The Investigators - For official use only

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Movie
Original title The Investigators - For official use only
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2016
length 91 minutes
Rod
Director Florian Cossen
script Rolf Basedow ,
Christoph Busche ,
Jan Braren
production Quirin Berg ,
Gabriela Sperl ,
Max Wiedemann
music Lorenz Dangel
camera Matthias Fleischer
cut Bernd Schlegel
occupation

Die Ermittler - Only for official use is the third TV film from the trilogy called Mitten in Deutschland: NSU . Director of the documentary drama led Florian Cossen . The first broadcast took place on April 6, 2016 on the television station Das Erste .

action

The opening scene begins truthfully with the attack on a bank in Eisenach on November 4, 2011, during which the two hooded robbers ( Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt ) flee to their motorhome on bicycles. Witnesses watch the transfer and shortly afterwards a police patrol finds the motorhome parked in a residential area. The police are prevented by gunshots from entering the mobile home and the mobile home starts to burn. The fire brigade extinguishes the fire. Dieter Wolter arrives, confiscates the photos from the fire brigade and orders the immediate removal of the mobile home before the forensic investigation can be ended. Investigators Paul Winter and Charlotte Ahler look at the towed mobile home in a warehouse.

From here the film begins from the perspective of the main role, the target investigator Paul Winter. In flashbacks, the time is shown when Winter with his former colleague and superior Walter Ahler, the father of Charlotte Ahler, was in the target search for the NSU trio. They took over the work of Mirko Kerber, who was hot on the heels of the NSU trio and had summarized considerable materials, but was withdrawn from the case.

First you try to win (the fictional person of the right-wing radical) Jonas Breiling as an informant. Paul Winter continues in his work and comes across that Dieter Wolter maintains contacts in the right-wing scene. In 1998 he went to the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution to talk to the President, Helmut Roewer , and met the young careerist Alexander Melchior who had moved from the West.

He hardly gets any answers to his questions. Roewer has no time, but invites Winter and Ahler to exchange ideas with Melchior in a fine restaurant where he represents his view of working with right-wing informants. Ahler is so disgusted by Roewer's talk that he cannot toast with Roewer's wine glass and leaves the table. On the way back, Ahler breathes heavily and talks to Winter about his cancer diagnosis and his imminent death.

Breiling gives Winter information about meetings of the right-wing radical scene. While observing a meeting in a disco, Winter is attacked by right-wing extremists and brutally beaten. Then the center of the Thuringian homeland security is excavated and copies of police files are found. A policewoman turns out to be a data leak.

After Breiling's girlfriend shows up at Winter and hands him a pack of cartridges, Winter goes to Melchior. Nobody works in the corridor that day. Everyone is at a company carnival party. A man disguised as Cupid explains to Winter that he shouldn't drink, but stay awake, because “they are playing cat and mouse with you” and what he thinks is the intelligence agency's mistake. Meanwhile, Breiling and others beat up a dark-skinned man at a disco, and Breiling is arrested. With the help of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, he is released into a witness protection program . When getting out of Winter's car, Breiling points out that Monika Windmann is the courier of the NSU trio. This is then shaded.

When one of the trio's apartments, which Winter had visited, was stormed, it had already been cleared. Shortly thereafter, Winter gives up the search for the NSU trio. With that the flashbacks end.

Beate Zschäpe will present herself on November 7, 2011 . Winter is now confronted again with the unsolved murder and violence committed by the NSU.

Original recordings of a 2012 memorial service for the victims of the NSU and of Angela Merkel's speech are cut.

At the end of the film, Winter tries again to contact Jonas Breiling, who lives in Lower Saxony with a new identity and has started a family. Breiling announces that he wants to tell more and arranges a meeting at his house. Winter sees him dying in his burning car shortly before his house on the way home.

background

The third part of the film series Mitten in Deutschland: NSU , which was broadcast for the first time by the television station Das Erste from the end of March to the beginning of April 2016, was released with Die Ermittler - Only for official use . While the first part The perpetrators - Today is not every day dealt in detail with the previous history of the perpetrators, the second part was The Victims - Don't forget me about the NSU victims. The third part, however, dealt with the work of the police and, among other things, the difficulties that arose in connection with the Thuringian constitutional protection .

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