The dead from Lake Constance
| Episode of the series Die Toten vom Bodensee | |
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| Original title | The dead from Lake Constance |
| Country of production |
Germany Austria |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Rowboat film and television production Graf Filmproduktion GmbH |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 1 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | October 11, 2014 on ORF 2 , November 3, 2014 on ZDF |
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| Director | Andreas Linke |
| script | Thorsten Wettcke |
| production |
Sam Davis Klaus Graf |
| music | Christopher Bremus |
| camera | Jo Molitoris |
| cut | Julia Oehring |
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Die Toten vom Bodensee is a German-Austrian ORF / ZDF - television film by Andreas Linke from 2014, which was produced by Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion and Graf Filmproduktion GmbH in cooperation with ZDF and ORF. It is the first part of the crime film series of the same name .
action
A fisherman suddenly bursts into flames on his boat and burns alive. An old Celtic mask can be found near the remains . In order to solve the case, the German commissioner Michael Oberländer is investigating with his Austrian colleague Hannah Zeiler. The tracks lead to the Pfeilschifter couple from Bregenz . Ludwig, the dead man's brother, and his wife Christa found three Celtic masks in a rock grave in the forest in 1997 and then exhibited them in a museum. These were recently stolen in a break-in and now one of them has reappeared in these dramatic circumstances.
It is said that there is a curse on the masks. When Ludwig Pfeilschifter's father-in-law dies and another of the three masks is found nearby, it can be assumed that the perpetrator will also plan a third murder. A “Soko mask” is set up accordingly. The first results of the forensic investigation reveal that propane gas bottles, which had been detonated by a remote detonator, set the fire on the boat.
For a better understanding of the history of the Celtic masks, Oberländer and Zeiler take a look around the site where they were found at that time and discover not only the plaque of honor for the Pfeilschifter family, but also a memorial plaque for a fallen climber in the immediate vicinity. The underage son, Jonas Zimmermann, survived the crash seriously injured, while the father fell to his death in front of the boy. When Oberländer and Zeiler talk to the young man, they learn that Zeiler's boss, Ernst Gschwendner, had contacted Zimmermann just before them. Zeiler wants to confront Gschwendner for this uncoordinated behavior and comes just in time to save his life. Your boss, surprisingly, should become the third victim. The killer had drugged him, cut his wrists, and placed the third mask on the wall.
Oberländer and Zeiler are now wondering how the attacks are connected. Everything points to where the masks were found. According to their theory, the two climbers had found the masks by chance shortly before the brothers Ludwig and Harald. Because they didn't want to miss the sensational find they had been looking for so long, the climber was left injured. The accident was not investigated further because Walter Pfeilschifter and Ernst Gschwendner were old friends, so Gschwendner complied with the request not to conduct any further investigations. Pfeilschifter then expected from his son-in-law that his daughter should get some of the fame of the find and that is why she was named as the finder. Ludwig could not oppose the charismatic head of the family, after all, when he got married, he “had to” agree to take his wife's family name.
In order to set a trap for the murderer, Zeiler sends the press a message that Ernst Gschwendner has regained consciousness and, since he has seen the murderer, could now name him. Before this message appears, however, Zeiler finds out that Jonas Zimmermann and his sister are on a campaign of revenge. She is certain that this is why Ludwig Pfeilschifter is in great danger. In this way they manage at the last moment to prevent a fourth murder and to save arrow shifter, whom the siblings have already brought under their control and wanted to drown in Lake Constance. However, the two can flee to Switzerland by boat.
Jonas Zimmermann had lost the memory of what had happened all these years due to the traumatic experiences at the time, but they had come out again when he saw the masks in front of him in the museum.
Due to the successful cooperation, Oberländer and Zeiler should continue to work as a joint crime team across borders in the future.
background
The film was produced by Graf Filmproduktion GmbH and Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion for ZDF and ORF . The film was shot from September to October 2013 on Lake Constance , in Vorarlberg and Bavaria .
When it was first broadcast in Germany on ZDF on November 3, 2014 at 8:15 p.m., it achieved a viewing rate of 6.6 million viewers. The result was a market share of 20%. The film ran for the first time on ORF on October 11, 2014 at 8:15 p.m. There he was seen by 498 thousand spectators. This corresponds to a market share of 19%.
criticism
Ulrich Feld gave the Frankfurter Neue Presse an appreciative assessment: “ZDF made a very promising start with this film for a new crime series. The pair of investigators are convincing [... not only]. "" The tightly woven, well-played and technically well-executed story about apparent ritual murders made for a gruesomely beautiful evening on TV. "
Tilmann P. Gangloff wrote for the Frankfurter Rundschau : “At least as attractive as the plot (book: Thorsten Wettcke) is the personal constellation, and not only because German and Austrian investigators differ in mentality and methods; even if the discrepancies in the secondary characters are not as extreme as in Oberländer and Zeiler. "
Also TV movie judged positive. The film is atmospheric and exciting.
The Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung was rather negative. The film is completely subject to the predictable dramaturgy of the German average. The investigators are from the kit and it is a trivial beginning case. The film is pretty solid, but nothing more.
Sophie Charlotte Rieger from tittelbach.tv gave a similar assessment: “'Die Toten vom Bodensee' works well in terms of tension and dramaturgy, but in terms of film and atmosphere it owes a lot to its subject. The stark contrast characterization of the main characters is the film's greatest weak point. And so, of all people, Arthaus actress Nora von Waldstätten has to act far below her capabilities - almost like a humanoid robot. "
Web links
- The dead from Lake Constance in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Page about the film on the website of the production company Graf Filmproduktion GmbH
- The dead from Lake Constance at crew united
- Page to the ZDF film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Die Toten vom Bodensee . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2014 (PDF; test number: 147 285 V).
- ↑ Sensational ratings for “Die Toten vom Bodensee”. In: graffilm.com. Graf Filmproduktion GmbH , November 5, 2014, accessed on May 18, 2016 .
- ^ A b Sophie Charlotte Rieger: Koeberlin, von Waldstätten, good Whodunit, weak characters, mystery decoration , at tittelbach.tv, accessed on May 18, 2017.
- ↑ Ulrich Feld: Die Toten vom Bodensee: Fine Thriller ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at fnp.de, accessed May 18, 2017.
- ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Der Zorn der Götter , at ffr.de, accessed on May 18, 2017.
- ↑ TV thriller. First case for Nora von Waldstätten and Matthias Koeberlin. In: tvspielfilm.de. TV feature film , accessed on May 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Frank Preuß: ZDF crime thriller "Die Toten vom Bodensee" only solid average. In: derwesten.de. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , November 2, 2014, accessed on May 18, 2016 .
