EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video’s upcoming German film The Calendar Killer (original title Sebastian Fitzeks Der Heimweg) will launch on January 16, 2025, and you can take a first look at the trailer above.
Based on Sebastian Fitzek’s thriller novel ‘Walk Me Home’, which topped German book charts for 11 weeks, the thriller stars Luise Heyer (Der Junge muss an die frische Luft), Sabin Tambrea (Babylon Berlin) and Friedrich Mücke (Balloon). Rainer Bock (The Collini Case), Andreas Döhler (All Quiet on the Western Front), Romy Miesner (Polizeiruf 110), Shadi Eck (Liberame), Dennenesch Zoudé (Unorthodox), Isabel Thierauch (Zwischen Sommer und Herbst), Kristin Suckow (Ottilie von Faber-Castell) and others also have roles.
Pic will launch on Prime Video in 240 territories in Jan next year.
When Jules (Tambrea) starts his shift on the escort phone, a telephone support line for women to get home safely, everything looks like a quiet Saturday evening. That is until he receives a call from a young mother named Klara (Heyer), who claims that she will die that very night at the hands of a notorious female killer. He has given her an ultimatum: either she kills her husband (Mücke) or she will be murdered. So begins Klara’s desperate escape from the so-called Calendar Killer – with Jules on the phone, who is her only hope of salvation.
“It’s too late,” Klara tells Jules in there trailer as their call begins. “I’m going to be killed tonight.” Flashbacks show her waking in a dirty, disused room with the words: “06.12. Him or you. One will die.”
The trailer shows the fractures in Klara and her husband’s relationship, as she has visions of insects and creepy-crawlies, and her believes she is not taking her medication. “Does it get to the point where I have to have you admitted to a hospital,” he warns in a controlling manner as he firmly holds her hand at a dinner. Later, the Calendar Killer appears to close in on Klara and Jules shouts, “Klara, tell me what is going on” before the line goes dead and the trailer ends.
The Calendar Killer was produced by Ziegler Film for Prime Video, marking the second time the duo has worked with Fitzek following drama series The Therapy. Susanne Schneider (Bella Block) wrote the film’s screenplay and Adolfo J. Kolmerer (Oderbruch) directed. Producers are Regina Ziegler, Barbara Thielen and Susa Kusche, all of whom worked on Fitzek’s The Therapy. Christian Huck (Oderbruch) was the director of photography, Thomas Freudenthal (Hilde) led production design and Verena Schilling served as Creative Executive at Amazon MGM Studios.
Prime Video has been building out its slate of German originals including LOL: Last One Laughing, Maxton Hall – The World Between Us, Fitzek’s The Therapy, The Griffon, Luden – Kings of the Reeperbahn, Joko Winterscheid Presents: The World’s Most Dangerous Show, Silver and Sachertorte.
The news comes less than a day after it emerged Andrew Bennett was succeeding Barry Furlong as head of Prime Video Europe, which houses the German streaming arm.
