The duo: dead lie better
| Episode in the series Das Duo | |
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| Original title | Dead better lie |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
TV60Film production |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 24 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | September 12, 2012 ( ZDFneo ) September 15, 2012 ( ZDF ) on ZDF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Johannes Grieser |
| script | Melanie Bruegel |
| production |
Marcus Roth Sven Burgemeister |
| music |
Jens Langbein Robert Schulte-Hemming |
| camera | Wolf Siegelmann |
| cut | Claudia Fröhlich |
| occupation | |
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| chronology | |
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Dead lies better is a German TV film by Johannes Grieser from 2012. It is the 24th and last film in the ZDF crime series Das Duo .
action
Commissioner Clara Hertz, who had hired babysitter Heidrun Junkers for her son Gustav, who is also a cleaning lady, one day has to let a substitute in her apartment. This representative is Franziska Bogner, who was sent to her by Heidrun on the condition that she would be absolutely reliable. Clara Hertz nevertheless has mixed feelings and prefers to take little Gustav with her to the police station. There she researched Franziska Bogner and found various police entries ranging from minor drug offenses to child abduction. Hertz is extremely worried and calls her apartment, but no one answers. Without further ado, she drives there and finds Franziska Bogner stabbed to death in the apartment. Clear signs of burglary suggest that the cleaning lady got in the way of the burglar and that there was a robbery. Hertz colleague Marion Ahrens supports her colleague in this personal case and first looks around Bogner's apartment. Then she went to Heidrun Junkers with Hertz and found out that Franziska was worried about her daughter, who was living with the child's father in Hamburg. Heidrun had agreed to secretly look after the child and therefore she could not come to work and had sent Franziska as a substitute.
Hertz and Ahrens then seek out Bernhard Weininger, the father of Franziska's daughter. Because of Franziska's drug addiction, he was given custody. They learn from him that he wanted to accept a job offer abroad and was about to leave the country. Franziska would have been very angry about that. The inspectors cannot yet recognize an urgent suspicion, but Weininger seems to be hiding something from them. In addition, he constantly points out Franziska's drug addiction, which, according to her friend Heidrun, she had overcome and had been clean for a year. Weininger's wife is not exactly shaken by the death of Sophie's mother, but she can credibly demonstrate to the inspector that she could not kill anyone, not even her husband. Nevertheless, she is glad that Franziska Bogner can never bother her again, which has often happened in the past.
A lead leads to Colin Precht, a drug dealer with whom Franziska was friends before Weininger and with whom she had contacted again when she found out that Weininger wanted to go abroad with her daughter. But Precht is fleeting and cannot be interrogated at first. After Hertz succeeds in catching him, he denies having anything to do with the murder. Because of the thin evidence, he has to stay at large.
Hertz and Ahrens find out that Heidrun Junkers did not have an alibi at the time of the crime, because the wrong time was set based on the photos she took on her trip to Hamburg. Ahrens also has the feeling that Klaus Junkers had a relationship with the victim. But in the middle of these considerations, Hertz receives an emergency call from Heidrun, who is currently driving her car and tells her that Colin Precht had killed Franziska. He was going to chase her because she found the jewelry on him that was stolen in the break-in. She would have taken him and therefore Precht would hunt her. As a result, she causes a traffic accident and is taken unconscious to the hospital. Precht is again on the run, but surprisingly finds himself in forensic medicine when he wants to quietly say goodbye to his ex-girlfriend. He strictly rejects Junkers' allegations, but can remember a woman who tried to sell him jewelry the day before, which explains to the investigators that his fingerprints were on the stolen property.
Hertz and Ahrens question Klaus Junkers again, who now admits that his wife needs help. For some time they have been in financial difficulties that they cannot cope with on their own and Heidrun does not want to admit this to himself. Therefore, she built a veritable structure of lies, just to keep the appearance from the outside that everything was in the best order. Because of the self-staged accident, she wanted to appear as a victim and not as a perpetrator. The inspectors confront Heidrun with the results of their investigation and notice in this conversation that Heidrun has acute psychological problems. She imagines that Franziska and her husband conspired against her. She feels betrayed by Franziska and says that she wanted to usurp her husband and children. When she wanted to confront Franziska, she stabbed her in an argument. She actually wanted to help her, but didn't manage to fake the break-in. After Heidrun Junkers feels cornered again, she jumps off a bridge to her death.
Production notes
Dead lies better was filmed in Lübeck and premiered on September 12, 2012 at 8:15 pm on ZDFneo . For the soundtrack, Over the Rainbow by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole was used at the end of the film .
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Dead Lie Better on September 12, 2012 was seen by 4.64 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 16.0 percent for ZDF .
criticism
Thomas Gehringer from tittelbach.tv commented: “Despite a few strong scenes with Claudia Michelsen and Martin Brambach, the film mostly offers crime thriller routine: typical investigation fuss and stiff dialogues. Given away as a family drama, staged without ideas and, last but not least, presented carelessly by ZDF. A sad farewell for Charlotte Schwab and Lisa Martinek. "
Also Quotenmeter.de could not find much words of praise and wrote: "The last episode, in charge is responsible for the director John Grieser, can best be summed up as the entire series: unspectacular, irrelevant and poorly researched. Adieu!"
Jens Szameit from Voices.de came to the conclusion: “There is simply too much and too unimaginative administration in this film. [...] The rarely believable emotions, the dialogues that once again overgrow every hint of show value. The feminine manners have also worn out a bit. The hard-working assistant is wiped out by the Klüngel commissioners as usual. What the young policeman endures as well as the alpha females the rather depressing investigations in their own social environment. A bit anemic and civil servant, the series separates. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and found: “Solid tension, winding plot and convincing actors: a successful finish - we just don't get the title.” As an overall conclusion, they drew “Don't reinvent the wheel , but entertaining ”.
Web links
- Dead lie better in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dead lies better at fernsehserien.de
- Dead better lie at crew-united.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Start dates for Das Duo: Dead Lie Better . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved January 13, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Thomas Gehringer: Schwab, Martinek, Michelsen, Brambach & a loveless farewell from Lübeck at tittelbach.tv, accessed on May 21, 2017.
- ↑ Dead lies better , atquotemeter.de , accessed on May 21, 2017.
- ↑ Film review ( 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. , at Voice.de , accessed on May 21, 2017.
- ↑ The Duo: Dead Lie Better TV Feature Film ; January 13, 2017.
