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Das Ewige Leben

Austria 2015
produced by
Danny Krausz, Kurt Stocker, Alfred Deutsch (executive) for Dor Film
directed by Wolfgang Murnberger
starring Josef Hader, Tobias Moretti, Nora von Waldstätten, Christopher Schärf, Roland Düringer, Margarete Tiesel, Johannes Silberschneider, Hary Prinz, Sasa Barbul, Hermes (voice), Daniel Langbein, Thomas Anton, Carmen Loley, Thomas Stipsits, Hanus Polak jr, Wolf Haas
screenplay by Josef Hader, Wolfgang Murnberger, Wolf Haas, based on the novel by Wolf Haas, music by Sofa Surfers

Brenner

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Having made exactly nothing out of his life, Brenner moves back to Graz, the town he has left many years ago due to bad memories, and into the derelict house of his late parents. Being short on cash, he tries to sell his old gun from his times in the police academy to his friend Köck (Roland Düringer) ... sort of a harmless blackmail attempt, as many years back he and Köck were involved in a bank robbery. Thing is, Köck isn't exactly in the money either, but he knows somebody who is, police chief Aschbrenner (Tobias Moretti), who was also involved in the bank robbery all those years back, and who has something to lose as opposed to the others ...

Aschbrenner makes a visit to Brenner, being all slick and friendly, but Brenner thinks Aschbrenner's threatening him ... and the next day, Brenner is found with a bullet in the head - but not a life-threatening one, and thanks to a neighbour (Johannes Silberschneider), Brenner makes it to the hospital in time and is nursed back to health ... but when he's visited by Aschbrenner, he sees it fit to make a getaway and wants to hide out at Köck's - but he finds Köck dead, murdered, and since he's not back to his old self yet, Brenner passes out next to the corpse ... where he's found by the police, who have to let him go because they can't find the murder weapon - and Aschbrenner himself sees to it that Brenner is sent back to the hospital.

Young cop Heinz (Christopher Schärf) investigates the murder, but Aschbrenner intervenes, as the investigations might uncover some inconvenient facts - like the bank robbery. Then though a witness (Sasa Barbul) identifies Aschbrenner's own wife (Nora von Waldstätten) as Köck's killer - and suddenly things get very personal for Aschbrenner, and he manages to kill the witness while he's under police observation, then even kills cop Heinz after he has identified his wife as the killer ...

There is a problem though, Aschbrenner's wife might also be his daughter - or Brenner's or Köck's daughter or the daughter of a fourth friend, her mother (Margarete Tiesel) is less than sure as back in the day she had had sex with all four men who were involved in that bank robbery. Anyways, now that Brenner knows the truth, Aschbrenner is more than determined to kill him as well, and manages to corner him after a long chase through the city - but it's not easy to kill an old friend, and Brenner plays on this, and then Aschbrenner's heart isn't what it once was anymore, and ultimately he dies from a heart attack, leaning against Brenner's shoulder while watching the beautiful fireworks he has arranged for his wife's birthday.

... and ultimately, Brenner manages to clear the whole thing up with the police without drawing Aschbrenner's wife into this, after all, she might just as well be his daughter. Oh, and the bulltet in Brenner's head ... he actually had tried to kill himself in an acute migrane attack but suffering from partial amnesia would denie that later.

 

Das Ewige Leben, the fourth of the Brenner-movies, still shows the series on a very high quality level: The cast is first rate, the story intelligent and full of underlying irony without ever just mocking itself, the direction elegant, and several setpieces (like the chase in the finale) are very much on the inventive side while going against genre expectaions and show how such scenes can work without just pushing for speed. Olus, one can't but love the film's macabre tone.

Totally worth a watch!

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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