Komm, süßer Tod is the very amusing film version of one of the cult crime novels by Wolfgang Haas starring ‘Simon Brenner’ with a very macabre and complex plot. The former detective Brenner (played by the Austrian cabaret star Josef Hader) has become an ambulance driver and finds himself, much to his dismay, caught up in a war between two rival first aid organisations. Brenner himself has been taken on by the ‘Kreuzrettern’. His boss did not object to his past with the police, on the contrary. After all the murders in the accident service branch, he is happy to have a sleuth in his ranks. In the meantime, Brenner smokes too much, has migraine attacks and also has the rare gift of not being able to distinguish major issues from minor ones. So he notices the silliest things. Brenner’s unwilling return to the life of a detective starts when two lovers, in mid kiss, fall to the ground, impassioned. A devilishly good shot has united them in eternity. The exhausted Brenner doesn’t want to know, but his co-driver wants to set off and investigate. Soon more blood flows and Brenner bumps into an old childhood love – one he wasn’t interested back then either.
Film details
- Country of production
- Austria
- Year
- 2000
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2001
- Length
- 108"
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
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