Bella Block: Providence

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Episode in the Bella Block series
Original title providence
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 UFA television production GmbH
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 28 ( List )
German-language
first broadcast		 November 28, 2009 on ZDF
Rod
Director Max Färberböck
script Max Färberböck
Fabian Thaesler
production Norbert Sauer
music Christine Aufderhaar
camera Michael Wiesweg
cut Oliver Gieth
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
The silence of the Commissioner

Successor  →
The Black Room

Providence is a German television film by Max Färberböck from 2009. It is the 28th film in the ZDF crime film series Bella Block . It is the 10th case for her colleague Jan Martensen ( Devid Striesow ).

action

The newly retired Commissioner Bella Block catches up with a 17 year old case. At that time, the parents of a 19-year-old girl were shot in front of her eyes. Holger Thom, the perpetrator, was 27 years old. At an exhibition she sees a sculpture that interests her and, as it turns out, comes from Thom, who is now free again. Bella Block is uneasy because Holger Thom approaches the girl from back then - who has since grown into a young woman with two children. She wants to prevent a similar tragedy from happening again with all her might.

Bella Block can barely sleep. She begins to deal with the new life of Holger Thom. Both the probation officer and the prison psychologist are convinced that Thom has changed radically. In their opinion, everyone deserves a second chance. But Bella thinks Thom is a ticking time bomb, no matter how good he was with the psychologists. He deceives everyone that this is his system.

After Helen Niemann and her husband found out about Thom's dismissal, they too are increasingly vigilant. Hendrik Niemann is certain that he saw him in front of his children's school. At a second, apparently coincidental, encounter in a pub, Hendrik Niemann goes on the offensive and threatens to kill Thom if he ever approaches his family again. Helen Niemann also seeks confrontation in order to overcome her renewed trauma. Thom assures her that he will leave her alone. When her husband finds out that his wife has met the man who murdered her parents in front of her, he is furious. He can hardly understand this.

Bella Block still fears the worst; a kind of repetition of the tragedy of that time. Although Holger Thom seems to behave inconspicuously and refined, she fears that he will strike again. And so she should be right. Cradling all doubters in safety, he fakes a trip abroad. Only Bella Block asks the airline whether Thom was really on board. At that moment the doorbell rings late at night and when she opens she is brutally beaten. Then Thom goes to the Niemanns' house, incapacitates the landlord and asks the completely paralyzed Helen Niemann to join him at the table. He explains to her that everything is a providence that the two of them will meet again. He then shoots at her and then kills himself.

Bella Block is happy that the nightmare is over and that Helen Niemann survived.

background

The film was shot in Hamburg and premiered on November 28, 2009 at 8:15 pm on ZDF and reached 4.77 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 15.2 percent.

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv judged: “The human black box is the center of the story, which opposes the psychological realism concept of the TV crime genre. Not everything that people do can be explained. A murder is a murder is a murder. In the showdown without a block, pure fear plays the main role and the audience sits with her at the kitchen table. "

In quotenmeter.de Julian Miller evaluated: "The focus of the episode are not Bella Block and their investigations, but the dismissed recently from prison killer Holger Thom, the Wotan Wilke Möhring with great attention to detail sets the scene. This is largely the psychogram of a sadistic psychopath who can strike again at any time. This portrait is extremely exciting and interesting, even if some scenes were implemented far too suggestively, for example when a monologue scene by Holger Thom takes place in the dark for minutes. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best rating (thumbs up) and said: "Möhring as a perpetrator develops a disturbing, even disturbing presence." Conclusion: "A haunting victim-perpetrator study."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Hannelore Hoger as Bella Block: the ex-commissioner in unrest on tittelbach.tv, accessed on August 21, 2018.
  2. ↑ Julian Miller: Review at quotenmeter.de , accessed on August 21, 2018.
  3. ^ Film review at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on August 21, 2018.