The Zurich thriller: Borchert and the deadly trap

Episode of the series Der Zürich-Krimi
Original title	Borchert and the fatal trap
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Graf film
length	88 minutes
classification	Episode 7 ( list )
First broadcast	April 23, 2020 on Das Erste
Rod
Director	Roland Suso Richter
script	Wolf Jakoby
production	Klaus Graf
music	Michael Klaukien
camera	Max Knauer
cut	Christian Lonk
occupation
Christian Kohlund : Thomas Borchert Ina Paule Klink : Dominique Kuster Pierre Kiwitt : Marco Furrer Susi Banzhaf : Regula Gabrielli Robert Hunger-Bühler : Dr. Reto Zanger Andrea Zogg : Beat Bürki Yves Wüthrich : Urs Aeggi Thomas Kügel : Major Beat Wenger Golo Euler : Alexander Böni Kathleen Gallego Zapata : Marie-Louise Mildenberger Matthias Bundschuh : Dr. Kugler Christian Bojidar : Sherdan Berashi Stephan A. Tölle : Peter Zuber Torsten Ranft : Hermann Oehli Maike Jüttendonk : Lucie Schmitt Sophie Killer : Ines Böni Markéta Hrubesová-Kraus : Dr. Buhler Jean-Christophe Nigon : Bonnet Miroslav Cipra : Chairman of the Board Markus Lerch : Roman Kehrer Frederik von Lüttichau : Journalist Jonas Matz Jürg Löw : Paul Loitner Sandrine Mittelstädt : Mrs. Schönlein Tobias J. Lehmann : Peter Maurer
chronology
←  Predecessor Borchert and the Fall of Man Successor  → Borchert and the fatal error

Borchert and the Deadly Trap is a television film from the crime series Der Zürich-Krimi . It was produced for Das Erste on behalf of ARD Degeto . The first broadcast of the seventh episode of the film series was originally scheduled for January 16, 2020, but was postponed due to the broadcast of the main round of the 2020 European Handball Championship and took place on April 23, 2020 in the first. Before the planned broadcast in January, the film was already available for three days in the ARD media library.

action

Borchert wants to toast three years of successful collaboration with his superior Dominique Kuster and her father, his very best friend Reto Zanger. The evening is canceled because Reto Zanger is called to Geneva at short notice for a mandate. His daughter is therefore supposed to represent him the next day at a court hearing in Zurich. The trial to reduce the sentence of inmate Alexander Böni takes a dramatic turn when he takes the other negotiating parties hostage.

background

The film was shot from November 15, 2018 to December 17, 2018 on locations in Zurich and the Czech capital Prague .

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm summed it up: “Strong acting, original plot” and rated it with a thumbs up.

Tilmann P. Gangloff wrote on tittelbach.tv : “Once again, Roland Suso Richter has refined a captivating subject into a high-gloss thriller. Wolf Jakoby's story is so good, however, that it might not even have required the special skills of this director to make a good film out of it. ”Furthermore:“ Offenses in the field of white-collar crime are actually good crime fiction; if only the subjects weren't so complicated. The seventh 'Zurich crime thriller' is, however, an excellent example of how a suitable background can be used for a gripping high-voltage thriller. "

Web links

• The Zurich-Crime: Borchert and the deadly trap in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Zurich thriller: Borchert and the deadly trap at crew united
• Summary of Borchert's plot and the fatal trap on the ARD website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ARD postpones thriller because of handball EM. January 15, 2020, accessed January 15, 2020 . 
2. ↑ The Zurich crime thriller - Borchert and the deadly trap, TV film (series), 2018-2019 | Crew United. Retrieved January 15, 2019 . 
3. ↑ See tvspielfilm.de
4. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff: Kohlund, Klink, Hunger-Bühler, Jakoby, Richter. Thriller where everything is just right. In: tittelbach.tv. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .