From Christine Dossel"In the beginning," says the dead lover's voice, "there was not the Word, nor God, but the spider." The spider is the mysterious sign of the zodiac to which this film belongs. Again and again you see a specimen in close-up crawling over the skin, over a hand or an arm. They are tenderly caressed by the lovers. Like allies. It's the opposite of arachnophobia, the overwhelming fear of eight-legged creatures. "The great spider mother destroys the world...
Now it's official: Michael Maertens is Salzburg's new Jedermann in 2023, Valerie Pachner plays his lover, the paramour. In Austria, this news is almost as significant as someone proclaiming from the bell tower of Salzburg Cathedral: "Habemus papam." Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Play of the Rich Man's Death", which has been performed annually in front of this cathedral since 1920, is the indestructible centerpiece and hit of the Salzburg Festival. The ancestral gallery of "Everyman" resembles a who's who not only...
In "Polizeiruf 110" today from Munich, Elisabeth Eyckhoff is investigating after a 16-year-old is found dead in a park. Is "The Light That The Dead See" worth it?
"The light that the dead see" is called the "Police call 110" Today from Munich. The thriller runs on Sunday evening (05/15/2022, 8:20 p.m.) in the first. The fifth case of commissioner Elisabeth "Bessi" Eyckhoff: A teenager is found dead and wrapped in plastic in a Munich park - another is...
