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The Camera murderer

Der Kameramörder

Genre: Thriller
Country: Austria, Switzerland, Hungary
Year: 2010
Duration: 90 min

Director: Robert-Adrian Pejo
Scenario: Thomas Glavinic(novel), Robert-Adrian Pejo, Agnes Pluch, Günter Pscheider

Cast: Dorka Gryllus, Andreas Lust, Merab Ninidze, Ursina Lardi

Programme selection: Focus: Austria

Synopsis:

Easter at Lake Neusiedl: Thomas (Merab Ninidze) has a designer house hidden in the reeds on the Hungarian side of the lake. He and his new girlfriend Sonja (Dorka Gryllus) invite another couple to visit: Heinrich (Andreas Lust), an old friend and notorious cynic and his wife Eva (Ursina Lardi), who seems to have a more complicated past with Thomas than a simple long-lasting friendship. Small irritations even before the guests arrive suggest that the idyll portrayed by the film is not to be trusted: Thomas accidentally knocks one of Sonja’s lovingly prepared Easter eggs out of her hand and the quickie sex they have is reminiscent of a slugfest. Somebody on a boat on the lake seems to be watching them. Sonja was only ever allowed to enter the shed - in which Thomas is keeping a surprise for her - blindfolded. After the other couple arrives friendly banter increasingly turns into general tenseness. Cynicism, the last common ground between Heinrich and Eva, threatening gestures and bad jokes prove to be the inappropriate antidote to the increased tension between the couples. The neighboring farmer visits briefly and informs them that his sisters’ three children went missing without a trace. At the same time a snuff video surfaces and it seems it was recorded in immediate vicinity to the house. It shows three boys being tortured by an unidentified man. Paranoia creeps in. Is the perpetrator in the house?


 

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