Bella Block: The passenger and the girl
| Episode in the Bella Block series | |||
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| Original title | The passenger and the girl | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
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UFA | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| classification | Episode 31 ( List ) | ||
| First broadcast | February 11, 2012 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Torsten C. Fischer | ||
| script | Fabian Thaesler | ||
| production | Norbert Sauer | ||
| music | Fabian Römer | ||
| camera | Michael Wiesweg | ||
| cut | Benjamin Hembus | ||
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The Passenger and the Girl is a crime film by director Torsten C. Fischer from 2012 as part of the Bella Block crime series . In the main role , Hannelore Hoger embodies the Hamburg chief inspector Bella Block, who has since retired from active service, who is explicitly asked by the public prosecutor to investigate a murder case that was 30 years ago undercover in a school. The script is based in part on the idea of the story Der Fahrgast by the writer Franz Kafka from 1913. The episode was broadcast for the first time on February 11, 2012 on ZDF .
action
When a gazebo was demolished, three students accidentally came into possession of a sharp firearm , with which they almost cause a bloodbath on a night at the disco when they shoot around them uncontrollably from a moving car. The result of this crime: two gunshots and an injured homeless man who was grazed by a shot. After the students, two boys and one girl, have been identified, the commissioner is taken over by public prosecutor Dr. Mehlhorn asked to investigate undercover in their school. The background to this is the fact that it is unequivocally established that a bank robbery was carried out 30 years ago with this weapon, in which a young woman was shot and the exact circumstances of the crime are still unclear. The prosecution justifies this statement by stating that a ballistic examination of a projectile fired from the weapon does not allow any other conclusion.
The Commissioner, who has since retired from active service, naturally complies with this request, and after announcing herself accordingly to the school management, she introduces herself as a consultant for violence prevention and announces that she will give various lectures on this subject at the school . Initially, the commissioner succeeds in the masquerade, but a short time later the three students concerned, who continue to deny that they have ever had a weapon, become suspicious. In particular, Jana Winter, the girl involved in the shooting, stands out due to her over-nervous behavior. After her cover threatens to be completely exposed, Bella Block leaves the school, but not without being absolutely sure that the three affected students are hiding something.
Bella Block comes up with the idea of establishing a covert connection to Jana Winter through the young teacher Mariam Brückner, in order to find out more about the shooting. Then there is also Lenny Gravert, one of the two boys involved in the shooting, who has been following the teacher Mariam Brückner for a long time and at times carefully observed. It turns out that he is a lonely but highly intelligent high school student who seems to be very interested in acting: He shows an over-the-top commitment to a play that Mariam Brückner wants to put on at the school. In the play, the pupils involved work out small excerpts (one could say: puzzle pieces ) from their own life based on Kafka's prose “The Passenger” , based on which a large puzzle is then to be put together, which is for the performance at the The school's theater stage is suitable.
For the young student Lenny, this task presents itself as a merging, a fateful connection between his, rather misanthropic world and the glamorous world of the teacher Mariam Brückner. As it turns out, he is absolutely convinced that the teacher he almost adored must feel just as lonely in her life as he does. So he comes up with a plan: He intends to take possession of the weapon and thus directly into that To step into the field of appearance of the teacher and all bystanders, with all the consequences that his actions will have. At the latest when Lenny throws in the meaningful statement “The only truth is that everything repeats itself - no matter what we do” in the theater class, it seems clear to Lenny that the connection between the nightly shooting and the bank robbery that took place 30 years ago with a Recognized result of death.
In the course of the film, it becomes increasingly clear that Lenny is basically a young person who harbors deep doubts about the connection to his worldly existence and whether this can have any meaning for him at all.
Lenny's prophecies, such as that the teacher Mariam is "near the steps, ready to get out", made the inspector sit up and take notice. When Lenny utters the prophecy "only a few steps to the ultimate truth", all alarm bells ring at Bella Block.
The plot ends when Bella Block utters the meaningful sentence to her former assistant Jan Martensen: "We don't take care of each other anymore, Martensen". This in turn represents a homage to Kafka, whose underlying narrative says: "[...] and am completely unsure of my position in this world, in this city".
Production notes
Norbert Sauer produced the 32nd episode of the Bella Block series for UFA on behalf of ZDF . Filming began on March 1, 2011 and ended on April 3 of the same year. The film was shot in Hamburg .
The German Hörfilm GGmbH produced an audio film version of the episode on behalf of ZDF , the speaker is Uta Maria Torp.
Reviews
TV Spielfilm is of the opinion that the film "[s] in parts [seems a bit artificial, but [the] beginning and [the] end [...] are ghostly".
Rainer Tittelbach sums up that “Kafka's gloomy worldview meets [on ...] Bella Block”. The critic's conclusion is: "Good script with small inconsistencies, highly concentrated actors, atmospheric staging, pleasant narrative flow".
The conclusion of the Lexicon of International Films is: “Routine, psychologically oriented (TV series) crime film about delusions that are far from life”.
Web links
- Bella Block: The passenger and the girl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bella Block - The passenger and the girl at Kino.de
- Thilo Wydra: The passenger and the girl in an ominous world. In: Welt.de of February 11, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Thilo Wydra: The passenger and the girl in an ominous world. In: welt.de. Retrieved October 25, 2015 .
- ↑ a b two thousand and one. Film Lexicon FILMS from AZ - Bella Block - The Passenger and the Girl. In: zweiausendeins.de. Retrieved October 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Bella Block - The Passenger and the Girl. In: ufa.de. Retrieved October 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Bella Block: The passenger and the girl in the audio film database of Hörfilm e. V.
- ↑ Bella Block: The Passenger and the Girl - Film Review - Film - TV SPIELFILM. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved October 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Bella Block - The Passenger and the Girl - review of the film - Tittelbach.tv. In: tittelbach.tv. Retrieved October 25, 2015 .
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