The duo: deadly closeness

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Episode in the series Das Duo
Original title Deadly proximity
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 TV60Film production
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 21 ( List )
German-language
first broadcast		 May 6, 2011 on ZDFneo
Rod
Director Tobias Ineichen
script Birgit Grosz
Leo P. Ard
production Marcus Roth
Sven Burgemeister
music Fabian Römer
camera Gerhard Schirlo
cut Dagmar Pohle
occupation
chronology

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Deadly Proximity is a German television film by Tobias Ineichen from 2011. It is the 21st film in the ZDF crime film series Das Duo .

In their tenth joint mission, Ahrens and Hertz investigate the murder of a public prosecutor.

action

Public prosecutor Dengler is found shot dead in his office. In search of a motive, the inspectors Marion Ahrens and Clara Hertz come across the previously convicted landscape gardener and Hartz IV recipient Lars Rückert, who sees officials as personal enemies and repeatedly expresses this aggressively. Rückert currently had to answer for illegal work in court and was convicted by Dengler. Dengler had mainly dealt with labor law litigation and worked closely with the managing director of the local employment agency, Andrea Zander.

During the investigation there is an arson attack on the town treasurer Möhring's garden shed. He had last employed Lars Rückert, which now directs another suspicion against the man. Forensic technician Viktor Ahrens can undoubtedly clear this up. For Clara Hertz, the radio journalist Kirsten Stehr behaves very conspicuously, who always seems to be the first to get to explosive places. Out of false ambition, she too could have resorted to such means, because she is publicly inciting against Rückert. This campaign is further fed when Andrea Zander is also murdered. Shortly after her partner, Thomas Flohr, ordered new security systems, which had not yet been installed, Zander was shot. Since the same pistol was used here and Rückert had just rioted again in the employment agency, he is arrested on urgent suspicion. The origin of the weapon can also be clarified. Construction contractor Manfred Anderson had recently reported it as stolen. However, he too had a conflict with Dengler as well as with Zander, because he was supposed to be prosecuted by the attentive duo because of the employment of foreign illegal workers.

A witness reports to the police station who was in a pub with Lars Rückert on the evening of the murder of Andrea Zander. Rückert is then released again, but first overhears a conversation, after which the forensics department has clearly identified the sensational reporter as the arsonist. Immediately, Rückert seeks out the woman on the transmitter and puts her to the test. He has her read a statement that should announce his innocence to the audience and finally end the witch hunt against him. For Ahrens and Hertz, new suspicions arise against building contractor Anderson. They search his office and find an incriminating file from the employment agency and his allegedly stolen revolver. Anderson claims to be innocent and that someone wants to put him in there, but he is arrested.

Ultimately, the key to solving the case lies in determining the time of death. Marion finds out that Andrea Zander may have died earlier than initially assumed. Through persistent questioning, the inspectors succeeded in identifying Zander's partner Thomas Lohr as the perpetrator. Since he had professional contact with Anderson, he knew his office and also knew about the gun. Lohr was firmly convinced that Dengler had a relationship with Andrea Zander. He shot him out of jealousy and hoped to win his girlfriend back. But after Andrea Zander found him, she wanted to report him. The shots at her were affect.

background

Deadly Proximity was filmed under the working title The Last Filth in Lübeck and first broadcast on May 6, 2011 at 9:45 p.m. on ZDFneo .

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast on ZDF on May 7, 2011 at 8:15 pm, 4.70 million viewers were deadly close , which corresponded to a market share of 17.9 percent.

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said: “The 21st case of the Lübeck 'duo' is not one of the highlights of the series. 'Deadly Proximity' is an everyday whodunit in which everything is a tad too loud. With social stereotypes, the crime thriller crawls over a long 90 minutes. Almost every sentence has an exclamation mark. The investigators take themselves too seriously and the authors take the crime thriller too unimportant. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm only gave it a medium rating (thumbs straight) and said “a ramified crime thriller with failure symptoms”.

Christian David in Quotenmeter.de evaluated less critical: It "was made great by the authors Birgit Grosz and Leo P. Ard work, gradually new characters are introduced, resulting in the possible perpetrators increased considerably at first, and the viewer thus to the end is tied to the story. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Start dates for The Duo: Deadly Proximity . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved December 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c Rainer Tittelbach : Schwab, Martinek, Schüttauf and the fatal trap of the black and white dramaturg at tittelbach.tv , accessed on March 5, 2018.
  3. ↑ Das Duo: Tödliche Nahe TV feature film accessed 2018.
  4. ↑ Christian David: Striking Distance at Quotenmeter.de , accessed on 5 March 2018th