The Usedom thriller: smoke screen
| Episode of the series Der Usedom-Krimi | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Smoke screen |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Razor movie |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 4 |
| First broadcast | October 19, 2017 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andreas Herzog |
| script |
Scarlett Kleint , Alfred Roesler-Kleint , Michael Vershinin |
| production | Tim Gehrke |
| music | Colin Towns |
| camera | Wolfgang Aichholzer |
| cut | Gerald Slovak |
| occupation | |
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Nebelwand is a television film from the crime series Der Usedom-Krimi . It was produced by Razor Film Produktion for Das Erste on behalf of ARD Degeto and NDR . The fourth episode of the film series was first broadcast on October 19, 2017.
action
A homeless woman who had sought shelter there suffers severe burns in the fire of a docked sailing ship. The responsible chief inspector Julia Thiel is investigating what the cause of this arson was. The ship, which was previously undergoing a general overhaul, recently belonged to a social education association that wants to rehabilitate young people at risk through experiential education .
It gradually emerges that the same sailing ship was involved in a bad accident ten years ago in which a vacationing couple died and only their six-year-old son survived. The ex-prosecutor Karin Lossow remembers the case vividly, because she was on board the ship during the accident. Has that boy now returned to take revenge for the death of his parents? And is he possibly identical to the convicted "Jäckie" who hangs around on Usedom? The same young man, by the way, that Julia's teenage daughter Sophie fell in love with?
But first of all, the police are suspicious of a 17-year-old from the group of young people who are being looked after, and who is assuming an outsider role there. Simone was at the scene of the arson, knocked out the burning clothes of the homeless and saved her life. At the same time, however, she cannot plausibly justify why she was at the scene exactly at the time of the arson . Doesn't that mean she could be the one who started the fire out of resentment against the bullying in the ship repair group? The police initially take her into custody.
When the motives of the actually identical person of the orphan boy from back then and the Jäckie of today become clear, as well as his presence on Usedom at the time of the crime, the suspicion against the underdog youths is dropped. Lossow determines the whereabouts of Jäckies with a foster family in Poland and without further ado drives there himself. He initially fled from her, but after a self-inflicted car accident during the chase, he agreed to follow her compromise proposal and drive back to Usedom with her to face the police. She honors this cooperation by sinking his illegal firearm in the Baltic Sea. In addition, she confesses her complicity in the shipwreck at the time. At the time she had covered her husband, who was prone to lies and deceit, with a false testimony for fear of otherwise losing him. She also gets around to the former shipowner friend, dropping the lie about the alleged smoke screen, which hadn't even existed.
background
The film was shot from April 5, 2016 to May 4, 2016 mainly on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom and in Berlin.
reception
Reviews
“The 'Usedom-Krimi', which is more of an everyday drama than a classic police film, has managed to develop its own, attractive tonality by whistling about postcard-like regional marketing and constantly undermining expectations in terms of action. Wherever a clear exposition is required, mysteriousness is used; wherever there is a dispute, everyone pulls in the same direction; where men usually do the cleaning, here women clean the men away; where otherwise grotesque jokes provide variety, the focus is on real-life family chaos. (..) But in this somewhat different coastal thriller, the joke is as little in the foreground as the crime, the rather weak finale or the moral comment, in this case related to a not entirely altruistic youth welfare service . "
“There are many things that raise the series, co-produced by NDR and Degeto, and especially the current episode, above average. (..) The actors' portrayal is also subtle, here again directed by Andreas Herzog, who has already directed the premiere film. Often there is quiet communication, meanwhile the sparse dialogues interspersed with North German dry wit are a sheer joy. "
“After the negative runaway 'Engelmacher', the 'Usedom-Krimi' finds its way back on track with episode four. The film not only provides answers to the questions that were raised in parts one and two, it also shows the courage to deal with the mysteriousness that had lifted the series out of the multitude of comparable North and Baltic Sea thrillers at the beginning. In terms of craftsmanship, too, 'Nebelwand' ties in with the strengths of the first two films, not least thanks to the suggestive music and the atmospherically supercooled image design . "
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Nebelwand on October 19, 2017 was seen by 6.18 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 20.5% for Das Erste . This time the crime series won the day among the general public.
Web links
- The Usedom thriller: fog in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Nebelwand on the ARD website
supporting documents
- ↑ The Usedom crime thriller: smoke screen at crew united
- ↑ Oliver Junge: A ship will burn. TV film "Nebelwand". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 19, 2017, accessed on October 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Harald Keller: Devastated souls, burned faces. In: Media. Frankfurter Rundschau, October 19, 2017, accessed on October 21, 2017 .
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Sass, Potthoff, Bading, Andreas Herzog. The crime-drama mix is now right again. Tittelbach.tv, October 20, 2017, accessed on October 21, 2017 : "Rating: 4 out of 6 points"
- ↑ Robert Meyer: Strong "Usedom-Krimi" makes "Bergretter" look old. Oddsmeter.de , October 20, 2017, accessed on October 21, 2017 .