The missing family
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The missing family |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 180 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Berger |
| script | Thomas Berger |
| music | Florian Tessloff |
| camera | Frank Küpper |
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The Disappeared Family is a two-part German television film from 2019. It is a sequel to the two-part Death of a Girl from 2015. Heino Ferch and Barbara Auer can again be seen in the leading roles . It was first broadcast on January 7th and 8th, 2019 on ZDF .
action
The body of the father of the family Jakob Thomsen is found on the beach in the fictional Schleswig-Holstein town of Nordholm, who has apparently fallen from the cliff. His wife and daughter have disappeared without a trace, only the son of the family, Tom, is still there. Police officer Hella Christensen, neighbor of the Thomsens, takes over the investigation with her superior Simon Kessler.
Hella's marriage breaks up when she finds out that her husband Johannes is having an affair with the missing Anna, which in the meantime makes Johannes suspicious of being involved in her disappearance. When Lilly is found exhausted on the beach, the investigation takes a turn: She was kidnapped and held captive in an old bunker on the property of the writer Holler. Holler, in turn, was blackmailed for having had sexual contact with minors in Hamburg, which is why he was finally arrested. The kidnapping of Lilly and the murder of Lilly's father cannot be proven. Carsten Jung, a friend of the dead man, cannot prove the crime either.
The case is solved by chance shortly before the end: Lilly's grandmother finds a scrap of cloth from Anna's blouse that Anna's father had hidden in the lake. The scrap was sent to him because he was blackmailed for ransom with Anna and Lilly's kidnapping, which he kept a secret. The father identified his hated son-in-law Jakob as a kidnapper and blackmailer and confronted him. In an argument, he pushed him down the cliff. Anna had planned and staged the kidnapping with Jakob in order to get some money from her wealthy father and was on a boat off the coast, where she is found by Christensen and Kessler after Christensen found a picture of the boat in her mailbox .
reception
Reviews
TV Spielfilm praised the fact that the film was "slowly building up immense tension". He is "not perfect, but captivating to the last".
The FAZ , however, said: “For lovers of tricky stories, the whole thing is hardly ever really exciting over 180 minutes. The script deliberately neglects certain traces too clearly and emphasizes what is obviously secondary. In terms of quotas, the missing family is more likely to rely more on its actors' ensemble, which is often far less challenged in terms of design, than on coherence ”.
Audience ratings
The first part saw 6.95 million viewers aged three and over when it was first broadcast on January 7, 2019. This achieved a 21.4 percent market share. The second part saw on January 8, 2019 6.75 million (20.7% market share).
continuation
At the beginning of January 2020, ZDF broadcasted a two-part sequel with Das Mädchen am Strand , again with Heino Ferch and Barbara Auer in the leading roles.
Web links
- The missing family in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ZDF press kit
Individual evidence
- ↑ TV Spielfilm , issue 1/2019, pp. 63 and 74
- ↑ The Disappeared Family, faz.net , accessed January 8, 2019
- ↑ The Disappeared Family, quotenmeter.de, accessed on January 8, 2019
- ↑ Primetimecheck January 8, 2019 , quotenmeter.de, accessed on January 9, 2019