''Normal'' (also known as ''Angels Gone'') is a 2009 Czech thriller film directed by
Julius Ševčík
Julius Ševčík (born 28 October 1978, in Prague) is a Czech Republic, Czech director and screenwriter.
His 2016 film ''A Prominent Patient'' won twelve Czech Lions. Ševčík studied directing at Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing ...
. It is an adaptation of the playwright
Anthony Neilson
Anthony Neilson (born 1967, Edinburgh) is a Scottish playwright and director. He is known for his collaborative way of writing and workshopping his plays. Much of his work is characterised by the exploration of sex and violence.
Neilson has bee ...
's 1991 work ''
Normal: The Düsseldorf Ripper'', a fictional account of the life of
serial killer
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Peter Kürten
Peter Kürten (; 26 May 1883 – 2 July 1931) was a German serial killer, known as "The Vampire of Düsseldorf" and the "Düsseldorf Monster", who committed a series of murders and sexual assaults between February and November 1929 in the city of ...
, told from the point of view of his defense lawyer.
Cast
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Milan Kňažko
Milan Kňažko (born 28 August 1945) is a Slovak actor and politician. He was one of the leading personalities of the Public against Violence movement in November 1989 and one of the most popular faces of the Velvet Revolution in Slovakia.
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as Kürten
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Dagmar Veškrnová
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People
* Dagmar (given name), a feminine Scandinavian and German given name
* Berthe Dagmar (1884–1934), French film actress
* Dagmar (actress) (1921–2001), main stage name of American actress Virginia Ruth Egnor
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as Marie Kürten
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Pavel Gajdoš as Lawyer Dr. Justus Wehner
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Miroslav Táborský
Miroslav Táborský (born 9 November 1959 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech actor who has appeared on Czech television series, as well as in American movies.
Táborský studied physics at the University of Hradec Králové, and then graduate ...
as Klein
* Jan Vlasák as Wenge
* Zuzana Kajnarová as Receptionist
* Meto Jovanovski as Judge
Release
The film was released in the
Czech Republic
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on 26 March 2009.
References
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Normal' on
Eurochannel
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Quiet Earth
2009 films
2000s biographical films
2000s serial killer films
Czech thriller films
Cultural depictions of Peter Kürten
Films set in Germany
Films shot in Germany
Films set in the 1910s
Films set in the 1920s
Films set in the 1930s
2000s thriller films
Czech biographical films
Films set in Düsseldorf
2000s Czech-language films
2000s Czech films
Czech serial killer films
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