KRIMI! THE MAGAZINE UPDATES
Hi there. Short updates on KRIMI! (July 22nd)
1) KRIMI! THE MAGAZINE (September 2025)
The release date will be Sep. 30th 2025 with over 200 pages. For prices, see below.
Status: Silver. Waiting for proofs for final spell-checking and editing. All texts have been submitted.
CONTENTS:
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, 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 (1989), 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 40 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 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 WALACE 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 (check him out on imdb).
Plus personal reviews and document replicas for the movies in the magazine.
All in all 200 pages, full color. We are thinking about something for the German readers; however, there will be no German edition of the book.
no ebook. Available worldwide via amazon BOD through the author's page: Boris Brosowski
Contains EVERY crime movie produced in the German language or with major participation from the Germanic side. Currently, there have been more than 140 watched and reviewed. Some movies are still missing, on the way, or lost. The encyclopedia will have the same letter format as the magazine.
Status: All texts are delivered; spell-checking and editing will take place after the release of KRIMI!#1.
Ebook: 29.99 US-$
SC/standard color: 39.99 US-$ 200 pages.
HC/premium color (and add. content): 54.99 US-$ 200 + pages including additonal "Giallo" scans of italian movie posters of the Krimis in the encyclopedia
Release Amazon BOD. December 1st 2025 through the author's page : Boris Brosowski
2) KRIMI DAS LEXIKON. TEIL I 1958-1964 DEUTSCHE AUSGABE
Enthält ALLE Kriminalfilme, die in deutscher Sprache oder unter maßgeblicher Beteiligung deutscher Produzenten entstanden sind. Derzeit sind mehr als 140 Filme gesichtet und rezensiert. Einige Filme fehlen noch, sind in Bearbeitung oder verloren gegangen. Die Enzyklopädie wird das gleiche Format wie das Magazin haben. Wir hoffen, das Lexikon zeitgleich mit der englischen Version auch als Deutsche Ausgabe herausbringen zu können. Aus Zeitgründen können wir das aber nicht für alle Versionen machen, daher ausschließlich in der Softcover-Ausgabe
Status: Alle Texte sind geliefert, die Rechtschreibprüfung und Bearbeitung erfolgen nach der Veröffentlichung von KRIMI!#1.
SC/Standardfarbdruck, Großformat: 42,99€
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