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Scene from "Until midnight" with Verena Altenberger: bring the murderer to confession
Photo: Hendrik Heiden / Provobis / BR
The thriller begins when other thrillers stop: The perpetrator has actually already been convicted, but the investigative team has to get him to confess in the shortest possible time.
In almost real time, the "Police Call" episode "Until Midnight" with Verena Altenberger shows how the commissioner responsible and an older colleague pull out all the stops to get the murderer to confess.
For this pointed interrogation thriller, there was now the main prize at the television film festival in Baden-Baden.
The jury's reasoning stated: “A film made from one piece.” Whether in the area of staging, imagery, editing, the use of stylistic devices or acting - the film impresses with its cinematic craft and impresses with its “enormous emotionality” it further in the rationale.
"An extraordinary, masterful work."
"Until midnight" was directed by Dominik Graf, an expert in unusual police films.
The book comes from the film journalist Tobias Kniebe.
The TV Film Festival in Baden-Baden is one of the most renowned award events for German TV film.
Read a detailed review of the "police call" here.
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