Donna Leon - finally mine

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Episode of the Donna Leon series
Original title Finally mine
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 UFA fiction
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 24 ( list )
First broadcast March 29, 2018 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Sigi Rothemund
script Stefan Holtz ,
Florian Iwersen
production Benjamin Benedict
music Stefan Schulzki
camera Dragan Rogulj
cut Claudia Klook
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Donna Leon - Death Between the Lines

Successor  →
Donna Leon - Eternal Youth

Finally mine is a German TV film by Sigi Rothemund from 2018 , based on the novel of the same name by Donna Leon . It is the 24th episode of the ARD crime film series Donna Leon with Uwe Kockisch as Commissario Brunetti in the lead role. Julia Jäger is cast as Brunetti's wife Paola, Michael Degen in the recurring role of Vice Questore Patta and Annett Renneberg as Signorina Elettra Zorzi. Karl Fischer embodies Brunetti's assistant Vianello. The main guest roles in this episode include Dietmar Mössmer , Leslie Malton , Jürgen Tarrach , Edin Hasanović , Cornelia Gröschel , Lucie Aron and Hannes Hellmann .

action

A young woman has a dispute with a lady who, considering her age, could be her mother. It's about a ticket to the opera Tosca , which she refuses. When she tries to take a card from the table herself, the older woman slaps her, whereupon the younger one takes a pair of scissors and stabs the woman.

Eight years later: Flavia Petrelli, a world-famous opera diva, is planning her comeback at the Venice Opera after she had not performed for five years. A few days before the upcoming premiere, trade unionists take advantage of the attention this event is drawing in the entire world press to protest against the commercialization of the cultural sector. Their strike also serves to bring opera to a standstill. A boat for driving services goes up in flames due to an explosion. Commissario Brunetti and Sergente Vianello go to the scene. The director Luigi Barone is beside himself about the events. A conversation with Flavia Petrelli, who heard the explosion immediately, has no result. Brunetti has summoned the leader of the unionists, Andrea Santello. His sister Francesca works as a cloakroom for Petrelli.

The spell that was left on the half-burned boat could be restored. It reads: “Are you suffocating in blood now? Die in damnation, die! ”It comes from the opera Tosca . A call from Vianello alerts Brunetti that there is a body. A gondolier saw someone push a woman down the stairs. However, he only noticed a shadow behind the woman that pushed her. He went straight to the woman, but she no longer moved. Dr. Aurino tells Brunetti that the woman broke her neck and that someone pushed her with extreme force. The dead one is Francesca Santello.

The press launches a report that condemns Andrea Santello as a perpetrator. Vice-Questore Patta, Brunetti's superior, is not entirely innocent of this. His only concern is that the strike comes to a standstill, which in his eyes endangers the premiere of Tosca . Freddy, he is Petrelli's manager, in turn wants to prevent Brunetti and Vianello from talking to Petrelli about the death of Francesca Santello, as she was a very special person for the singer. Petrelli says that she had given Francesca singing lessons the night before, she only works for her during the holidays, otherwise she studies singing in Rome. You have a remarkable voice. When Brunetti tells her that the young woman is dead, it hits the singer very much. Brunetti's indirect question of whether she had a relationship with Santello is outrageous.

It has now been established that the fire accelerator was emptied through the boat and the battery short-circuited. When the engine was started, there was an explosion. So it was an attack. One man was seriously injured. Brunetti and Vianello talk to the tenor Riccardo Bragadin, who was supposed to be using the boat. His driver has already gone ahead because it took a little longer for him, he explains. Then he told the officers about a phone call in which a distorted voice had insulted him as a busybody and pointed out that the real star was Flavia Petrelli. He had to grin, whereupon the voice asked him to stop grinning, as if the person calling saw him. During the call, he was up in the house in the rehearsal rooms. Brunetti and Vianello find the place where the person observing could have been. Elettra Zorzi, who works extremely efficiently with Vice-Questore Patta but who is currently joining the strikers, explains for the sake of Brunetti that the person in question is a young woman in black clothes. A surveillance video shows that she is hastily moving away from the building.

Next up is an attack on Petrelli's manager Freddy. He is transported away injured. It turns out that Freddy embezzled and wanted to sell a very valuable chain that was meant for Petrelli. Zorzi also finds out where the necklace comes from and for whom it was made over 30 years ago, namely for the entrepreneur Dr. Maurice Lemieux, who probably gave them to his wife Elena. The couple have three daughters Lucie, Chantal and Ann-Sophie. Ann-Sophie studied singing in Milan, but dropped out and ... she was in prison. She killed her mother with 17 stitches with scissors. She received extenuating circumstances because her mother had obviously terrorized her for years. She wanted to make a great opera singer out of her, drilled her endlessly, put her in a music boarding school when she was 14 and dropped her after she was kicked out of there. When Vianello asked how valuable the chain actually was, Zorzi replied that one of the larger seven stones alone was worth 40,000 euros.

