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Hunkeler und die Augen des dipus
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Wikipedia article
'Hunkeler und die Augen des dipus' is a 2012 Swiss German language television film that was filmed and produced at locations in Basel respectively in Switzerland. It is the last film of the six-episode serial starring Mathias Gndinger as 'Kommissr Hunkeler'.
Cast
In alphabetical order
* Mathias Gndinger as Kommissr Peter Hunkeler
* Charlotte Heinimann as Hedwig
* Marie Leuenberger as Beate Keller
* Barbara Melzl as Judith Keller
* Axel Milberg as Bernhard Vetter
* Johann Adam Oest as Walter Rutziska
* Gilles Tschudi as Madrin
Plot (excerpt)
Peter Hunkeler (Mathias Gndinger) has been retired as 'Kommissr' (inspector) of the Basel Police, and for the first time since years, enjoys with his fiance Hedwig a play in the Basel theatre. His old passion goes back to his early years when he had played on stage, and planned making the acting to his profession, but then opted for the supposedly safer career with the police. The premiere of Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' Hunkeler fascinated, Hedwig sleeping turns upside down, as one of the actors, Walter Rutziska, is sabotaging the production by suddenly showing up drunk in the audience and insulting the audience. Hunkeler assumes the derailment a brilliant director's incidence, and at the premiere party, he would like to congratulate the director and star of the production, Bernhard Vetter and conceded puzzled a slap in the face. Vetter is furiously chasing the whole society to go to hell and disappears. The "Provence", the name of the yacht the party was onboard it, disappears in the night, and the next morning is found leaderless and damaged on a dam downriver. Bernhard Vetter is missing, and a short time later fished out of the Rhine river, having empty eye sockets...
Title
The title of the film derives from the German term meaning 'Hunkeler and the eyes of Oedipus' referring to the play 'Oedipus Rex'.
Production
The television film is the last episode of six films about 'Kommissr Hunkeler' starring Mathias Gndinger, which were produced for the Swiss television SF DRS between 2004 (Das Paar im Kahn) and 2012. The Swiss German language movie bases on the 2010 novel 'Hunkeler und die Augen des dipus' by Hansjrg Schneider,Hansjrg Schneider: 'Hunkeler und die Augen des dipus'. Diogenes, Zrich 2010, . and was filmed at locations in Basel, at the 'Rhein' river respectively in Switzerland and Germany, as well as in the neighboring Alsace (France). 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 total.
Festivals
* 2013 Solothurn Film Festival
References
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