The prosecutor: lucky children

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Movie
Original title The prosecutor: lucky children
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2007
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Peter F. Bringmann
script Sönke Lars Neuwöhner
production Hans Joachim Mendig
music Sebastian Pille ,
Enjott Schneider
camera Michael Faust
cut Gisela Zick
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chronology

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The prosecutor: executioner's meal

Glückskinder is a German television film directed by Peter F. Bringmann in 2007 and produced on behalf of ZDF . It is the second full-length episode of the television crime series The Public Prosecutor , which forms the first season together with Henkersmahlzeit .

Rainer Hunold is cast in the title role as public prosecutor Bernd Reuther , Marcus Mittermeier embodies the chief detective Thomas Reuther and son of Bernd Reuther. Fiona Coors can be seen as Detective Inspector Kerstin Klar and Thomas' friend. The main guest stars of this second episode are Christoph Waltz , Volker Bruch , Leslie Malton , Julia Dietze , Oliver Stritzel , Tobias Schenke and Kostja Ullmann .

action

Chief Public Prosecutor Bernd Reuther and his son Thomas, Chief Detective Inspector, are investigating the murder of Lukas Benthaler, who was deliberately run over by a car. The dead teenager was in a clique where Bastian Tressen, son of the chief doctor Claudius Tressen, is the leader. He is accused by Reuther of having committed the crime. Tressen's lawyer Dr. Arthur Conradsen succeeds in creating uncertainty because it cannot be proven beyond doubt that the accused was also behind the wheel of the car. Chief Public Prosecutor Bernd Reuther therefore requests an interruption of the trial because he fears that under these circumstances he will not be convicted. Thomas Reuther, who takes the mistakes in the investigation personally, immediately quarreled with his father, with whom he had an ambivalent relationship. In order to iron out his mistake, Thomas Reuther tries to influence the main witness Alex Schulz to tell the truth, since he made a different statement in court than at the time during the interrogation that the inspector himself conducted. The next day, Alex Schulz is found hanged from a tree in the park. While the prosecutor assumes suicide because the young man may not have endured the pressure, his son is convinced that Alex was killed. After the autopsy found 2.7 per mille blood alcohol, Bernd Reuther is also convinced that someone in this condition can no longer hang himself.

Thomas Reuther and his team try to reconstruct Alex Schulz's last day. He had celebrated the whole evening with the clique because Bastian Tressen had been released from custody due to the interruption of the process. Thomas Reuther therefore tackles individual group members and unsettles them by making it clear to the young people that the murder of Alex Schulz is being investigated and that the murderer would soon be located on the basis of the evidence. Detective Inspector Kerstin Klar had meanwhile dealt with Axel's finances and determined from the bank statements that he was as good as broke, but had recently deposited 4,000 euros into his account. For Thomas Reuther it is certain that it was "witness money" that Axel von Tressen had received so that he changed his original statement in favor of his son. Thomas confronts Dr. Claudius Tressen with his assumption, but only reaps incomprehension. When he then indirectly accuses him of possibly killing Axel because he wanted more money, Tressen threatens him with a libel suit. When Bernd Reuther found out about his son's action, he was extremely angry about it. He prefers to research in peace and not immediately utter unproven unproven assumptions.

Since the members of the clique all belong to the "upper class", Bernd Reuther knows most of the parents. He hopes to learn something about the young people from this direction and to find weak points. Often they cannot cope with the high expectations their parents have of them. This is the case with Jessica Emmerich and so the public prosecutor hopes that he can talk to her in peace without the members of the clique intimidating her. But Bastian Tressen and his friend Robin Lindner see Jessica talking to Reuther and threaten Reuther subliminally. In order to demonstrate his power to the public prosecutor, Bastian allows himself a nasty prank against Reuther's helpless wife since an accident, for which he is reprimanded by his father.

Kerstin Klar and Thomas Reuther were able to create a phantom image with the help of a witness who had seen a stranger in front of his house on the day of Axel's death. Unfortunately, the face is "not known" to the police computer. Bernd Reuther, on the other hand, is certain that he knows the man pictured from a trial from his time in Frankfurt. So this can be identified as Ralf Carne, who runs a snack bar in Wiesbaden. When he is to be questioned, Carne immediately runs away. During the interrogation, he admits that he was hired by a lawyer to scare Axel Schulz because he would blackmail someone. But he didn't kill him. He asserts this himself during an hour-long interrogation, in which he also refers to having seen a young man in a red sports car with which Schulz drove away. Robin Lindner is thus targeted by the investigators. Lindner, who is on the road with Bastian Tressen, is talking to him about the traitor Alex and that he should have stopped him. When the police arrive to arrest Lindner, the young men try to escape by car, but are stopped and arrested. Bastian's little brother Kay, who, based on the defense attorney's arguments, had to assume that although he was totally drunk that night, he was behind the wheel of the car and was responsible for the death of Lukas, now learns by chance that he didn't kill anyone. Out of anger that everyone had let him believe that, he shoots his father with the pistol he found in the house.

In response to Carne's testimony, the public prosecutor arranges a house search of the lawyer Dr. Arthur Conradsen. He accuses him of having bought Axel Schulz's testimony in the Tressen trial and of having hired someone to prevent Schulz from further claims for money.

Production, publication, quota

The Public Prosecutor: Glückskinder was filmed under the working title Königskinder from January 24th to February 25th, 2006 at locations in Wiesbaden . Odeon Film AG and Novafilm Fernsehproduktion GmbH were responsible for the film . The film was first broadcast on January 15, 2007 on ZDF , where the film reached 6.29 million viewers.

After Henkersmahlzeit (2005), it is the second of four episodes of The Public Prosecutor to date that have been produced in feature length. After Glückskinder followed 2019 Deadly residential and 2020. Zero tolerance .

criticism

Manuel Weis fromquotemeter.de rated it very positively and wrote: “Anyone who looks at the film superficially could certainly feel disturbed by one or the other cliché. There are so many prejudices that affect the top 10,000 in any city. But if you think more carefully, you will find that some facts are not that far-fetched. That is why the film deals with the topic of 'the young people are getting married, who are internally disoriented'. ”“ In keeping with the still current debate, attention is also drawn to what can happen when parents do not take time for their children Shove them to their room, where shooting games are waiting en masse for them. But not only the case itself is convincing. The father-son dispute gives the film a special kick. "

For the critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm , Der Staatsanwalt: Glückskinder was a “solid crime thriller with heroes to touch”. The film received the best possible rating by showing the thumb up.

Kino.de said: “'Glückskinder' [...] is a successful mixture of crime thriller and courtroom drama. The screenwriter Sönke Lars Niewöhner gives the film depth by addressing the relationship between parents and children and the separation between professional and private life on various levels. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The prosecutor: Glückskinder at crew united
  2. ↑ audience, January 15, 2007 at Quotenmeter primetime check , accessed on 28 November of 2019.
  3. ↑ Manuel Weis: The Public Prosecutor - Glückskinder Criticism of the film atquotemeter.de, accessed on November 28, 2019
  4. ↑ The prosecutor: Glückskinder criticism at tvspielfilm.de (including 41 film images), accessed on March 1, 2020.
  5. ^ The public prosecutor: Glückskinder critic review at Kino.de, accessed on March 1, 2020.