Donna Leon - Vendetta
| Episode of the Donna Leon series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | vendetta |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 1 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | October 12, 2000 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christian von Castelberg |
| script | Arthur Michel |
| production | Katharina M. Trebitsch |
| music | Ulrich Reuter |
| camera | Reinhard Schatzmann |
| cut | Ann-Sophie Schweizer |
| occupation | |
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Vendetta is a German television film directed by Christian von Castelberg from 2000 and based on the novel of the same name by Donna Leon . It is the first film in the Donna Leon film series . In the leading roles, Joachim Król act as inspector Guido Brunetti, Barbara Auer as his wife Paola and Karl Fischer as Brunetti's assistant Vianello. Moreover, it is Michael Degen seen in the recurring role of Vice Questore Patta. Heinz Hoenig is Brunetti's colleague Capitano Della Corte from Padua. The main guest roles are taken by Maja Maranow and Gudrun Landgrebe . Annett Renneberg can be seen in the continuous role of Signorina Elettra Zorzi and Laura Charlotte Syniawa in the role of Brunetti's daughter Chiara.
action
In his first case, Commissario Guido Brunetti deals with the fate of the prominent Venetian lawyer Carlo Trevisan, who was shot while on a train ride. The dead woman's wife and her daughter both show no real grief. Together with his partner Sergente Lorenzo Vianello, Brunetti finds a connection to another case in Padua that appears to be a suicide. The decisive factor for this is the call from his colleague Capitano Della Corte from Padua, who shows a parallel to the mysterious death of a wealthy tax advisor from Padua. The autopsy of the tax advisor reveals that the victim was so stunned that he could not have moved and therefore could not have killed. The investigation, in which Brunetti gets support from his daughter Chiara, since Francesca, the lawyer's daughter, is in a class with Chiara, leads the inspector on a mysterious trail. It seems that Trevisan, the dead tax advisor from Padua and the now also murdered lover of Trevisan's widow Franca, Salvatore Martucci, were involved in human trafficking deals and distributed films that captured the murder of women on camera. The clients of these films appear to be extremely influential. It also fits that Martucci tried to hinder the police investigation as much as possible.
Shortly afterwards, Chiara is shown a snuff video with which Brunetti confronts Franca Trevisan. She confesses her husband's dark machinations. In the following investigation, glasses can be found that belonged to a woman who had met for a conversation with one of the men who had since died. Brunetti recognizes the glasses, they belong to the travel agency manager Regina Ceroni, who organized all the trips for the men who are now dead through her office and was also a former employee of Trevisan. The suspicion that the travel agency primarily served to smuggle in Eastern European women in order to exploit them is confirmed.
The inspector is able to prevent Ceronis from escaping and get her to admit that her motive for killing the men was revenge. She too had once come to Venice through human trafficking. Although she admits the murders wouldn't change much, the men still deserved their deaths. Brunetti arrests her but promises nothing can happen to her. The next day he received news that Regina Ceroni had been taken to Padua, where she had been found hanged. He feels responsible, and thinks back to her words of warning that she would not survive the next day if she presented herself to testify.
The film ends with Brunetti picking up his daughter Chiara, who has recovered somewhat from the film that was leaked to her, from school and they walk through the city hooked up.
production
Production notes, publication
Vendetta was shot by TPI (Trebitsch Produktion International) in Venice in 1999 on behalf of Bayerischer Rundfunk (editor: Gabriela Sperl) and Degeto (editor: Boris Schönfelder) and premiered on ARD Das Erste on October 12, 2000 during prime time . The film was released in Hungary on June 6, 2005.
The recorded music comes from the North German Philharmonic Rostock, conducted by Frank Strobel .
Vendetta was released on DVD together with the nineteen subsequent films in the series on May 1, 2015 by Universum Film GmbH as part of the “Krimi Collection Donna Leon” series.
The novel Vendetta is also available as an audio book, published by Steinbach's talking books, read by Christoph Lindert .
background
The page Das Erste stated , under the heading More about the film , that the American Donna Leon, who has lived in Venice since 1981, "devised a charming and sensitive investigator" with the character of Commissario Brunetti. There was also talk of a “magnificently staged bestseller thriller”, created on the original location, and a “breathtakingly exciting film adaptation”, which “starred with Joachim Król, Karl Fischer, Barbara Auer, Maja Maranow, Heinz Hoenig and Gudrun " be.
The order of the films in the first 13 adaptations does not correspond to that of the books. In Donna Leon's book series on Commissario Brunetti, Vendetta Brunetti's fourth case.
criticism
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave one of three possible points for humor, ambition and action, two for suspense and the best possible rating (thumbs up) and found: "Excitingly told and staged with the first line of German stars." German Italo thriller with Król charm ”.
In the Hamburger Abendblatt Brigitte Ehrich engaged with the film and stated Donna Leon was "satisfied" that the fans of their mysteries could be. Director Christian von Castelberg implemented “the murderous web of trafficking in girls, cruel porno films, three prominent deaths and an avenger with a lot of atmosphere” - which “is not too difficult in Venice, which is still picturesque even in the rain”. Although this is a "not necessarily unusual plot for crime novels", with Donna Leon, however, "more of it" becomes, since her Commissario Brunetti is "always very personally involved" in his cases. This film does not need “any fast-paced action”, since the director “relies entirely on human depths”. Joachim Król plays the inspector with a “very own mixture of personal concern and stubborn police ambition”. Barbara Auer as Brunetti's "intelligentsia wife" Paola has been "still a little unprofiled".
The lexicon of international films spoke of an “elaborate (television) film adaptation of a hit thriller by Donna Leon about the lovable policeman Brunetti, who has a keen sense of justice and a preference for the Venetian way of life”, but then restricted: “Betuliche, largely sterile entertainment that uses the charming original locations primarily as folkloric clichés. "
Web links
- Donna Leon - Vendetta in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Donna Leon - Vendetta at Fernsehserien.de
- Donna Leon - Vendetta on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ^ Donna Leon - Vendetta at crew united
- ↑ Start dates for Donna Leon - Vendetta . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Donna Leon Krimi Collection ill. DVD case (in the picture: Venice, Uwe Kockisch, Joachim Król, Barbara Auer)
- ↑ Donna Leon - Vendetta Fig. CD case Steinbach's speaking books
- ↑ Donna Leon - Vendetta see page daserste.de
- ^ "Vendetta" by Donna Leon see page krimi-couch.de
- ↑ Donna Leon - Vendetta see pagebarktedetektiven.de
- ↑ Donna Leon - Vendetta In: TV feature film . Retrieved September 4, 2019.
- ↑ Brigitte Ehrich: Donna Leon - Vendetta In: Hamburger Abendblatt , October 13, 2000. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
- ↑ Donna Leon - Vendetta. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 4, 2019 .
