| Dard Divorce | |
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| Directed by | Olaf Ittenbach |
| Produced by | Olaf Ittenbach |
| Written by | Olaf Ittenbach |
| Starring | Martina Ittenbach Daryl Jackson Christopher Kriesa |
| Music by | Konstantinos Kalogeropoulos |
| Cinematography | Olaf Ittenbach |
| Editing by | Eckart Zerzawy |
| Studio | IMAS Filmproduktion |
| Distributed by | Boll AG |
| Release date(s) | 01 November 2007 |
| Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | English |
Dard Divorce is a German independent Horror film directed by Olaf Ittenbach and stars Christopher Kiesa, Daryl Jackson and Martina Ittenbach.
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Nathalie Stein, an embittered and exhausted young woman, is currently going through a bitter divorce from her husband Tim. A qualified attorney, she is doing her best to ensure that her two children, Jeremy and Elisabeth, never see their father again. Tim arrives to pick the children up for what is believed to be one last time. He fails to return with the children.
Nathalie's dog disappears under mysterious circumstances and she discovers a piece of paper with the word "Dard" (the Persian word for "to inflict pain") in her house. Panicked, she calls the police, who cannot help without more evidence. She decides to meet Tim and the children in Chinatown, but they do not show up.
In the evening, Tim suddenly appears at the house, apparently badly injured. Before dying, he tells Nathalie that the children have been abducted. She immediately informs the police, but as the detective, Phil Warren, arrives, the body is gone. Furthermore, Phil is revealed to be corrupt and overpowers Nathalie. He tells Nathalie that Tim had bust in on a drug deal led by the Persian Maho and had run off with a million dollars and all the cocaine. Convinced that the drugs are hidden in the house, he tortures Nathalie to attempt to get the information out of her, cutting a finger and a toe off with a hedge trimmer. Nathalie eventually manages to break release and kills Phil with a broken bottle.
Then appears a mysterious man by the name of Daniel. He tends to her wounds and calms her down. His story is somewhat different - that Tim had chanced upon the drug deal and that he had got hold of the two cases entirely innocently before disappearing. However, it is then revealed that Daniel's intentions are less honourable as it seemed - he drugs Nathalie and disposes of Phil's body. Daniel explains how he tortured and killed Nathalie's loved ones before torturing Nathalie herself. She is, once again, able to free herself under the effects of local anaethesia and kills Daniel with a knife.
Severely wounded, she clambers up the stairs when the phone begins to a ring. It is Gates. Gates sends her daughter Elisabeth in and points a sniper rifle at her head. Posing a riddle, Nathalie and Elisabeth attempt to come up with the answer - one of Tim's old children's songs apparently revealed the location. As Nathalie goes to pick up a pencil, however, Gates shoots her in the shoulder. Nathalie takes Daniel's pistol and shoots Gates.
Nathalie runs alone to the cornfield and meets Tim there, who has their son. The true story is revealed - Gates had employed Tim as an informer and was supposed to give him Moha. As Gates was one of the most corrupt cops in the precinct, however, Tim was ordered to bring him the drugs and money too. Tim slipped some E 605 into the coffee at the deal and shot the other party. Nathalie was his last obstacle but, as Tim goes to shoot her, he is shot by Elisabeth by behind. Nathalie and the children begin a new life.
Due to the limited budget, Olaf Ittenbach used his own house as the filming location and only filmed at weekends. Other shots were taken at a local restaurant and a farm. Principal photography commenced on 28 September 2006 and lasted until 7 July 2007. Ittenbach travelled to the United States with his wife Martina to take a number of shots throughout the country in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Price Canyon and the Nevada Desert. Another brief exterior shot was filmed at Ridgecrest. Although the film was a German production, the film was made in English and later dubbed into German to achieve a wider market.
The film's premiere was at on 1 November 2009 in Premiere at San Sebastián International Film Festivalin Spain and was released on 11 April 2009 of DVD in Germany.
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