October 1, 2025

KRIMI MAGAZINE

New release: KRIMI! The Magazine for European Crime Cinema Culture! From the press release: "KRIMI!, the authoritative magazine about European criminal film culture, explores the following themes:


1 RIALTO LONDON 40 pages
History, founding, ownership, legal matters 1967-1971
Film Projects:
a) Financing DAS ÄLTESTE GEWERBE DER WELT/THE OLDEST PROFESSION (1967)
b) Project 1: DAS GEHEIMNIS DER WEISSEN NONNE/THE TRYGON FACTOR, Synopsis, production history, analysis
c) Project 2: THE MAN WHO WAS SHERLOCK HOLMES remake. Synopsis and production history of the original 1937 movie. Script summary of the 1967 screenplay by Allan Scott (DON’T LOOK NOW) and an interview with Mr. Scott.
d) Project 3: THE GREAT TRACKDOWN/DIE GROSSE TREIBJAGD Synopsis of the book, history of the author, Aftermath (movies) produced through the tax shelter for this movie, and production notes.
e) Project 4: THE PRAYING MANTIS. Synopsis of the book, synopsis of the final movie (1981) legal connections to RIALTO LONDON.
f) Final thoughts

2 THE KRIMIS of HANS-CHRISTOPH BLUMENBERG 1983-1989 20 Pages
a) TAUSEND AUGEN/THOUSAND EYES (1983), Synopsis, Analysis
b) DER SOMMER DES SAMURAI (1986), Synopsis Analysis
c) DER MADONNA-MANN (1987), Synopsis, Analysis
d) In-depth personal interview with HC Blumenberg about production history and influences, agendas on all those movies.

3 THE PHANTOM WITH THE GLASS PLUMAGE 1957-1969 (or how much Wallace is Argento Part I) 60 Pages
a) THE GLASS EYE (1957) Synopsis, Analysis, Connections
b) THE SCREAMING MIMI (1958) Synopsis, Comparison Book-Movie, Connections with CCC
c) THE PHANTOM OF SOHO (1964) Synopsis, comparison, and production history with archival findings on the connection between CCC and Bryan Edgar Wallace. Treatment “Murder by Proxy” and script versions.
Contains a copy of Brauner’s letter to Bryan Edgar Wallace in which he first describes his vision for the movie to the author.
d) THE MAN WITH THE GLASS EYE (1968) Synopsis, production history, comparison with Phantom. “Fodor at Rialto”— a short history of how CCC’s house author worked for Wendlandt based on personal letters by L. Fodor and Artur Brauner.
e) THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE (1970) production history, connections, archival findings on the production, and correspondence between CCC and SEDA.
f) Comparative film analysis of BIRD and PHANTOM
g) Final thoughts: Weaving the strings into a tapestry

4 BRAUNER INVENTS GENRES or how the Giallo was created by Artur Brauner 15 Pages
a) The Iconography of the Masked Killer in Movie history – Movies and Images
b) The Female serial Killer in Movie History – Movies and themes
c) The Rape and Revenge theme in Movie History – Movies and developments
d) Final thoughts: How all parts were affected by A. Brauner’s vision of a Krimi plot.

5 THE SUITCASE MOVIES OF BRYAN EDGAR WALLACE 10 Pages
a) DEATH PACKS A SUITCASE, the novel, contents, and history
b) DAS GEHEIMNIS DER SCHWARZEN KOFFER, contents and history
c) DER TODESRÄCHER VON SOHO, contents and history

6 DERRICK IN ITALY 10 Pages
Complete history of the beginnings of Derrick’s run and success in Italy. By Giovanny Petronacci, who supervised the restoration of the Italian-language episodes.

7 LADISLAS FODOR 15 Pages
Based on new findings in Fodor’s archive by KRIMI!, we present the most complete biography of the scriptwriter for Mabuse, Edgar Wallace, Bryan Edgar Wallace, Karl May and Die Nibelungen.

8 ANDREA BIANCHI and WHAT THE PEEPER SAW / NIGHT HAIR CHILD 7 Pages
A case for why Andrea Bianchi is not the director of this movie. By guest author, actor, and voice coach Mark Thomson Ashworth, the leading expert for this movie.

Plus personal reviews and document replicas for the movies in the magazine.
200+ pages, high quality color printing and paper for the HC version.

More info at the KRIMI! website (look for extra cool bits, blog, and Krimi Encyclopedia!), and Amazon


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