Bella Block: love death

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Episode in the Bella Block series
Original title Love death
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Lens Film GmbH
length 110 minutes
classification Episode 2 ( list )
German-language
first broadcast		 November 18, 1995 on ZDF
Rod
Director Max Färberböck
script Max Färberböck
Douglas Wissmann
production Jutta Lieck-Klenke
camera Diethard Prengel
cut Barbara Hennings
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
The Commissioner

Successor  →
greed

Liebestod is a German television film by Max Färberböck from 1995. It is the second film in the ZDF crime series Bella Block with Hannelore Hoger in the title role.

action

When Bella Block returns home from her vacation trip with the young Lissi Petersen, she goes to the police headquarters to meet her colleague and friend Michael Beyer, who is currently working on the death of Mechthild Schüler. Student apparently died in a household accident. But when a young police officer tries to collect evidence in the house, he is ambushed. It is now clear to Block and Beyer that it was murder and not an accident. Bella sees parallels with a case three years ago. At the time, the husband was convicted of murdering his wife. His references to a stranger with whom his wife had met were only viewed as a protective claim.

Michael Beyer researches the new victim and tries to find out who they have met recently. There are many indications that the perpetrator can be found here. Bella Block follows her intuition that the old case and this one are connected and that a marriage swindler is at work here. She already has a suspicion and contacts her "candidate" by pretending to be a "lonely single" and meeting Hans Koenig for dinner. Then she goes with him to his apartment and while he is making coffee in the kitchen, she secretly searches his things. Only with great effort can she prevent Koenig from catching her. Little does she know that he saw through her and when she tries to arrest him, he has already gone into hiding. The inspector notices an exercise band in his apartment and so the trail leads to the nurse and physiotherapist Walter Hecke. It is very likely that they both work together and while Hecke finds out which women are wealthy from his customers, Koenig takes on the role of the sensitive lover. In order to lure Hecke out of the reserve, the investigators fake an attempt at blackmail against him. The plan succeeds and he gives himself away, but he too can escape. The investigators almost missed the fact that there is another accomplice: Heckes boss Franziska Schmahl, the operator of the physiotherapy practice in which he works. When she notices that the police have tracked him down and that she is also threatened with exposure, she poisoned Hecke without further ado. But she can't deceive Bella, the inspector sees through her and finds the dead hedge in Schmahl's apartment. It is clear to her that Franziska Schmahl is the “head of the gang” and that she hired Hecke and Koenig for their own purposes. When Schmahl is about to be arrested, she commits suicide.

Hans Koenig's car is found in Saarbrücken, so it is suspected that the fugitive has gone to Luxembourg .

background

The film was shot in Hamburg and first broadcast on November 18, 1995 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF .

criticism

"On the hunt for a murderous marriage swindler, Bella plays a mean love game with a suspect (Ralf Schermuly): the cheater loses his heart on her, the calculating inspector the honor. The way Schermuly and Hoger perform the erotic chess game of people of the same age in a long scene is masterful - an artistic gavotte of opening and closing, of longing for closeness and fearful preservation of the facade. Färberböck brings the culture of the theater to the screen with polished dialogues and precise actor guidance. The impression is clouded by the overcomplicated murderer search: Too much crime fiction eats up the soul. "

Awards

Hannelore Hoger received the Grimme Prize in gold for Liebestod and director Max Färberböck the Telestar.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Length of the film from TV Spielfilm , accessed on August 15, 2018.
  2. ↑ Bella Block - Liebestod at spiegel.de , accessed on August 15, 2018.
  3. ↑ Awards at kino.de , accessed on August 15, 2018.