Bella Block: Behind the mirrors

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Episode in the Bella Block series
Original title Behind the mirrors
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Lens Film GmbH
length 100 minutes
classification Episode 16 ( list )
German-language
first broadcast		 March 6, 2004 on ZDF
Rod
Director Thorsten Näter
script Thorsten Näter
production Michael Albers
music Martin Todsharow
camera Joachim Hasse
cut Julia von Frihling
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
The opposite of love

Successor  →
The Freedom of Wolves

Behind the mirrors is a German television film by Thorsten Näter from 2004. It is the 16th film in the ZDF crime series Bella Block .

action

Bella Block has an appointment with her partner Simon Abendroth and his mentor Meredith Walters in a hotel where a "Murder-Mystery-Convension" takes place. Murders are staged and Block fell for one of these stagings, until suddenly a real murder happens. The director of the hotel was stabbed to death with a kitchen knife in front of the toilet. The commissioner immediately takes over the investigation and has a hard time securing traces of the public traffic. The victim, Walter Moosbach, was known as a womanizer and otherwise he was not very popular with his workforce. As Bella Block takes a closer look around the hotel, one notices her window, through which she can see directly into the restaurant area. An old servant explains to her that she can look through it without worrying, because on the other side the panes are mirrored so that the guests cannot see them. The previous owner had a total of twelve of these mirrors installed in order to be able to observe her staff without being noticed.

As a possible motive for the crime, Bella Block comes across a rape that Moosbach allegedly committed against the employee Milena Saamaan and which was never reported. Her friend, the chef Laszlo Köster, would be capable of an act of revenge, but Bella is convinced that he is not the culprit. Milena Saamaan looks like a scared child to Bella and is obviously not telling the truth about herself. It looks like she is ashamed of her socially low origin and therefore hides it from her work colleagues. When the inspector looks around Milena's parents, she notices photos that suggest that her father abused her as a child. With her research she makes both Milena and her friend Laszlo more nervous, so that both behave more and more suspiciously.

During a conversation with the widow, Bella Block learns that Walter Moosbach was homosexual. The commissioner gradually realizes that all the attempted harassment of women was not committed by him, but by his brother-in-law Martin Wiesner. As with a mirror, Wiesner had projected all of his deeds onto his brother-in-law and very cleverly spread these lies among his workforce. When Moosbach found out that Wiesner had also embezzled and thus damaged the hotel business, he should answer for it. With the murder, Wiesner wanted everything to stay the same. Since Milena blackmailed him, he had meanwhile also killed her and she is found dead in the basement of the hotel.

background

The film was shot in Hamburg and premiered on March 6, 2004 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF .

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv judged: “In 'Behind the Mirrors', Bella Block is more than ever an observer, she plows through the relationship field, on which so many rotten plants grow. Hate, jealousy, repressed & secret sexuality, calculated play with money & feelings - all this reveals itself in black humor behind the mirrors! ”“ Thorsten Näter has written and staged an unusual crime drama that also reflects the modern topos 'people in the hotel' as well as The 'Whodunit' principle of the black-humored British crime thriller also varies with plenty of ideas. But like much in this well-built plot, the supposed Agatha-Christie touch also turns out to be deceptive. Because as much as the viewer is initially sent on the wrong track, these tricks remain tricks of the killer and not the author. If Bella Block tries her gray matter in the end, no viewer should feel like she was being fooled. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best rating (thumbs up) and said: "Riddle case at the usual high level."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Hoger, Kowalski, Schir, Thorsten Näter. People & murders in the hotel - very British! on tittelbach.tv, accessed on August 20, 2018.
  2. ^ Film review at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on August 20, 2018.