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Hunkeler macht Sachen
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Wikipedia article
'Hunkeler macht Sachen' is a 2008 Swiss German language television film that was filmed and produced at locations in Switzerland and in France. It is the third film in the hexalogy starring Mathias Gndinger as Swiss police detective Peter Hunkeler.
Cast
* Mathias Gndinger as Kommissr Peter Hunkeler
* Charlotte Heinimann as Hedwig
* Oliver Tobias as Thomas Garzoni
* Hanspeter Mller-Drossart as Wirt Edi
* Gilles Tschudi as Madrin
* Jrg Lw as Staatsanwalt Suter
* Marc Schmassmann as Assistant Ldi
* Emanuela von Frankenberg as Gerichtsmedizinerin Anne de Ville
* Andrea Gloggner
* Peter Jecklin
* Ueli Jggi
* Diana Rojas-Feile as Angel
* Doris Paladini as Barbara Amsler
Plot (excerpt)
A prostitute with slashed earlobes is found strangled in a pond. Later, 'Kommissr' Hunkeler (Mathias Gndinger) finds his sidekick Schirmer also murdered with slashed earlobes, however, he gradually begins to doubt his abilities, and later even he's suspended by his boss 'Staatsanwalt' Suter. Thomas Gazoni, owner of a brothel and Marlene Mauchs lover, Schirmers former girlfriend, is strongly suspected. As he tells to Hunkeler whose help he's asking, Gazoni (Oliver Tobias) is troubled by his past as a member of the 'Fahrende' minority in Switzerland, and even was a 'ward' of the 'Kinder der Landstrasse' organisation in the 1970s. Although the Basel Police's younger colleague 'Madrin' (Gilles Tschudi) is treating the "Schirmer case" as a murder involving drugs, Hunkeler is of another opinion, ...
Background
The hexalogy was produced for Swiss television SF DRS between 2004 (Das Paar im Kahn) and 2012 (Hunkeler und die Augen des dipus). This third instalment is based on the 2004 novel 'Hunkeler macht Sachen' by Hansjrg Schneider.Hansjrg Schneider: 'Hunkeler macht Sachen'. Diogenes, Zrich 2013, .
Production
Locations
The production of the Swiss television SRF was filmed at locations in Basel, in the Canton of Basel-Land and in Alsace in France. The film director also produced 'Das Paar im Kahn' in 2004.Kommissr Hunkeler
Hunkeler has unconventional methods, and has a lot of compassion for ordinary people, for society's little guys. These facts, as well as his at times gruff conduct bring him into conflict with colleagues and superiors. On occasion, Basel police want to get rid of him because Hunkeler often does not adhere to the rules.As the film director of the first 'Hunkeler' film loves "fat detectives", Marie-Louise Bless searched for an actor who was "fat, charismatic, and could credibly embody an advocate for the little guy". Mathias Gndinger was the ideal choice ("Gndinger is Hunkeler is Gndinger"), a view also shared by the author of the novel, Hans Jrg Schneider. Mathias Gndinger, in his early years a stage actor at the Theater Neumarkt at Neumarkt, Zrich, died on 3 April 2015, hence the 'Hunkeler' serial comprises six films in all.
Kinder der Landstrasse
The film refers to the Swiss 'Kinder der Landstrasse' relief organization and the fate of those juvenile 'Fahrende' victims.So in a short scene, the keeper of the archives handles over to Hunkeler among other documents a film, 'Kinder der Landstrasse', in which Mathias Gndinger starred in 1993 as actor.
Reception
'Hunkeler macht Sachen' premiered at '14e Cinma tout cran' at Geneva in Switzerland in October 2008 and at the 44th Solothurn Film Festival in January 2009. The film was repeatedly broadcast in the Swiss television, for the last time on 17 May 2015 on SRF 1. 'Hunkeler macht Sachen' is available on DVD in a Swiss German language version with German subtitles.
Festivals
* 2008: '14e Cinma tout cran - Festival international du film et de la tlvision' at Geneva.
* 2009: Solothurn Film Festival.
References
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