriller and Der Bulle von Tölz paraphrase and developed charm in the process. Quirky entertainment in Bavarian dialect, but without any particular thematic or stylistic relevance. "
literature
- Christoph Schnitzer, Maximilian Czysz: Murder Stories - From Bad Tölz and the Isarwinkel . cs press & print, 2003, ISBN 3-00-012421-7 .
Web links
- Official website
- Deadly compounds in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Deadly connections at the film distributor Stardust
- Deadly connections at Kino.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mordgeschichten, pp. 119–128
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ criticism from filmz.de
- ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007 . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9
