Bella Block: Murder Under the Cross

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Episode in the Bella Block series
Original title Murder under the cross
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 UFA
length 91 minutes
classification Episode 21 ( List )
First broadcast November 25, 2006 on ZDF
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Director Hans Steinbichler
script Eva and Volker A. Zahn
production Norbert Sauer
music Thomas Osterhoff
camera Bella halves
cut Christel Suckow
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The happiness of others

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Blackout

Mord unterm Kreuz is a crime film in the crime series Bella Block by director Hans Steinbichler from 2006. In the lead role , Hannelore Hoger plays the Hamburg chief inspector Bella Block, who initially investigates a murder case in the wrong direction.

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The priest Justus Bauernfeind has been murdered. The case seems clear to Bella Block at first: he was first whipped before being strangled with a rosary. "Love not returned," she suspects when she first sees the corpse after his housekeeper called the police before she first "fixed" the crime scene.

In the course of the investigation, however, it comes to light that the priest is said to have mistreated several of the protégés entrusted to him both mentally and physically in the 1960s and 1980s.

Bella Block, otherwise a very committed investigative chief inspector, shows a particular reluctance in this case. The back pain, which she has been suffering from for a long time, spoils her mood. When her partner Simon also reads a package insert for the tablets she has taken, on which it is noted that the tablets are used to treat tumor pain, her mood changes completely. Furthermore, it is bothering her that Simon is extremely disappointed anyway, because the two actually wanted to take a look at an apartment they could move into together.

The storyline also reveals the fact that Andreas Zeil, the 50-year-old chairman of a self-help group for abused children in care, suffered at the time from the priest's educational methods and is now only a mental wreck. Then there is the housekeeper, who destroyed all clues and traces before the police arrived, and then there is also Peter Schulte, who was badly mistreated by Bauernfeind, but whose actions he dismisses as "not worth mentioning" . Accordingly, there are more than enough suspects of murdering peasant enemies.

Production notes

Norbert Sauer produced for UFA on behalf of ZDF . The film was shot in Hamburg . Filming began on September 9, 2005 and ended on October 14 of the same year.

release date

Bella Block - Mord unterm Kreuz was broadcast for the first time on November 25, 2006 on ZDF.

Reviews

TV Spielfilm points out that Bella Block - Murder under the Cross appeared in 2006, before various cases of abuse in the Catholic churches became known. The summary of the program magazine is: "Catholic crime with Scandinavian harshness".

Rainer Tittelbach sums up: "The crime thriller-Kammerspiel is dark and bulky, as one would expect from Arthaus director Hans Steinbichler [...]". He also writes: "A well-narrated, well-acted 'Bella Block' case, which, with its almost striking clerical criticism (of course from the mouth of the better-knowing Bella Block), runs into doors that are a bit too rustic."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Murder under the cross. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved October 21, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Two thousand and one. Film lexicon FILMS from AZ - Bella Block - Murder under the cross. In: zweiausendeins.de. Retrieved October 21, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Bella Block: Murder under the Cross - film review - film - TV SPIELFILM. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved October 21, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Bella Block - Murder under the Cross - review of the film - Tittelbach.tv. In: tittelbach.tv. Retrieved October 21, 2015 .