Cast
Anne Brendler, Gesine Cukrowski, Francis Fulton Smith, Bernhard Schir
Team
Director
Wolf Gremm
Script
Mathias Klaschka und Wolf Gremm
Production Designer
Adrian Ochse
Creative Producer
Ursula Vossen
Producer
Wolfgang Hantke, Ausführender Produzent
TV Editor
Pit Rampelt, ZDF
Info
Broadcaster
ZDF
Loving and Killing
2004
ZDF psycho-thriller “Loving and Killing“ with Anne Brendler, Gesine Cukrowski, Bernhard Schir and Francis Fulton-Smith. The production was filmed on Phuket, in Thailand.
Book illustrator Isabelle (Anne Brendler) and her husband Tom (Francis Fulton-Smith) come to Thailand to visit her best friend Julia (Gesine Cukrowski), who has a dance school here. Isabelle hopes their first holiday together in years can represent a new beginning for their marriage, which has been going through a difficult period. But when, in curious circumstances, Tom is shown a mysterious video which appears to reveal Isabelle being unfaithful to him, he completely flies off the handle. The woman in the video really does look like Isabelle, and she finds it impossible to persuade Tom that this isn't the case. In desperation Isabelle goes to stay with Julia. While they are shopping at the market one day she meets the German adventurer Klaus (Bernhard Schir). They are both gripped by an incredibly powerful passion, although this is overshadowed to some extent by his mysterious past: did he really kill his wife several years ago, so he would be able to lead a carefree life on Phuket with her money? When more and more inexplicable incidents take place and Isabelle begins to feel very threatened, she can see nothing for it but to return to Germany. But somebody has now made sure that she can't leave the country. Who is this dangerous opponent who appears to be toying with her? When Tom is killed, the situation escalates: Isabelle has to fight - for her life and her true love.
“Loving and Killing“ is a production for ZDF, co-financed by Ziegler Film GmbH and Siamlite Filmservice Co. Ltd and based on the novel “Wie das Gift in die Mango kam” by Barbara Wilde. The screenplay is by Mathias Klaschka and Wolf Gremm, who also directed the production. The supervising producer is Wolfgang Hantke, and Regina Ziegler is the producer. Pit Rampelt is the ZDF program executive.
