The informant - The Lisbon case

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Movie
Original title The informant - The Lisbon case
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2019
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Isabel Kleefeld
script Isabel Kleefeld
Christof Reiling
Ulrike Stegmann
production Christian Rohde
music Sebastian Fillenberg
camera Martin Langer
cut Renata Salazar-Ivancan
occupation

The Informant - The Lisbon Case is a German crime television film from 2019 by Isabel Kleefeld with Aylin Tezel in the lead role. The thriller was on April 13, 2019 First aired for the first time and is the sequel to The informant from the year 2016th

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After her covert operation against a dangerous drug dealer, law student Aylin is in the witness protection program and is in Vienna. When she receives an emergency call from her sister from Berlin, which sounds very dramatic, she leaves her hiding place and immediately travels to Germany. No one except her sister knows that she is the mother of eight-year-old Ki Su, who lives with her sister Elif and who Aylin is therefore worried about. When she arrived in Berlin, she had to realize that Ki Su and her sister were doing well and that BKA investigator Hannah only wanted to lure them over with this trick. With Aylin's violation of the requirements of the witness protection program, her camouflage is no longer valid, which ultimately also means that the prison sentence she received would take effect. With this, Hannah has another leverage against Aylin in hand and causes her to investigate again undercover for the BKA. Aylin does this reluctantly, but has to submit if she doesn't want to go to prison and meet unwelcome contemporaries there.

The current target is the influential lawyer Engelhardt, who is suspected of “ laundering money ” for a European terrorist network and thus supports its financing. Since the target person is very suspicious, Hannah did not want to use any of her people who the lawyer may know. The BKA got its information from an anonymous informant who called himself “Lisbon”. Two officers were killed in a first mission and therefore Hannah wants to approach the matter differently. Aylin is supposed to make friends with Engelhardt's son and ultimately collect evidence against his father. How dangerous Engelhardt might be becomes clear when his law firm partner Wagner, who until then had worked as an informant for the BKA, is also removed. Hannah's employee and still son-in-law Jan is therefore not at all right that Aylin should take over this job now. He is still in love with her and not only feels professionally obliged to protect her. Aylin, however, keeps him at a distance and that Engelhardt junior is very attractive doesn't exactly make Jan any easier.

Aylin quickly managed to get Alex Engelhardt's attention. Like his father, he is a lawyer and as a guest lecturer at the university, he immediately noticed the ambitious young lawyer. He introduces her to his father, who soon offers her a job in his law firm. The BKA boss is enthusiastic about this quick first success, but for Jan more and more emotions develop. If he doesn't want to endanger Aylin, he has to stay away from her. Unfortunately, he could not persuade her to refuse the life-threatening mission. She has already gone too far for that and Jan's jealousy even seems to motivate her. A logo on Alex Engelhardt's football shirt suggests that he is the mysterious informant "Lisbon". Finding out also spurs them on, as well as the opportunity to finally earn money and maybe one day be there for their child.

Although the relationship between Aylin and Engelhardt senior is steeped in suspicion, he asks her to come to a meeting abroad. Apparently he needs her because she speaks Turkish. Aylin has no option but to get involved. However, this means that she is completely on her own, because any monitoring options of the LKA no longer apply when Aylin leaves Germany. In the meantime, however, she has no other choice because Engelhardt reveals to her that "they" know exactly who she is and what is important to her. He then shows her a photo of Elif and Ki Su. When entering Engelhardt's garage, which is located on his property, Aylin becomes fully aware of the explosive nature of her situation. Engelhardt's client Tarek had unmasked Aylin and now Alex was under his control, who is being held here by masked men at gunpoint. Aylin learns that Engelhardt does not act voluntarily in Tarek's financial transactions, but is blackmailed. Years ago his wife and Alex's brother were killed in an alleged car accident and since then he has been doing everything possible not to lose Alex too. Meanwhile he is so deep in the vortex that he had no other advice than "Lisbon" gave the police tips to finally stop.

