A novelist is told his wife has hired someone to kill him. By morning she is the one in the river.
Martin Lamm writes thrillers. When his wife announces, almost lightly, that she has paid a stranger to have him killed, he takes it for one of her provocations — until she turns up dead in the water and the contract is still open. Lamm runs, and the one person who can keep him alive is Kia, the killer he was meant to be the mark for.
Maria von Heland's first long-form film, made for television: a thriller shot in cold blues and bar-light amber, closer to noir than to the comedies that would come after. Written with Mani Beckmann and Mathias Dinther, and built around Peter Lohmeyer and Amanda Ooms — the start of a working partnership that would run through much of what followed.
Produced by Susanne Dietz for Dom Film and Studio Hamburg, broadcast on WDR in 1999.
Shooting Star, New Directors — Baden-Baden, 2000 · nominated
