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Jenseits

Austria 2006
produced by
Robert Niessner for Loom, Cine Styria
directed by Stefan Müller
starring Philipp Hezoucky, Christine Artner, Matthias Hofmann, Benjamin Plautz, Katharina Vana, Stefanie Kammerhofer, Monika Liska, Andy Posner, Stefan Müller, Andrea Tatschl, Anna Zissler, Christian Linzbichler, Leopold F.J. Keber, Carola Pojer, Agnes Julia Redl, Thomas Stipsits, Reinhard Nowak, Andreas Vitasek, Roland Augustin, Antonia Fabian, Michael Heidenkummer, Stefanie Kaan, Robert Niessner, Heinz Reicher, Kathrin Schneidhofer
story by Stefan Müller, screenplay by Wolfgang Lukas, music by Matthias Erb, special effects by Robert Niessner, Peter Kleinsasser, mkFX, Media Studio Graz

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Tommy (Philipp Hezoucky) falls in love with Tamara (Christine Artner) - and she with him - and before you know it, they spend the night together at her place. But when Tommy is leaving again, he is run over by a car.

While recovering, Tommy asks his friend Christian (Matthias Hoffmann) to get in touch with Tamara - but Christian simply can't find her, the appartment she lived in is empty and has been so for months, in the building nobody seems to even have heard of her, and her cellphone number is a phony.

Once out, Tommy tries to track down Tamara himself, but all he finds is a terribly frightened friend of hers (Agnes Julia Redl), who at first just wants to get rid of him but then hands him an address of a church somewhere in the countryside. From the church's priest Tommy learns of an old legend about a farmer (Benjamin Plautz) and his wife (Katharina Vana), who once took a stranger (Stefan Müller) in as farmhand. However, eventually the farmer got jealous enough of the stranger to kill him ... and accidently injure his wife. Her injuries are grave enough that the farmer would do anything to heal her, and when the church wouldn't help, he made a deal with the devil - but the devil tricked him and let his wife die after all, only now the farmer's soul belongs to the devil. As it turns out, the stranger was some kind of bait who haas struck a deal witht he devil himself to bring him 1.000 souls ... and Tommy figures he is next on the list, so he steals a talisman, somehow linked to the story.

Eventually, things take a turn for the worse when Tommy finds the woman who gave him the address of the church dead, later while investigating, Christian dies as well ... and suddenly Tommy faces the stranger, the devil's bait - however, the stranger for some reason needs the talisman, and Tommy not only won't give it to him, he also discovers the stranger's Achilles' heel: true love, something the stranger shared with the farmer's wife. Ultimately, the stranger lets Tommy go in exchange for the talisman and goes after teh devil himself - while the devil is eager to go after Tommy himself, when ...

Tommy wakes up from a coma, with Tamara and Christian (still alive) in the room. It might all have been just a dream, but the church and the talisman really exist ...

 

Regarding its screenplay, this film is far from perfect: The whole thing is overly convoluted, does not always make sense on closer inspection, the dialogue is stilted and poorly written (causing the non-professional actors to trip over it time and again), and the film drags on for way too long (two hours where one and a half would have easily sufficed). The film's saving grace though is its directotial effort: It looks wonderfully polished despite the fact that it was obviously made on a low budget, it creates atmosphere and/or suspense at just the right moments, it does not relie to heavily on special effects and it by and large omits fashionably flashy but ultimately empty cameratricks. If European horror is to have a future, it should look like this - too bad Jenseits doesn't have a script to live up to its looks though.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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