Suspect (2008 film)

Suspect
Directed by Felix Hassenfratz
Produced by Mathias Casanova
Written by Felix Hassenfratz
Starring Anne Weinknecht, Heinrich Schmieder, Daniela Holtz
Music by Aylin Aykan
Cinematography Yoshi Heimrath
Edited by Barbara Toennieshen
Distributed by SWR / arte
Release date
  • January 15, 2008 (2008-01-15) (Max Ophüls Festival)
Running time
 26 minutes
Country Germany
Language German

Suspect (German: Der Verdacht) is a 2008 short film. It was the final graduation project of director Felix Hassenfratz at the Internationale filmschule köln. The story, inspired by true events and based on the documentary The Baker Did It, is set in a southern German province with the Badisch dialect. The film is a co-production with the broadcast stations SWR and ARTE, and supported by a German film fund. Despite its regional emphasis, Suspect is a universal story, focused on human behaviour, a story about love in the face of doubt.

Synopsis

What to do and whom to believe when you live in a small village and your husband, the village baker, is the suspect in an unsolved murder? He’s not from the village and your mother still doesn’t accept his taking over the family business after your father's death. You also find a shirt stained with blood and a gun kept in a locked cabinet, and he insists he’s innocent. Can love overcome doubt?

Festivals & Screenings

Germany, all 2008

Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis [1]
Munich International Film Festival
24. Int. Berlin Film Festival Interfilm
Festival of German Cinema [2]
Landshut Short Film Festival (Won an award)
Sehsüchte int. student film festival Potsdam
International Filmfest Emden
Film Festival Shorts At Moonlight
Wendland Shorts (Won an award)
New Talents Biennale Cologne
Int. Film Festival Passau
Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche

International, all 2008

St. Petersburg White Nights Festival
32. Montreal World Film Festival[3]
Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films [4]
Encounters Short Film Festival, Bristol
Foyle Int. Film Festival, Ireland
Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax
Buenos Aires Film Festival
Goethe Institute Paris – selection of contemporary German cinema
Zagreb Film Festival

Awards

  • 2007: The film rating agency FBW labeled the movie "of special merit" [5]
  • 2007: short film of the month – German film rating agency
  • 2008: BMW short film prize [6]
  • 2008: Jury prize, Wendland Shorts
  • 2008: Best Screenplay Studio Hamburg Newcomer Award [7]

References

  1. ↑ Filmfestival Max-Ophüls-Preis: Der Verdacht
  2. ↑ Festival des dt. Kinos: Der Verdacht Archived 2008-04-27 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Montreal Film Festival - screenings of SUSPECT
  4. ↑ Palm Springs Film Festival - catalogue
  5. ↑ film entry at the film rating agency – in german
  6. ↑ Landshut film festival - in German
  7. ↑ Die Welt in German: Die Talente des jungen Films räumen ab, vom 11. April 2008, gefunden am 11. April 2008
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