Bella Block: Deadly proximity
| Episode in the Bella Block series | |||
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| Original title | Deadly proximity | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Production company |
Lens Film GmbH | ||
| length | 95 minutes | ||
| classification | Episode 13 ( list ) | ||
| German-language first broadcast |
January 18, 2003 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Christiane Balthasar | ||
| script | Richard Reitinger | ||
| production | Michael Albers | ||
| music | Johannes Kobilke | ||
| camera | Jochen Stäblein | ||
| cut | Claudia Wolscht | ||
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Deadly Proximity is a German television film by Christiane Balthasar from 2003. It is the 13th film in the ZDF crime series Bella Block .
action
The nurse Sarah Waltz is found lifeless in her apartment. Bella Block informs the chief doctor of the victim and hopes to find out clues about a motive and thus the perpetrator. But the conversation with Prof. Ludwig brings you just as little further as the traces in the apartment of the dead. When she wanted to take another look around the scene of the crime, she surprisingly met a stranger who knocked her down. Marek Cura, an attentive resident of the apartment building, finds the inspector and takes loving care of her. From him she receives a reference to a lover of Sarah Waltz, but so far all she knows is that he is tall, strong and asthmatic. Thanks to the meticulous work of the forensic team, there is a fingerprint in the apartment that leads to the real estate agent Christian Schäfer. The latter initially denies having a relationship, after all he is married and does not want to put his marriage at risk. The man protests his innocence and since Schäfer looks very upset and admits that Bella knocked down Block, she believes him. Nevertheless, he is being held in custody as a suspect for the time being.
A private health problem with the father of Bella Block's partner means that the old man has to be admitted to Prof. Ludwig's clinic. During her visits to the sick there, the inspector found some abnormalities in the clinic that she was investigating. For example, the helpful Marek Cura, who had previously worked in this clinic, has recently returned to work as a nurse there, albeit in the basement. Bella Block has bad suspicions. She researched the medical records and is now certain that during the time when Marek Cura worked here before, deaths in the intensive care unit were increasing. From Sarah Waltz's somewhat encrypted diary entries, it can be seen that she, too, had discovered these connections. Bella Block tries to persuade Cura to confess, but the man loses his nerve and jumps out the window. According to his statements, he had only wanted to shorten the dying time out of sympathy for seriously ill people who were dying. The Commissioner doubts whether the sensitive man was capable of killing a healthy person. Her intuition lets her talk to the chief physician Prof. Ludwig again. He knew about what was going on in his clinic and did not want to make it public at any price. When Sarah Waltz found out and confronted Ludwig with what had happened in the past, he arranged a discussion with Cura. However, this got out of hand and Sarah Waltz was killed by an outburst of anger Curas.
background
The film was shot in Hamburg and premiered on January 18, 2003 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF .
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv judged: “Deadly closeness” “captivates with surprising twists and turns and a perfectly shaped staging that is more than mere dramaturgical calculation. This is staged by Christiane Balthasar perfectly and precisely adapted to the respective moods. The clinic with its narrow corridors often turns it into cold, poisonous green. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm again gave the best rating (thumbs up) and said: "The surprising crime thriller plausibly threads its storylines together at the end." Conclusion: "Once again captivating in every respect."
Web links
- Bella Block: Striking Distance in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bella Block: Deadly closeness at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rainer Tittelbach : Hoger, Kowalski, Gwisdek and the border areas between life and death on tittelbach.tv, accessed on August 20, 2018.
- ^ Film review at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on August 20, 2018.
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