The Vixen: Trace on the dump

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Episode of the series Die Vüchsin
title Track on the dump
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Odeon TV
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 2 ( list )
First broadcast February 23, 2017 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Samira Radsi
script Ralf Kinder based
on an idea by Tim Krause
production Andrea Jedele
music Dürbeck & Dohmen
camera Guntram Franke
cut Thierry Faber
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Dark Scent

Successor  →
trace into the past

Spur auf der Halde is a German television film by Samira Radsi from 2017. It is the second episode of the ARD crime series Die Füchsin with Lina Wendel and Karim Chérif in the leading roles.

action

After his first success as a detective, Youssef El Kilali came up with the idea of ​​offering this service as a new business idea. So he had business cards printed and distributed them to all of his customers. He proudly presents his first commission to Anne Marie Fuchs, which, however, does not show much enthusiasm. She really just wants to be left in peace. On the spur of the moment, Youssef goes to his customer alone and finds Astrid Altmann surprisingly slain in her apartment. Since their daughter appears when Youssef kneels in front of the corpse, they take him for the perpetrator and Anne Fuchs is supposed to help him prove his innocence. Her first lead leads her to Carsten Mehring, the victim's son-in-law. He is the owner of "Sand und Kies KG" and the detectives have justified suspicions that Mehring is illegally disposing of environmentally harmful waste in the gravel pit. If his mother-in-law found out, it would be a motive for murder. Anne and Youssef inform Katja Mehring of their suspicions and she hires them on the spot to clarify what their mother had found out. She also introduces them to Mayor Röpers, for whom their mother had worked.

During their research, Anne and Youssef find out that the entire settlement, for which Röpers is mayor, should soon give way to lignite. Astrid Altmann had therefore already sold her house: to son-in-law Carsten Mehring. On closer inspection, there are countless sales contracts for other houses that he had acquired as a straw man for a Luxembourg real estate fund. When Anne and Youssef want to confront him, they find him dead in his gravel pit. The fund belongs to a Bettina Mischinger, who Anne researches and finds out that the planned open-cast mine will not be as big as originally planned. As a result, residents sold their houses unnecessarily and far below their market value. Ms. Mischinger would reap the benefit of the significantly higher price if it were sold back to the old residents. In addition, she has planned to build a huge outlet center on part of the property , which Anne finds out with the help of the PC qualities of Youssef's niece Saida after she had hacked Mischinger's email account. There is also a consultancy contract between Mischinger and Mayor Röpers, who has received a decent amount of money to remain silent so that he agrees to the whole thing. Astrid Altmann had found that out too, since she worked in the mayor's office and that is why Röpers had silenced her. Just like her son-in-law, who would have betrayed him sooner or later. Anne and Youssef share their findings with Katja Mehring and have actually done their detective work. But that's not enough for them. They want to convict the murderer and also put a stop to the fraudsters. You lure them out of reserve with a trick. But in doing so they put their lives in danger, because Röpers takes Anna and Youssef into his power and takes them to Mehring's gravel works. There he wants to bury her alive under a mountain of gravel. Fortunately, Commissioner Eisner is looking for Anne because he is annoyed that she has interfered in his investigation again. So he can save the two detectives at the last moment and arrest Röpers.


reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Die Füchsin - Spur auf der Halde on February 23, 2017 in Erste reached 4.29 million viewers and a market share of 13.2 percent.

criticism

Volker Bergmeister from tittelbach.tv said: In this "second film in the crime series' Die Füchsin" the case can hardly convince: the characters are moderately interesting, the politically critical approach leads to boredom and a striking message. Also worth seeing is Lina Wendel as an imaginative ex-agent with a tragic history, a little more of which comes to light here. Thanks to humorous dialogues, she forms an entertaining duo with Youssef, of Arab origin. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Volker Bergmeister: Lina Wendel, Karim Cherif, Ralf Kinder, Radsi. Strong investigators, weak case, film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 2, 2017.