Blindly determined - the dead girls of Vienna
| Episode of the series Blind determined | |
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| Original title | The dead girls from Vienna |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 1 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | May 5, 2018 on ORF , ARD |
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| Director | Jano Ben Chaabane |
| script |
Ralph Werner Don Schubert |
| production |
Thomas Hroch , Gerald Podgornig |
| music | Tim Schwerdter |
| camera | Tobias Koppe |
| cut | Felix Rudek |
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Blind determined - Die toten Mädchen von Wien is an Austrian television film in the crime series Blind determined from 2018 by Jano Ben Chaabane with Philipp Hochmair and Andreas Guenther in the lead roles. The film was broadcast for the first time on May 5, 2018 on ORF and on Erste .
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Alexander "Alex" Haller, who inherited a hotel together with his sister Sophie, is a blind, former Vienna chief inspector who survived a car bomb attack two years earlier, only badly injured and lost his eyesight and thus his job. His partner, the public prosecutor Kara Hoffmann, was killed in the attack. Alexander Haller blames himself for her death and believes that the attack was aimed at him. In Vienna at night , the taxi driver from Berlin , Nikolai Falk, was able to prevent Haller from committing suicide out of desperation. From this chance acquaintance, an unequal investigative duo develops.
Udo Strasser, convicted of Kara's murder, who fled from prison to prove his innocence and thus also convinces Haller that the real perpetrator from back then is still at large, provides new meaning in life. Haller investigates Kara's last case without a police badge and using unusual methods. The trail leads to a girl trafficker ring, which the Belarusian Adna escaped. Haller's successor Laura Janda and her former chief public prosecutor Arthur Pohl are not very enthusiastic that Haller is now investigating on his own, supported by driver Nikolai. Haller tries to use the disadvantage of not being able to see to his advantage, since others underestimate him. In addition to a keen sense of hearing and smell , he has, among other things, the ability to recognize the content of records by scanning the grooves.
The early retired ex-policeman Weber, who was able to prove that Strasser had obtained the explosives, is found shot by Haller and Falk. The police also find a girl who was shot while trying to escape in a field; nearby they meet Adna, who was shot while trying to escape, who they take to the hospital. There Pavel appears, the real murderer of Kara Hoffmann, who works for the girl trafficker ring, where he meets Haller. Haller recognizes him by his characteristic whistle from the crime scene at the time. Pavel kidnaps Adna from the hospital.
The autopsy report is missing from the files of Kara's last case, in which four girls were killed, made available to Haller by Pohl. In Kara's diary, Haller finds the note "Documents disappeared" and "I suspect W." Haller suspects that this was Weber who was investigating at the time. According to her diary, documents had also disappeared in the case of the murdered Ministerialrat Faber.
In Weber's apartment, Haller found a record behind the wallpaper by knocking on the walls, on which the screams of a girl could be heard. Haller doesn't think the screams are played. Forensic technician Kühberger recognizes the record. He had seen her two years ago in connection with the murder of Ministerialrat Faber. However, it disappeared before he could examine it. In the meantime, Janda finds a copy of the autopsy report of the four girls. No cause of death could be determined. But there was a splinter near the heart, caused by a sharp object. Kühberger finds matching fingerprints on the files and the record. The record is not an industrial press , the recording was made with a vinyl recorder .
Pohl confesses to Haller that he recorded the last screams of the girls before their death on vinyl , because, according to him, everything is rooted in the "primal experience of the scream". Kara Hoffmann had caught on with him, so she had to die. Strasser and Weber were just pawn sacrifices. Haller manages to record his confession on his cell phone before Pohl incapacitates him with a stun gun . Pohl flees to record the screams of other girls, including Adna, on vinyl and auction them off as unique items to art lovers. Haller and Falk can free Adna at the last second. Pavel is shot by Strasser, Pohl and Lukas, another employee of the ring, are arrested by the police.
