The vixen: dark trail

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Episode of the series Die Vüchsin
title Dark trail
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Odeon TV
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 1 ( list )
First broadcast December 17th, 2015 on Das Erste
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Director Samira Radsi
script Ralf Kinder based
on an idea by Tim Krause
production Andrea Jedele
music Dürbeck & Dohmen
camera Frank Küpper
cut Dora Vajda
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Dark Track is a German TV film by Samira Radsi from 2015. It is the first episode of the ARD crime series Die Füchsin with Lina Wendel and Karim Chérif in the leading roles.

action

Anne Marie Fuchs comes from the GDR and still bears heavily on her memories from that time. She had worked as an agent for the MfS and actually thought she had finished with it - as well as that could be. Now she receives an offer from her former colleague and former trainer Olaf Ruhleben to work in his security company. Although she could use a permanent position, she turns down the offer.

When one day her coffee machine breaks, which she is very attached to, she wants to have it repaired. Simone Papst, the owner of a café she visits from time to time, recommends her husband Youssef, who is said to be able to fix everything. The native Arab would like to sell Anne a new device right away, because he lives from such trade. Anne witnesses a conversation in his shop and learns that Simone is worried about her brother. His best friend Marc was found dead, he himself has disappeared without a trace. Anne offers to help find Sebastian Papst if she receives a new coffee machine in return. Simone agrees, and Anne suggests starting the search with Sebastian's girlfriend. Youssef accompanies them and drives them to the house where Sebastian's girlfriend lives with other squatters. There she received a reference to a man who had contacted Sebastian the previous day. With a few tricks she can find out the identity of this man. It's about Alexander Groß, employee of a security company.

At first everything indicates that Groß wanted to gain access to the squatters' group through Marc. To find out for sure, Anne asks her constant companion, Youssef, to find someone who knows a lot about computers and who can hack into Alexander Groß's email account. Without further ado, he recruits his niece Saida, who manages it within ten minutes. Now Fuchs is certain that Marc had been bought and hidden drugs in the occupied house that the police are supposed to find during a raid, with which the owner would have a handle to have the house cleared.

But it looks like that wasn't the only job Alexander Groß had hired for. Anne goes one step further and plans to plant a bug in Sebastian's parents' house . Since Youssef is the son-in-law of the quite wealthy Pope, there are no problems to be received in the house, which is remarkably lavishly protected with surveillance systems. But it strikes the two of them with an exaggerated reserve of the residents. When Youssef then introduces Anne as a private detective, the friendliness is over. Reinhard Papst explains that they do not want that and that it is not necessary to look for Sebastian because he had already called them. He fled abroad because he killed his friend in an argument and under the influence of alcohol. Before Anne and Youssef retreat, they can place the bug in the living room without being noticed and also find out that the ample security system was installed by the security company in which Alexander Groß is a partner.

Anne uses a trick to secure the police's attention, because she can lead Youssef to believe that the Pope family knows where their son is and that Anne would send him money to live on. So she is sure that the investigating commissioner Eisner will monitor her, and goes with Youssef once more to his in-laws. Based on the strange behavior and demeanor of the alleged chambermaid Justina, Anne is sure that the family is being monitored and that Ingo Bethke, the co-owner of the security company, is behind it. Through the bug, Anne was able to follow a phone call in which Reinhard Papst had requested five million euros from his bank to be sent to his home. Anne realizes that Sebastian was kidnapped and his friend killed. Since she tells Sebastian's parents all this, Bethke actually turns on the phone. He demands that Anne bring him the ransom and that his accomplice Justina accompany her. Arrived at Bethke's company, the SEK accesses what Anne had imagined. Bethke is silent about Sebastian's whereabouts. Anne can determine this with the help of Saida, who unceremoniously taps into Bethke's surveillance cameras and can discover the hiding place. Inspector Eisner then expresses his appreciation for her investigative skills, but also warns her to leave such work to the police in the future.

background

Anne Maria Fuchs tells her clients about her past. She had been trained by the MfS in 1983 as a “ scout of peace ” because she believed she wanted to actively do something for peace and oppose the NATO double decision and its effects. After she could not do her job as she had thought, she got out after a few years and let the FRG buy her out.

Flashbacks indicate that the Stasi harassed her when she announced that she was getting off the train. To get her to rethink, they even kidnapped her young son, which she has not got over to this day, and she tried to bring those responsible to justice.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Die Füchsin - Dunkle Fährte on Thursday, December 17, 2015 at 8:15 p.m. on Das Erste reached 4.30 million viewers and a market share of 13.8 percent.

criticism

Thomas Gehringer from tittelbach.tv said: One should “look after the film that there is a lack of logic and tension in the fairly conventional case [...],” because the “unexcited, nuanced game [of the] strict 'vixen', the female Stimuli tend to be hidden and only used in a targeted manner, is [...] in a class of its own. "However," the Düsseldorf Rhine panorama [...] in different variations is tried so often, as if the municipal tourist office had had a hand in it. "

The Frankfurter Neue Presse wrote: “'Die Füchsin - Dunkle Fährte' has a clear plus point: Lina Wendel, who can give her careworn agent a certain impenetrability with cautious gestures and sparing facial expressions in a fine way.” Otherwise, the plot itself is “constructed”. and "occasionally the dialogue tries to give the film something funny in punchlines that are just as painstakingly cobbled together as the rest of the world".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Thomas Gehringer: Lina Wendel, Karim Cherif, Samira Radsi. Once an agent, always an agent ?! Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 2, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Die Vüchsin": Weak start at fnp.de, accessed on March 3, 2017.