Who Killed Bambi?
Who Killed Bambi? (Full title: Who killed Bambi? - Who is afraid of the white man? And TV title: Who is afraid of the white man?) Is a French psychological thriller by Gilles Marchand from 2003.
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Young Isabelle is training to be a nurse at a nursing school. In this context, she is completing an internship in the surgery department of a hospital where her older cousin Véronique also works as a sister. She has been with Sami for some time, who also works in the hospital. One day Isabelle collapses in the elevator after hearing a whistle in her ear. The doctor, Dr. Philipp, who advises her to be examined by an ear, nose and throat doctor . He calls her "Bambi" because the fawn was never able to stand up either. Isabelle also falls over during her first operation. Dr. Philipp now urges her for an examination and the doctor finds out that Isabelle has Menière's disease , which necessitates an operation. Isabelle starts Dr. To mistrust Philipp and wants to finish her internship first.
Since drug theft has repeatedly occurred in the hospital in the past, new security measures have been introduced; this means that every doctor only has access to the medical chambers via one card. Isabelle sees Dr. Philipp borrows such a card from her cousin. He gains access to the warehouse and manipulates a bottle of the anesthetic drug Penta by diluting it. At night he repeatedly visits patients whom he secretly anesthetizes and then undresses and touches. When an Asian patient wakes up, he silences her. The next day the woman disappeared; the hospital staff assume that she has fled. Isabelle, in turn, performs her first anesthesia in the operating room, which shows the consequences of Dr. Philip's manipulation; the patient is not anesthetized and must be post-sedated. The doctors, in turn, believe Isabelle made a mistake. Dr. Philipp now seems to show up wherever Isabelle is. After a night at the disco, she approaches him and says he is probably just lonely. After she has kissed him, he lets her stand; he is not interested in "slut". Isabelle passed out and shortly afterwards in the hospital from Dr. Philipp operates. She is discharging prematurely after the operation because she believes that Dr. Philipp was in her room. He later apologizes to her for his behavior after the disco and gives her a necklace.
A second case, in which an anesthetic was supposedly incorrectly dosed, makes Isabelle wonder. She finds the Penta bottle and discovers two needle sticks in the cap. Dr. Philipp takes the bottle from her, allegedly to have it examined for manipulation. Isabelle's guess, Dr. Philipp has manipulated the drug, rejects her cousin Véronique. The patient, whose operation had to be interrupted by the incident, is cared for by Isabelle that night when Dr. Philipp appears and sends her away because he needs a vest from his room. When Isabelle returns, the patient is collapsing and dies shortly afterwards. Isabelle's information on the commission of inquiry that Dr. Charging Philipp are dismissed as private problems. Meanwhile, Isabelle has learned from another doctor that Dr. Philipp originally belonged to the missing Asian patient. She reports this to her cousin, who does not believe her, but nevertheless becomes suspicious when she sees Dr. Philipp sees one evening in the hospital. She follows him and watches him undress a patient and spread her legs. Dr. Philipp notices Véronique and kills her. Then he goes to Isabelle, tells her about the murder of her cousin and drugged her. She wakes up a little later undressed and with the chain on her stomach. Isabelle rushes to the hospital where her cousin's car is parked. She anonymously informs the police about the events and shortly afterwards Dr. Philipp drugged and kidnapped in a car. When she tries to jump out of the car on the way, Dr. Philipp controls the steering wheel and hits a tree. He dies in the process; although Isabelle dreams that Dr. Philipp told her about her death, she survived. She starts crying with relief in the ambulance.
production
Who Killed Bambi? was the feature film directorial debut of screenwriter Gilles Marchand. The film was shot at the Trousseau Hospital in Tours , among others . Virginie Montel and Isabelle Pannetier created the costumes, and Laurent Deroo designed the film .
The film premiered on May 17, 2003 at the Cannes International Film Festival , where it was screened outside of the competition (“Séances de minuit”). It opened in French cinemas on December 24, 2003 and was released directly on DVD in Germany on February 9, 2006. On May 7, 2007, ZDF showed the film for the first time on German television.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Isabelle | Sophie Quinton | Anna Carlsson |
| Dr. Philip | Laurent Lucas | Stephan Schwartz |
| Véronique | Catherine Jacob | Karin Buchholz |
| Sami | Yasmine Belmadi | Marius Clarén |
| Madame Vachon | Michèle Moretti | Regine Albrecht |
| Nathalie | Valérie Donzelli | Katrin Zimmermann |
criticism
For the film service was Who Killed Bambi? a "simply knitted, sometimes noticeably constructed thriller", in which tension rarely arises and the course of the plot is "unrealistic (and ultimately abstruse)". Cinema called Who Killed Bambi? as a "horror soaked in abysmal joke, told in clinically cool pictures" and summed up: "Scariest than any health reform".
Awards
At the Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya , Gilles Marchand was nominated in 2003 in the “Best Film” category. In 2004 the film received César nominations in the categories of “ Best New Actress ” (Sophie Quinton) and “ Best First Work ” (Gilles Marchand).
Web links
- Who Killed Bambi? in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Who Killed Bambi? in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Who Killed Bambi? Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2005 (PDF; test number: 104 613 DVD).
- ↑ See who killed Bambi? on festival-cannes.com
- ↑ Who Killed Bambi? In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Who Killed Bambi? In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de