Die Bienen — Tödliche Bedrohung (English title: Killer Bees) is a 2008 German

Cinema of Germany

Cinema in Germany can be traced back to the late 19th century. German cinema has made major technical and artistic contributions to film.Unlike any other national cinemas, which developed in the context of relatively continuous and stable political systems, Germany witnesses major changes to its...

 horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 directed by Michael Karen and stars Janin Reinhardt

Janin Reinhardt

Janin Reinhardt is a German television presenter and actress.-Biography:Reinhardt participated in a casting by the German music channel VIVA. She was chosen from 3000 participants and became the host of Interaktiv...

, Rolf Kanies

Rolf Kanies

Rolf Kanies is a German born actor who played many high profile roles on the stage before switching to a career in film and television in 1997. Since then Rolf has specialized in German and international film and television...

 and Sonja Kirchberger

Sonja Kirchberger

Sonja Kirchberger is an Austrian actress.From 1974 to 1978 she was a dancer in the Ballet of the Opera in Vienna ....

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Plot

When Karla brings her father Hans in Mallorca to a clinic because he was stung by a bee, it does not look good for him. The doctors want to find just a normal bee sting, what Karla does not consider it feasible. Together with the researcher Ben she gets down to find the true culprit — and finds an over-sized bees, which also is also extremely aggressive. This new insect species is a major threat to thousands of people on the holiday island.

Cast

• Janin Reinhardt
  Janin Reinhardt
  Janin Reinhardt is a German television presenter and actress.-Biography:Reinhardt participated in a casting by the German music channel VIVA. She was chosen from 3000 participants and became the host of Interaktiv...
  
   as Karla Bergmann
• Klaus J. Behrendt
  Klaus J. Behrendt
  Klaus J. Behrendt is a German actor. Since 1992 he has starred in the Westdeutscher Rundfunk version of the popular television crime series Tatort; he also stars in the 2008 film Die Bienen - Tödliche Bedrohung.-References:* with Klaus J. Behrendt and Dietmar Bär...
  
   as Hans Bergmann
• Stephan Luca as Ben Herzog
• Rolf Kanies
  Rolf Kanies
  Rolf Kanies is a German born actor who played many high profile roles on the stage before switching to a career in film and television in 1997. Since then Rolf has specialized in German and international film and television...
  
   as Dr. Alvarez
• Sonja Kirchberger
  Sonja Kirchberger
  Sonja Kirchberger is an Austrian actress.From 1974 to 1978 she was a dancer in the Ballet of the Opera in Vienna ....
  
  as Susanna Bergmann
• Paula Schramm as Maria Bergmann
• Patrick von Blume as Dr. Salazar
• Peter Benedict as Commissario Barocha
• Daniela Eck as Touristin
• Julian Bastida as Tierarzt
• Silva Gonzales as Flaschenwerfer (Wirft Flasche auf 'Bienenboot')
• Fabian Joest Passamonte as Polizist El Guardia Gomez
• Sarah Runge as Freundin des Flaschenwerfers

Release

The film aired on 16 October 2008 as Television film on Sat 1. In France was released on 1 October 2009 as direct-to-dvd project as L'Île des abeilles tueuses. Killer Bees is set for an US DVD release in June 2010 over Maverick Entertainment.

Soundtrack

The score was composed by the Bavarian film composer Siggi Müller.