Dennstein & Schwarz - Pro bono, what else!

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Movie
Original title Dennstein & Schwarz - Pro bono, what else!
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2019
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Michael Rowitz
script Konstanze Breitebner
production Wolfgang Rest
music Helmut Zerlett
camera Andrés Marder
cut Corina Dietz-Heyne
occupation
chronology

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Dennstein & Schwarz - dying makes heirs

Successor  →
Dennstein & Schwarz - character assassination

Dennstein & Schwarz - Pro bono, what else! is an Austrian television film from the Dennstein & Schwarz film series from 2019 by Michael Rowitz with Martina Ebm and Maria Happel in the leading roles. The lawyer's comedy was first broadcast on ORF on December 29, 2019. It is the sequel to Dieben macht Erben (2018). In the first , the film was shown for the first time on June 26, 2020 under the title Debt Trap.

action

After the two lawyers Dr. Paula Dennstein and Dr. Therese Schwarz previously represented the other side, they are now opening a joint law firm. They take on their first case together pro bono . Willi Schultz is a single father of two, whose partner Anna Maurer was killed in a traffic accident. He has money worries after having to pay a € 20,000 cancellation fee to a prefabricated parts company for building a house that did not materialize. The purchase contract was still signed by his wife. Paula objects to the decision and goes to court. The other side sees part of the blame, but Paula refuses a settlement. She suspects that Schultz is not the only one who has been sued by the precast company Grün. Paula finds another person affected in Mr. Keller who, however, does not want to testify against the company.

In private, Paula's marriage to Felix, who is having an affair with the doctor Susanne Reiter, threatens to fail. Therese Schwarz takes over from Paula Dennstein in the event of a divorce. Head of the family Alexandra Dennstein would like to finally get rid of her unloved daughter-in-law and pull it over the table. The family fortune is parked in a foundation, but Paula could lay claim to half of the castle, which her husband, the first-born, belongs to. Felix Dennstein was previously filmed by a wildlife camera while having sex with Susanne Reiter, the material is presented in the process, the question of guilt is thus clearly clarified.

In the meantime, Therese Schwarz meets Thomas Lange, whom she is initially carried away by and who spends a night with him. However, it turns out that Thomas is the company partner of Dr. Xaver Biron, who is Alexandra Dennstein's lawyer and who represents Felix Dennstein in divorce proceedings and is therefore the opposing lawyer. For a long time, Alexandra Dennstein suggested putting a mortgage on the castle , which would amount to a ban on sale . While Lange proposes a reconciliation between Felix and Paula, Therese assures Paula that there is no conflict of interest due to her relationship with Thomas. Ferdinand Dennstein succeeds in bringing his parents Paula and Felix closer together through joint investments in his reforestation project. At the instigation of Alexandra Dennstein, Susanne Reiter proposes to Felix, who refuses and then separates from her, and a reconciliation occurs between Paula and Felix. Thomas Lange admits to Therese that he is married, but that his marriage has failed and that he wants to get a divorce.

During her research into the Schultz case, Paula comes across fraudulent practices by the precast company and the broker. Paula and Therese pretend to be prospective buyers to the real estate agent Toni Matt during an appointment to view a prefabricated house. Matt tries to urge them to sign in spite of the lack of a loan approval from the bank. However, Matt does not point out any cancellation fees. In court, Therese shows how real estate agent Matt pushed people to buy a house. Paula accuses the precast company of trying to save the company's difficult financial situation through the cancellation fee complaints. The two lawyers finally manage that Willi Schultz does not have to pay the cancellation fee after the purchase contract was signed by his partner Anna Maurer. In the land register, their daughters Lisa and Marie Schultz are registered as sole heirs of their mother, Anna Maurer was not married to the father of her children. The lawsuit should therefore have been formally addressed to their children, but the deadline for this had expired in the meantime.

In the divorce proceedings Felix and Paula Dennstein, Felix assumes sole responsibility. Paula would be entitled to half of the castle, but the property is encumbered with a mortgage because of the investments supported by Alexandra Dennstein in Ferdinand's project to reforest the Dennstein forests. Paula renounces her claims, Felix and Paula part on good terms.

production

The shooting took place together with the third episode of character assassination from August 26 to the end of October 2019 in Styria and Vienna . Filming locations included Altaussee , Lassing with Strechau Castle , Bad Aussee , Rottenmann and Grundlsee and Graz .

The film was produced by Austrian Film27 , Austrian Broadcasting Corporation and ARD ( Degeto Film ) were involved, and the production was supported by Cinestyria Filmcommission and Fonds and Film Commission Graz. Walter Fiklocki was responsible for the sound, Erika Navas for the costumes , Rainer Zottele for the set design and Martin Geisler for the mask.

reception

Reviews

Volker Bergmeister from tittelbach.tv wrote that the series offered exciting and entertaining family and inheritance stories with strong regional roots and sometimes one-dimensional, sometimes multi-layered characters. The interplay between Maria Happel and Martina Ebm is consistent, the dialogues pointed. While debt was badly advised conventionally, would offer character assassination explosiveness and Manuel Rubey than politicians "Grapscher" -Verdacht a dazzling main character.

In the Weser Kurier , Hans Czerny said that the episode was long, especially when it came to tricky paragraphs and legal maneuvers, and he said: "All in all, a tedious squirming to a happy ending".

Heike Hupertz wrote in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that Dennstein's experience-saturated cunning of life and the order and clear lines that are sacred to Schwarz complemented each other in the most beautiful way. The result is quite entertaining.

Audience rating

The first broadcast on ORF on December 29, 2019 was followed by up to 740,000 and an average of 694,000 viewers, the market share was 21 percent.

In Germany, 3.02 million viewers saw the film when it was first broadcast on the first , the market share was 12.3 percent.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ORF premiere: Dennstein & Schwarz - Pro bono, what else! Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Dennstein & Schwarz - Pro bono, what else! at Fernsehserien.de
  3. ↑ Sidney Schering: "Dennstein & Schwarz": It continues in June. In : quotemeter.de . May 5, 2020, accessed May 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Dennstein & Schwarz - Debt Trap. In: daserste.de. Retrieved June 17, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Martina Ebm and Maria Happel are "Dennstein & Schwarz" again. September 3, 2019, accessed December 3, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Film27: Dennstein & Schwarz 2 . Retrieved December 3, 2019.
  7. ↑ a b series "For Stone & Schwarz - debt / character assassination". In: tittelbach.tv . Retrieved June 17, 2020 .
  8. ^ Hans Czerny: Woman power in Styria. In: Weser Courier . June 19, 2020, accessed June 19, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Heike Hupertz: "Dennstein & Schwarz" in the first: Solving cases at the lake. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 26, 2020, accessed June 29, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Success for “Dennstein & Schwarz - Pro bono, what else!”: Up to 740,000 viewers. December 30, 2019, accessed December 30, 2019 .