The dead from Lake Constance - still water
| Episode of the series Die Toten vom Bodensee | |||
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| Original title | quiet waters | ||
| Country of production | Germany , Austria | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Production company |
Rowboat film and television production Graf Filmproduktion GmbH |
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| length | 89 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Episode 3 ( list ) | ||
| First broadcast | April 2, 2016 on ORF 2 , April 18, 2016 on ZDF |
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| Director | Andreas Linke | ||
| script | Timo Berndt | ||
| production |
Sam Davis Klaus Graf |
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| music | Christopher Bremus | ||
| camera | Jo Molitoris | ||
| cut | Julia Oehring | ||
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Die Toten vom Bodensee - Stille Wasser is a TV film by ORF and ZDF from 2016 and directed by Andreas Linke . The German-Austrian co-production is the third episode of the crime series Die Toten vom Bodensee with Matthias Koeberlin and Nora von Waldstätten in the leading roles.
action
The cross-border German-Austrian criminal team Micha Oberländer and Hannah Zeiler is called to the shores of Lake Constance . A fisherman has found a naked woman's body in his net. Once there, Zeiler notices a stranger on a motorcycle who is behaving suspiciously. Before she could do anything, however, he drove away and she continued to look after the body. The deceased is identified as the teacher Julia Niermeyer, and the forensic doctor finds that the victim was strangled and that the perpetrator wanted to cause the victim a slow and painful death. When the officers go to the teacher's house, they find an open door and an unknown person escapes through the back exit. Oberländer pursues the man, but loses sight of him in the forest. But he discovers a completely distraught ten-year-old girl in the forest. After the child quickly trusts Zeiler and tells her that their name is Noemi, Oberlander determines the girl's parents and place of residence.
The two investigators go to the parents of little Noemi Rademann, who apparently got into the forest while sleeping, which, according to the parents, has happened several times. While Oberländer is talking to them, Zeiler sees the unknown motorcyclist again. He introduces himself as Mike Schiffl and brother of Noemi's mother, Melanie Rademann. He claims to have looked for his niece and therefore drove along the lakeshore several times.
During their further investigations, the police found out that Julia Niermeyer had a fairly active sex life and frequent visits to men. Among these visitors was Theo Warnel, one of her work colleagues who, after being questioned, admits to having fled the house because he supposedly wanted to get documents and was just scared when he saw the police officers.
The new case weighs heavily on Zeiler, because memories of her parents' boat accident, in which the mother drowned and the father never showed up, are awakened again, which is why she told her former child psychologist Dr. Lena Golding wants to contact, but only reaches the answering machine. When the child psychologist calls back, Zeiler is currently out of the office, so Oberländer answers the phone. He assumes that Zeiler had called the expert about the girl and ordered the psychologist to come to the Rademann's house for the next day. The psychologist tries to find out why and how Noemi sleepwalked again and again. After a short time this becomes too much for the child and Zeiler takes the girl to the forest to reconstruct everything again. She secretly hopes that the girl observed the crime and can therefore provide clues about the killer. Oberländer finds Zeiler's unauthorized approach not very professional, but his colleague can reassure him. She is sure that Noemi is keeping something from them.
Zeiler follows a trail to Noemi's uncle, who has been proven to have stayed near the teacher's house in order to observe her there. He has been known as a tensioner since his youth . When Mike Schiffl became restless due to the constant visits and questions from the police, he cleared up incriminating material and later confided in his garage to his brother-in-law, Peter, that he frequently observed Julia Niermeyer and also took photos of her and her many lovers, including fellow teacher Josef Fehling, who had kept the school newspapers as sources for many years. Although he doesn't even say that he had discovered his brother-in-law there, the latter strangles him with the help of a pulley rope , which he slowly pulls up. The police found Schiffl dead in the garage in the evening and initially assumed that he hanged himself due to the pressure of the investigation. Peter Rademann tries to explain the death of her uncle to his daughter and tells her that he did something bad. For her part, Noemi reveals to her father that she had seen him and not her uncle with her teacher and that her father had taken her away in a wheelbarrow. Rademann reassures her that he only did this to help Uncle Mike. Noemi assures that she will not reveal anything to anyone. However, the child reveals herself to Noemi's mother, and so Melanie Rademann learns of her husband's affair with Noemi's teacher. She confronts him and reminds him of the fatal accident of a classmate with whom she was in a relationship at the time, on a climbing wall many years ago, since the two were a couple - referred to in the school newspaper as 'Couple of the Year', which the two of them called found out shortly before. She said it was an accident that he couldn't help. At his look she realizes that her husband is a murderer who also has the teacher and her brother Mike on his conscience. She wants to call the police, but before she can do so, he knocks her down and strangles her with the telephone line. Noemi runs out of the house in horror and runs towards Oberländer and Zeiler, who have just arrived at the Rademanns' house, to ask a few more questions. While Zeiler stays with Noemi, Oberländer runs into the house and has to shoot Rademann to save Noemi's mother.