While Aylin and Engelhardt are discussing how to get out of the situation alive, the BKA realizes that Aylin has not left the country at all. Through Jan, who has continued to secretly monitor Aylin, Hannah learns that she is on Engelhardt's private property. Jan can find Aylin there, but is fatally hit by a bullet in a firefight. Engelhardt, Tarek and his people also die and only Alex and Aylin survive. While Alex has to go to prison until it is clear how much his debt is in the money laundering business, Aylin has secured her financial future. It is thanks to her skills as a con artist that she now has access to three million euros.

background

The informant - The Lisbon case was filmed from May 23 to June 26, 2018 in Berlin and the surrounding area.

reception

Audience rating

The premiere of the informant - The case of Lisbon on April 13, 2019 reached the first reached 4.78 million viewers and a market share of 16.0 percent.

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv praised the film and wrote: “ Like its predecessor, Isabel Kleefeld's film is clearly structured, linear and narrated close to the main characters. The film is exciting, the psychology he seeks in the genre, not in reality, danger and eroticism go hand in hand, and the politics of the gaze leads directly into the structure of the relationships. Martin Langer's camera work is impressive, and all roles are cast well, which results in a great physical presence. "

The editorial staff of the Golden Camera said Kristina Heuer: "Even if those who have not seen the first part will find it difficult to understand the network of relationships and backgrounds at the beginning, the thriller nevertheless pulls the viewer under its spell over time." “A terrific crime thriller that stays very close to the characters. Aylin Tezel perfectly embodies the femme fatale, who is a mixture of Lisbeth Salander […], Carrie Mathison […] and Mata Hari . Cheeky, but still honest and direct, she captivates the viewer. "

Heike Hupertz from the FAZ also wrote only positively: “Isabel Kleefeld [...] brought the sensual peculiarities of the genre of tension to bear in an appealing way. Voice and video surveillance are central acoustic and visual elements, the look is required gloomy, the settings are clever and effectively thought out [...], but the television quality is primarily provided by the actors. Suzanne von Borsody, Aylin Tezel, Pegah Ferydoni and Nina Kronjäger; Stefan Kurt, Ken Duken and Franz Dinda ultimately give the story more credibility than it would deserve on paper. "

For evangelisch.de , Tilmann P. Gangloff said: “As with the first film, the appeal of the story lies in the characters' coexistence and opposition.” “The designs of most of the characters are coherent, the contributors well-known.” “The film Aylin corresponds Although still not the usual ideas of a law student, Tezel embodies the emotional commitment as well as the defiant temperament of the young woman at all times credibly. "

Julian Miller judged quite critically for quotenmeter.de : "Admittedly: Aylin Tezel is even happy to watch it, because she succeeds in gaining numerous facets from this role beyond the clumsy romance and the displayed misanthropy, which the screenplay provides in a rudimentary way seems. Because narrative, this film is always content with the pretext, with the motif, with the momentary incident, instead of the substance, the story, the topic. The second part of “Informant” becomes an uninspired everyday film that consistently refuses to approach its field of investigation [“”] on a level beyond the expected clichés. Which then also explains why it looks like a soft focus thriller despite its tried-and-tested rough aesthetics and the rocked gray-on-gray images. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The The Informant - The Lisbon Case at crew united . Accessed January 21, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c Rainer Tittelbach : Aylin Tezel, Duken, Kurt, Dinda, Isabel Kleefeld. Can you never be sure when Tittelbach.tv , accessed on 21 January 2020th
  3. ↑ Kristina Heuer: Aylin Tezel as femme fatale at goldenekamera.de, accessed on January 21, 2020.
  4. ↑ Heike Hupertz: Perfect love trap review of the film at faz.net , accessed on January 21, 2020.
  5. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Film review at evangelisch.de , accessed on January 21, 2020.
  6. ↑ Julian Miller: Film review at quotenmeter.de , accessed on January 21, 2020.