Who is afraid of the black man? (Movie)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Who is afraid of the black man? |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Christine Hartmann |
| script | Wolfgang Brandstetter |
| production | Thomas Hroch |
| music | Stephan Massimo |
| camera | Peter Nix |
| cut | Sandy Saffeels |
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Who is afraid of the black man? is an Austrian thriller from 2009. The television film is a joint production by ProSieben and ORF and was first broadcast on October 12, 2009 on the German broadcaster.
action
Sophie Lynsky returns with her son Klaus to her father in her home village in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel after breaking off her medical studies in Berlin . Her father, a former doctor and pharmacist , tells her that the young Paul, the son of the landlord Johannes Sprung, has just died suddenly and for no apparent reason while playing a game of catches . The children talk about the black man killing him. When Sophie brings Klaus to his new school for the first time, she meets her ex-boyfriend Mark, who works as a teacher. She also meets her old friend Elisabeth in her father's pharmacy. In the evening, the insecure Klaus finds a fairy tale book written by Moritz Hartmann and illustrated by Gustave Doré on his bed , in which he reads the story of the Erlkönig and sees pictures of the angel maker .
During a youth party in a castle, Felix instigates a fight. After the policeman Bucher picked up his daughter Eva, Felix's girlfriend, early, Sophie came to the castle and met Mark and Elisabeth there, whereupon she talked to her ex-boyfriend about the separation. Meanwhile, Nino, the son of Mayor Andreas Amon, goes home alone through the forest, where he dies of fear. When his brother Clemens and his girlfriend Angela, who is Bucher's older daughter, go to have sex in the forest, they discover the body.
Sophie decides to autopsy the second victim herself , as she cannot tell Bucher or the doctor in charge, Dr. West trusts. In doing so, she finds a puzzling black mark on the dead child's neck, but no explanation for the cardiac arrest . At home she sees the storybook and criticizes her father. After Clemens tells his girlfriend Angela about his suspicions about Felix, she falls from the forest bridge and dies in the same mysterious way as the two boys. Since Felix is watched as he discovers her body, he appears even more suspicious. Bucher is talking to Sprung and Amon about a possible guilt of the fathers, which is atoned for when West excitedly enters the restaurant and informs the policeman about the death of his daughter. While Bucher drives to the bridge, his son Christian sits with Klaus in front of the school. He runs after a ball and is shocked to see the black man. Sophie can save him, however.
At home, the young woman sees her father setting up candles to ward off the angel maker. In a confidential conversation, she reveals to him that she was pregnant before she fled and was afraid of an abortion . Her father then reveals that he gave up his practice and fell ill because he aborted a raped woman. Meanwhile, Mark catches Clemens and his friend hunting Felix and walks with the two boys through the cellar corridors that connect the houses underground. Felix comes this way to Bucher's house, where Eva and her father are also caught by the angel maker.
Klaus creeps into the basement, worried. When Sophie finds him there, the angel maker comes and falls over the railing. Elisabeth shows herself under the mask. She explains that after graduation from school she was raped by the three fathers of the three children who were killed and forced to have an abortion at Sophie's father's. Because the abortion was not carried out professionally, she could no longer have children. In revenge, she has now murdered the rapists' children. Sophie realizes that the pharmacist injected her victims with potassium chloride through the clawed glove and used prints made from organic materials. The murderess eventually kills herself with a syringe .
criticism
The reviewer from kino.de praised “the excellent sound design, which likes to loudly support cuts and, together with Massimo's music, ensures that the story has an extremely high level of tension. The leadership of the younger actors in particular has not always been a complete success, [...] but that doesn't detract from the thrill. "
According to Jürgen Kirsch, Editor of the Quota Meter, the scriptwriter “succeeded in including the thriller audience in the interplay of myth and reality. [...] If you ignore some logic errors and the distracting subplots due to the relationships between individual characters, the film does justice to its purpose [...] completely. "
The reviewer at cinema.de, on the other hand, sees nothing positive in this film: "A would-be doctor who just does an autopsy, bad dialogues, logic gaps and unsympathetic characters - that was probably nothing."
background
The shooting took place in the Waldviertel and in Baden near Vienna . In the legend that forms the background to the series of murders, two characters are mixed up. On the one hand there is the black man with whom one threatens the children, on the other hand there is the angel maker who punishes the past sins of the fathers.
supporting documents
- ↑ Release certificate for Who is afraid of the black man? Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2012 (PDF; test number: 131 932 V).
- ↑ Who is afraid of the black man? kino.de, accessed on October 17, 2009 .
- ^ A b Jürgen Kirsch: The Critics: "Who is Afraid of the Black Man?" Quota Meter, October 10, 2009, accessed October 17, 2009 .
- ↑ Who is afraid of the black man? cinema.de, accessed on October 28, 2009 .