Zeiler speaks to Dr. Lena Golding because she had little memory of her parents' fateful day. Golding has doubts about the storm that overturned her parents' boat. At the end of the film, Oberländer and Zeiler talk on the shores of Lake Constance near the site of their parents' boat accident. She suggests that they help each other with mental health problems. Oberländer reacts hesitantly, but accepts her suggestion and definitely confirms with reference to the place of capsizing that there was no storm at that time, which he has checked exactly.
background
The film was produced by Graf Filmproduktion GmbH and Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion for ZDF and ORF . The shooting started on September 15, 2015 in Bavaria , Lindau and Bregenz .
reception
Audience rating
Die Toten vom Bodensee - Stille Wasser was broadcast on April 18, 2016 during prime time on ZDF and achieved a rate of 6.77 million viewers and a 20.5 percent market share. Around 100,000 Austrians also saw the film on ZDF.
Reviews
Roger Tell from tittelbach.tv found few words of praise and said, after Lake Constance was discovered for the crime genre after classic homeland thrillers, "[it] has become the most dangerous and immoral body of water in Germany." "In 'Die Toten vom Bodensee - Stille Wasser 'Not much remains of the eponymous location after a few opening pictures. Author Timo Berndt and director Andreas Linke tell a classic, largely conventional crime thriller including a galloping finale that could take place anywhere. And the two commissioners are too stuck in their given roles. "
TV Spielfilm judged that the film without Nora von Waldstätten (Hannah Zeiler) was at most half as entertaining. The characters and dialogues of screenwriter Timo Berndt succeeded him better than the actual story, which relies too much on coincidences. The film is dark, but loosened up with bilious, clever joke.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung also judged the film negatively. The camera is "petrified". She is very attached to the face of the leading actress. The film is also "dozen of goods".
In Quotenmeter.de said critic Sidney Schering: "The third part of The Dead from Bodensee' series raises the question, can work as long this ZDF thriller format. Because already in this edition the own charm of the chosen location is slowly losing itself. Although the eponymous Lake Constance is initially captured in extensive tracking shots, the local color as well as the charm and dynamism of a cross-border investigative tram vanish. ”Only convincing“ the end of the routine staged film [which] appears to be very wanted, but somewhat Has something satisfactory about it. "
Focus.de was consistently positive and assessed: “This film from the crime series also offers solid and exciting entertainment because the plot and characters also go into depth. The director Andreas Linke ('Baron Münchhausen') and the screenwriter Thimo Berndt ('Wilsberg') masterly manage to make the seething beneath the surface visible. It's about the strong tensions within a small family. In the end, the main suspect is dead, and the real culprit sits so close to the little girl that it really horrifies you. "
Web links
- The dead from Lake Constance - Still waters in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Page about the film on the website of the production company Graf Filmproduktion GmbH
- Page to the ZDF film
- Page to the film of the ORF
- The dead from Lake Constance - still water at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Die Toten vom Bodensee - Stille Wasser . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 158087 / V).
- ↑ Start of shooting for "The Dead from Lake Constance - Still Waters". Graf Filmproduktion GmbH, accessed on April 27, 2016 .
- ↑ 6.77 million viewers for “The Dead from Lake Constance - Still Waters”. Graf Filmproduktion GmbH, accessed on April 26, 2016 .
- ↑ Series "The Dead from Lake Constance - Still Waters". Tittelbach.tv , accessed on April 27, 2016 .
- ^ A b Roger Tell: Matthias Koeberlin, Nora von Waldstätten, Berndt, Linke. The same procedure , film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on May 18, 2017.
- ↑ The dead from Lake Constance - still water. In: tvspielfilm.de. TV feature film , accessed April 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Heike Hupertz: Now don't look so deep. In: faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 18, 2016, accessed on April 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Sidney Schering: Filmkritik , at quotenmeter.de , accessed on May 18, 2017.
- ↑ Die Toten vom Bodensee - Stille Wasser , at Focus.de , accessed on May 18, 2017.