The case of Jakob von Metzler
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| Original title | The case of Jakob von Metzler |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Stephan Wagner |
| script | Jochen Bitzer |
| production | Verena Monßen |
| music | Ali N. Askin |
| camera | Thomas Benesch |
| cut | Gunnar Wanne-Eickel |
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The case of Jakob von Metzler is a German feature film by Stephan Wagner from 2012 with Robert Atzorn , Uwe Bohm and Johannes Allmayer in the leading roles. The ZDF television film describes the real murder case of Jakob von Metzler and the subsequent Daschner trial .
action
The film begins with the siege of the house of the former deputy Frankfurt police chief Wolfgang Daschner by the press. He was the head of the investigation into the kidnapping and murder case Jakob von Metzler and is harassed with anonymous letters threatening him with murder. Eggs are pelted at his house. Flashback: The eleven-year-old banker's son Jakob von Metzler was kidnapped on September 27, 2002 on his way home from his school, the Carl-Schurz-Schule , near his parents' house in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen . Daschner immediately formed a special unit that took over communication with the kidnappers and looked after the von Metzler family. Based on the ransom note, a profiler believes that the kidnapper must be an amateur individual perpetrator.
This assumption is confirmed when the money is taken over: The perpetrator can be observed when collecting the money. The police are investigating the 27-year-old law student Magnus Gäfgen as the one who picked up the money. She supervises him making lavish expenses. When the suspicion grows that he has no intention of releasing the boy, she arrests him. In the interrogations that followed, Gäfgen initially argued that an unknown High German-speaking man commissioned him to collect the money and gave him 20,000 euros for it. The police don't believe him a word. When the officers found a handwritten “checklist” relating to a kidnapping in Gäfgen's handwriting in his apartment, his version began to crumble. Gäfgen demands to speak to a lawyer, confesses to the kidnapping of the child and tells the police that Jakob von Metzler is still alive. He describes a hiding place in a hut, which is also not true. He also tries to involve two acquaintances whom he does not like into the matter. The police arrest the two completely innocent. Daschner believes that Gäfgen wants to buy time and that Jakob von Metzler is still alive. He assumes that the boy will die of thirst or freeze to death somewhere. In order to save the boy's life - to avert danger - he threatens guests to torture him. Gäfgen gets scared and takes the investigators to the crime scene, a jetty on a forest lake. Immediately afterwards, Daschner wrote a note in which he admitted the threat of torture. After Gäfgen was sentenced to life imprisonment, Daschner was charged. He cites an apologetic emergency and argues that it was his duty to save the child's life. Gäfgen's assertion that Daschner threatened to lock him up in a cell with two “big negroes” who would rape him is not believed by the court, as Daschner's defender succeeds in portraying Gäfgen as a notorious liar.
During the trial, Daschner was verbally abused and attacked by demonstrators. Finally, he and the chief detective Ortwin Ennigkeit are convicted of the threat of direct compulsion in office and incitement to do so, and Daschner is transferred to a sentence. In the end, Friedrich von Metzler meets Daschner and says that he did not come to the trial because that could have harmed Daschner. It turns out that von Metzler had given Daschner no money to threaten Gäfgen with torture.
background
TeamWorx produced the film for ZDF. The editing was done by Katharina Dufner and Caroline von Senden. Wolfgang Daschner and the von Metzler family worked together with author Jochen Bitzer on the creation of the script. Individual scenes from the film were shot in front of the von Metzler family home.
The costumes are by Petra Kilian .
The first broadcast as ZDF TV film of the week on September 24, 2012 reached 5.27 million viewers and a market share of 16.5%.
criticism
“No contradiction: We have never seen Atzorn like this before, so intensely, so deeply, so internally torn. It may be his best role yet. He plays a man who doesn't seem particularly sympathetic, but who is determined to do everything to prevent a crime. "
“Director Stephan Wagner and author Jochen Bitzer (who previously wrote the Kohl biopic“ The Man from the Palatinate ”) meticulously put together, they leave the assessment to the audience. In her cool, painfully detailed film, above all the guaranteed file situation is processed, controversial points have been left out. "
“The television game leaves enough leeway for internal revision processes in this moral judgment. That is exactly what makes the film above all doubt. "
Awards
Stephan Wagner won the prize for directing of the German Academy of Performing Arts at the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival in 2012 . In 2013, she won the Grimme Prize in the “Fiction” category, which was given by scriptwriter Jochen Bitzer, director Stephan Wagner and Robert Atzorn on behalf of the drama ensemble, as well as the Robert Geisendörfer Prize . Robert Atzorn also won the Bavarian TV Prize 2013 in the category “Acting Achievements in TV Films”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the case of Jakob von Metzler . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2012 (PDF; test number: 135 223 V).
- ↑ a b http://www.fr-online.de/frankfurt/tv-kritik--der-fall-jakob-von-metzler--das-dilemma-im-mordfall-metzler,1472798,17896456.html ( Memento of September 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Strong figures for the 'Jakob von Metzler case' ( memento of October 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Meedia of September 25, 2012, accessed on October 20, 2012
- ↑ Michael Hanfeld: TV film: "The case of Jakob von Metzler". “The boy has to stay alive”. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 24, 2012, accessed on September 25, 2012 .
- ^ Christian Buß: ZDF crime thriller on the Metzler case. Law and its servant. Spiegel Online , September 24, 2012, accessed September 25, 2012 .
- ↑ Bavarian Television Prize for Nadja Uhl and Robert Atzorn. In: Augsburger Allgemeine. May 18, 2013, accessed August 10, 2017 .
Web links
- The case Jakob von Metzler in the Internet Movie Database (English)