Bella Block: Whispered Murders

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Episode in the Bella Block series
Original title Whispered murders
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Lens Film GmbH
length 95 minutes
classification Episode 6 ( list )
German-language
first broadcast		 January 28, 2000 on Arte
Rod
Director Christian Goerlitz
script Christian Goerlitz
production Jutta Lieck-Klenke
music Matthias Thurow
Karl Michael Witzel
camera Hans Grimmelmann
cut Klaus Dudenhöfer
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
On the hunt

Successor  →
Farewell in the Light

Whispered Murders is a German television film from 1999. It is the sixth film in the ZDF crime film series Bella Block . The film was directed and based on a script by Christian Görlitz .

action

In Hamburg three men are apparently murdered at random in a short time. In none of the cases is there any reference to the perpetrator and each time a different approach was chosen. For Bella Block it is quickly certain that there is a motive for the deeds and that they were perpetrated by the same person. Someone who just wanted to kill out of anger. When there is another murder in the red light district, Block begins a race against time. She has the feeling that the perpetrator is to be found in these circles. The suspicion falls on the psychologically problematic Boris and his transvestite friend "Annabell". When Boris is interrogated, he does not initially speak. Bella approaches the suspect with empathy and he begins to open up. In this way she learns that he did not know how to help himself in his life situation other than to “look around” at random. A victim who became a perpetrator. Since his friend "Annabell" had to work for the pimp Lorenz Adam in his night club, out of deep love for him he had killed the men who had tormented his "Annabell". Nobody should hurt "Annabell" who is now seriously suffering from AIDS . That's why in the end he even shot her himself to take her from hell to heaven.

background

Whispered Murders is a production by Objectiv Film on behalf of ZDF in collaboration with Arte . The film was shot in Hamburg in 1998 . After completion, it was put on hold by ZDF for the time being because of concerns about content. In the summer of 1999 the film was invited to the Munich Film Festival , after which it was shown on January 28, 2000 on Arte and finally on September 23, 2000 at 9:00 p.m. on ZDF.

Volker Lechtenbrink can be seen in a supporting role as Hamburg's interior senator. Annabell's song In my mine was sung by BUNGALOW .

reception

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach wrote for Die Welt : “'Whispered murders' with the great actor duo Ben Becker and Stefan Kurt is a particularly irritating piece of television. Christian Görlitz 'morbid ballad from the depths of the human soul caused a sensation in advance. ”“ ZDF did not want to expect it from its audience on the traditional Saturday broadcasting slot […]. 'Too gloomy, too sensitive for 8:15 p.m.', decided the program makers. 'The film has a very intense aesthetic of violence,' says TV film director Hans Janke. 'The milieu, the climate in which the film is set and the violence that dominates the film are particularly tricky.' "

The television magazine TV Spielfilm called the plot of Whispered Murders a “disturbing case that hits the stomach” and offers a “gloomy look into the world of cryptic obsessions”. For film critic Rainer Tittelbach , the episode was “a particularly irritating piece of television”. On the one hand it is an “aesthetically masterful psychological study”, but it also has an obvious “implosive potential for violence”. He praised the interaction between Ben Becker and Stefan Kurt.

Awards

For his portrayal in Whispered Murders , Ben Becker received the “Jupiter” audience award from the film magazine Cinema for “Best Actor in a TV Movie”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bella Block - Whispered Murders (1998) crew-united.com, accessed May 5, 2018
  2. ↑ The ZDF lets it rip spiegel.de, accessed on May 5, 2018
  3. ↑ a b Thilo Wydra: Bella Block: Films-Facts-Backgrounds Henschel, 2005. ISBN 9783894875077 , p. 74
  4. ↑ Broken souls, fallen angels at welt.de , accessed on August 18, 2018.
  5. ↑ Bella Block: Whispered Murders tvspielfilm.de, accessed on May 6, 2018
  6. ↑ Broken souls, fallen angels welt.de, accessed on May 6, 2018