Fresh
It's a surprisingly artful and discrete film.
Jan Stuart, Newsday
The Child I Never Was
What Becomes a Serial Killer Most?
2002 · 1h 21m · N/A
Crime, Drama
Directed by
Kai S. Pieck
Overview
A serial killer dispassionately discusses the nuts and bolts of his grisly avocation, as well as the youthful traumas which helped to mold him into a psychopath, in this disturbing independent drama from Germany, based on the true story of of Germany's most famous child murderer Juergen Bartsch who, between the ages of 15 and 19, abused, tortured and killed four schoolboys in the Ruhr region of Germany from 1962 to 1966.
Director and cast
- Kai S. Pieck Director
- Tobias Schenke as Jürgen Bartsch im Alter
- Ulrike Bliefert as Gertrud Bartsch
- Walter Gontermann as Gerhard Bartsch
- Jürgen Christoph Kamcke as Father Seidlitz
- Sebastian Rüger as Young Deacon
- Stephan Szasz as Young Priest
- Roland Riebeling as Chaplain Herles
- Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff as Himself
- Sebastian Urzendowsky as Jürgen Bartsch als Junge
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
78%
Tomatometer
Fresh
In the end Mr. Pieck and his intrepid lead actor piece together a constructive look at a lonely boy's damaged logic and its hideous results.
Ned Martel, New York Times
Fresh
While the serial-killer sob story subgenre rarely yields a nuanced product, Kai S. Pieck's debut feature finds a plaintive, compelling route to the pathology of 1960s German child-killer Jurgen Bartsch.
Akiva Gottlieb, Village Voice
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