The prosecutor: Hangman's meal

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Movie
Original title The prosecutor: Hangman's meal
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2005
length 88 minutes
Rod
Director Peter F. Bringmann
script Markus Stromiedel
production Hans Joachim Mendig
music Enjott Schneider
camera Michael Faust
cut Gisela Zick
occupation
chronology

Successor  →
The Public Prosecutor: Glückskinder

Henkersmahlzeit is a German television film by Peter F. Bringmann from 2005 , which was produced on behalf of ZDF . It is the pilot of the television crime series The Public Prosecutor , which was originally started as a feature-length film and is not planned as a series , which forms the first season together with Glückskinder , the second case .

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 girlfriend, Alexandra Schalaudek as Corinna Nagold, assistant to the public prosecutor. The main guest stars of this first episode are Walter Kreye , Wanja Mues , Jürgen Tonkel , Teresa Harder and Nina Hoger .

action

Senior Public Prosecutor Bernd Reuther was not in his home town of Wiesbaden for ten years after a traffic accident in which his wife Sonja suffered irreparable brain injuries . When he returns to the city, he meets his son, Chief Detective Thomas Reuther, who is bad at speaking to his father because he left him and his mother alone and thus acted selfishly in Thomas' eyes . Thomas Reuther does not accept his father's argument that he loved his wife so much that he could not have endured the situation in Wiesbaden without harming himself. Nonetheless, both must find a way to work together on the cases that arise with the police in Wiesbaden. The assistant to the public prosecutor's office, Corinna Nagold, as well as detective inspector Jan Winkler and detective inspector Kirstin Klar suffer from the constant conflicts between father and son. Immediately after his father's arrival, Thomas Reuther submitted a transfer request, which his superior Höltgen, however, had refused.

The first joint case between father and son is the murder of the plastic surgeon Dr. Horst Gerhard. He was found lying on the floor with a blindfold. During the autopsy it is found that someone had given him a poisoned morel dish . Bernd Reuther insists on looking at the location of the body, which may not be the scene of the crime. To the annoyance of his son, he also insists on being part of all other investigative steps. Thomas Reuther sees this as a personal harassment, but for his father this process is the basis for his work. He always gets a practical picture and seldom makes decisions from his desk, as his predecessor Victor Kossowitz might have done.

Bernd Reuther has reserved a table for himself in the restaurant that is the only one in town to have morels on the menu. He shows the employees a photo of the victim and asks whether the man has eaten here in the restaurant, which they deny, however. The next day, bus driver Mathias Voigt was found dead under almost the same circumstances as Horst Gerhard. A witness saw a woman with the victim, so the investigators assume that they are dealing with a perpetrator. After a napkin is found at the crime scene that corresponds exactly to the one the public prosecutor had seen in the pub, he has the local cook, Maria Kranz, summoned. She has to give him the recipe for her morel dish so that Reuther can have the ingredients checked to see whether they can be found in the stomach of the two victims. Kerstin Klar expresses the thought that someone with the napkin could possibly have laid the wrong track. Meanwhile, Thomas Reuther tries to find common ground between the murder victims, which he initially fails. They had no points of contact with one another, lived in different parts of the city and while Gerhard was blindfolded, Voigt found three pharmacist weights in their hands. This gives him the idea that the perpetrator might want to point out the goddess of justice Justitia . That would mean, however, that there could be two more murders, with one of the victims being given a sword and another a code of law.

After it has been established that the stomach contents of the victims in turn point to the dishes of the established restaurant, Maria Kranz is asked to compare them. Since one of the test subjects failed, Reuther's assistant Corinna Nagold is supposed to be present. Strangely enough, after initial hesitation, the witness identified Nagold as the woman she had seen with Voigt. The investigators therefore doubt the credibility of the witness, who was not completely sober that evening. Thomas Reuther's reference to the perpetrator's possible “motive for justice” made the public prosecutor pensive. In his memories he suddenly sees the man who drove the ambulance with his wife in the accident at the time. As an emergency doctor at the time, he can help Dr. Determine Horst Gerhard.

Then another murder happens, Reuther's predecessor Victor Kossowitz is murdered. A sword is found on his body. Its stomach contents in turn lead to a dish that is on the menu in the restaurant where Maria Kranz cooks. Since Kranz disappeared recently, she is immediately put out to be wanted. While Bernd Reuther has a bad premonition, but still leaves his son in the dark, Corinna Nagold takes control of him on the pretext of not wanting to stay alone. In addition to being Kossowitz's assistant, she was also his lover. Your perfidious plan works, because public prosecutor Reuther is not long in coming. He researched the archives and discovered that the accident not only plunged him and his family into disaster, but also Corinna Fröhlich, the thirteen-year-old daughter of a woman who was also a victim of the accident and died. Under the name Corinna Nagold, she had managed to get close to Kossowitz so that he could bring Reuther back to Wiesbaden. She had planned everything meticulously, as she was familiar with the process of investigations and the way the inspectors thought. Through the stomach contents of the dishes she was able to draw suspicion to the cook Kranz. Her mother had cooked in the restaurant herself and left her her recipes. Now Corinna has lured Bernd Reuther to her place and wants to force him to eat such a dish. If he didn't, his son would die in less than an hour - so their rationale.

After father and son Reuther cannot be found, their teammates also recognize the connections. The first thing they find is Thomas Reuther, to whom Corinna has already administered the poison, but which he can vomit with the help of his colleagues. Together they then free Thomas father, who has tried in vain to make Corinna understand that none of those whom she has punished with death is to blame for her mother's death. At that time she ran in front of his car drunk and died immediately, so that no one could have helped her, which is why the emergency services only looked after Reuther's wife. Prosecutor Kossowitz rightly dropped the proceedings against him as the driver of the accident vehicle.

Production notes, publication

The public prosecutor: Executioner's meal was filmed from June 2nd to July 6th, 2004 at locations in Wiesbaden . Odeon Film AG and Novafilm Fernsehproduktion GmbH were responsible for the film . The film was first broadcast on German television on January 10, 2005 on ZDF .

It is the first of three episodes of The Public Prosecutor to date that have been produced in feature length. Henkersmahlzeit from 2005 followed Glückskinder in 2007 and Tödlich Wohnen in 2019 .

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm said that “the story looks a bit out of hand at the end”, is “not so important”: “The angular characters and Hunold's touchingly subtle play captivate here.” The conclusion was then: “Mixed, but Rainer Hunold shines ”. The thumb was pointing up; For humor, action and eroticism there was one of three possible points, for tension two.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Hunold: Lawyer yesterday, doctor today, prosecutor tomorrow In Berliner Morgenpost , January 4, 2005.
  2. ^ The public prosecutor: Executioner's meal at crew united
  3. ↑ The public prosecutor: Executioner's meal See tvspielfilm.de (including 28 film images). Retrieved March 1, 2020.