The dead from Lake Constance - abyssal

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Episode of the series Die Toten vom Bodensee
Original title Abyssal
Country of production Germany , Austria
original language German
Production
company		 Rowboat film and television production
Graf Filmproduktion GmbH
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 5 ( list )
First broadcast March 15, 2017 on ORF eins ,
October 2, 2017 on ZDF
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Director Hannu Salonen
script Timo Berndt
production Sam Davis
Klaus Graf
Kim Fatheuer ,
Annette Köster
music Christopher Bremus
camera Jo Molitoris
cut Simone Sugg-Hofmann
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Die Toten vom Bodensee - The Bride

Successor  →
Die Toten vom Bodensee - Der Wiederkehrer

Die Toten vom Bodensee - Abgrundtief is a German-Austrian ORF / ZDF - TV film by director Hannu Salonen from 2017 . This is the fifth part of the crime series Die Toten vom Bodensee . It was first broadcast on ORF on March 15, 2017 and on ZDF on October 2, 2017.

action

The corpse of a young woman, tied with iron chains, is found in Lake Constance; it is almost completely preserved as a wax corpse . Forensic doctor Thomas Egger notes that the victim has been dead for 15 to 20 years and was around 18 to 20 years old at the time of death. The DNA analysis shows that the dead person was born with Down syndrome . These traces lead the investigators to a case from fifteen years ago. At that time, Marie Häusler, who was born with Down syndrome, disappeared without a trace shortly before her 18th birthday. Marie had an intact parental home, was loved by her father Manfred and had an intimate relationship with her supervisor Jasmin, who would later become her father's wife. Manfred Häusler's ex-wife died of suicide by hanging. Forensic doctor Egger finds out that Marie died of internal bleeding as a result of violence and did not drown. In addition, small injuries, possibly caused by grinding the body, as well as fine gravel, which should not come from Lake Constance, are found on the heels.

Jasmin Häusler's brother, Joseph Malters, was one of the investigators at the time of Marie's disappearance; he had never stopped looking. He tells Zeiler and Oberländer that Marie is said to have written letters three weeks after she disappeared. The police conduct a house search at Malters' premises and find the letters and files on Marie's case from the police archives there. After SOKO Marie was unsuccessfully dissolved, Malters applied for early retirement and continued to investigate on its own. The police at the time pursued various theories, including that Marie could have been murdered. One of the suspects was Elisabeth Ludwig, who didn’t like Marie and her father. Ludwig runs a hotel and she accuses Marie of spoiling her business and setting her hotel on fire. She also suspects Marie's father of having drowned his daughter in the lake to get rid of his nursing case. Häusler gave his new type of boat her name after Marie's disappearance, Ludwig accuses Häusler of having misused Marie's story for marketing purposes. According to Ludwig, Häusler is said to have had a relationship with his second wife during his first marriage. Ludwig's dog, which Marie liked very much and which she had repeatedly taken against her owner's wishes, had also disappeared without a trace.

Zeiler and Oberländer learn from Peter Wolfahrt that Manfred Häusler transferred 100,000 euros every year to the Villa Sonnenkind , an institution that Marie visited. In the year Marie's disappearance, however, he had not made any more donations, but still withdrew the money from his account in cash. In addition, he had not yet registered Marie for the following year. The investigators therefore suspect that Häusler had already known at this point that Marie would not come back. Manfred Häusler explains this to the investigators by saying that his daughter, who had painted the pictures, had received a scholarship in England and that he had therefore no longer registered her at the Villa Sonnenkind. He had paid the 100,000 euros as a ransom for Marie, he was blackmailed at the time, and the extortion letter came with Marie's underwear.

Upon further examination of the corpse, a shotgun is found and pregnancy is determined. Komlatschek finds out that Elisabeth Ludwig had not rebuilt her hotel, which was destroyed after the fire, with the money from the insurance company, as she claims. Ludwig had found Marie's underwear in one of her rooms, Marie had met a man in one of the boarding houses. Ludwig admits that he took the opportunity after Marie's sudden disappearance and blackmailed Manfred Häusler, but the act is barred.

