The duo: love and death

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Episode in the series Das Duo
Original title Love and death
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 TV60Film production
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 22 ( List )
German-language
first broadcast		 October 29, 2011 on ZDFneo
Rod
Director Peter Fratzscher
script Eva and Volker A. Zahn
production Sven Burgemeister
music Christian Heyne
camera Wolf Siegelmann
cut Thomas Knöpfel
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Deadly proximity

Successor  →
The Dead Man and the Sea

Love and Death is a German TV film by Peter Fratzscher from 2011. It is the 22nd film in the ZDF crime series Das Duo .

In their 11th joint case, Ahrens and Hertz investigate the murder of the secretary of a bank director.

action

The bank clerk Angela Petersen is found brutally slain and the police officers Marion Ahrens and Clara Hertz start the investigation. There is an address book in the victim's apartment, but no laptop. There are no usable traces because someone meticulously removed all traces.

When looking for a motive for the crime, the commissioners first interview the work colleagues in the bank where the victim had worked. Clara Hertz is astonished to discover that Robert Lilienthal, the bank's director, is an acquaintance of hers, with whom she had a brief affair months ago. Petersen was his personal assistant, whom he describes as very reliable and loyal. She always had her private laptop with her, which is now missing and was allegedly stolen by the perpetrator.

The checking of the telephone connections leads to the celebrity jeweler Charly Dönhoff, who had telephoned the victim very often in the past few days. When questioned, he admits that he was interested in the attractive woman, but unfortunately never got to know her better. After a closer examination, Ahrens and Hertz find out that Dönhoff had received a fifteen million dollar loan from the bank, but only deposited fake diamonds as security, which Petersen found out. The bank clerk Sören Henscheid was entrusted with the handling of this transaction. He trusted the certificate and did not have the stones checked. Both suspects admit that they were blackmailed by Petersen for this. She wanted Dönhoff to contact his circle of friends and from Henscheid, who was her intimate partner for a while, she asked for the deletion of photos that he had posted of her on the Internet. But since Petersen's colleague Christiane Winkler was observed in a massive argument with her, she is also considered suspicious.

Surprisingly, a fingerprint is found in the victim's apartment, which leads to the former bank robber Peter Müller. In a questioning he admitted to having had contact with Petersen as part of a victim-offender settlement. She would have approached him and both would have entered into a purely sexual relationship with each other. During observation, Clara Hertz discovers that Müller is also meeting Christiane Winkler and is on the way to the bank with her, even though it is actually closing time there. Winkler threatens her boss there with a gun. After Ahrens and Hertz arrive, she explains to them that she had tried to help people all her life. Following the example of Muhammad Yunus , she had granted small loans to the needy. Lilienthal would not have wanted to know anything about her concept, so she would have done so on her own initiative. Petersen found out and, fearing that she would lose her customers, all of whom are hardworking and pay on time, she would have killed Petersen with a jack. Now she is determined to shoot Lilienthal and to force a suicide by cop , she first shoots at Müller. Since the police officers don't shoot her immediately, she turns the gun on herself. Clara Hertz can, however, prevent her from pulling the trigger.

Clara Hertz cannot avoid talking to Robert Lilienthal and he finds out that she is pregnant by him. However, the Commissioner cannot imagine a future with him. His superficial way of life just doesn't fit their lifestyle.

background

Love and Death was filmed in Lübeck under the working title Das Duo - Die Verführten and first broadcast on October 29, 2011 at 8:15 pm on ZDF .

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast on ZDF on October 29, 2011 at 8:15 pm, Love and Death was seen by 4.82 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 15.4 percent.

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said about this episode: “'Love and Death' from the ZDF series 'Das Duo' is an entertaining, well-built Whodunit thriller full of references, playful, criminal and sexual energy. […] Conclusion: dense, clear and briskly narrated crime thriller with a strong finale, exciting characters and a brief Nina Kunzendorf. The set-up private story hardly disturbs. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best rating (thumbs up) and found the film to be “a bit too tricky” but had “a little too many secondary threads, but the good actors (including Nina Kunzendorf as a seedy employee) tear it out again . "Conclusion:" Very entertaining, but a bit fleeting. "

Julian Miller Quotenmeter.de evaluated critically: The "crime plot has [...] the flair of a filler. There is a lively investigation against sleazy bankers and decadent millionaires. Everyone has their motif, everyone had their opportunity, every figure is drawn equally superficially. Unfortunately, the nice references to Alfred Hitchcock no longer save that. On the contrary - because they make the scenic implementation by Peter Fratzscher look all the more helpless and stylish. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Start dates for Das Duo: Liebe und Tod . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved December 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Schwab, Martinek, Kunzendorf, Feifel and the murder of a Hitchcock blonde at tittelbach.tv , accessed on March 5, 2018.
  3. ↑ Lisa Martinek and Charlotte Schwab as a Lübeck team. at TV Spielfilm , accessed on March 5, 2018.
  4. ↑ Julian Miller: Liebe und Tod bei Königinmeter.de , accessed on March 5, 2018.