The duo: wolves and lambs

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Episode in the series Das Duo
Original title Wolves and lambs
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 TV60Film production
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 18 ( List )
German-language
first broadcast		 October 10, 2009 on ZDF
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Director Johannes Grieser
script Norbert Ehry
production Marcus Roth
Sven Burgemeister
music Jens Langbein
Robert Schulte-Hemming
camera Dragan Rogulj
cut Esther Weinert
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Wölfe und Lämmer is a German television film by Johannes Grieser from 2009. It is the 18th film in the ZDF crime series Das Duo .

In their seventh joint mission, Ahrens and Hertz investigate a case of domestic violence with fatal outcome.

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When ten-year-old Nicole comes home, she finds her mother dead in the bedroom. She was handcuffed and strangled. The commissioners Marion Ahrens and Clara Hertz speak to husband Klaus Henning first, of whom the neighbors report that he is a polite person, but the first investigations show that the victim had already sought refuge in the women's refuge because she was beaten. In the women's refuge, the inspectors happened to meet Raffaela Mai, who knew the victim and knew of a lover. Ahrens and Hertz speak to Henning about his outbreaks of violence against his wife, which he justifies by saying that Maike often provoked him with her very demanding manner. He would even have had the feeling that his wife wanted to be beaten. He would have known about her lover and only rated it as an adventure for Maike, but they would still have been a "really happy family". He would have loved his wife. After evaluating Maike Henning's email traffic, however, it is clear that she wanted to get a divorce and that she was demanding both the house and maintenance from her husband. This gives him a strong motive, but an alibi for the time of the crime.

The examination of the lover, Volker Daut, shows no evidence of an act of violence. He is married with two children and did garden work for the Hennings. This also led to intimate contact with Henning's wife.

Clara Hertz is asked for help by Raffaela Mai after her violent friend, Kai-Uwe Plöger, ambushed her son Leo and then beat her again. Plöger can be very loving, but he also gets angry very quickly. Raffaela decides to part with him for good. She wants to obtain an injunction against him by court order . At the same time, however, she is also having trouble with the authorities because the youth welfare office has become aware of her. Due to the frequent absence of the mother, her son is threatened with neglect and so Leo is taken into care and taken to a children's home. Since Commissioner Hertz stands up for Raffaela, she can bring her Leo back, whom she personally picks up from the youth welfare office. When she stands with him in front of Raffaela's apartment, she notices that something is wrong. She brings Leo to safety and informs the SEK . Raffaela is threatened with a gun by Plöger and he is determined to shoot her and himself because he does not want to accept a final separation. Before the colleagues even arrive, Clara Hertz breaks into the apartment and tries to get Plöger to give up. That fails and Hertz has to shoot Plöger, he also shoots and kills Raffaela fatally. After he has been taken care of in the hospital and his DNA is available to the police, it can be proven that he was also in the Hennings' house. He is questioned and admits to having been there. He saw Maike Henning with Raffaela and because she looked like “ coal ”, he followed her. He would have waited until no one was in the house and then broke in there. When Frau Henning came back unexpectedly, he would have thrown her on the bed, tied her up and gagged her and ran away in panic. He wouldn't have killed her.

Ahrens and Hertz then question Klaus Henning again. He now admits to having strangled his wife when he found her helplessly tied up on the bed. However, it was not the threatened divorce and maintenance lawsuit that drove him, but the fear of losing his daughter if Maike had taken her with him.

background

Wolfe und Lämmer was filmed in Lübeck and first broadcast on October 10, 2009 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF .

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast on October 10, 2009 on ZDF , Wölfe und Lämmer was seen by 5.96 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 20.3 percent.

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said: “Author Norbert Ehry often relocates the little investigation that often gets out of hand in many thrillers. This leaves him room to exploit the topic not only as a crime thriller, but also to explore its complexity by letting a violent relationship run through to the bitter end in its typical development. ”“ 'Wolves and Lammers' is one of the strongest so far Films from the series […]. The psychological nuances are right and even the short-circuiting of the two stories is not only due to the aesthetic randomness principle. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and said "Rousing up, makes you angry and sad".

Julian Miller Quotenmeter.de evaluated very critically, "The tension of exciting in itself and interesting murder case is unfortunately unnecessarily deformed by around drilling in Familienabgründen and the output is highly advised stereotyped: the women die, the men survive and be punished, while the Children are the main victims. Much more interesting than the figure of Clara Hertz is that of her colleague Marion Ahrens, who unfortunately slips into the background. Her cool, sober manner would have provided a lot of potential for tense scenes. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Start dates for Das Duo: Wolves and Lämmer . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved December 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Charlotte Schwab and Lisa Martinek in their most sustained case to date at tittelbach.tv , accessed on March 5, 2018.
  3. ↑ The Duo: Wölfe und Lämmer TV feature film , December 8, 2017.
  4. ↑ Julian Miller: wolves and lambs at Quotenmeter.de , accessed on 5 March 2018th