Day of reckoning - The gunman from Euskirchen

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Movie
Original title Day of reckoning - The gunman from Euskirchen
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1994
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Peter Keglevic
script Douglas Graham ,
Douglas Scott Hessler
production Wolfgang Schulte
camera Jörg Jeshel
cut Thorsten Knatz
occupation

Day of reckoning - The gunman in Euskirchen is a documentary film drama by director Peter Keglevic from 1994, which is based on the bomb attack that was also carried out in 1994 in the Euskirchen district court .

action

The bus driver Erwin Mikolajczyk leads a solitary life. The gun collector, who is himself a member of a shooting club, is considered an outsider. His fetish is collecting rubber boots . Having beaten his girlfriend Lena regularly, this indicates it and Erwin is due to injury to a fine of 7,200 DM convicted. Against this punishment he puts opposition one. After this is rejected, he shoots several people present in the courthouse, including two lawyers and the judge, and then detonates a bomb with which he blows himself up and devastates the building.

criticism

"A rock-solid television game in a cautious staging that owes its persuasiveness to the precise script and the remarkably good actors."

- Lexicon of international film

"Disturbing life story of a loser"

- Cinema

background

The film is based on a true story that happened on March 9, 1994 in an outbuilding of the Euskirchen District Court , in which seven people were killed and eight seriously injured.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Day of reckoning - The gunman from Euskirchen. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ Day of reckoning - The gunman from Euskirchen , cinema.de