Bella Block: Death of a Girl

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Episode in the Bella Block series
Original title Death of a girl
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Lens Film GmbH
length 95 minutes
classification Episode 4 ( list )
German-language
first broadcast		 October 4, 1997 on ZDF
Rod
Director Markus Imboden
script Walter Weber
production Jutta Lieck-Klenke
camera Rainer Klausmann
cut Daniela Wellach
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Death of a Girl is a German television film by Markus Imboden from 1997. It is the fourth film in the ZDF crime series Bella Block .

action

In the high-rise district on the "Hoffnungsberg", 13-year-old Claudia fell to her death from a great height, although her family actually only lived on the fourth floor. Commissioner Bella Block and her team are exploring the hot spot of prostitution, drugs and alcohol addiction. She also immediately meets Tommy, a young person who sees himself as a “contact person” and leads a youth gang.

The Commissioner finds it difficult to believe in the suicide theory of her colleagues, because there have been too many "suicides" in this settlement lately. The mother of the dead is also convinced that her daughter was killed. Bella Block tries to find out more about Manuela Meng, the victim's girlfriend. However, the girl is closed and inaccessible. Bella Block is sure that the girl is prostituting herself and that her mother will tolerate it. After all, it helps replenish the miserable household budget.

After Manuela's mother is attacked, she makes a statement to the police. She accused the officers of the criminal investigation agency "Hoffnungsberg" of corruption. For years they have overlooked various offenses in the district and were rewarded with “nice girls”, among other things. It was therefore possible that a proper prostitution ring could develop. Fatally, Clara Meng speaks to Commissioner Fischer, the head of the criminal investigation agency "Hoffnungsberg".

During the investigation, two pimps are murdered in the high-rise district. It looks like Tommy and his gang tried to keep things tidy here. Since he is in love with Manuela, he does everything in his power to remove the pimp from access to her. Although Tommy is aware of the consequences, he makes a confession to Bella Block. He is hoping for some consideration, as he can also reveal some details about the pimp ring and the involvement of the police officers. By his reference succeeds Bella Block and her team of two officers from the criminal investigation department "Hope Mountain" to transfer it as just an eight-year-old girl at a Free deliver. This is how the Commissioner found out that her colleague Fischer had manipulated her investigation the entire time in order to distract from herself. She arrests him and demands a confession from him, but he weighs it down and interprets his pedophile inclination only as an addiction. He likes such young girls and when he got too close to Claudia, she jumped out of the window out of fear of him.

background

The film was shot in Hamburg and first broadcast on October 4, 1997 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF .

Reviews

Kino.de assessed: “Even the fourth episode of the ZDF crime series, staged by Markus Imboden, based on the novels of the same name by Doris Gercke, maintained the high quality that the first parts had presented. Martina Gedeck was awarded the Grimme Prize and the Golden Lion for her intense portrayal of the mother of one of the girls. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bella Block: Death of a Girl at Kino.de , accessed on August 17, 2018.