Brandmal (2015)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Branding |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nicolai Rohde |
| script |
Nils Willbrandt , Nils-Morten Osburg |
| production |
Thomas Hroch , Gerald Podgornig |
| music | Johannes Kobilke |
| camera | Jo home |
| cut | Melanie Sagittarius |
| occupation | |
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Brandmal is a German TV film from 2015 based on the novel of the same name by the Scottish author Craig Russell . The thriller is the third film adaptation of Russell's crime series about the Hamburg detective commissioner Jan Fabel, played by Peter Lohmeyer , and was staged by Nicolai Rohde for ARD .
action
The police received a call from Gunther Griebel late in the evening, who absolutely wanted to speak to Chief Detective Jan Fabel. When Fabel and his colleague Maria Klee reached his house, the scientist had just been murdered. Klee meets the masked perpetrator in the stairwell, but is unable to move due to her panic attacks, which have occurred again and again since her last life-threatening mission. Two days before Griebel, a songwriter was killed in the same way. The killer sprayed their respective victims with red paint, stabbed them and then scalped them. The only usable trace is a strand of red hair that the perpetrator leaves behind at the scene of the crime by fixing it to a window pane with adhesive tape. According to a forensic analysis, this hair was cut off from the wearer 30 to 40 years ago.
Commissioner Fabel and his team fear further murders, as the perpetrator is obviously trying to communicate with the investigators. The first clues lead to the esoteric Beate Brandt, with whom both victims had recently telephoned. She confirms that both victims knew each other and that all three were active in the left student scene in the 1980s. Franz Mühlhaus, with whom they had switched to the terrorist movement and who was shot dead during a police operation, was one of them.
Fabel contacted Volker Voss, who was in charge of the operation against the terrorists. He names him other members of the group around Mühlhaus who may now go on a revenge tour after years. On the other hand, they could also be the next victims. That comes true and one of these members is murdered. Fabel's team finds out that Beate Brandt and Mühlhaus had a child together: Thomas Brand. He was in prison until recently and had only found out who his father was a year ago. He also has long red hair, like his father. When they want to arrest him, his mother has just poisoned him because she also assumed that he was the serial killer. Fabel cannot prevent Beate Brandt from shooting herself.
That same evening, Fabel is called by the real perpetrator, who explains that some work has just been taken from him and that there will now only be one victim, then his mission will be completed. The three possible victims are placed under protection as a precaution, but the police make it particularly easy for the murderer, because he is one of Fabel's team: Frank Grueber. He is the son of a student who was shot during the action against Mühlhaus and who saw everything. Mühlhaus was his father too and he had given him a list of names that he knew had betrayed him and made him promise to hold these bad people accountable if something should happen to him. Grueber had suppressed this memory for 30 years, but his foster father had recently died and reappeared in the legacy of the notes with the names.
Fabel succeeds in confronting Grueber and saving the last victim. Frank Grueber then evades arrest and shoots himself.
background
The plot shows clear allusions to the unsuccessful GSG-9 mission in Bad Kleinen . The film, shot in Hamburg , had its TV premiere on September 19, 2015 on ARD. The filming of all parts of Russell's crime series is planned. So far, Wolfsfährte has been published in 2010, Blood Eagle in 2012 and Brandmal in 2015 .
reception
Audience ratings
When it was first broadcast on September 19, 2015, Brandmal was seen by 4.60 million viewers in Germany, which corresponded to a market share of 16.1 percent.
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv writes: “The stories of the Scot Craig Russell, who has only been writing crime thrillers since 2005, take getting used to because killing is downright fetishized in them. Monstrous murderers, psychopaths, angels of vengeance who often take abstruse myths as models and, following strict rituals, cause their victims a painful death. ”It is correspondingly difficult to make a good film out of it. “The makers give the right answer with a surreally alienated visual language. Look & Design have more 'value' than the story, which is certainly exciting. "
At literaturkritik.de, Nils Demetry says: “At least the plot of the German thriller Brandmal (director: Nicolai Rohde) sounds promising”, but “the film loses the height of the fall due to the relatively early introduction of the perpetrator, which in view of the violent dimension of the crime could have been maintained for a while without a concrete perpetrator figure. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm give this episode a "thumbs to the side" and rate it only as mediocre.
Web links
- Brandmal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Brandmal on ard.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.fnp.de/nachrichten/tv/Brandmal-Teils-brillant-teils-aergerlich;art37261,1599595
- ↑ Shooting in Hamburg for the literary adaptation “Brandmal” at presseportal.de, accessed on December 12, 2016
- ↑ a b Brandmal on tittelbach.tv, accessed on December 12, 2016
- ↑ Nils Demetry: Dangerous Nonsense ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Film review from the 11th Festival of German Films in Ludwigshafen, accessed on December 12, 2016
- ↑ Brandmal ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on December 12, 2016.
