Bloch: The lavender queen

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Episode in the Bloch series
Original title The lavender queen
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Country of production Germany
original language German
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
classification Episode 24 ( list )
First broadcast April 24, 2013 on Das Erste
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Director Michael Verhoeven
script Ingo Haeb
Martin Rosefeldt
production Maran movie
music Jörg Lemberg
camera Hubert Schick
Hans Christian Mebold
cut Olaf Strecker
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
The Labyrinth

The Lavender Queen is a German TV film directed by Michael Verhoeven from 2013 . It is the twenty-fourth and final episode of the Bloch television series . In Dr. Maximilian Bloch's last case, as in his penultimate case, is accused of rape .

action

The architecture student Stefanie Rudolf tries to kill herself, but is saved. She is looking for Dr. Maximilian Bloch, with whom she was treated some time ago, but no longer kept the appointments after a few sessions. Bloch does not interrupt any of his upcoming meetings because of her and advises her to call him to make an appointment. Shortly afterwards she insults him on the answering machine as a perverted pig. Although Clara advises him to call in the police, Bloch first seeks Stefanie for a clarifying conversation. She accuses him of molesting her during the last hypnosis session. Bloch threatens to call in the police if they don't retract their slander. He invites Stefanie and her brother Lukas to a clarifying conversation and describes how she became restless with a specific question under hypnosis and how he put his hand on her arm to calm her down. Stefanie jumps up and wants to leave the room, but suffers a fit of weakness. A little later Bloch tries to talk to Lukas again. He is certain that Stefanie is now projecting an injustice she had experienced in the past onto him as a therapist, which is called "transference" in specialist circles.

Stefanie tells her parents what she thinks has happened in Bloch's practice. The parents file a complaint and hand the case over to Hermann Lux, a long-time friend of the family. He wants to refer the case to a colleague, he is biased himself. The Rudolf family, however, insists on Hermann as a lawyer. Bloch first reports the case to the therapists' association, which reacts critically, as Bloch was only recently involved in a similar case . Shortly thereafter, Bloch received the summons to the police because a complaint was made against him. Although he finds the processes absurd, Bloch gradually realizes that in an emergency he could face a ban on the profession or a prison sentence. Only now does he hire a lawyer - on Clara's advice his friend Fritz Fiebler, whom Bloch does not trust much due to his model car collection in the window of the law office and his alternative style.

A house search takes place at Bloch's. The questioning of Bloch and Clara goes into every detail of their sex life, Stefanie has stated that Bloch had forced them to have oral sex. After an arrest warrant because of the threat of blackout , Bloch is arrested. So far he has tried in vain to find out what stimulus in his practice could have been the trigger for Stefanie's memory of a rape. Stefanie, on the other hand, doubts her own statement, after all, she dreams that Lukas touches her just as Bloch does in his practice. She believes that Lukas could have touched her in his sleep, as the siblings live in an apartment. She confesses her doubts to Hermann, who advises against making these thoughts public to the family. After the conversation, she is again sure that Bloch was the culprit. Bloch is meanwhile dubbed a "sex therapist" by the tabloid press and beaten up by fellow prisoners in the prison yard. Clara leaves a bail and Bloch can leave the prison. She had brought him a freshly laundered blanket into the cell, which she had treated with lavender oil like all woolen items . The scent of lavender was also present at the meeting with Stefanie at that time, so it could have stimulated her memory. Clara looks for Lukas, who gives her a crown of lavender. Stefanie was elected lavender queen in 1996 while on vacation in Provence. In a photo from that time, however, she looks sad. Clara learns that at that time both children were on vacation with their parents and also Hermann. When the family is sitting at the dinner table a few days later, Bloch appears - Lukas has brought them in. He has the crown with him and puts it on Stefanie. He admits to having offended Stefanie, but already on vacation in 1996. He reconstructs the incident until Stefanie jumps up, lunges at Hermann and hits him. Hermann collapses. Bloch has been rehabilitated and is going on vacation with Clara - to Provence.

production

The lavender queen was filmed from May 8 to June 8, 2012 in Cologne and was broadcast for the first time in prime time on April 24, 2013 as part of the ARD series “FilmWittwoch im Erste ” . The film was seen by 4.36 million viewers when it was first broadcast, corresponding to a market share of 13.7 percent. It is the last episode of the Bloch film series , the main actor of which Dieter Pfaff died on March 5, 2013, before the premiere.

criticism

For the film service , The Lavender Queen was "(TV series) crime thriller entertainment at the usual exciting level."

The TV Spielfilm gave the film the best possible rating (thumbs up) and wrote: "Worthy farewell performance of a great guy"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bloch: The lavender queen at crew united
  2. ↑ Bloch - The Lavender Queen (2012)
  3. ↑ Series "Bloch - The Lavender Queen" , tittelbach.tv; Retrieved April 25, 2013
  4. ↑ Bloch: The lavender queen. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ See tvspielfilm.de