Suspect (2008 film)

• Anne Weinknecht: Conny
• Heinrich Schmieder: Udo
• Daniela Holtz: Anne
• Eva -Maria Short: Conny's mother

The suspect is a German short film from 2007. It is the final film of director Felix Hassenfratz at the ifs international film school cologne.

The staged in the Baden dialect film was made in co-production with the broadcasters SWR and ARTE and was funded by the NRW Film Foundation.

Action

Church choir and bakery, South German Province. Conny's world is manageable. Together with her husband Udo she performs the traditional bakery in the village. The idyll is deceptive. Three months ago, the murder of a young woman from the site. Udo is heard. He took them with him on Tatabend as a hitchhiker. Did not answer as a witness. Does it also Conny concealed. The suspicion against Udo hardens not - and yet its perpetration is for the villagers soon found out. The clientele is made ​​, and, as with the decline of the bakery begins Conny at her husband's innocence to doubt. Torn between her belief in Udo's innocence and the suspicion of the villagers Conny loses her trust in love.

Festivals and Performances (Selection)

Germany

Internationally

Awards

• 2008: German Short Film Award 2008
• 2008: Winner of the Studio Hamburg Newcomer Award in the category Best Screenplay
• 2008: First Steps Award - Nomination Best Short Fiction Film
• 2008: BMW Short Film Award - 2nd Jury Prize at the Landshut Short Film Festival
• 2008: Golden Stork - Jury Prize of the Wendland Shorts
• 2008: Panther Award of the International Festival of Film Schools Munich: Best Production of a German film - ex aequo with On the route by Reto Caffi
• 2007: predicate: Especially the Filmbewertungsstelle Valuable
• 2007: Short Film of the Month of FBW Filmbewertungsstelle
• 2007: inclusion in the catalog of the AG Short Film