Hollywood often turns out
scripts for movies that, when watching the final result, you find yourself
rolling your eyes and muttering to yourself, “really?!” You’ve certainly seen mysteries, thrillers
and horror tales that are so convoluted that even the “suspension of disbelief”
can’t save them.
Enter French filmmaker
Vincent Garenq and the Distrib Films release of In Her Name, which is the
story about the mysterious death of a 14-year old girl and the cat-and-mouse
legal — and extralegal — game between a father and stepfather that
unfolds. Icarus Films announced this
past week that this French-language import will be making its domestic DVD
debut on Jan. 16.
So this is just a French
version of a Hollywood script mash-up, right?
A girl dies under mysterious circumstances, the father accuses the
stepfather of murder and France (the home of the father) and Germany (where the
stepfather lived and the teenager died) refuse to cooperate with each other
over the “incident.” Eventually the
father takes matters into his own hands and has the stepfather kidnapped,
spirited out of Germany and into France … and France agrees to put him on trial
for murder!
Now who on this planet is
going to believe a story like that?
Well, get ready for this, In Her Name, is based on actual
events!!!
The film is based on the
case of Kalinka Bamberski, played in the movie by Emma Bessonm, who was living
with her stepfather, Dieter Krombach (Sebastian Koch — Bridge of Spies, A Good Day to
Die Hard, etc.), in Germany when she died under mysterious
circumstances. Her grieving father,
upon reading the autopsy report, becomes convinced that it was no accident.
Germany both refused to prosecute
or extradite Krombach for the crime.
France agreed to try him in absentia, but the verdict of manslaughter
was set-aside. With the statute of
limitations clock ticking down to zero, a plot was hatched to kidnap Krombach
and deliver him to French authorities for an official trial. What happened next was a real eye-opener!
Filmmaker Garenq delivers
an intense thriller that follows the events, plus there are some major shocks
in store for the viewer … was justice served?
On Jan. 16 Icarus Films will reveal it all with the domestic DVD rollout
of In
Her Name.
In Her Name is presented in French (with some German) and
English subtitles.
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