One of the pictures painted by Marie is Peter Wolfahrt from the Villa Sonnenkind, which the investigators recognize from a striking scar on his stomach. Wolfahrt claims to have loved Marie, video recordings from then show the two of them as a happy couple. On the day Marie's disappearance, Wolfahrt received a call from Marie, saying that something bad had happened to a friend - a Ralf or Rolf - in the forest. Zeiler suspects that she was referring to Ludwig's dog, Wolf . She confronts Joseph Malters and accuses him of having shot the dog and Marie with pellets. Malters claims it was an accident - he mistook the dog for a poaching stray and didn't see Marie. Marie ran away after his hit, he could no longer find her. Although the bullet point, like almost all other parts of the body - with the exception of the injuries to the heels - is covered with wax, Komlatschek suspects that the corpse did not necessarily become a wax corpse in the lake, but could be buried in very moist clay soil, and only later in the Wax condition was transported and sunk in the lake.

An analysis of Marie's letters reveals that three of them are not fingerprinted, the fourth letter is fingerprinted by Marie and was sent at a time when the authenticity of the letters was in doubt. The sender must therefore have been informed about the status of the investigation. Malters had only spoken about the case with his brother-in-law Manfred Häusler, who in turn spoke to his first wife at the time and Marie's carer at the time, Jasmin. Zeiler suspects that the gravel from Marie's heels comes from the gravel path at Villa Sonnenkind. Marie could have fled to the villa after her gunshot wound. In the grotto in the villa's garden, Zeiler and Oberländer find the ideal conditions for a wax corpse to develop. In the course of renovation work, the grotto was also to be redesigned, but Jasmin Häusler had the work stopped, allegedly due to the noise during school time. The investigators suspect that Jasmin Häusler could have killed Marie. They assume that Elisabeth Ludwig was right in assuming that Jasmin had a relationship with him during Manfred Häusler's first marriage and wanted more. Manfred Häusler had told Jasmin at the time that he would not part with his wife as long as Marie needed her help. Jasmin states that it was an accident and eventually drowns herself in the lake.

Parallel to Marie's case, Zeiler is doing his own research into the death of her father. With the help of a computer program for flow analysis on Malters laptop, she finds a trace. She also receives an anonymous phone call telling her that her father was a good swimmer. Zeiler believes her father is still alive. We learn from Oberländer that he had a son Marcel, who was also born with trisomy 21 and died when he was only a few years old.

production

The shooting took place together with the fourth part The Bride from August to October 2016 in Bregenz , Lindau , Wasserburg and the surrounding area. The film was produced by Graf Filmproduktion GmbH and Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion , Austrian radio and ZDF were involved and the production was supported by the Austrian TV Fund and the state of Vorarlberg . Michael Wollmann was responsible for the sound, Christine Egger for the equipment and Heike Werner for the costume design.

reception

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv found that the series and the director Hannu Salonen are a perfect match, as the thrillers created in the greater Lindau / Bregenz area live from a certain mysticism. In contrast to the ARD evening series WaPo Bodensee , the image design is reminiscent of Scandinavian crime novels, in Salonen the region is not a vacation paradise, but a gloomy place.

In Germany, the first broadcast on ZDF was seen by 6.92 million people, the market share was 22.7 percent.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Die Toten vom Bodensee - Abgrundtief . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 171081 / V). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ a b orf.at: ORF premiere for new episodes “Die Toten vom Bodensee” . Retrieved April 30, 2017.
  3. ^ Graf Filmproduktion GmbH - The dead from Lake Constance - Abyssal . Retrieved April 30, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b Tilmann P. Gangloff : Series “Die Toten vom Bodensee - Abgrundtief” at tittelbach.tv , accessed on September 15, 2017.