The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel
by Friedrich Dürrenmattliterary work· published 1958
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The Pledge (German: Das Versprechen) is a crime novella by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt, published in 1958, after Dürrenmatt thought that his previous movie script, Es geschah am hellichten Tag ("It happened in broad daylight") did not have a realistic ending. The film's star, the popular actor Heinz Rühmann, had insisted that Dürrenmatt collaborate with the screenwriter Hans Jacoby, and the story had an ending in line with that of a typical detective story. Dürrenmatt, however, was a critic of that genre of literature, and thus he set out to write Das Versprechen as an expression of that criticism.
Adaptations (1)
The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel was adapted into a 2001 film.
The Pledge (film)2001 · film · 124 min · dir. Sean Penn · IMDb ↗A police chief, about to retire, pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer.
