Totenfrau

Cinema

„Totenfrau“ ran 2022 in the festival cinema program.

For the serial adaptation of Bernhard Aichner's furious bestselling trilogy, Anna Maria Mühe must act as a mortician in her own right: First she puts her husband in the ground, then hopefully hunts down his killer.

As a mortician in an Austrian ski resort, Blum (Anna-Maria Mühe) is actually used to dealing with death. Until the accidental death of her husband, a policeman, threatens to throw her completely off course. Suddenly, the loving mother of two is confronted not only with her widowhood, but also with the possibility that the hit-and-run may have actually been a cold-blooded murder. Apparently, her dead husband was on the trail of a mystery that Blum is now trying to get to the bottom of as well. She takes on the role of a goddess of revenge, who is capable of more than her existence as a "woman of the dead" implies. However, she herself becomes the target of the killers: The huntress becomes the hunted and the second co-production of the ORF with Netflix after "Freud" becomes a breathlessly exciting thriller highlight.

After the screening: Q&A with the cast. 

Episodes shown

1-2

Originaltitel

Totenfrau

Transmitter (Germany)

Netflix

Transmitter (Original)

ORF, Netflix

Countries

Austria

Year of publication

2022

Languages

german

Creators

Bernhard Aichner, Barbara Stepansky, Benito Mueller, Wolfgang Mueller

Authors

Barbara Stepansky, Mike Majzen, Nicolai Rohde, Wolfgang Mueller, Benito Mueller

Direction

Nicolai Rohde

Mit

Anna Maria Mühe, Yousef Sweid, Hans Uwe Bauer, Felix Klare, Emilia Pieske, Lilian Rosskopf, Romina Küper

Production

Mona Film, Barry Films, Square One Productions, Netflix