Determined blindly - blood ties

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Episode of the series Blind determined
Original title Blood ties
Country of production Austria
original language German
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 2 ( list )
Rod
Director Jano Ben Chaabane
script Ralph Werner
Jano Ben Chaabane
production Thomas Hroch ,
Gerald Podgornig
music Tim Schwerdter
camera Tobias Koppe
cut Felix Rude
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
determined blindly - The dead girls of Vienna

Successor  →
blindly determined - the house of lies

Blind determined - Blutsbande is an Austrian television film in the crime series Blind determined from 2019 by Jano Ben Chaabane with Philipp Hochmair , Andreas Guenther and Patricia Aulitzky . The film was broadcast for the first time on December 2, 2019 on ORF . In the first , the film under the title The Lost Souls of Vienna was shown for the first time on February 27, 2020.

action

Alexander "Alex" Haller, who inherited a hotel together with his sister Sophie, is a blind, former Viennese chief inspector who lost his sight and thus his job in a bomb attack. Together with taxi driver Nikolai "Niko" Falk from Berlin , he is investigating his second case.

This time Haller's sister is kidnapped. Haller's assistant Niko takes Sophie out to the theater together, to the displeasure of Alex. She is kidnapped while attending the theater. Niko tries to stop the perpetrators and shoots one of them, but they manage to escape anyway. On the run, Caro, next to Adrian one of the three kidnappers, shoots the injured third colleague. Alex wants to investigate on his own in this case and does not want to call the police, because he believes that this increases the danger for Sophie.

At first, Niko suspects that the kidnapping has something to do with the fact that he owes the betting mafia 50,000 euros. However, this turns out to be the wrong lead. The kidnappers seem to be well informed about the life of Haller and his family and are demanding a ransom of 750,000 euros. The handover should take place in a gondola of the Vienna Ferris wheel . When the body of the third kidnapper is found, Haller's successor, Commissioner Laura Janda, also comes across the case. This has the recordings of the surveillance cameras from the Burgtheater delivered, on which Niko can also be found. Janda suspects a connection between the corpse on the Danube Canal and the exchange of fire in front of the theater, but the eyewitness to the exchange of fire cannot identify it unequivocally in a comparison.

While trying to hand over the ransom, Alex and Niko are observed by Janda and her team. When Caro and Adrian discover this, they cause confusion by warning of a bomb, the two manage to escape with the backpack. Adrian tells Caro that there was no money in the backpack. Adrian tells Sophie that he needs the money for a heart valve operation. Sophie expresses the suspicion to Adrian that Caro has withheld the money from the backpack. After allegedly failing to make the first payment, the kidnappers increase their claim to one million euros.

Haller visits the former chief public prosecutor Arthur Pohl in prison, where he is sitting, among other things, for the murder of Haller's partner, public prosecutor Kara Hoffmann, and Alex talks to Pohl about his father Lorenz Haller's affair with Franzi, the maid. Franzi had committed suicide after Alex and Sophie's mother showed her at the door. Franzi was Caro's birth mother, Caro was brought from the orphanage and raised by Mrs. Molden. Molden tells Alex and Niko that one day Caro suddenly disappeared. She later reappeared with her boyfriend Adrian.

Both Alex and Sophie find out that Caro had worked at the Hallers' hotel. Caro tells Sophie that she is her half-sister. Sophie expresses the suspicion to Caro that Adrian has withheld the money from his backpack. Caro finds the ransom and a plane ticket in Adrian's name. He only faked the heart disease because otherwise Caro would not have gone along with his plans. From the background noise of the video of the kidnappers, Alex understands that they are on a boat. Alex subsequently manages to free Sophie on the boat. When Adrian threatens to shoot Commissioner Janda, Adrian is shot by Caro. Caro flees with the ransom.

production

The shooting took place together with the third episode Das Haus der Lügen from March 18 to May 23, 2019. The film was shot in and around Vienna .

The film was produced by the Austrian Mona Film Produktion GmbH with producers Thomas Hroch and Gerald Podgornig . The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation and ARD ( Degeto Film ) were involved, supported by the Austrian Television Fund and the Vienna Film Fund .

Theresa Ebner-Lazek was responsible for the costume design, Katharina Haring and Nina Salak for the production, Thomas Szabolcs for the sound and Danijela Brdar and Jenny Popova for the make-up.

reception

Reviews

Wilfried Geldner found in the Weser Kurier that the case would be carried out "astonishingly serious and, for Ösi standards, quite humorless", which although optically with its melancholy atmosphere left nothing to be desired, it nevertheless had surprising ideas and Viennese abuse , such as you know him from ORF city comedies and country crime novels, for example .

Volker Bergmeister from tittelbach.tv wrote that this case would offer 90 minutes of thriller tension with gloomy sound design, rapid imagery and striking locations in the Austrian metropolis from the Burgtheater to the Prater including the Ferris wheel . Haller and Falk are an unconventional investigative duo in what is unfortunately a very conventional case.

Tilmann P. Gangloff said in the Frankfurter Rundschau that The Lost Souls of Vienna impress with an enormous sense of style. The core of the plot may be straightforward, but the way Werner and Chaabane packaged the story is, not least, a great visual pleasure. The artistic use of the light alone is well above the television average.

Oliver Junge found in the FAZ that Blind determined in terms of optics, speed, irony and charm is now even more oriented towards the British series Sherlock than before , without reaching its level of intelligence. The visual style is also convincing with its creative determination.

Audience rating

In Germany, 4.03 million viewers saw the film when it was first broadcast on the first , the market share was 12.7 percent.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Determined blindly: blood ties [E02]. In: TV wish list. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ ORF premiere: blindly determined - blood ties. In: ORF.at . Retrieved November 14, 2019 .
  3. ↑ «Blind determined»: Das Erste finds a broadcast date for news from Philipp Hochmair and Andreas Guenther. In : quotemeter.de . January 21, 2020, accessed January 22, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Blindly determined - The lost souls of Vienna. In: daserste.de. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
  5. ↑ "Blindly determined": Start of shooting for two new ORF / ARD crime novels in Vienna. March 26, 2019, accessed October 22, 2019 .
  6. ↑ orf.at: “Blind determined”: Start of shooting for two new ORF / ARD crime novels in Vienna . Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  7. ↑ Mona Film: Blindly determined II and III . Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  8. ↑ Determined blind - blood ties at crew united . Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  9. ↑ Wilfried Geldner: Where's the abuse? In: Weser Courier . February 21, 2020, accessed February 21, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Volker Bergmeister : Series "Blindly determined - The lost souls of Vienna". In: tittelbach.tv . Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff : "Blindly determined: The lost souls of Vienna" - a pretty cool hero. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . February 27, 2020, accessed February 28, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Oliver Junge: “Blindly determined” in the First: All right, Commissioner? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 27, 2020, accessed February 28, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Primetime check: Thursday, February 27, 2020. In : quotemeter.de . February 28, 2020, accessed February 28, 2020 .