Story
Can a parental nightmare have a happy ending. How does it feel when your only child disappears? What if it never reappears, your whole life long? This is the fate that Ingo Thiel (Heino Ferch) has to deal with when a decades-old cold case lands on his desk. 15-year old Sven disappeared in 1997. The investigation got nowhere, leaving his parents in despair. Now, 25 years later, the family starts getting letters telling them of Sven’s imminent return. Thiel takes the case on – so that Sven’s parents can finally find peace. After such a long time, the search for clues isn’t easy: the place where Sven was last seen is now the lunar landscape of the gigantic Garzweiler open-cast mine.
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Director
NIKI STEIN (*1961 in Essen) has for three decades written and directed award-winning TV films, including numerous Tatorte, but also on historic subjects like Rommel (2012) or Louis van Beethoven (2020). He was last at FILMFEST HAMBURG in 2015 with the satire Öl – Die Wahrheit über den Untergang der DDR.Info
Briefe aus dem Jenseits
Fiction Feature
German
Televisionen | FF2023
Germany
2023
89 min
OV
Niki Stein
Niki Stein, Katja Röder
Heino Ferch, Ronald Kukulies, Moritz Führmann, Manfred Zapatka, Franziska Wulf, László I. Kish, Sina Bianca Hentschel, Alexandra von Schwerin u.a.
Nils Dünker
Arthur Ahrweiler
Michael Schlömer
Wiebke Henrich
Jacki Engelken
Bertram Strauß
Claudia Kühlke
Emrah Ertem
Matthias Pfeifer (ZDF), Julius Windhorst (ZDF/ARTE)
Lailaps Films für ZDF / ARTE
ZDF, Arte
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Tags
AgeingLonelinessMemoriesFamily and RelationshipsHistoryViolenceAdolescenceCrime and Thriller