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| THE DOOR |
aka DIE TÜR
Year: 2009
UK DVD: Optimum Releasing
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Jessica Schwarz, Heike Makatsch, Nele
Trebs
Director: Anno Saul
Country: Germany
Language: German (English subtitles)
UK: 99 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong violence, sex and language
UK DVD Release Date: 18 April 2011
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Synopsis
A festival acclaimed fantasy thriller starring Mads Mikkelsen, and
an intriguing immersion in parallel worlds. David, a formerly
successful painter, distressed by his daughter's death and his
divorce from his wife, finds a mysterious door that allows him to
take up his life at the point where it began to go awry. However
what initially seems like a wonderful chance for a new beginning
soon turns out to be a veritable horror scenario, since not
everything in the past is quite as it seems...
The Door (Die Tr) is a dark
fantasy-thriller centring on a broken man, given a second chance at
life following a tragic accident.
David Andernach seemingly had it all; a successful painter with a
wealthy home in the suburbs, a devoted wife Maja and a beautiful
young daughter, Leonie. But one summer’s day, instead of taking
Leonie on a trip into the forest to catch butterflies, he stays
behind to wile away the afternoon with his mistress Gia. Returning,
he finds that Leonie has drowned after falling into the family pool.
We meet David again five years later, shabby, divorced, and not
having painted in years. But
after being driven by guilt to try to drown himself in the very same
pool, he’s led by a butterfly to a hidden tunnel that opens onto
the very day Leonie died. However David’s joy at what initially
appears to be a chance for redemption soon fades as it dawns
everything in the past is not as it seems.
Playing out in the vein of a Greek tragedy, The Door is both an
accomplished supernatural thriller and a dark moral fable, adapted from the 2001 novel “Die
Damalstuer” by Akif Pirinçci, widely regarded as Germany’s Stephen King.
DVD EXTRAS
Interviews with director, cast & producers
12 deleted/alternate scenes
Trailer
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