Death wedding

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Movie
German title Death wedding
Original title Mørke
Country of production Denmark
original language Danish
Publishing year 2005
length 120 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jannik Johansen
script Jannik Johansen
Anders Thomas Jensen
production Thomas Gammeltoft
Hanne Palmquist
music Antony Genn
camera Rasmus Videbæk
cut Per K. Kirkegaard
occupation

Death Wedding is a Danish thriller from 2005 .

action

The disabled Julie Hvidtoft visits her brother Jacob and his friend Nina. Since her unsuccessful suicide attempt, she has been dependent on a wheelchair, in psychiatric treatment and occasionally makes jokes about committing suicide again. Jacob is a journalist for the Danish daily Politiken , is writing his first book and is generally a skeptical person, which is why he is surprised that Julie is introducing her fiancé Anker. He suspects some bad ulterior motives, because the two have only known each other six months after they met while chatting. As beautiful as the subsequent wedding is, Julie's suicide is unexpected that same evening. Anker finds her in the bathtub and is just as shocked as all the other guests.

Jacob goes through Julie's estate. In a book by Wilbur A. Smith , which Anker gave Julie as a gift, he finds a newspaper clipping with the obituary notice of a Rikke Marlene Bjerre. The ad is dated April 12, 2002 and is designed exactly like the obituary that Anker posted for Julie in 2004. Since it seems a bit too coincidental to him, Jacob wants to contact Anker about it. But Anker's cell phone number no longer exists, so Jacob looks up his address and visits him in the village of Mørke , Djursland (the name of the place means darkness). There he is surprised to find that Anker already has a new, also disabled girlfriend in Hanne, with whom he is about to have a wedding. He sees how Anker feels caught and later learns from Hannes sister Sonja that both now live on Hannes farm, which their deceased parents left behind. When Jacob wants to research what Anker is all about, Sonja thinks he is paranoid, and Anker himself asks him to leave the place again.

But Jacob stays and later talks to Hanne alone, where he learns the story about her disability. She was once riding a bicycle on the country road when she was run over by a drunk. She also got to know Anker on the Internet. The intimate togetherness is interrupted by Anker and Sonja. Anker is slightly upset that Jacob is still there, which is why he asks him to go to the barn, where he gives him Julie's farewell letter. Jacob reads the letter and says that it was an accident after all and that he now has to make his peace. With thanks, he declines the offer to become Anker's best man. At his pension, however, he received an SMS with the address of John Bjerre, who lives in Knebel . Jacob drives there and discovers an abandoned house where a family once lived with their disabled daughter Rikke. He not only discovers on a video tape that Rikke was married to Anker, but that Grete and Harald Jensen probably died on December 31, 1998 from an overdose of morphine .

This is reason enough for him to attend Anker's wedding, after all he wants to save Hanne. Against the will of police officer Karl, but with Sonja, who is convinced by him, they go to Anker and Hanne and are surprised that she is still alive and not in mortal danger. Some time later, Hanne calls Jacob that he should visit her. He drives to the yard and finds her in the bathtub. They talk and Hanne gets worse and worse, until she raises her hand and Jacob sees that Hanne has slashed her wrists . He tries to save her and makes sure that she comes to the hospital. From there, however, he has to go to the police station because he is suspected of murder. However, he is allowed to leave shortly afterwards, because Anker showed the police a farewell letter from Hanne. Jacob just wants to go home. But he can't because his car won't start. Anker happened to come by and took him to his farm, where he told him about his first wife who killed herself and all the other women who did the same. He has a gift that he actually only uses. Jacob wants to flee, but he can't because Anker has drugged him. He has to see how Anker takes him out to sea, where he tries to drown himself and Jacob. After a desperate agony, Jacob just manages to escape and wakes up in the hospital, where he looks into Nina's eyes. She came to take Jacob home.

criticism

"The excellently played drama develops into a gripping psychological thriller, which feeds its tension from subtle horror rather than superficial effects."

- Lexicon of international film

“The excellently played drama by Jannik Johansen is turning into a gripping psychological thriller - like so many directorial works from the far north. The director does without superficial effects and relies entirely on his excellent actors. "

- prism

"The nifty thriller turns are unfortunately given away to the annoying depressive heroes and the lame narrative."

- TV movie

Awards

publication

The film had its world premiere on August 23, 2005 at the Copenhagen International Film Festival before it was released in Danish cinemas on 2005. After its German television broadcast on November 14, 2006 on NDR , the German-language DVD has been available since November 16, 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death wedding. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Todeshochzeit on prisma.de , accessed on May 1, 2012
  3. ↑ Todeshochzeit on tvspielfilm.de , accessed on May 1, 2012