After an agreement has been reached with the unionists, the premiere with Flavia Petrelli should take place as planned. Brunetti fears that Ann-Sophie Limieux is planning something terrible for that day, but cannot prevent the performance from taking place. So all that remains for him is to distribute numerous officials in the sold-out opera. However, Limieux still managed to gain access to the area above the stage. After her plan with a stage knife, which she has exchanged for a real one, fails, she comes out of her hiding place and threatens the performer of the police chief Scarpia with a knife. Petrelli succeeds through her sensitive address to get Limieux to let go of the man. She is arrested. The young woman had grown so deeply in her pathological admiration for Petrelli that she made it the content of her life. She saw a potential danger in anyone who got too close to Petrelli.

production

Production notes

Finally mine was filmed from May 19 to July 19, 2016 in Venice and the surrounding area. The editing was with Barbara Süßmann and Sascha Schwingel, the recording management with Michael Zimmermann and Stephan Bechem, the production management with Jürgen Schott and the production management with Holger Krenz and Kirsten Frehse ( ARD Degeto ).

Two earlier bestseller adaptations Venetian Finale and Acqua Alta form the background for this case, which is about stardom and its transience. Sigi Rothemund, who directed the series from episode 3, also staged these two episodes. Silvanao Carroli lends his voice to Vladimir Korneev, who plays the tenor Riccardo Bragadin, while Leslie Malton, who plays the opera singer Flavia Petrelli, lends his voice to Ingrid Kaiserfeld .

publication

The film was first broadcast on March 29, 2018 on ARD Das Erste in prime time . Studio Leonine released the film on March 30, 2018 along with the previous episode Death Between the Lines on DVD.

reception

The film was watched by 6.69 million viewers when it was first broadcast. The market share was 22 percent.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the film a medium rating and pointed with their thumbs to the side. Although they stated, "the actors act decently, Venice and the Gran Teatro La Fenice are beautifully photographed, and the opera recordings with the soprano Nelly Miricioiu enchant", but the story "about unfulfilled, delusional desires" has them "not under its spell" drawn. Conclusion: "Great opera is definitely going somewhere else today ..."

Tilmann P. Gangloff gave the film 3.5 out of six possible stars on the tittelbach.tv site and said that Commissario Brunetti's 24th case, which takes place in an operatic setting, "thanks to the famous Teatro La Fenice, has even more to offer than usual" . As part of the Donna Leon series , 'Finally mine' fulfills “all expectations”, but “some” also seem “routine, if not dignified”. Gangloff continued: “Perhaps it would be time to give the crime novels fresh impetus; After two dozen Venice films, the biggest challenge for the Rothemund / Rogulj (director / camera) team is probably to keep finding new images of the lagoon city. The film is still worth seeing: the story of an opera singer who is stalking a super fan is not uninteresting, and Leslie Malton is an excellent cast for the role of diva. " "Thanks to the many outdoor shots and some panoramic pans, Venice friends would get their money's worth". The opera scenes were "not created in the real Teatro La Fenice, but still splendid to look at". With "the whole experience of well over 100 films", "Rothemund gives the impression that the recordings of the exciting last act were actually taken in front of a full house with a thousand visitors". Leslie Malton likes to tend “to a certain grandeur that doesn't always fit her characters”, “but she [is] just the right person for the role”.

Ulrich Feld rated the film for the Frankfurter Neue Presse and came to the conclusion: “The latest Donna Leon film is unmistakably following in the footsteps of the phantom of the opera. But the optics and the music are more convincing. ”The actors“ did a good job, especially Leslie Malton. The resolution, however, especially the murderess ”, appears“ compared to the display values ​​clearly too woodcut-like ”. This leaves “at least a thriller that could arouse the desire to go to the opera again in some viewers”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Donna Leon - Finally mine . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 168668 / V). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Donna Leon - Finally mine at crew united
  3. ↑ Donna Leon. Death between the lines. Finally my picture. DVD case “Krimi Edition” Das Erste
  4. ^ A b Tilmann P. Gangloff : Series "Donna Leon - Endlich mein". Kockisch, Fischer, Malton, Holz / Iwersen, Rothemund. Exceeded expectations see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
  5. ↑ Donna Leon: Finally mine. In: tvspielfilm.de (including 20 film images). Retrieved March 5, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Ulrich Feld: "Endlich mein": Great opera, but not a great thriller. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse , March 30, 2018. Accessed March 5, 2020.