production
The shooting took place from November 6th to December 15th, 2017. The film was shot in and around Vienna . Filming locations included the Schillerplatz in Vienna , the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , the Palais Schwarzenberg and the Hotel Ritz-Carlton . 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 design, Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson for the sound and Michaela Payer and Danijela Ibricic for the make-up. Philipp Hochmair prepared for his role by visiting an exhibition by Dialog in the Dark , among other things .
reception
Reviews
Volker Bergmeister from tittelbach.tv wrote that Austria is lively experimenting with commissioner figures. According to Die Toten von Salzburg , with an investigator in a wheelchair, the hero of this crime novel would be in the dark in two ways. "The debut film by Jan Ben Chaabane offers exciting entertainment and shows Philipp Hochmair and Andreas Guenther as an unconventional investigative duo."
Barbara Dürnberger said in the Wiener Zeitung that the script was somewhat reminiscent of the Netflix production Marvel's Daredevil , in which the blind lawyer Matt Murdock fights for justice, and wrote “Daredevil meets Viennese vilification . Can that go well? Yes, definitely. ”The film sets new accents within the oversaturated German-speaking crime scene, both with the unequal team of investigators and with a morbid, almost unbelievable ending.
Oliver Junge found in the FAZ that the authors had " stirred a good pinch of pretty best friends into the plot" with the fun-loving Falk and the depressed Haller . The film is "aesthetically convincing, but the content is very mysterious", the plot based on " Degeto woodcut". Characters that were drawn too roughly ensured that the film could not even begin to play out its potential, the villains looked inappropriately clownish.
Daland Segler from the Frankfurter Rundschau was reminded of the film Blow Out - Death Erases All Traces , in which a sound engineer records the death scream of a young woman.
Eric Leimann wrote in the Weser Kurier that you had to keep an eye on the different preferences of the viewers when doing a series or series for Austrians and Germans. The Austrians love it dark, crazy and like to be a little bit "over the top". In Germany, the TV audience should be more reserved and predictable. Due to the discrepancy, celebrated Austrian series in Germany often did not reach the very large audience. The scriptwriters found a good compromise between the rules of German crime media mediocrity and cautious exaltation. The figure of Alexander Haller has something of the crime dandies of the Sherlock or Martin Suters Allmen brands . Even the blatant, if somewhat over-the-top resolution of the opening case is not typically German.
Audience rating
In Germany, the film saw 5.25 million viewers when it was first broadcast on the first , the market share was 20.4 percent.
Web links
- Blindly determined - the dead girls from Vienna at crew united
- Blind determined - The dead girl from Vienna in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Blind determined - Die toten Mädchen von Wien - Das Erste | programm.ARD.de . Retrieved April 5, 2018.
- ↑ Philipp Hochmair, do you want to practice kissing with me? . Article dated April 5, 2018, accessed April 5, 2018.
- ↑ Blind determined by crew united . Retrieved April 5, 2018.
- ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Of positive energy and longing for death . Article of January 3, 2018, accessed on May 5, 2018.
- ^ ORF-Eins premiere for "Blind determined - Die toten Mädchen von Wien" on May 5th . Retrieved May 5, 2018.
- ↑ orf.at: Start of shooting for ORF / ARD crime thriller: Philipp Hochmair and Andreas Guenther as an unequal investigator duo . Retrieved April 5, 2018.
- ↑ Mona Film: Blindly determined . Retrieved April 5, 2018.
- ^ A b Wiener Zeitung: The blind inspector and his chauffeur . Article dated May 4, 2018, accessed May 5, 2018.
- ↑ a b Volker Bergmeister : TV film "Blindly determined - Die toten Mädchen von Wien" at tittelbach.tv , accessed on April 18, 2018.
- ↑ FAZ: Who has the perspective here? . Article dated May 5, 2018, accessed May 5, 2018.
- ↑ A Viennese fairy tale . Article dated May 5, 2018, accessed May 6, 2018.
- ↑ Eric Leimann: Depressed Dandy. In: Weser Courier . July 23, 2020, accessed on July 23, 2020 .