Deathmaker

1995 film

Edited byPeter Przygodda

Release date

1995 (1995)

CountryGermanyLanguageGerman

Deathmaker (German: Der Totmacher) is a 1995 German film directed by Romuald Karmakar and starring Götz George, Jürgen Hentsch and Pierre Franckh. The film is based on the transcripts of the interrogation of the notorious serial killer Fritz Haarmann.

The film received several awards and nominations. The film was awarded the Deutscher Filmpreis Best Feature Film, Deutscher Filmpreis Best Direction and Deutscher Filmpreis Best Actor in 1996. Götz George also won the Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival for his role. It was chosen as Germany's official submission to the 69th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Cast

Götz George - Fritz Haarmann
Jürgen Hentsch - Prof. Dr. Ernst Schultze
Pierre Franckh - Stenograph
Hans-Michael Rehberg - Kommissar Rätz
Matthias Fuchs - Dr. Machnik
Marek Harloff - Fürsorgezögling Kress

References

^ H. G. Pflaum. "On the history of the German candidates for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film". German Films. Archived from the original on 2009-05-09. Retrieved 2008-08-27.
^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
^ "39 Countries Hoping for Oscar Nominations". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 13 November 1996. Archived from the original on February 9, 1999. Retrieved 5 October 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)