The dead from Lake Constance - the bride
| Episode of the series Die Toten vom Bodensee | |||
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| Original title | The bride | ||
| Country of production | Germany , Austria | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Production company |
Rowboat film and television production Graf Filmproduktion GmbH |
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| length | 90 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Episode 4 ( list ) | ||
| First broadcast | March 9, 2017 on ORF eins , May 1, 2017 on ZDF |
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| Director | Hannu Salonen | ||
| script | Timo Berndt | ||
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Sam Davis Klaus Graf Kim Fatheuer Annette Köster |
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| music | Christopher Bremus | ||
| camera | Jo Molitoris | ||
| cut | Simone Sugg-Hofmann | ||
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Die Toten vom Bodensee - Die Braut is a German-Austrian ORF / ZDF - TV film by director Hannu Salonen from 2017 . This is the fourth part of the crime series Die Toten vom Bodensee . It was first broadcast on ORF on March 9, 2017 and on ZDF on May 1, 2017.
action
For the groom Christian Höflinger, who comes from a wealthy family, and his bride Maja Eberle, it should actually be the best day in life, but the traditional bride kidnapping ends tragically: After a desperate search, the groom finds the bride, slain, tied to a tree stump on the bank, surrounded of reeds and the screams of cormorants . At the site, Commissioner Hannah Zeiler found that the victim was missing a wedding ring.
When evaluating the photos and video recordings of the wedding celebration, the police officers Oberländer and Zeiler come across Jule Dombrach, a friend of the victim and a member of the animal protection association Komorane e. V. , on Philipp Schiernhammer, who was secretly in love with Maja, and thus possibly chose the day of the wedding out of jealousy for the deed. The victim's mother, Katharina Eberle, tells Zeiler that it is her second loss of a child. Maja and Moritz were born as twins, Moritz died at the age of six months around 28 years ago in an accident in the lake, his body was never found.
In parallel to the investigation, Oberländer and Zeiler have to face private problems: Oberländer has an argument with his wife because he has too little time for her. After being kicked out of the new shared apartment, he spends the night in his bus and temporarily loses his driver's license because he has been sitting in his car with the engine running and drinking alcohol. Hannah Zeiler continues to struggle with her unprocessed trauma due to the accident in which her mother died and her father went missing. Katharina Eberle tells her about her way of dealing with the loss and shows her her collection of found objects from the lake. Zeiler discovers a red life jacket with the inscription "Papa", that of her father. Zeiler therefore wonders whether her father might have made it to shore and survived.
Schiernhammer claims that the fisherman Anton Meinert would shoot the cormorants because they were eating the fish. A review by Jule Dombrach reveals that she was sentenced to ten years in juvenile imprisonment at the age of 16 for pushing her boyfriend out of the window in the dispute on the seventh floor - after eight years in prison, she was released early. As in the past, the investigators suspect jealousy as a possible motive for the murder of Maja. Dombrach, on the other hand, accuses the fisherman Anton Meinert of murder. Meinert is said to have been discovered by Maja while shooting down cormorants through the photo boxes she had installed. Oberländer finds Meinert dead in his house, he died in a drunken state of a broken neck after falling down stairs. There are bullet holes in the wall and there are signs of burglary, so the police assume a homicide. In Meinert's house there is also Maja’s missing wedding ring.
Johanna Höflinger learns from her employee Tobias Wagner that her husband Erich Höflinger, owner of a fishing business, suffers from cancer and will soon die, so he urges that the business be handed over to his son Christian. The investigators find out that Meinert had received a fixed amount every month for 28 years, the barcode on the letter leads to the posting post office, the surveillance videos show Tobias Wagner delivering the envelope. However, it turns out that the money came from the old courtier and Wagner only acted as a middleman. In Maja's creative shop, the investigators find a USB stick with the video recordings from the photo box, which also show Tobias Wagner shooting at the cormorants.
Hannah Zeiler discovers a scar on Christian Höflinger's arm, and a birthmark was found in the same place on the twins Maja and Moritz Eberle. Meinert was in a relationship with Katharina Eberle at the time. After the Höflingers could not have children, Erich Höflinger took Moritz in as his adoptive son Christian. He told his wife that he was placed by a foreign agency. Due to the relationship between the siblings Maja and Christian, the old courtier Maja offered money to disappear from the courtiers' lives, but she refused. After Erich Höflinger became more and more successful in business, Meinert wanted more and more money from him. Erich Höflinger and Tobias Wagner are finally arrested by the police for murder.
production
The shooting took place together with the fifth part Abyssal Deep from August to October 2016 in Bregenz , Lindau and the surrounding area. The wedding scene was filmed between Wasserburg and Lindau in the “Lindenhofpark” in Bad Schachen . The body was found in the nature reserve near Fußach . The film was produced by Graf Filmproduktion GmbH and Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion , Austrian Broadcasting 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
Volker Bergmeister from tittelbach.tv described the film as "conventional" and said that it lived "more from the investigators & their actors" than from the "overconstructed case and the suspects who mostly only looked pregnant with meaning".
The first broadcast on ORF was followed by up to 533,000 viewers. In Germany, the first broadcast on ZDF was seen by 7.98 million people, the market share was 22.8 percent. The production was the best featured ZDF film of 2017.
Web links
- The dead from Lake Constance - the bride in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Die Toten vom Bodensee - The Bride . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 166267 / V).
- ↑ a b orf.at: ORF premiere for new episodes “Die Toten vom Bodensee” . Retrieved April 30, 2017.
- ^ ZDF: The dead from Lake Constance - The bride . Retrieved April 30, 2017.
- ↑ In "Die Toten vom Bodensee" it shouldn't "pilfer": an interview with director Hannu Salonen . In: Südkurier of April 27, 2017
- ^ Graf Filmproduktion GmbH - The dead from Lake Constance - The bride . Retrieved April 30, 2017.
- ↑ Volker Bergmeister: Series “Die Toten vom Bodensee - Die Braut” at tittelbach.tv , accessed on April 30, 2017.
- ↑ orf.at: ORF premiere “The Dead from Lake Constance - Abyssal” . Retrieved April 20, 2017.
- ↑ Quota meter: gold for “Die Toten vom Bodensee”, silver for Jauch . Article dated May 2, 2017, accessed May 2, 2017.
- ↑ ZDF is market leader in 2017 / most-watched TV channel for the sixth time in a row . Article dated December 28, 2017, accessed December 28, 2017.