Bella Block: ... because they don't know what they're doing

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Episode in the Bella Block series
Original title ... because they don't know what they're doing
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Lens Film GmbH
length 95 minutes
classification Episode 18 ( List )
German-language
first broadcast		 February 12, 2005 on ZDF
Rod
Director Markus Imboden
script André Georgi
Richard Reitinger
production Selma Brenner
music Annette Focks
camera Rainer Klausmann
cut Dagmar Pohle
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
The freedom of wolves

Successor  →
The carpenter's wife

... because they don't know what they are doing is a German television film by Markus Imboden from 2005. It is the 18th film in the ZDF crime film series Bella Block and the first case that the commissioner and her new colleague Jan Martensen ( Devid Striesow ) has to solve.

action

Maike, the daughter of the pharmacist Daniela Wagner, was kidnapped. While handing over the money, one of the kidnappers shoots his accomplice when he loses his mask and the worried mother can see his true face. Maike is released shortly afterwards, after seven long days.

Bella Block is called to the scene and investigates the case with her new colleague Jan Martensen. After restoring the memory from the dead cell's destroyed cell phone, this very quickly leads to Daniela Wagner. Mother and daughter Wagner deny a relationship with the deceased and give each other an alibi. A review of the Wagners' financial situation reveals that the pharmacist has taken out a 600,000 euro loan, which for Bella Block only allows the conclusion that a kidnapping has occurred. When asked urgently, Daniela Wagner explains that she has not filed a complaint because she wants her daughter to relax. Nevertheless, Maike has to be questioned again to get clues about the kidnappers. But the girl blocks and does not want to cooperate, she is still suffering too much from the aftermath of the kidnapping. She has secretly resolved to punish the men herself.

The dead person's identity is clarified when his mother answers and identifies her son. That brings a trace to his former work colleagues Thomas and Mario Kramer. Bella Block orders permanent surveillance against the two of them. But shortly before that, Maike begins to stalk the kidnappers and demands the money back from them. While Tom is ready to give her the loot back, Mario sees it differently. In the dispute, which Maike witnessed first hand, she got to Mario's weapon and shot him down. Thomas, who has secretly fallen in love with Maike, accepts the deed and makes a confession. But Bella Block is clear that the whole thing must have played out differently. She confronts Maike, who, in tears, says: “Somebody had to do it.” In the end, she has the bitter realization that it is not vigilante justice that heals the wounds.

background

The film was in Hamburg turned and on 12 February 2005 at 20:15 in the ZDF erstausgestrahlt.

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv judged: “An overprotected daughter (intensely: Sophie Rogall) from a good family loses the feeling for right and wrong after a week in the hands of criminals - and shoots her tormentor.” “The film is exciting and full surprising twists. The tone stays cool and the heroine is distant. Bella Block is not a commissioner who applies different moral standards to a confused teenager. What stays with her is thoughtfulness. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best rating (thumbs up) and said: "Cleverly built case on the subject of vigilante justice."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rainer Tittelbach : Strong debut for Devid Striesow in the strong "Bella Block" self-justice crime thriller on tittelbach.tv, accessed on August 21, 2018.
  2. ^ Film review at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on August 21, 2018.