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

Nachts im Park
The brilliant heart surgeon Dr. Steffen Hennings watches his attractive female colleague Dr. Katharina
Lumis through the windows of her living room. Since the tragic death of his beloved wife in a car crash
he survived, Steffen has not been able to bring himself to do more than admire women from afar.
Hidden in the park that borders on Katharina’s back yard, Steffen is spellbound as she lights a cigarette
and slowly takes off her clothes. Then he slips quietly away, unaware of a dead woman’s body lying
only inches from where he just stood. The next day, police inspector Dremmler storms the hospital
and arrests Steffen while he is in the middle of surgery. While Steffen is being interrogated, the police
psychologist Dr. Rosenblum barges in and begins to grill the doctor with his hypothesis of how the
murder took place. When the irate Katharina also barges in, Steffen takes advantage of the ensuring
chaos and takes Rosenblum hostage, fleeing with him. Steffen tries to convince the psychologist of his
innocence, but Rosenblum is skeptical; the last time he trusted a suspected killer, one of his colleagues
paid for it with a debilitating injury. Pursued by the police as well as killers hired by the dead woman’s
fiancé, the two men struggle with their own inner ghosts as they set out to find the truth.
Heike Makatsch, Heino Ferch (photo © Beta Film GmbH)
Genre Thriller Category Feature Film Cinema Year of
Production 2001 Director Uwe Janson Screenplay
Jens Urban Director of Photography Hagen Bogdanski
Editor Ingo Ehrlich Music by Oliver Biehler Production
Design Bertram Strauß Producers Thomas Springer,
Helmut G. Weber Production Company Tradewind
Pictures, Cologne, in co-production with Fama Film, Zurich,
Avrora Media, Berlin, MMC Independent, Cologne, Teleclub,
Zurich, SRG/SF DRS, Bern/Zurich Principal Cast Heino
Ferch, Heike Makatsch, Pasquale Aleardi Special Effects
Flash Art Studio Shooting MMC Studios, Cologne-
Ossendorf Length 90 min, 2462 m Format 35 mm,
color, cs Original Version German Sound Technology
Dolby Surround With backing from Filmstiftung NRW,
Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA)
German Distributor Highlight Film, Munich
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www.betafilm.com · email: DScheurhoff@betafilm.com
Uwe Janson, born in 1959, began his career
with the short film Rastlos (1987). It was only
two years later that he directed the highly
acclaimed feature film Verfolgte Wege
(1989), which won a German Camera Award in
1990 and for which he received a Bavarian Film
Award in 1990 for Best Young Direction. From
1993 to 2000, he directed a series of TV
movies, among them To Run and To Die
(1994), The Therapist (1997), Rhapsody
in Blood (1998), Whisky Sour (2000)
and most recently Ms. Cupid (2001). Among
the other prizes he has garnered along the way
are a Director’s Promotional Prize at Munich 1989
and the Prix de Jeunesse at Locarno 1989.
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