Vera Bruhne (film)

TV movie
Original title	Vera broth
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2001
length	290 (2001) or 180 (recut 2007) minutes
Rod
Director	Hark Bohm
script	Hark Bohm
production	Bernd Eichinger
music	Stephan Zacharias
camera	Frank Küpper
cut	Inez Regnier
occupation
	Corinna Harfouch : Vera Brühne ; Uwe Ochsenknecht : Johann Ferbach ; Ulrich Noethen : Chief Public Prosecutor Böck; Hans-Werner Meyer : Lawyer Dr. Haddenhorst ; Mavie Hörbiger : Stephanie Virno; Anton Pointecker : Dr. Dietrich Schwarz; Udo Wachtveitl : Inspector Sternmüller; Fritz Wepper : Defense attorney Dr. Wallner; Katja Flint : Isabel Mende;

Vera Brühne is a two-part television film from 2001 that was shot in and around Munich by German filmmaker Hark Bohm . The actors include Corinna Harfouch and Uwe Ochsenknecht . The first broadcast was on May 24, 2001 on the television station Sat.1 . In 2006 the film was televised and released on DVD . On March 14, 2008, ARTE showed a new cut version of the two-part film, with the new title Der Fall Vera Brühne . The five-hour Sat.1 version was shortened to three hours by Hark Bohm. Due to the new cut, the focus is even more on the main character Vera Brühne, whereas the social circumstances of the Federal Republic of that time have receded more into the background. The newly edited version was also shown on March 21 and 22, 2008 as a two-part in Das Erste .

The drama is the film adaptation of a headline-grabbing criminal case, the death of Otto Praun , from the 1960s.

action

Tutzing am Starnberger See in the early 1960s : the dentist Dietrich Schwarz and his housekeeper Elisabeth Huhn are found shot in a villa. First of all, the police assume that Schwarz first killed his housekeeper and partner, then killed himself. However, at an autopsy after an exhumation at the request of the victim's son, it is found that both were murdered. The attractive Vera Brühne, mentioned in the will of the wealthy doctor, quickly comes under suspicion . In a circumstantial trial, her alleged accomplice Johann Ferbach and she are sentenced to life imprisonment, whereby the contradicting statements of Brühne's daughter Stephanie and her lifestyle, which is perceived as offensive, play a role.

The young lawyer Haddenhorst rolls up the case again after years and comes across many inconsistencies in the judgment and the investigation at the time. In particular, Schwarz's role as an alleged arms dealer was completely disregarded in the proceedings.

Production and copyrights

In 1957, the then employee of the Federal Intelligence Service, Karl Helmut Schnell, from the acquisition office of the French arms company Radio-Air in Frankfurt, took 36,000 DM from Roger Hentges . The part-time employee of the Direction du Renseignement Militaire , Hentges, claimed in July 1976 that the money had been a commission for the head of the office, the arms dealer Friedrich Großkopf. In the film Vera Brühne there is no explicit mention of Schnell. Schnell's lawyer Torsten Arp complained that Karl-Hans Kern suggested that Schnell corresponds to the figure of Lieutenant Colonel Schröder. The Constantin Film Produktion GmbH was two-part event for The case Vera Brühne from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (FFF Bayern) , with 1.2 million euros promoted.

Reviews

"A meticulous reconstruction of the events carried out by convincing actors, which uses the means of the documentary film to cover up gaps and to articulate doubts about the legality of the still unresolved case."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

Corinna Harfouch (Best Lead Actress) and Uwe Ochsenknecht (Best Supporting Actor) received the German Television Award in 2001 for their achievements .

literature

The secret of Pöcking . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 2001 ( online ).
Peter Anders: The Vera Brühne case. Decent Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-9806204-1-7 . (by 30 documents extended new edition as I am innocent, please! The case of Vera Brühne , 2012, ISBN 978-3-9806204-5-1 )

Web links

Vera Brühne in the Internet Movie Database (English)- Miniseries , 2001

Vera Brühne at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

↑ "Vera Brühne" Reloaded . In: Spiegel Online , March 14, 2008.
↑ Minutes of the interrogation of government director Fritz and senior official Brambach from July 21, 1976, file number ES-238/76. According to Gaby Weber: Power intoxication . (PDF; 6.9 MB) In: Ulrich Sonnemann (Ed.): The past that did not end - a rush of power, business and treason in the Brühne-Ferbach judicial scandal . Focus Verlag, Gießen 1985, 206 pp.
↑ The secret of Pöcking . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 2001 ( online ).
↑ NDR , press kit (PDF; 2.1 MB)
↑ Vera Bruhne. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 1, 2017 .

[1] "Vera Brühne" Reloaded . In: Spiegel Online , March 14, 2008.

[Brambach-2] Minutes of the interrogation of government director Fritz and senior official Brambach from July 21, 1976, file number ES-238/76. According to Gaby Weber: Power intoxication . (PDF; 6.9 MB) In: Ulrich Sonnemann (Ed.): The past that did not end - a rush of power, business and treason in the Brühne-Ferbach judicial scandal . Focus Verlag, Gießen 1985, 206 pp.

[ds20010514-3] The secret of Pöcking . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 2001 ( online ).

[NDR-4] NDR , press kit (PDF; 2.1 MB)

[5] Vera Bruhne. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 1, 2017 .