Titel Kino 2/2001(2 Alternativ) - German Films

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BLOODY WEEKEND
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Dean dreams of being a successful author of thrillers and having lots of money, a beautiful woman
and a little house on an island in the South Pacific. But up to now, he has only made it as a property
manager of a holiday camp in the mountains. He is not really committed, mixes up the
reservations, and hardly takes care of his duties. At a rather dull party, he meets Romy, an attractive
psychology student. Quickly, they become very close and leave the boring party and go to one
of the holiday houses in the camp. Dean thinks that the house will be vacant for the coming days.
They spend the night together.
Ed Novak’s career as a gangster was abruptly ended by a terrible ”accident“, which confined him to
a wheel-chair. He now specializes in planning the raids, and his collaborators Toby, Alex and
Rochus carry out the work for him. The three men raid a betting office, not knowing that one of
the customers is the powerful gangster Honcek, who has manipulated a horse race and now wants
to place a high bet for this race. Suddenly, the police arrive, a gun-battle ensues and, in the hail of
bullets, Toby jumps into the car with Alex, leaving Rochus behind.
Once again, Dean has overslept. When he makes up, Romy is already gone. Instead, Ed, Toby and
Alex are sitting in the remote house in the mountains – an ideal place to escape. Unfortunately,
they are not only being chased by the police, but also by Honcek. And there is one thing that
Dean does not yet know: Romy has given Rochus, who was hitchhiking, a lift in her car.
Genre Thriller Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production
1999 Director Thomas Roth Screenplay Thomas
Roth, Robert Treichler, Martin Daniel Director of Photography
Helmut Pirnat Editor Evi Romen Music by Lothar
Scherpe Production Design Christoph Kanter Producer
Danny Krausz Production Company DOR FILM West, Munich,
in co-production with DOR FILM, Vienna Principal Cast Marek
Harloff, Jürgen Hentsch, Annelise Hesme, Dieter Pfaff, Jürgen
Tarrach, Herbert Fritsch Casting Barbara Vögel Special Effects
Matthias Brandhofer Length 107 min, 2928 m Format Super 35
mm, color, cs Original Version German Subtitled Version
English Sound Technology Dolby Digital SRD International
Festival Screenings Ghent 2000 With backing from
Austrian Film Institute, Wiener Film Fond, ORF (Film-Fernsehabkommen),
FilmFernsehFonds Bayern German Distributor
Kinowelt Filmverleih GmbH, Munich
World Sales:
Atlas International Film GmbH
Dieter Menz, Stefan Menz, Christl Blum
Rumfordstr. 29-31 · D-80469 Munich
phone +49-89-2 10 97 50 · fax +49-89-22 43 32
www.atlasfilm.com · email: mail@atlasfilm.com
Herbert Fritsch (photo © DOR FILM/Lukas Beck)
Thomas Roth was born in 1965 in Graz,
Austria. From 1985-1994, he worked at
the Styrian studios of the Austrian Broadcasting
Station (ORF). Today, he is a freelance
scriptwriter and director and lives in Vienna.
In addition to documentaries and music
videos, his works include: Sudden Death
(1993), Eine kleine Erfrischung (1994),
Schnellschuss (TV, 1995), The Lake (TV,
1996) based on the novel by Gerhard Roth,
Blutrausch (1997) his first feature film,
based on the novel by Günther Brödl, and
Im Kreuzfeuer (TV, 1998).
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