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Im deutsch-niederländischen Grenzgebiet sowie in Hamburg entsteht derzeit ein zweiteiliger „Tatort“ als Koproduktion zwischen Deutschland und den Niederlanden.

Regisseur Hans Steinbichler (Bildmitte) am Set der „Tatort“Doppelfolge „Ein guter Tag/Schwarzer Schnee“ mit den Darstellern Gaite Jansen und Wotan Wilke Möhring (Credit: Ndr/Georges Pauly)

Nach einem Drehbuch von Alexander Adolph inszeniert Hans Steinbichler noch bis 17. Dezember in Groningen und Delfzijl in den Niederlanden, in Emden, Seevetal und Uelzen in Niedersachsen sowie in Hamburg die „Tatort“-Doppelfolge „Ein guter Tag /Schwarzer Schnee“. Wie der Ndr heute mitteilt, handelt es sich dabei um eine deutsch-niederländische Koproduktion, die Katinka Seidt und Wiebke Andresen (Nordfilm) sowie Leontine Petit (Lemming Film) produzieren. Beteiligter Sender aus den Niederlanden ist Npo.

In ihrem neuen Fall sollen der Bundespolizist Thorsten Falke (Wotan Wilke Möhring) und sein Kollege, der Cyber-Kriminalist Mario Schmitt (Denis Moschitto), das rätselhafte Verschwinden des Autohändlers Joe Glauning (Andrei Viorel Tacu) in der deutsch-niederländischen Grenzregion aufklären.

Year: 2010

Directors: Alexander Adolph

Writers: Alexander Adolph

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Review by: Projectcyclops

Rating: 8 out of 10

The Last Employee is a supernatural horror film for anyone who.s had to stay late at the office and contend with creepy corridors, motion sensor lighting and the long walk to the underground car park. It concerns an unemployed lawyer called David Böttcher (Christian Berkel . you might recognize him as the barman from Ingourious Basterds), a family man who, due to health problems made unclear, has spent three years receiving medical treatment and has finally found himself a new job. During the interview it.s explained by his new boss that an underperforming company is to be dismantled and it.s David.s duty to inform the employees that they.re all fired and to start the inventory of the office supplies and accounts. Not a job anyone would ask for certainly,...

What should a horror film accomplish? Whichever way you look at it, The Last Employee fails - sometimes abjectly - at everything it sets out to do. It's never remotely unsettling, much less horrifying, a would-be twisted psychological chiller where both plot beats and scares end up glaringly obvious, even unintentionally funny. The dull, leaden story never once evokes any sympathy or concern for anyone involved, bar the cast members desperately trying to lift their lifeless dialogue out of the bottom of the bucket.

David Böttcher (Christian Berkel, Black Book, Downfall, Inglorious Basterds) is a liquidator, employed to resolve failing companies' affairs after showing their staff the door. Long out of work for reasons that become clear later in the film, when he's offered the chance to wind up one firm in a gloomy office building downtown he jumps at the chance, knowing how much his family needs the money.

COLOGNE, Germany -- German financial wunderkind David Groenewold added another puzzle piece to his cross-media group on Monday, transferring 51% of new Berlin-based distributor Majestic Filmverleih and producer Majestic Filmproduktion to his production group Odeon Film.

Groenewold set up the Majestic companies earlier this year with partner, and former Senator Film executive, Benjamin Herrmann. Herrmann remains Majestic managing director and holds a 49% stake in both companies.

Majestic's focus is on German-language features, both as a distributor and a financier/co-producer.

Last week the group picked up Doris Doerrie's upcoming romantic comedy Hanami and the documentary Con Man Confidential from Alexander Adolph.

Majestic has also boarded three new features as a co-producer and distributor: Florian Gallenberger's World War II biopic John Rabe; the mountain climbing drama Nordwand from Phillip Stoelzl; and Desert Flower, an adaptation of the 1997 best-selling autobiography from Somalian-born model Waris Dirie.