Suspect (2008 film)
# Suspect (2008 film)

Suspect (German: Der Verdacht) is a 2008 short film. It was the final graduation project of director Felix Hassenfratz at the Internationale Filmschule Köln. The story, inspired by true events and based on the documentary The Baker Did It, is set in a southern German province with the Badisch dialect. The film is a co-production with the broadcast stations SWR and Arte, and supported by a German film fund. Despite its regional emphasis, Suspect is a universal story, focused on human behaviour, a story about love in the face of doubt.

## Synopsis

What to do and whom to believe when you live in a small village and your husband, the village baker, is the suspect in an unsolved murder? He’s not from the village and your mother still doesn't accept his taking over the family business after your father's death. You also find a shirt stained with blood and a gun kept in a locked cabinet, and he insists he’s innocent. Can love overcome doubt?

## Festivals and screenings

### Germany (all 2008)

Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis Munich International Film Festival 24. Int. Berlin Film Festival Interfilm Festival of German Cinema Landshut Short Film Festival (Won an award) Sehsüchte int. student film festival Potsdam International Filmfest Emden Film Festival Shorts At Moonlight Wendland Shorts (Won an award)

New Talents Biennale Cologne Int. Film Festival Passau Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche

### International (all 2008)

St. Petersburg White Nights Festival 32. Montreal World Film Festival Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films Encounters Short Film Festival, Bristol Foyle Int. Film Festival, Ireland Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax Buenos Aires Film Festival Goethe Institute Paris – selection of contemporary German cinema Zagreb Film Festival

## Awards

* 2007: The film rating agency FBW labeled the movie "of special merit"
* 2007: Short film of the month – German film rating agency
* 2008: BMW short film prize
* 2008: Jury prize, Wendland Shorts
* 2008: Best Screenplay Studio Hamburg Newcomer Award
