Synopsis
During the night of July 12th, 2002, two brothers, Marco and Marcel Schönfeld, and their friend Sebastian Fink, fatally maltreated a 16-year-old boy named Marinus Schöberl. For hours at the end the shaven-headed perpetrators beat their victim, a member of the HipHop scene with a tendency to stutter. Perpetrators and victim all knew each other. They all come from Potzlow, a village in the Uckermark region of Brandenburg, sixty kilometres north of Berlin. The unbelievable cruelty of this "skinhead murder" as it was known, attracted media attention far beyond the immediate locale of the crime.
Andres Veiel's filmic protocol for two actors is based on more than twenty conversations conducted with two of the perpetrators, as well as the victims' relatives, friends and neighbours in Potzlow. Just as in the theatre version of this text, which was performed at Berlin's Maxim Gorky Theatre, all of the speaking parts in this screen adaptation are played by Susanne-Marie Wrage and Markus Lerch.
Andres Veiel's filmic protocol for two actors is based on more than twenty conversations conducted with two of the perpetrators, as well as the victims' relatives, friends and neighbours in Potzlow. Just as in the theatre version of this text, which was performed at Berlin's Maxim Gorky Theatre, all of the speaking parts in this screen adaptation are played by Susanne-Marie Wrage and Markus Lerch.
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