The feature film COME SWEET DEATH together with SILENTIUM and THE BONEMAN are a trilogy of the successful Hader-Murnberger-Haas trio. Cryptic cinematic entertainment at its very best. Based on the novel „Komm, süßer Tod“ by Wolf Haas.


War between the ambulance companies. In a situation like this, bloodshed is almost a matter of honor. Suddenly the paramedic Brenner finds his past has caught up with him. His past as a detective.

Ambulance work is a bloody field to begin with. Now add the no-holds-barred rivalry between the Rettungsbund and the Kreuzretter. Patients are stolen, blood bank directors bled, and paramedics skillfully eliminated. The only person who doesn’t seem much interested in any of this is the ex-detective Brenner. He’s happy to have found a meaningful job as a paramedic and wants to have as little to do with these kinds of escapades as possible. But not wanting to have anything to do with the world is just Brenner’s proven method of coping. And in the end, not only does he get himself mixed up in the whole thing, but his old classmate Klara as well. The same Klara he didn’t want to have anything to do with back in high school ...

Against his will Brenner is thrown back in his old detective life when one of his colleagues notices something interesting. Hansi Munz can’t believe how hot and heavy the lovers at the window are going at it. But when the couple sinks to the floor in mid-kiss, it isn’t out of passion. An amazing crack shot has joined the lovers for all eternity.
A weary Brenner does all he can to keep from getting dragged into the affair. And the fact that his hyperactive partner, Berti, who is serving alternative military duty as an ambulance driver, is dead-set on playing detective just gets on Brenner’s nerves.

But when a second murder is committed, this time on a fellow Kreuzretter paramedic, and Brenner sees his long-awaited chance to impress his old classmate Klara, he gets involved after all.

Slowly but surely he uncovers the ugly truth as he is confronted with the bitter war between the rival ambulance companies – the Kreuzretter and the Rettungsbund – a suspicious „accident,“ an accident victim who is doing better than it might seem, falsified wills, and a solution to the case that manages to surprise even him.

In the end the bad guys have either been exposed or killed; the good guys can go back to doing their jobs, and Brenner finally has time to choose between the two women who have entered his life at this turbulent time. “Of course making choices has never been one of his fortes ..."


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Genre	Black Comedy
Running Time	108 min
Country	Austria
Production Year	2000
Format	35 mm, 1:1,85
Sound	Dolby SRD
Language	German with English Subtitles

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