US Title:

Children of Wax

Alternative Title(s):

Year: 2005 (Unreleased)
Written By:
Produced By: Menahem Golan
Directed By: Ivan Nichev
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Leading Cast:

Detective Murat

Greta

P

Kumal

Arhem

Eichler

Hakan

Mustapha

Daniel Bernhardt

Shirly Brener

Udo Kier

Armand Assante

Stephen Rikov

Assen Blatechki

Hal Oszan

Naum Shopov


News:
  • Filming was completed June 6th 2005.
  • Confirmation report of completion here.
  • Interview with star, Shirly Brener, further information here.
  • Photos from the set (thanks to Stephen "Cage" Rikov) - 
    Stefan With Daniel On the Set of Children of Wax Stefan With Daniel On the Set of Children of Wax


Plot Synopsis (Courtesy of Shirly Brener Interview):

"It is a psychological thriller situated in Berlin in current times. There are two gangs - there is a skinhead gang and a Turkish gang, and they are rivals. On the background of this there is a serial killer that is taking Turkish children and murdering them, and putting them in wax. It's a very dark movie, like Silence of The Lambs or like the Bone Collector.

Finally, what reveals itself throughout the movie is that the two gangs are fighting and the Turkish gang thinks that the German gang is the one killing the children. Because they are putting the children's bodies in wax and painting their faces in white, and in Berlin - and especially in East Berlin - the German race does not want to mingle with the darker-skin people. A lot of Nazi remnants from World War II.

So, the gangs start killing each other but it actually turns out that it's not the skinheads, and that there is a sick, crazy serial killer (played by Udo Kier). Armand Assante is playing the Turkish police commissioner. He is actually married to a German woman, so they have a sort of dichotomy of a relationship between a Turkish guy and a German woman while there are fights between the Turkish and the German gang.

There is a very complicated investigation, and finally they find this crazy man.

The story is very suspenseful, because till the end of the story you don't know who is killing the children. You're really suspicious of the German gang. There are a lot of action sequences, drugs, car chases, and then there is the big finale when everybody comes together, and the German gang and the Turkish gang actually end up liking each other."