The butcher has to detain

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Episode of the series The Butcher
Original title The butcher has to detain
Country of production Germany
Austria
original language German
Production
company		 Magic Flight movie
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 2 ( list )
German-language
first broadcast		 February 19, 2015 on Das Erste
ORF
Rod
Director Andreas Herzog
script Holger Karsten Schmidt based
on the novel by Thomas Raab
production Christian Rohde
Gilbert Funke
music Christopher Bremus
camera Ralf Noack
cut Gerald Slovak
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
The butcher and the dead in the shark tank

The butcher must be detained is a German TV film by Andreas Herzog from 2015, based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Raab . It is the second installment in the crime series Der Metzger with Robert Palfrader and Dorka Gryllus in the leading roles.

action

When restorer Willibald Adrian Metzger returned from his workshop late in the evening, he stumbled over a corpse in the park. He is shocked to find that he knows the man from his school days. Metzger goes to the police station to report the body and meets an old schoolmate there again: Pospischill. He is now a commissioner and wants Metzger to show him the find, but the body has now disappeared and Metzger is at a loss. The next day he finds out that someone has broken into his workshop. However, nothing was stolen. Instead, Metzger finds a photo from his school days and a piece of paper with the sentence: ... and there is a magic inherent in every beginning. Shortly afterwards Pospischill visits him and they both talk about the old days. The inspector still doesn't want to believe that the butcher met Felix Dobermann as a corpse. What is strange, however, is that he has not appeared anywhere since his release from prison. Metzger therefore thinks he will organize a class reunion to bring everyone back together. He doesn't really feel at home with it, however, because he doesn't have the best memories of his school days. He suffered particularly badly from Felix Dobermann because he always annoyed him and exposed him to others. Due to his shyness, he could never face the others properly.

After Metzger has completed his invitations, he also distributes them among his teachers at the time, some of whom are still teaching at the school today. By chance he meets his secret childhood sweetheart Danjela Djurkovic again, to whom he immediately reports about his body find and that someone would like him to become a hobby detective again.

On the day of the class reunion, everyone was very surprised that “their” butcher of all people had invited them all. Metzger remains very attentive to all conversations about the old days and their many pranks. It gets a little interesting in the late evening, when the alcohol shows its effects, but nobody reveals himself to be a possible murderer. On the contrary, nobody really knows what your old friend Doberman is up to today. Since some of them did not accept the invitation, Metzger wants to examine them a little. First he visits his old Prof. Eder. Today he is married to Birgit Kitzler, whom Metzger and his comrades were all in love with at the time. Felix Dobermann, in particular, had been after her a lot. This went so far that the two were caught intimacy and Dobermann had to leave school. Shortly after his conversation with Birgit Kitzler, Metzger is ordered to a bridge, but as he waits there for his informant, he is knocked down from behind and thrown into the water. But he is rescued from the river by a mysterious hearse driver and later wakes up in Danjela's bathtub.

Metzger has an idea how he can possibly find the body. That brings some success, because the trail leads into the apartment of his old schoolmate Mario Sedlatschek, in which clear signs indicate that Dobermann was shot here. As Metzger suspected 25 years ago, both Dobermann and Sedlatschek were homosexual and a couple. All Doberman's stalkings after the female sex were always only camouflage, so as not to reveal his true inclination. Metzger also finds out that Dobermann had to go to jail for a murder that not he but Prof. Eder committed out of jealousy. After Prof. Eder unintentionally admits this, he is arrested by Inspector Pospischill. However, he was not responsible for Doberman's death. This riddle is resolved when Sedlatschek gives Metzger a letter from his friend Dobermann after Eder's arrest. Here he writes that he killed himself and laid the trail with Sedlatschek as a helper for butchers so that he could prove his innocence as a hobby detective, because he could no longer do this due to illness. In retrospect he apologizes to Metzger for having annoyed him so much at school, he was very sorry, especially since he had always envied him because he could be who he was and he never had to "hide".

background

The butcher's detention was filmed from August 18 to September 16, 2014 in Tyrol and broadcast on February 19, 2015 on Erste .

Reviews

Volker Bergmeister from Tittelbach.tv wrote: “The second thriller about the restorer Willibald Adrian Metzger, who cannot refrain from criminalizing and who in this case is confronted with his school past and his role as an overweight whipping boy, stands out pleasantly from the public legal television crime routine. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best rating (thumbs up) without comment and wrote: “A pleasure with cinematic pictures and nicely smug humor. With beautifully exhausted supporting roles and a nicely eccentric hero that you don't get over so quickly. The butcher doesn't have a cell phone or a television, but maybe he'd buy one for that. ”Conclusion:“ Subtle joke and great dialogues! ”

Ulrich Feld from the Frankfurter Neue Presse rated the butcher's detention as "over-engineered". The film “got sick” “trying to be bizarre and different from other thrillers with all its might and neglecting the coherence of the story.” The “overloaded plot” would have too many “subplots and supporting characters”. “Something could have been done from the basic idea of ​​the story with flashbacks to the main character's school days. Unfortunately, after almost 40 minutes there is this scene at the class reunion in which an old teacher gives the students a schnapps. From this moment on, not only does the party get out of hand, but also the whole film. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Bergmeister: Robert Palfrader, Dorka Gryllus, Thomas Raab. Suspense, bizarre and wit , accessed on Tittelbach.tv on January 21, 2015.
  2. ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on January 21, 2019.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Feld: Film review at fnp.de , accessed on March 2, 2019.