Joy Ride

Joy Ride (2000)

Usfahrt

For Sandra, a woman in her late teens, life is wonderful. She has recently fallen in love with Daniel, a member of the group of young men she hangs around with frequently. Daniel is flattered by Sandra's affection for him and they begin to spend more time together, apart from the rest of the gang. Their relationship remains diffuse and directionless, provoking tension and threatening to cause a schism within the group.

Date of release
2000-11-16
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Drama
Director
Martin Rengel

Casting

Interesting facts

Joy Ride is a 2000 Swiss drama film written and directed by Martin Rengel that followed Lars von Trier's Dogme 95 manifesto. It is classified as the 14th dogme movie. Joy Ride employs a very realistic, near-documentary style, with a story based on the homicide of a 19-year-old girl in Zürich, Switzerland in 1992. The incident attracted a great deal of media coverage in Switzerland.

Background

The magazine Beobachter reported on the incident which gave rise to the "Joy Ride" story.

According to the report, the clique no longer tolerated the murdered girl and they had assaulted her by singeing her hair and bending her fingers back. On March 14, 1992, the male members of the clique, who had spent the afternoon smoking marijuana, decided "heute Abend passiert es. Andrea muss weg." ('Tonight it happens/has to happen.

As the clique drove back from an evening at a local pub, Patrick took his belt off and tied it around Andrea's neck. She managed to shake him off, but Thomas ordered Roman to turn off the main road and they assaulted her again. Roman stopped the car and urged the other men to stop; they hesitated, but as another car full of potential witnesses passed them Thomas decided that they could not leave her alive.

The police report stated that Roman now placed his hand on Andrea's belly and shouted "Die ist ja tot!" ('She really is dead!'). Roman wanted to drive the car over a slope to kill himself and the others, but Thomas succeeded in calming him a bit, and the three drove on to dispose of the corpse by a nearby creek. They removed some of her clothing in attempt to imply rape as the motive for the crime.

They then drove to Thomas' home, spent the night together and bragged about the incident to a friend. On Sunday they decided that the corpse should be moved to somewhere more secure. They returned to the creek to pick up Andrea's body and drove aimlessly towards Kyburg with the corpse in the car's trunk. Eventually they tossed her body into a hidden gully.

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