| Hunkeler macht Sachen | |
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| Written by | Dominik Bernet,Hansjörg Schneider |
| Directed by | Markus Fischer |
| Starring | Mathias Gnädinger |
| Music by | Markus Fritzsche |
| Country of origin | Switzerland |
| Original language | Swiss German |
| Production | |
| Producer | Peter Spoerri |
| Cinematography | Reinhard Schatzmann |
| Editor | Christian Iseli |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Release | October 2008 (2008-10) |
Hunkeler macht Sachen is a 2008 Swiss German language television film that was filmed and produced at locations inSwitzerland and inFrance. It is the third film in thehexalogy starringMathias Gnädinger as Swiss police detective Peter Hunkeler.[1]
A prostitute with slashed earlobes is found strangled in a pond. Later,Kommissär Hunkeler (Mathias Gnädinger) 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 bossStaatsanwalt Suter. Thomas Garzoni, owner of a brothel and Marlene Mauch’s lover, Schirmer’s former girlfriend, is strongly suspected. As he tells to Hunkeler whose help he's asking, Garzoni (Oliver Tobias) is troubled by his past as a member of theFahrende minority in Switzerland, and even was award of theKinder der Landstrasse organisation in the 1970s. Although the Basel Police's younger colleagueMadörin (Gilles Tschudi) is treating the "Schirmer case" as a murder involving drugs, Hunkeler is of another opinion, ...
The hexalogy was produced for Swiss televisionSF DRS between 2004 (Das Paar im Kahn) and 2012 (Hunkeler und die Augen des Ödipus). This third instalment is based on the 2004 novelHunkeler macht Sachen byHansjörg Schneider.[2]
The production of the Swiss television SRF was filmed at locations in Basel, in theCanton of Basel-Land and inAlsace in France. The film director also producedDas Paar im Kahn in 2004.
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 thefirstHunkeler 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 Gnädinger was the ideal choice ("Gnädinger is Hunkeler is Gnädinger"), a view also shared by the author of the novel, Hans Jörg Schneider.[3]Mathias Gnädinger, in his early years a stage actor at theTheater Neumarkt atNeumarkt, Zürich, died on 3 April 2015,[4] hence theHunkeler serial comprises six films in all.
The film refers to the SwissKinder der Landstrasse relief organization and the fate of those juvenileFahrende victims.[5]
So in a short scene, the keeper of the archives handles over to Hunkeler among other documents a film,Kinder der Landstrasse, in whichMathias Gnädinger starred in 1993 as actor.
Hunkeler macht Sachen premiered at14e Cinéma tout écran at Geneva in Switzerland in October 2008 and at the 44th Solothurn Film Festival in January 2009.[6] The film was repeatedly broadcast in the Swiss television, for the last time on 17 May 2015 onSRF 1.Hunkeler macht Sachen is available on DVD in a Swiss German language version with German subtitles.[7]
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