Released Date:
2012-10-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
Germany
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
4.2 (674 Reviews)
Director:
Zsolt BècsGenres:
ThrillerBrian Cordray
Zsolt Bècs
Sebastian Fitzek
Sebastian Fitzek (novel)
Defence attorney Robert Stern can scarcely believe his eyes when he meets with the mysterious client who has summoned him to a godforsaken industrial park. To his astonishment, the defendant is a ten-year-old boy, a fragile child with a chronic illness who insists that he was a murderer in a former life. Robert Stern's surprise turns into horror when he searches the cellar described by Simon and finds a human skeleton whose skull has been split by an axe. But this is only the beginning. Simon tells him of other victims whose bodies have lain undiscovered for years. Suddenly, the present becomes murderously dangerous as well...
Released Date:
2012-11-15
Languages:
German, Russian, French
Countries:
Netherlands, Russia, Germany
Runtime:
127 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (502 Reviews)
Director:
Jos StellingJos Stelling (script)
Bert Rijkelijkhuizen (script)
Jos Stelling
Irina Trofimova (translation)
The film, based on an original script by Jos Stelling and Bert Rijkelijkhuizen, tells the story of the Russian physician Nicolai who returns to an old hotel, the place where he first met his great love half a century ago, and relives his romantic tragedy. A large part of the film is set in the late nineteenth century and is situated in a abandoned hotel/sanatorium in Tannenfeld, Thuringia (formerly East Germany), where most of the recordings also took place. The hotel still has traces of an impressive past. Eventually it becomes clear why he really has returned.
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