Dennstein & Schwarz - character assassination
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| Original title | Dennstein & Schwarz - character assassination |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2020 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Michael Rowitz |
| script | Konstanze Breitebner |
| production | Wolfgang Rest |
| music | Helmut Zerlett |
| camera | Andrés Marder |
| cut | Corina Dietz-Heyne |
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Dennstein & Schwarz - Rufmord (working title: Rufschädigung ) is an Austrian television film from the Dennstein & Schwarz film series from 2020 by Michael Rowitz with Martina Ebm and Maria Happel in the leading roles. The lawyer comedy was first broadcast on ORF on May 1, 2020. It is the continuation of Dieben macht Erben (2018) and Pro bono, what else! (2019). In the first , the film was shown for the first time on July 3, 2020.
action
The two lawyers Dr. Paula Dennstein and Dr. Therese Schwarz, who jointly run a law firm, are taking on a case that promises a lot of public attention. The well-known politician, Landesrat Konrad Wagner (DPÖ) wants to take legal action against a newspaper story. In one article he was pilloried as a grocer.
Landesrat Wagner suspects that the political opponents are behind the allegations, especially since the state election is imminent, in which Wagner is a candidate for the office of governor . For Paula, who has been friends with Wagner for years, his innocence is beyond doubt. She hands over the mandate to her colleague Therese. This demands that editor-in-chief Josef Pitzer of the Steiermark Nachrichten publish a reply . Pitzer is very sure of his cause, he has verifiable information.
Therese finds out that Wagner was brought before the Equal Treatment Commission by his former colleague Sandra Dorner because of a negative assessment . According to the Ombudsman for Equal Treatment at the time, however, the proceedings were about sexual harassment , which Wagner had concealed from his lawyer. He justifies this by not being allowed to speak to anyone about it. Schwarz finally receives the minutes from that time from Wagner, Therese and Paula have doubts about Wagner's statements.
Meanwhile, Paula takes care of a drug offense against Therese's 17-year-old sister Marita, who, together with Paula's son Ferdinand, comes into police contact because of possession and use of cannabis . Paula manages to convince the public prosecutor to drop the case against Marita.
The current governor wants Wagner to withdraw his candidacy. Konrad Wagner then asks his wife Sylvia to publicly stand behind him in a press conference, but she questions whether it makes sense because she would not be believed as his wife either. Paula therefore suggests provoking someone who defames Konrad Wagner in front of witnesses and whom you can sue for defamation so that you can expose the accusations as lies in court. In the gym, Sylvia Wagner gets Sandra Dorner to tell her that she was sexually molested by Konrad Wagner at the time; the fitness trainer is witness to the entertainment. Schwarz then files a lawsuit against Dorner, but Dorner asks Paula to withdraw the lawsuit, saying she couldn't afford it.
Sylvia overhears a telephone conversation between her husband and Sandra Dorner. In it he asks her to adhere to the confidentiality obligation agreed at the time, in return he would waive the fine of 100,000 euros to which she had committed at the time. Shortly before the start of the trial, Konrad Wagner's assistant Bettina Rauter also confirmed the allegations against him to Therese. Therese thereupon resigns the mandate, but the professional law obliges her to represent him for another 14 days. On the witness stand, Bettina Rauter once again confirmed the allegation of sexual harassment against Wagner, she herself was not molested, but received this information from Wagner's employees, including Anna Gruber, who sees herself unable to testify against Wagner.
The other side called Wagner's wife to the witness stand, who reported on Dorner's duty of confidentiality and the fine of 100,000 euros. Wagner's lawsuit against Sandra Dorner is then dismissed. Wagner waives the fine and resigns from all political functions with immediate effect.
production
The shooting took place together with the second episode Pro bono, what else! from August 26th 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 and Anette Keizer 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.
TV Spielfilm judged: “One would have forgiven a (biting) comedy for the accumulation of clichés, but one apparently believed that the subject would be more fair with reduced humor. But this was implemented in such a stereotype that it doesn't work in the uneven interaction with the remaining (harmless) joke. Consolation: the great backdrop! "
Hans Czerny ( Prisma / Teleschau) said that the bon mots between the persevering lawyers did not want to end without being funny. One day, however, Austrian comedy would break out. Wolfgang Hübsch plays the demented father of the aggressive politician in a cheeky and subtle way. The grandfather enjoys his freedom of fools and redeems everything that one expects from an Austria co-production. One would have wished for a little more of this lightheartedness in the film instead of the legal instructions.
Tilmann P. Gangloff wrote on Evangelisch.de that thanks to Rubey's differentiated play and the clever script by Konstanze Breitebner, the appeal of the plot lies in the balance between suspicion and prejudice. Breitebner cleverly distributes the different perspectives of the story among several characters, Rubey also gives the man the appropriate charisma. In contrast to the debt trap, Michael Rowitz (director) and Andrés Marder (graphic design) did without scenes with the camera unleashed this time. However, the landscape shots, which were slightly tickled, are still very nice to watch, and the good music by Helmut Zerlett makes the film definitely worth seeing.
Wolfgang Platzeck found in the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung that Konstanze Breitebner's nifty screenplay took the third case in the thoroughly exciting and entertaining series of lawyers to a new level. How Therese and Paula use a brilliant maneuver to help law and justice to victory at the same time in court, James Spader could not have done better than Alan Shore in Boston Legal .
Audience rating
The first broadcast on ORF on May 1, 2020 was followed by up to 856,000 and an average of 762,000 viewers, the market share was 23 percent.
In Germany, the film saw 3.39 million viewers when it was first broadcast on the first , the market share was 12.9 percent.
Web links
- Because Stone & Schwarz - character assassination in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dennstein & Schwarz - character assassination at crew united
- Dennstein & Schwarz - character assassination at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Martina Ebm and Maria Happel are "Dennstein & Schwarz" again. September 3, 2019, accessed April 11, 2020 .
- ↑ ORF premiere: For Stone & Schwarz - character assassination. In: ORF.at . Retrieved April 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Dennstein & Schwarz - character assassination at Fernsehserien.de
- ↑ Sidney Schering: "Dennstein & Schwarz": It continues in June. In : quotemeter.de . May 5, 2020, accessed May 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Film27: Dennstein & Schwarz 3 . Retrieved April 11, 2020.
- ↑ series "For Stone & Schwarz - debt / character assassination". In: tittelbach.tv . Retrieved June 17, 2020 .
- ↑ For Stone & Schwarz: character assassination. In: TV feature film . Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
- ↑ "For Stone & Schwarz - character assassination": short of political satire over. In: prisma.de. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : TV tip: "Dennstein & Schwarz: Rufmord" (ARD). In: evangelisch.de. July 3, 2020, accessed July 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Platzeck: Dennstein & Schwarz on ARD: Why it is worth switching on. In: waz.de. July 4, 2020, accessed July 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Up to 856,000 saw "Dennstein & Schwarz - Rufmord". May 2, 2020, accessed on May 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Laura Friedrich: Part three of the film series "Dennstein & Schwarz" is more popular again. In : quotemeter.de . July 4, 2020, accessed July 4, 2020 .