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

Tanz mit dem Teufel
DANCE WITH THE DEVIL
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The crime that rocked the nation and took over twenty years to solve: 25 years ago, Richard
Oetker, heir to one of the largest fortunes in Germany, was kidnapped. For the first time ever, he
has agreed to collaborate with a film team to tell his story.
It was the crate. To this day, it still unnerves Richard Oetker when he looks back… It is 1976, and
Oetker is kidnapped and forced into a wooden crate. The kidnapper demands, and gets DM 21
million, an unheard-of sum at the time. Oetker is freed, but while in the crate he suffers an electric
shock that leaves him crippled for the rest of his life. Georg Kufbach, the police agent who found
Oetker, begins a quest for justice that will last nearly 20 years. Convinced that a man named Cilov
is the kidnapper, Georg, working closely with Oetker, begins to circle in on his prey. Cilov knows he
is trapped, but Georg has no proof; Cilov has the money, but Georg has to catch him with it. Like
Oetker in his crate, all three are trapped within the narrow confines of their desires and obsessions.
All three are inextricably bound together, hurtling towards the startling outcome…
Genre Thriller Category Mini-series Year of
Production 2001 Director Peter Keglevic
Screenplay Dr. Rainer Berg Director of
Photography Hans-Günther Bücking Editor
Moune Barius Music by Juergen Ecke
Production Design Martin Schreiber
Producers Nico Hofmann, Ariane Krampe,
Ludwig zu Salm, Patrick Simon Production
Company teamWorx, Berlin/Munich, in co-production
with KirchMedia, Munich Principal Cast
Sebastian Koch, Tobias Moretti, Christoph Waltz,
Günther Maria Halmer, Sophie von Kessel, Ann-
Kathrin Kramer Special Effects Effective, Jens
Döldissen Length 2 x 90 min, 4925 Format
16 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version
German Subtitled Version English Sound
Technology Dolby SR With backing from
FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, ILB Brandenburg
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Peter Keglevic is one of the most distinctive directors and script
writers in the German film and television business. He began his successful
career 24 years ago directing the TV movie Im Zossener
Bad, for which he also wrote the script. This was followed by,
among others, the feature film Tragique (1977) and the TV movies
Der Zauberlehrling (1977), Auf freiem Fuß (1978),
Zuhaus in der Fremde (1979) and Die Jahre vergehen
(1980). In the years that followed, some of his most important works
were the feature film Bella Donna (1982), The Cop and the
Girl (1985) as well as the TV movies Das Milliardenspiel
(1988) and Dort oben im Wald bei diesen Leuten (1989).
From 1993-1998, he directed a series of productions for RTL, among
them Kommissar Beck – Der Polizistenmörder (1993),
Der Tag der Abrechnung (1994), Die Roy Black Story
(1996), for which he received a German Golden Lion, as well as the
thriller Vicky’s Nightmare (1997) starring Katja Flint and
Christoph Waltz. In 1999, he directed the German-Australian coproduction
Falling Rocks for ProSieben, starring Claudia
Michelsen and Christoph Waltz. Dance with the Devil is his
first cooperation with teamWorx and SAT.1.
Sebastian Koch, Tobias Moretti, Christoph Waltz (photo © Beta Film GmbH)