The duo: under power

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Episode in the series Das Duo
Original title Under power
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 TV60Film production
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
classification Episode 10 ( list )
First broadcast May 6, 2006 on ZDF
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Director Urs Egger
script Ralf Löhnhardt
production Sven Burgemeister
music Ina Siefert
Nellis Du Biel
camera Martin Kukula
cut Andreas Herzog
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chronology

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Unter Strom is a German television film by Urs Egger from 2006. It is the 10th film in the ZDF crime film series Das Duo .

action

In their tenth joint case, Lizzy Krüger and Marion Ahrens investigate the death of shipyard owner Markus Grube, who was electrocuted. Apparently a main switch has been tampered with. There are also numerous suspects: a homeless man who Markus Grube recently had to be rudely removed from the shipyard; his brother, from whom he has stolen his wife; and the opaque real estate speculator Jost Kupitzki, who is keen on the shipyard property because he needs it to complete a large-scale port project.

When it turns out that the dead man's girlfriend is not only benefiting from the life insurance policy she has just taken out, but is also the sole heir, she too is one of the suspects. What is striking is that Markus Grube suffered from an incurable brain tumor and would have ended his life in the foreseeable future, which he had not spoken to anyone about and which only became apparent after the autopsy.

The homeless man was found dead the next day and Thomas Grube was heavily suspected of murder. He denies having anything to do with the two deaths and from the evidence he might be right. But he made his situation worse when he escaped from police custody. The inspectors do not know that he only wanted to protect his daughter Anna against a debt collector. You can arrest him again shortly after he escaped and discover that Anna Grube stabbed the homeless man. He wanted to blackmail Thomas Grube because he had seen him at the shipyard that night. Fearing that he actually had something against her father, she had attacked the blackmailer with a stick comb. She hadn't realized that this could be fatal.

No sooner has this murder case been resolved than an explosives attack was carried out on real estate speculator Jost Kupitzki, just as he was buying the shipyard site from Grube's sister-in-law. Thus Grit Grube is again the focus of the investigation. But soon the suspicion falls on the shipyard employee Ole Pedersen, who had found out about the sale and was strictly against it. He had lived in the shipyard all his working life and it had become a second home for him. He admits straight away that he blew up Kupitzki.

During the investigation into the death of Markus Grube, it turned out in the end that he had manipulated the power cable himself in order to avoid a slow and painful death.

Production notes

The film was shot under power in Lübeck and first broadcast on ZDF on May 6, 2006 at 8:15 p.m.

criticism

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv said appreciatively: “What starts out wooden and dramaturgically supposedly stereotypical, develops into a ZDF crime thriller about Lübeck commissioners Lizzy Krüger and Marion Ahrens that is well worth seeing. Ralf Löhnhardt's idea for action has quality: Behind every death there is a different perpetrator. "

In Quotenmeter.de Manuel Weis evaluated: "The author, Ralf Löhnhart, it has understood the actual case - to bring and unintentionally funny states Viktor Ahrens' under one roof without blocking each other - the murder Markus Grube. Ahren's fears loosen up the storyline, but are by no means annoying - on the contrary, they are an enriching part of the 90-minute film. The investigations themselves are mostly straightforward. Nevertheless, as with many a crime fiction film, boredom occurs for a short time after about half an hour. After half-time, however, the plot gains momentum again, and at the end the tension increases with unpredictable twists. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and found: “Story and cast are good Hanseatic”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Start dates for Das Duo: Unter Strom . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved January 14, 2017 .
  2. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Schwab, Kramer, Prahl, Ralf Löhnhardt, Urs Egger. Three victims, three perpetrators Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on August 25.
  3. ↑ Manuel Weis: The Duo: Time out at quotenmeter.de , accessed on August 25.
  4. ↑ The Duo: Unter Strom TV feature film ; January 14, 2017.