Antikörper (2005)

Director:

Christian Alvart

Writer:

Christian Alvart (writer)

Release Date:

7 July 2005 (Germany)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Das Gute ist das Böse daran. [The Good is the Evil in It.]

Plot:

Long wanted serial killer Gabriel Engel gets arrested in a spectacular police strike. Small town cop...

Plot Keywords:

Police | Murder | Serial Killer | Rooftop | Prayer

Awards:

6 wins

Cast

Norman Reedus	...	Polizist Schmitz
Christian von Aster	...	Polizist Wagner
André Hennicke	...	Gabriel Engel
Waltraud Witte	...	Frau Hering
Konstantin Graudus	...	Wosniak
Heinz Hoenig	...	Seiler
Wotan Wilke Möhring	...	Michael Martens
Ulrike Krumbiegel	...	Rosa Martens
Hauke Diekamp	...	Christan Martens
Jürgen Schornagel	...	Sucharzewski
Gudrun Ritter	...	Frau Sucharzewski
Laura Alberta Szalski	...	Sarah Martens
Klaus Zmorek	...	Bosowski
Domenico D'Ambrosio	...	Techniker (Technician)
Holger Franke	...	Karl Prebisch

Also Known As:

Antibodies (International: English title)
Antimatter (International: English title)

Runtime:

127 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

UK:18 | France:-12 | Ireland:18 | Germany:16

Filming Locations:

Bahnhof Zoologischer Garten, Berlin, Germany

Company:

Kinowelt Filmproduktion

Trivia:

Director Christian Alvart uses his own dog to play Schimanski in the film. The dog's real name is Romeo. It is a six-year-old Husky-Rottweiler.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Gabriel Engel: The world is unfair. Even to people like us. Pedro Alonso Lopez committed 300 sex murders. Now, 20 years later, who remembers him? Not a soul. Jack the Ripper is world-famous, and for what? Five bitches. Five! And Charley Manson. The hippie they called "Our Emperor" didn't even commit one murder himself.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Masters of Horror: John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns (#1.8)" (2005)

Soundtrack:

Birds Crushing Into Windows

One of this year's best movies

On the 7th day god watched this movie. Afterwards he mourned: Maybe I made some mistakes yesterday? One archangel replied: Your imperfect creation is at least capable of creating films like this.... Michael, a straight catholic father with part-time jobs (policeman and farmer) is afraid of his grapes of wrath and weakness. Gabriel Engel, the beast without beauty, killed kids to paint with their blood. Michael lives in a small village, in which a young girl was brutally killed one year ago. (Some flashbacks remind of Egoyan's „Exotica" – not a bad reference)... The more you try to retell the story the more you realize, that you have to see the characters, you have to get in touch with the astonishing score to feel what „antikörper" is really about. It's one of this year's best movies with an addictive atmosphere and a giant step ahead for „curiosity and the cat"-director Alvart. As far as we know from this movie, he neither believes in one truth, nor innocence. He doubts love and further more happy endings. But he truly believes in miracles and maybe that is what a real cineast is all about.