Someone has burned down a monastery at St. Martin’s near the U.S./Canadian border, leaving 23 nuns and seven priests dead.
Mounted Policeman Richard Custer (Neven Nothig) and U.S. Marshal William James Richford (Ferdi Ozten) are seeking those responsible.
They find a lone survivor, Liz Worth (Talisa Lara Schmid), with a badly burned hand.
And they eventually stumble upon the Crippled Dogs outlaw gang, led by Alexander Bill Williamson (Daniel Bohrer).
They’ve laid a deadly trap for the lawmen, but one survives to continue the pursuit.
Liz Worth survives too.
Turns out she wasn’t a victim of the fire.
But she was a victim of the church long before the fire broke out.
Talisa Lara Schmid as Liz Worth, terrified after surviving the horror at the monastery in Peacemaker (2023)
Neven Nothig as Mountie Richard Custer, tending to Liz’s burned hand in Peacemaker (2023)
Review:
An intriguing and sometimes eloquent little German-made Western, clearly influenced by the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s and 1970s.
Unfortunately, the dialogue is occasionally difficult to understand/follow and the miniscule budget bleeds through, especially once the story takes the outlaws and lawmen into the bargain basement town of River Road.
And while the three leads turn in credible performances, this outlaw gang is hardly the fearsome looking bunch they’re supposed to be portraying.
Andreas Schmelz provides the score, including a wonderful opening theme.
Ferdi Ozten as William James Richford, pondering the fate of a girl hanged for stealing a loaf of bread in Peacemaker (2023)
Daniel Bohrer as Alexander Bill Williamson, leader of the outlaw gang in Peacemaker (2023)
Directed by:
Maximillian Osterholtz
Cast:
Talisa Lara Schmid … Liz Worth
Ferdi Ozten .. William James Richford
Neven Nothig … Richard Custer
Daniel Bohrer … Alexander Bill Williamson
Leon Tolle … Mike Slodowski
Amelie Willberg … Raphaela Slodowski
Maximilian Bartel … Ramon Black
Patric Welzbacher … Juan Gonzalez
Denis Wiencke … Arthur
Michael Kehr … Father Brightburn
Maximillian Osterholtz … Sheriff Peters
Fabian Hagen … Rose
Calvin-Noel Auer … Jeremiah
Jonas Klocke … Micah
Runtime: 59 min.
Maximillian Osterholtz as Sheriff Peters, learning the Cripple Dog gang is in his town in Peacemaker (2023)
Amelie Willberg as Raphaela Slodowski, a member of the Cripple Dogs gang, threatening to slit a throat in Peacemaker (2023)
Memorable lines:
Richard Custer, looking at the body of a young girl, hanged for stealing a loaf of bread: “Hunger shouldn’t be a crime.”
William Richford: “Hunger isn’t a crime. Theft is.”
Liz Worth: “Life gives you lemons, you turn them into lemonade. But life gives you shit, and you just turn violent. Lawless even. With fire and brimstone. An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth. And life must have given all of us shit. Because this is outlaw country.”
Father Brightburn: “Hell has come for you, my dear Elizabeth. But I’m not willing to give you to it.”
Richard Custer to Liz Worth: “My demons haunt me in my sleep too. It gets better in time.”
Liz Worth: “My pa always used to say, you need to play with the cards life has dealt you with. By what happens if you have played all your cards and, somehow, you’re still around to play. Did the bank forget to collect you? Or did life give you lemons for the first time?”
Michael Kehr as Fahter Brightburn, wondering why Liz Worth (Talisa Lara Schmid) didn’t show up for her scheduled confession, aka molestation, in Peacemaker (2023)
Ferdi Ozten as William James Richford, wounded by hellbent on tracking down the killers in Peacemaker (2023)
Neven Nothig as Mounted Policemen Richard Custer, looking for an outlaw gang in Peacemaker (2023)
Talisa Lara Schmid as Liz Worth, pondering what’s next after all the death in Peacemaker (2023)
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