The Athens crime thriller - Trojan horses

Movie
Original title	The Athens crime thriller - Trojan horses
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2016
length	90 minutes
Rod
Director	Marc Brummund
script	Claus Cornelius Fischer ; Markus B. Altmeyer
production	Stefan Retzbach , ; Francis Fulton-Smith , ; Marc Schneider
music	Wolfgang Hammerschmid
camera	Eeva Fleig
cut	Martin Habig , ; Imke Koseck
occupation
	Francis Fulton-Smith : Chief Inspector Max Richter; Waldemar Kobus : Chief Inspector Petros Makropoulos; Sabin Tambrea : Sideris Nikopolidis; Michele Oliveri : Detective Director Ritsos; Beate Maes : Melina; Hauke Petersen : Vaggelis Karadimas; Katharina Heyer : Eleni; Andrea Sawatzki : Victoria Pappas; Kostas summer : Raffael; Kostas Antalopoulos : Filippos; Sarah Eyfferth : Nadja; Tino Mewes : Jens Herzog; Anna Maria Velli : Sofia;

The Athens-thriller - Trojan Horses is a television film by Marc Brummund from the year 2016 with Francis Fulton-Smith and Waldemar Kobus in the lead roles. The script for the film was written by Claus Cornelius Fischer and Markus B. Altmeyer . The film premiered on January 28, 2016 in Das Erste . The main actor Francis Fulton-Smith, with his production company Little Door Films , is also the producer of the film, in collaboration with Action concept .

action

Max Richter, a German chief inspector , starts his service with the Athens police. Family ties - his mother was Greek and his sister lives in Athens - have brought him here. His first case is the murder of a singer. The cooperation with his Greek colleagues is bumpy at first, as there are prejudices here and there. Richter also has to investigate a corruption allegation against the Greek police and the fact that his new colleague, Chief Inspector Petros Makropoulos and his sister are a couple, does not make the job any easier. In the course of the investigation into the murder, Richter becomes increasingly clear that Makropoulus is not the one he should be monitoring. But it's his new boss, Kriminaldirektor Ritsos. He makes common cause with Victoria Pappas, who abuses her aid organization to organize illegal arms deals and also generously remunerates Greek police officers. A young Greek, Vaggelis Karadimas, is suspected of killing the singer Sofia because he was friends with her and had fled her apartment at the time of the crime. It is becoming increasingly clear to the commissioners that the two cases, the murder and the arms deal, are related: Makropoulos' daughter Eleni is a dedicated television journalist and reports on Karadimas's little brother's leukemia, which urgently needs treatment. But you have no more money for further examinations and the vital bone marrow transplant . Therefore, Vaggelis wants to blackmail Victoria Pappas with stolen freight documents that prove the weapons smuggling. However, Pappas does not agree and sends the corrupt police officers to calm Karadimas down. The cartridge intended for him does not hit him, but the singer, who then dies.

background

The film was shot in and around Athens from May 27th to June 30th, 2015 . He humorously targets the Greek-German prejudices and cleverly weaves the professional and private lives of the two protagonists into it. An entertaining crime thriller against the interesting backdrop of Athens. Fulton-Smith is not only convincing as an actor, but also with his first big job as a producer. It was produced under the aspect of a film series and broadcast as part of the series “ The First Thursday Crime”.

The ARD decided to turn no further films of Athens crime due to lack of audience response.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Trojan Horses on January 28, 2016 for the first time reached 4.40 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 13.1 percent.

Reviews

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv said about this crime thriller: “In the new series 'Athen-Krimi' he plays the German-Greek commissioner Max Richter, who, on his first appearance, uncovered arms-pushing between former LKA colleagues and a respected Athens publisher . Waldemar Kobus is Richter's local partner, who, with its cosiness, is pure provocation for virtuous colleagues. An attractive team with potential. Decent foreign thriller at a high level of craftsmanship. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm only gave a medium rating (thumbs straight) and wrote: “The prelude to the new European crime series by Degeto is rather simply staged fare with the brand's humor: A German plays a Greek who doesn't like German. There is still room for improvement! "Conclusion:" 'Crossing borders' of the somewhat staid kind. "

Focus.de assessed: “The dialogues are only moderately original and funny, and at most the names are Greek. The actors act routinely: Waldemar Kobus looks more like a rock-solid detective from a previous evening's crime thriller, and Sabin Tambrea, as a pale nerd without a family, is more like a Swede who hasn't gotten enough sun. Even sunglasses in the office don't help. Only Andrea Sawatzki in a guest appearance as angry publisher is able to convince. "