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Promised Land (Gelobtes Land)

Police commissioner Juergen Tauber and his new colleague Jo Obermaier are ready to solve their first case together. But first, Tauber has to accept that his new colleague is not only a woman and a very energetic mother, but an excellent police-officer as well. Secondly, the disappearance of truck-driver Holger Wennisch is anything but easy to investigate.
Jonah Dibango is desperate. He is living all alone in Munich, but only on a limited residence permit. He wants to stay in Germany forever, but time is running out. Jonah's wife was murdered in Africa. To save his two children, Thula and Lineo, Jonah engages Holger Wennisch, a professional smuggler, to bring them to Germany illegally. On their way across the border, Wennisch and the children have an accident. One of the children dies, the other one seems to have survived, but disappears. Wennisch, also surviving the accident, is missing as well. His blood-smeared clothes are found on the road. However, the blood-stains are not human, they are chicken blood. Tauber and his new colleague Jo Obermaier set about solving the mysterious case.

Peter Patzak was born in Vienna in 1945. He studied Psychology and Art History. A painter and conceptual artist, he lived in New York from 1968-1970, where he also worked for a TV station, making numerous 16 mm and video films before returning to Vienna. He is best known as the writer and director of the cult television series Kottan ermittelt (1976-1983). A selection of his other films includes: Kassbach (1978), The Uppercrust (Den Tuechtigen gehoert die Welt, 1981), Wahnfried - Richard und Cosima (1988), Der Joker (1988), Killing Blue - Midnight Cop (1988), Shanghai Hotel (1995), Promised Land (Gelobtes Land, 2000) and Zodiac Sign (Sternzeichen, 2002).
 

Category Feature Film Cinema
Director Peter Patzak
Screenplay Christian Jeltsch
Director of Photography Andreas Koefer
Editor Jacqueline von Brueck
Music by Peter Patzak
Producer Tita Korytowski
Production Company Infafilm/Munich
Principal Cast Joana Adu Gyamfi, Aloysius Itoka, Michaela May, Edgar Selge
Length 88 min, 1,017 m
Format color, 16:9
Original Version German
Sound Technology Dolby SR
Festival Screenings Hof 2000

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