Dresden murder: night figures

Episode in the Dresden Murder series
title	Night figures
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Studio Hamburg Enterprises
length	90 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
classification	Episode 2
First broadcast	June 4, 2016 on ZDF
Rod
Director	Hannu Salonen
script	Mathias Klaschka
production	Regina Ziegler
music	Steffen Kaltschmid , Fabian Römer
camera	Wolf Siegelmann
cut	Simone Sugg-Hofmann
occupation
Anja Kling : Bärbel Wallenstein, chief detective Lisa Tomaschewsky : Kim Tilly, chief detective Tobias Oertel : Fabian Wiedlitz, trace investigator Steffen Münster : Uwe Albert, criminal inspector Christian Erdmann : Forensic specialist Raiko Axel Schreiber : Hansen Rick Okon : Dennis Reuter Robert Alexander Baer : Roman Popescu Stephanie Amarell : Jessica Steiner Nicole Marischka : Juliane Steiner Andreas Pietschmann : Roland Steiner Bohdan Swiderski : Valentin Adrian Topol : Aleksey Petrov Jörg Westphal : Marius Goian
chronology
←  Predecessor Dresden Demons

Nachtgestalten is a German television film by Hannu Salonen from 2016. It is the second episode of the ZDF crime series Dresden Mord with Anja Kling and Lisa Tomaschewsky in the leading roles .

action

In their second joint case, Dresden Chief Inspector Bärbel Wallenstein and her daughter Kim have to solve the murder of the Romanian restaurant owner Marius Goian, who initially looks like a robbery. Further investigations revealed that Goian had worked under the name Selin for the red light boss Aleksej Petrov two years ago and had suddenly disappeared without a trace. On the basis of traces of blood found he was believed to be dead at the time. Now he really is and the investigations are directed at Aleksey Petrov.

background

After the first episode Dresden Demons was broadcast under the series title Die Wallensteins , Nachtgestalten renamed the series Dresden Mord to create an analogy to the already existing crime series Munich Mord .

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Nachtgestalten on June 4, 2016 on ZDF reached 4.96 million viewers and a market share of 18.7 percent. So it was slightly below the previous series.

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said quite appreciatively: “The film by crime expert Hannu Salonen [...] is a story-intensive, solidly made Whodunit crime story with two tough women and a clearly told story, where the effect on the viewer comes first Place. The conventional genre film is cleverly refined by a modern staging including an attractive look into which the two main actresses fit seamlessly. "

Web links

• Dresden murder: Nachtgestalten in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Night creatures at fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Rainer Tittelbach : Kling, Tomaschewsky, Klaschka, Salonen. Routine, exciting & a cool look Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on November 27, 2017.