Death in the Eifel
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Death in the Eifel |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Johannes Grieser |
| script | Holger Karsten Schmidt |
| production | Iris Kiefer, Annette Köster |
| music |
Jens Langbein Robert Schulte-Hemming |
| camera | Sten Mende |
| cut | Jens Müller |
| occupation | |
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Death in the Eifel is a German crime film by director Johannes Grieser from 2008, which was produced for Second German Television . Maria Simon and Christian Redl play the two main roles father and daughter. As police officers investigating together, they have to put their smoldering family conflict aside.
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The young detective inspector Lona Schanz is sent by the LKA to her home village of Eschbach to lead the investigation into an armed robbery. A money truck was ambushed and robbed in the middle of the forest. The local patrol officer Rolf Schanz is her father, who broke off contact with his daughter a few years ago because of a family dispute. Lona still knows his young colleague Tim Wenning from her school days. Father Schanz has problems accepting his daughter's professional authority and sometimes he defies her instructions. Both perpetrators come from the village; Lona quickly realizes this, because they know the area and fled on bicycles.
Martin Wenning and Jochen Hofmann not only carried out this robbery, but also a bank robbery eleven years earlier together with Klaus Lohmann and stolen 2.7 million German marks. Only Klaus Lohmann was caught and served an eleven year prison sentence without revealing the names of the accomplices. As a thank you, he of course now expects his share of the booty. However, Wenning and Hofmann invested the money. In order to still be able to pay Lohmann out, they had to go on a raid again. This time the booty was a meager 75,000 euros. Wenning hands over the money to Lohmann as requested, for whom that is of course not enough and who demands more. When Lohmann is found a little later in the forest with a serious gunshot wound, neither Wenning nor Hofmann can explain how it came about; they assert one another that they have done nothing to Lohmann.
Since her father is obviously obstructing the investigation and knows more than he admits, Lona searches the financial records in her father's house. Back then he had had to raise a lot of money for the cancer treatment of his beloved wife (Lona's mother). Lona can see that the sale of life insurance can never have brought in the required amount. It is now gradually becoming clear that her own father must also be involved in the attack. It appears that for a share of the loot from the bank robbery, he not only held back his investigation, he actually drove the getaway car.
Klaus Lohmann has now been declared brain dead and the doctors are about to end the life support measures. Lona asks for a delay. In the village she spreads the rumor that Lohmann will soon be brought out of his artificial coma and interrogated by the police. She hides in an adjoining room in Lohmann's sickroom and awaits those who have the life of Klaus Lohmann on their conscience. Amazingly, not only does her father appear, but also Tim Wenning shortly afterwards. This clearly makes it clear that he wants to silence Lohmann. Father and daughter Schanz can overwhelm him.
Tim has an incestuous relationship with his 17-year-old sister Rebecca; his father is angry about it and tries to stop it. With the shooting of Lohmann, Tim wanted to cast suspicion on his father in order to get revenge on him and put him behind bars. In addition, with Lohmans 75,000 euros, he would have had good start-up capital to start a new life with his sister.
In the end, Rolf Schanz finds his way back to his daughter and also wants to face the consequences of his complicity in the bank robbery eleven years ago.
Background information
The film was shot in Bad Münstereifel and Mechernich, in the heart of the Eifel . On September 27, 2008, it premiered at the Hamburg Film Festival. On February 9th, 2009 it was broadcast for the first time on ZDF.
Reviews
"In the provincial (TV) crime film, which is characterized by its dense plot and atmospheric personal description and captures the provincial milieu quite well."
"Exciting, credibly played and well-cast provincial drama."
“This ZDF“ TV film of the week ”seems to have been inspired by the“ Baader Meinhof Complex ”, but that is deceptive. It's all ten sizes smaller and slower. [...] 'Death in the Eifel' is not an action orgy, but something for the friends of down-to-earth types and sensitively staged psychological studies. "
Web links
- Death in the Eifel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Death in the Eifel on www.zdf.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ IMDb location
- ↑ IMDb premiere dates
- ↑ a b Death in the Eifel in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ Death in the Eifel on TV-Spielfilm.de
- ↑ Death in the Eifel - Another village thriller Die Welt from Feb. 9, 2009