The duo: the lover

Episode in the series Das Duo
Original title	The lover
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	TV60Film production
length	94 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
classification	Episode 5 ( list )
First broadcast	June 30, 2003 on ZDF
Rod
Director	Marc Rothemund
script	Gerlinde Wolf
production	Sven Burgemeister
music	Maximilian Geller
camera	Peter Döttling
cut	Andreas Herzog
occupation
Ann-Kathrin Kramer : Lizzy Krüger Charlotte Schwab : Marion Ahrens Peter Prager : Viktor Ahrens Sólveig Arnarsdóttir : Uschi Jacobs Björn Kirschniok : Lars Rothe Peter Lohmeyer : Jan Moritz Katrin Pollitt : Jutta Weger Gunda Ebert : Elna Hindelang Dieter Brandecker : Albert Weger Lutz Teschner : Egon Schömer Peter Benedict : Robert Hindelang Barbara Stoll : Ice cream parlor operator Michael Schönborn : Mr. Sturm, receptionist Eberhard Bremer : Night porter Rolf Nagel : Chris Müller Ben Hecker : Klaus, witness Volker Hanisch : Hein Pohl, police officer Mario Lohmann : Policeman Andreas Kaufmann : Forensic specialist Thor W. Müller : Forensics Gernot Endemann : Public Prosecutor Helmut Mooshammer : Doctor
chronology
←  Predecessor Silent Death Successor  → pawn sacrifice

The Lover is a German television film by Marc Rothemund from 2003. It is the fifth film in the ZDF crime film series Das Duo . The film won the VFF TV-Movie Award in 2003.

action

Viktor Ahrens succumbs to his passion for gambling in the casino again. When his wife finds out, she makes a quick decision to rent a hotel suite and have a really good time. Unexpectedly, she meets the extremely charming Jan Moritz, is invited by him and spends the night with him in a hotel room. Meanwhile, her colleague Lizzy Krüger has to deal with the next murder case alone. The poultry farm operator Albert Weger was shot in his car. At first it looks like suicide, but the coroner finds evidence of a homicide. Since Weger suffered from a malignant pulmonary carcinoma, it is possible that it was a killing on demand.

Another murder occurs during the investigation. The convicted Egon Schömer is found poisoned in the hotel. Fatally, he owned the room in which Commissioner Ahrens had spent the night. Accordingly, there are innumerable fingerprints and other traces of her that she can only explain to the forensic scientist with difficulty. Ahrens is horrified when she finds out that her one-night stand , Jan Moritz, has just been released from prison and is now an urgent suspect, as his fingerprints can also be found in the hotel room. It also turns out that Moritz knew both Schömer and Weger and they may have been his accomplices in an earlier raid. The booty from then was never found and the men may have argued over it. When Ahrens becomes aware of the explosive nature of her situation, she reveals herself to Lizzy Krüger. The investigators take on both cases together, of which they are sure that there are connections. Based on soil samples on Egon Schömers shoes and smoke traces on his hands, it can be assumed that he shot Albert Weger.

Jan Moritz is meanwhile looking for the diamonds from his raid and suspects his accomplice from back then, Albert Weger, of having found them and taken them. But since he's dead now, only his wife can have the stones. Together with the police, he succeeds in convicting Jutta Weger. She confesses to poisoning Egon Schömer because she still had an old account of the past with him and because she knew that only he could have shot her husband. Schömer was also present at the jewel robbery and demanded from Weger his share, which he did not want to give him.

background

The lover was filmed in Lübeck and first broadcast on June 30, 2003 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF . In this episode, Lars Rothe ( Björn Kirschniok ) represents the crime detective Gernot Hilsdorf ( Roland Riebeling ).

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said: "An elegant exceptional crime thriller full of humorous surprises and with a good-natured Peter Lohmeyer, who is also curious about the criminal investigation."

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and found: “A case with self-irony, surprising twists and beautiful details.” The overall conclusion they drew: “Eieiei, this case is really spicy”.

Awards

In 2003 Das Duo: The Lover received the VFF TV-Movie Award . This prize, endowed with € 25,000 and donated by the collecting society of film and television producers , has been awarded every year since 1996 to the producer of the best television film from the program section German television films at the Munich Film Festival .

Web links

• The lovers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The duo: The lover at Fernsehserien.de
• The duo: The lover at crew-united.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Start dates for Das Duo: The Lover . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved January 17, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Rainer Tittelbach : Charlotte Schwab, Ann-Kathrin Kramer, Peter Lohmeyer and the infidelity at the crime scene film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on August 23, 2017.
3. ↑ The Duo: The Lover TV Feature Film ; 17th January 2017.
4. ^ Winner of the VFF TV-Movie Award at filmfest-muenchen.de, accessed on August 23, 2017.