![]() Our Urban Explorer, Time Out London’s Digital Editor Ellie Walker-Arnott, has the job of finding the latest trends, attractions, bars and restaurants in the city to help Londoners and visitors alike make the most of their time off. With: Nathalie Kelley, Nick Eversman, Max Riemelt, Catherine de Lean, Brenda Koo, Klaus Stiglmeier.“London is constantly changing and evolving, and that’s part of what makes it such an amazing place.” Reviewed at Fantasia Film Festival, Montreal, July 24, 2011. Screenplay, Martin Thau.Ĭamera (color, DV), Fetscher music, Steven Schwalbe, Robert Henke production designer, Nobel Nobielski set decorator, Agata Uchman costume designer, Dorota Budna sound (Dolby Digital), Christian Schossig sound designer, Nigel Holland supervising sound editor, Holland sound re-recording mixer, Christian Bischoff visual effects supervisor, Janosch Benz special effects designer, Jens Doldissen special effects makeup, Waldemar Pokromski stunt coordinator, Bruno Montani assistant director, Peter Fuchs casting, Monika Mikkelsen. Executive producers, Felix Wendlandt, Martin Hellstern. (International sales: Accelerator, Studio City/London.) Produced by Oliver Thau. Indeed, his one-man-band combination of direction, lensing and editing proves crucial, displaying a balance of craft and patience in building layers of suspense under a horrific setting that goes beyond any urban explorer’s worst nightmare.Ī Papermoon Films presentation in association with Rialto Film and MH Films. The steps along the way toward the quartet’s encounter with Armin (Klaus Stiglmeier, who resembles an unholy melding of Lee Marvin on a very bad day with Klaus Kinski - with an incredible set of teeth), and the subsequent payoff plays out for near maximum impact.įetscher avoids the temptation to push the situation into an exercise in torture porn - an option he easily could have gone for - while nevertheless ratcheting up the horror. Fetscher skillfully develops the eerie atmosphere, but considering their many obstacles (rats, tricky passageways), the explorers manage to get to the bunker rather swiftly.įor all the Nazi talk, Fetscher and Thau set up a second- and third-act menace with more contemporary implications for the city of Berlin, and for Germany. An early encounter with a group of thugs with mean-looking dogs portends trouble.Īs they make their way toward the bunker, Kris instills fear in the group by describing the urban myth of the “Oden People,” tall Nazis who survived underground all these years and may have turned even more fiendish as a result. ![]() ![]() The bunker was recently discovered and then sealed shut by authorities, out of concern it would become a gathering place for neo-Nazi groups (a detail needlessly repeated in screenwriter Martin Thau’s fairly arch English-language dialogue). Kris’ main goal is to get the foursome all the way to a once-secret Nazi bunker and back in one piece. They’re frisky, but about to get a sober dose of what’s facing them from Berliner guide Kris (Max Riemelt). Denis (Nick Eversman), plus gal pals Marie (Catherine de Lean) from France and Juna (Brenda Koo) from Korea. of youth: Lucia (Nathalie Kelley) from Venezuela, her American b.f. Though not readily apparent, the group reps a U.N. The early passages quickly intro the quartet of city spelunkers eager to plunge into Berlin’s vast underground system of tunnels and constructions far below the U-Bahn subways.
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