The dead from Lake Constance - curse from below

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Episode of the series Die Toten vom Bodensee
Original title Curse from below
Country of production Germany , Austria
original language German
Production
company		 Rowboat film and television production
Graf Filmproduktion GmbH
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 10 ( list )
First broadcast January 2, 2020 on ORF 2
Rod
Director Michael Schneider
script Timo Berndt
production Sam Davis
Klaus Graf
Kim Fatheuer
music Christopher Bremus
camera Matthias Pötsch ,
Lukas Gnaiger
cut Jörg Kroschel
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Die Toten vom Bodensee - The Mermaid

Successor  →
The Dead from Lake Constance - The Blood Step

Die Toten vom Bodensee - Curse from the Deep is a German-Austrian ORF / ZDF - TV film by Michael Schneider from 2020 . This is the tenth part of the crime series Die Toten vom Bodensee . It was first broadcast on January 2, 2020 on ORF 2 . The film was shown for the first time on February 10, 2020 on ZDF.

action

In their tenth joint case, the investigation by Micha Oberländer from Lindau and Hannah Zeiler from Bregenz revolves around the legend of the Bregenz plague pfennig, a Viennese pfennig minted according to the ancient Roman model , here made of consecrated church gold . Around 1630, witches were to be appeased with gold coins minted by the church and the decline of the plague bought at the expense. When the church gave the witches coins alloyed with copper instead of pure gold, the lords of the church were cursed. According to legend, whoever touches the coins should be punished.

After the diver Florian Friedrichs found a find of 273 old coins from Lake Constance, he was found dead sitting on a bench on the shore of the lake. His mouth was sewn shut, forensic doctor Thomas Egger finds a coin in it that depicts St. Martin's Church, which can be attributed to the find. Since there is no recognized demarcation between the neighboring countries, a find in Lake Constance belongs to the finder.

Stefanie Eberle is the pregnant friend of the murdered man. Her mother Luisa Eberle invested her fortune in the treasure hunt and therefore demands her share of the find. Stefanie claims to have been with her mother at the time of the crime. Stefanie's ex-boyfriend Maximilian Bauer was jealous of the murdered man, and he hated him for anticipating him with the find. Bauer had invested ten years of scientific research in the search in vain. In addition, Florian had defrauded the interest group consisting of Luisa, Stefanie and Maximilian by submitting fake, inflated bills. Diver Manuel Mohr contributed five percent to the find.

In the Bregenz Church, the investigators talk to Pastor Hermann Schwab. There, the restorer Ingo Zotter found bricked-up rooms from the late Middle Ages during construction work. Zeiler receives a book about the plague pfennig from the archive from the pastor, but she realizes that there should be a second volume, but that this is missing. Nicole Novak works as a clairvoyant and alternative practitioner and author. She went broke after being sued by patients and sells garden herbs at pharmacy prices. The murder victim had phoned her several times, he wanted her assessment and clues about the treasure hunt.

It is unclear where in the lake Florian found the coins. Maximilian suspects that there could be other treasures at the site. Together with Luisa he goes on a search. The buoys of the floating nets of the boat are equipped with GPS, above which the route of the boat was recorded. Maximilian finds out that the find is said to have been in a place where there was no water at the time. He suspects that Florian staged the find in the lake only for Stefanie.

From the identification service, the investigators learn from the fingerprints that Florian Friedrichs broke into the restorer Ingo Zotter's some time ago. Zotter's wife Elisabeth was at home during the break-in. She has cancer and was found unconscious after the break-in. According to Zotter, nothing was stolen. Elisabeth was one of those seeking help from the alternative practitioner Novak. After Ingo was opposed to Novak's methods, Novak secretly continued to visit Elisabeth.

Forensic doctor Egger finds that the copper coins are remarkably well preserved after around 400 years in the water. The corrosion would have progressed much further, so the coins are not in the water. The investigators suspect that Friedrichs threw the coins into the lake and then recovered them there so that they officially belong to him, since claims cannot be made in the lake by any of the neighboring states.

Maximilian admits that he discovered the second volume on the penny from the Novak archive, where his fingerprints were found. Novak had stolen the book from the archive and passed her knowledge on to Friedrichs before he broke into Ingo Zotter's. Fourteen plague pennies were found near Novak, which corresponds to the share of the auxiliary diver Manuel Mohr. Mohr is also found murdered.

When searching for the original location of the coins, Oberländer suspects that the coins that were minted in the church never left the church. Zotter must have found it there, Friedrichs stole it when he broke into his apartment and then sank it in the lake so that the treasure officially belongs to him after it was recovered from legal no man's land. The investigators suspect Zotter of having murdered Friedrichs and Mohr because he had not only lost the treasure in the break-in, but also his wife, who has not come to consciousness since then. Zotter is finally arrested in the church.

Subplot

While Micha Oberländer and his daughter Luna continue to mourn their fatally injured ex-wife Kim, Hannah Zeiler and her admirer Raphael Stadler are slowly getting closer.

production

The shooting took place together with the eleventh part Der Blutritt from April 16 to June 20, 2019 at Lake Constance and the surrounding area.

The film was produced by Graf Filmproduktion GmbH and Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion , with Austrian broadcasting and Second German Television participating . The production was supported by the TV Fund Austria and the state of Vorarlberg .

Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson was responsible for the sound, Christine Egger for the equipment, Heike Werner for the costume design and Birgit Beranek and Fatma Reil for the mask.

reception

Reviews

Wilfried Geldner wrote in the Weser Kurier that we would like to thank the director above all for having ascetically abstained from optical fantasies from the legendary area, and judged: "But ultimately, this criminological legend ride over Lake Constance remains complicated and arduous."

Sidney Schering judged onquotemeter.de that the film was "a tenaciously told, unfocused crime thriller", "which is positively noticeable through a handful of concise pictures alone".

Audience rating

In Austria, the first broadcast on ORF was seen on January 2, 2020 by an average of 637,000 people.

The first broadcast on ZDF on February 10, 2020 reached 6.89 million viewers, the market share was 21.7 percent.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Curse from below. In: Wishlist.de . Retrieved December 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c Graf Filmproduktion GmbH - The dead from Lake Constance - Curse from the depths . Retrieved December 11, 2019.
  4. ↑ Shooting for the ZDF crime series "Die Toten vom Bodensee". April 29, 2019, accessed December 11, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH: The Dead from Lake Constance - Curse from the Deep . Retrieved December 11, 2019.
  6. ↑ The dead from Lake Constance - curse from the depths at crew united . Retrieved December 11, 2019.
  7. ↑ Cross-border mystery. In: Weser Courier . January 17, 2020, accessed January 17, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Sidney Schering: The Critics: "The dead from Lake Constance - curse from the deep". In : quotemeter.de . February 10, 2020, accessed February 10, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Karl Markovics and Stefan Pohl solve "The Last Problem". January 3, 2020, accessed January 6, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Niklas Spitz: Primetime check: Monday, February 10, 2020. In : quotemeter.de . February 11, 2020, accessed February 11, 2020 .