The diplomat - the embassy assassination
| Episode in the series Die Diplomatin | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The embassy assassination |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
UFA fiction |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 1 |
| First broadcast | April 30, 2016 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Elmar Fischer |
| script | Holger Joos |
| production | Verena Monssen |
| music | Matthias legs |
| camera | Felix Novo de Oliveira |
| cut | Eva López Echegoyen |
| occupation | |
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The embassy assassination is a German television film by Elmar Fischer from 2016 . It is the pilot of the crime series Die Diplomatin with Natalia Wörner as the diplomat Karla Lorenz, who works for the Foreign Office , in the lead role.
action
Heavily armed terrorists lay siege to a security exercise at the German embassy in Tunis . Under leader Raid, they take control of the entire staff. Among them is Karla Lorenz with her assistant Nikolaus Tanz and the ambassador Stephan Saalmüller. Even Lorenz employee Esra switched sides in order to free the imprisoned relatives of Islamist accomplices. Karla Lorenz superior Thomas Eick has meanwhile been informed and flew specially from Berlin to Tunis. The local political contact person, Kousri, firmly rejects any negotiations with the terrorist group. When the raid threatens to kill the ambassador Saalmüller, Lorenz does everything to have a positive effect on him before the situation finally escalates.
background
The embassy attack was filmed from November 11, 2015 to December 18, 2015. Among other things, Berlin served as the shooting locations and the scenes in Tunis were shot in Spain .
Originally, kidnapping in Manila was supposed to be the opening sequence of the newly launched crime series Die Diplomatin on November 14, 2015 on Das Erste in the Saturday evening program. Due to the terrorist attacks in Paris the day before , the broadcast was postponed to May 7, 2016. The first broadcast of the second-announced episode, The Embassy Attack , was brought forward to April 30, 2016, as the station had changed the planned chronology at short notice.
criticism
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm said the following about the opening film of the series: “Exciting special mission in a sweaty atmosphere”. They rated the film with their thumbs up.
Web links
- The diplomat - The Embassy attack in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The diplomat - the embassy attack at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ The first "The Embassy Assassination" (AT) - Start of shooting for the second episode of the new TV series "Die Diplomatin" with Natalia Wörner on November 13, 2015 on presseportal.de .
- ^ The diplomat - the embassy assassination at crew united
- ↑ Die Diplomatin - The embassy assassination short review at tvspielfilm.de