Bella Block: Trip to China

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Episode in the Bella Block series
Original title Trip to china
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 UFA
length 95 minutes
classification Episode 24 ( list )
First broadcast February 9, 2008 on ZDF
Rod
Director Chris Kraus
script Chris Kraus
production Norbert Sauer
music Annette Focks
camera Judith Kaufmann
cut Uta Schmidt
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Reise nach China is a crime film in the crime series Bella Block by director Chris Kraus , who also wrote the screenplay, from 2008. In the lead role , Hannelore Hoger plays the Hamburg chief inspector Bella Block, who is involved in a conflict of jurisdiction after an alleged terrorist attack on a pharmaceutical laboratory the Federal Criminal Police Office.

action

A bomb attack is carried out on a pharmaceutical laboratory; the renowned biologist Josephine Merkur is killed. Bella Block, who is responsible for the laboratory, is amazed at the fact that the BKA arrived at the scene before her. She also notices that the BKA officer Pierre Köbius and the company's head of security have apparently known each other for a long time, as the two of them are on their terms.

For the BKA and the pharmaceutical company, the case is actually clear: Thomas Bärbaum, one of the security guards, who, as it turns out, is a militant opponent of animal experiments, is suspected of the attack. Thus the BKA would be responsible for the case and not the Hamburg homicide commission. But for Bella Block, who, as is often the case, is in a bad mood, the case is not so clear-cut. Her partner Simon Abendroth has traveled to China with his daughter and the BKA keeps getting in the way.

At Josephine Merkur's funeral, at which Bella Block is present, the security guard and alleged assassin Thomas Bärbaum suddenly approaches her and confesses to her that he actually carried out the attack, but in collaboration with the killed biologist. As it turns out, she wanted to initiate police investigations against her employer without having to prosecute him. Because of this statement, Bella Block refrains from arresting Bärbaum, because she hopes he will provide further information that could help resolve the case.

In the course of their investigations, Bella Block realized that the attack must be a very big deal, because in order to be able to remain competitive on the world market, the global company also cooperated with the Chinese, among others. In the further course of the plot it comes to light that not only animal, but also human experiments were carried out with active substances that were not yet approved. It is also becoming increasingly clear to the commissioner that her decision not to take security guard Thomas Bärbaum into police custody was a mistake with grave consequences.

Production notes

Norbert Sauer produced the 24th episode of the Bella Block series for UFA on behalf of ZDF . The film was shot in Hamburg in 2007 .

The ZDF produced an audio film version of the episode in 2015 .

release date

The Hof International Film Festival has been traveling to China - Bella Block already shown on October 26 of 2007. It was first broadcast on television on February 9, 2008 on ZDF. With 5.34 million viewers, the episode reached a market share of 17.1% on the day it was first broadcast.

Reviews

TV Spielfilm judged: “Figure drawing, actor performance, direction and camera - everything at its finest. Writer / director Chris Kraus and his team managed one of the best Bella episodes ever. "

Rainer Tittelbach said: “[...] the associative narrative style with its jagged, subjective flashbacks resulted in a strangely nested structure. The actors' play was also strangely beautiful. Actors as if on drugs, aloof, fleeting, depressively playful. You had to surrender to this film - as if in a frenzy ”.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b trip to China. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved October 23, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Bella Block: Reise nach China in the Hörfilm database of Hörfilm e. V.
  3. ↑ a b Bella Block - Journey to China - Review of the film - Tittelbach.tv. In: tittelbach.tv. Retrieved October 23, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Bella Block: Journey to China - Film Review - Film - TV SPIELFILM. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved October 23, 2015 .
  5. ↑ 2008 Archives. Retrieved on February 20, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ Nine actors from eight ZDF productions nominated for the Bavarian TV Prize 2008. Retrieved February 20, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Nominations for the 45th Adolf Grimme Prize: ZDF represented with "Das Wunder von Berlin", "Mission Gold", the "Satirisches Jahresrückblick" and a total of 16 productions. Retrieved February 20, 2019 .