The duo: pawn sacrifice

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Episode in the series Das Duo
Original title Pawn sacrifice
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 TV60Film production
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
classification Episode 6 ( list )
First broadcast February 21, 2004 on ZDF
Rod
Director Christian Goerlitz
script Christian Goerlitz
production Sven Burgemeister
music Mario Lauer
camera Tomas Erhart
cut Marcel Peragine
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
The Lover

Successor  →
False Dreams

Bauernopfer is a German television film by Christian Görlitz from 2004. It is the 6th film in the ZDF crime film series Das Duo .

action

The young Sonja Bloom is found dead in her attic with a rope around her neck. It quickly becomes clear to Lizzy Krüger and Marion Ahrens that they were merely faking a suicide. While Commissioner Krüger wants to commit to the irascible ex-boyfriend Ole Krogmann, Ahrens has the photographer Hasso Lehbeck in her sights, who recently made friends with the victim. He has no real motive, but psychological abnormalities. As a reporter and war correspondent, he has worked all over the world and seen a lot of suffering. Allegedly Sonja had called him for help because Krogmann often bothered her and she was afraid of him and his freaking out. Meanwhile, Krogmann tries to take the search for the murderer of "his" Sonja into his hands. He knows that she got involved with the car dealer Jens Gante and owed him money, which she was supposed to "work off" at Gante. This is reason enough for him to hold the man down and torture him to confess. Commissioner Krüger can stop Krogmann at the last moment and free Gante.

Commissioner Krüger finds out that Hasso Lehbeck had known Sonja Bloom longer than he initially stated and is even the father of her little daughter. She confronts him and gets him to make a confession. Sonja had only called him over because she wanted him to support the child. Out of disappointment because she kept talking about money and not about him or the child, he had pressed her neck so that she could finally be quiet. Too late he realized what he had done. Hoping to disguise it as suicide, he then hung it up in the attic.

Production notes

Bauernopfer was filmed in Lübeck and first broadcast on ZDF on February 21, 2004 at 8:15 p.m.

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said: “Actually, it's […] about loneliness and the facades that people build in order to survive. Everyone is looking for someone who listens to them - including Commissioner Krüger, who appears so tidy. ”The social criticism incorporated by the author“ is a little vague: hardly anyone who is not a victim. Wherever you look: lonely souls. The prospects of the Holstein landscape are correspondingly bleak. But in this 'chamber play-like film', 'Nothing is what it seems'. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave it a medium rating (thumbs to the side) and found: "Too strange figures, clumsily coated local color." As an overall conclusion they drew: "A little bit of niggling, not unexciting".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Start dates for Das Duo: Bauernopfer . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved January 14, 2017 .
  2. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Christian Görlitz 'crime drama for "Das Duo"': Lonely souls, gloomy prospects Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on August 24, 2017.
  3. ↑ The Duo: Bauernopfer TV feature film ; January 14, 2017.