Godard put a whole new spin on film noir when he let Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) loose in Alphaville; German director Volker Einrauch strikes his own blow against the bland face of contemporary German cinema with Die Mutter des Killers (The Killer's Mother), a work he cheerfully describes as 'the first Eddie Hartmann film'.
Eddie (Dieter Landuris) is an unlikely hero: a drink-sodden undertaker's assistant in a drab North German suburb (the film was shot in just 15 days in the Hamburg suburb of Wilhelmsburg). His wife is screwing around. Eddie would like to kill her, but he can't get it together.
Then, when failed crime-writer Theo (Peter Lohmeyer) is killed in a car crash, Eddie movies in with Theo's girlfriend, Olga. Only Theo isn't dead: he's planning to murder his new girlfriend's husband. And he's about to win the top crime-writer's award, which will make him decide to come back to life and persuade Olga that a famous Theo might not be so bad after all.
'Murderous fantasies lurk in the minds of the citizens,' says Einrauch of this, his third feature. 'Each one harbours within him, in some form or other, his own serial killer.'
All in black and white to a pounding rock score by a band called Big Balls.
Prod co: Josefine Film, Glück auf Film.
Dir: Volker Einrauch.
Guión (Scr): Lothar Kurzawa.
Foto (Ph): Bernd Meiners.
Mus: Big Balls.
Mont (Ed): Irene Regner.
Ints (Cast): Dieter Landuris (Eddie Hartmann), Karina Marmann (Gerda), Peter Lohmeyer (Theo Bono), Andrea Sawatzki (Olga), Karen Friesecke (Jennifer), Jochen Nickel (Lu Mehlig).
Ventas (Sales): Josefine Film.
Duración (Running time): 79 mins.
Programación (Screening): 19.00, 23 Sept, Principal; 10.00, 24 Sept, Principal; 16.15, 24 Sept, Astoria, 1; 18.00, 25 Sept, Principe, 4
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