A strong team: submerged
| Episode in the series A strong team | |||
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| Original title | Submerged | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Production company |
UFA Fiction on behalf of ZDF |
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| length | 89 minutes | ||
| classification | Episode 80 ( List ) | ||
| German-language first broadcast |
January 4, 2020 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Roland Suso Richter | ||
| script | Leo P. Ard | ||
| production | Lena Kraeber | ||
| music | Christopher Bremus | ||
| camera | Andrés Marder | ||
| cut | Dirk Gray | ||
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Submerged is a German television film by Roland Suso Richter from the year 2020. It is the 80th episode of the crime series A strong team with Florian Martens as Otto Garber and Stefanie Stappenbeck as Linett Wachow in the lead roles of investigators. The episode represents the anniversary of the 25th anniversary of the series. For Linett Wachow, it is her sixteenth appearance at the side of Otto Garber, who has played in the series from the start. The main guest stars of this episode are Fabian Busch , Julia Hartmann , Julia Richter , Gabriel Raab and Ursula Werner in a guest role .
action
For detective chief inspector Linett Wachow memories are awakened when her childhood friend Stefan, whom she had lost sight of for years, surprisingly stands at her door. The joy only lasts for a short time, because Wachow is called to a crime scene. Attorney Richard Siebert was found dead in the plunge pool of a public sauna. Obviously there was violence involved. A Stefan Kopp is the main suspect. According to witnesses, he had visited the sauna with Siebert. When Wachow sees Kopps' personnel sheet, she recognizes her childhood friend Stefan Hohl in the picture. He kept his wife's name after the divorce. Since his visit to the Commissioner, he's been swallowed by the earth. Kopp also had a clear motive for the act: Siebert worked as a lawyer for Kopp's main employer Lucas Diensberg, owner of a real estate company, and Kopp dismissed Kopp without notice at Siebert's instigation.
However, in the course of the investigation it became apparent that other people could also be considered as perpetrators, because Siebert could not complain about a lack of enemies. The taxi driver Gerald Brotschneider lost a fortune to Siebert and was verifiably near the sauna at the time of the crime. The ruthless methods with which Lucas Diensberg, with Siebert's legal assistance, forced tenants out of his renovation properties are also notorious. The last tenant of such a property, the pensioner Waltraud Möbius, dies promptly from an unexplained gas explosion.
Then Wachow receives a call from the fugitive Stefan Kopp. He tells her that Lucas Diensberg maintains contacts with the Mafia and that his father-in-law's long -established real estate company is primarily used to launder illegal money from the Mafia. Wachow agrees to meet him at the apartment of his separated wife, where he will show her the relevant evidence. There she falls into the hands of Diensberg's henchmen, who kidnap her and Kopp in order to gain access to the evidence that Stefan Kopp has collected.
Garber and his colleague Sebastian Klöckner assume that Kopp kidnapped Wachow when they found blood stains and their smashed cell phone. In the meantime it has been found that the Diensberg company was transferred to Bettina Diensberg and her husband Lucas Tremante two years ago. There is also an Interpol manhunt for an Antonio Tremante, one of the leading figures in the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta . Head of department Lothar Reddemann says it is known that the Italian mafia has been active on the German real estate market for some time. It looks as if the Diensberg company laundered money from income from drug trafficking, extortion of protection money and illegal gambling.
Meanwhile, Kopp tells Wachow, who says to his head, that he probably also wanted some of the cake, that he actually negotiated a participation with Siebert, but then overheard a phone call by chance in which the lawyer asked Tremante-Diensberg to see that he is forever silent. Then he saw red and prevented Siebert from leaving the plunge pool. He didn't kill him. He just didn't save him. That was self-defense, because Siebert wanted to have him killed. He also didn't feel guilty at the moment. His confession is interrupted when they both smell gas and realize what that could mean. You're scared to death. At the last minute, Wachow's colleague Otto Garber and the colleagues from the SEK can save the two. Tremante's helpers are arrested, as is himself, and the real estate company is searched. Reddemann says to Bettina Diensberg, who is completely flabbergasted and knew nothing about all this, that she should think about whether her husband was not more interested in her company than in herself.
production
Production notes
The shooting for the film Abgetaucht , produced by UFA Fiction GmbH, extended under the working title Seitenwechsel over the period from February 12 to March 12, 2019 and took place in Berlin and the surrounding area. From January 3, 2020, the film was available in advance in the ZDFmediathek .
Filming locations (selection), publication
- The sauna is at Lützowstraße 106
- Stefan Kopp lived at Bellermannstrasse 68
- The Diensberg company and the Siebert law firm were in the Postbank tower block on Halleschen Ufer 60
- Kerstin Kopp lived at Am Lokdepot 9
- Linett Wachow's apartment was at Gitschiner Strasse 14
- The demolition building is the rear building at Herzbergstrasse 127
The film was first broadcast on ZDF on January 4, 2020.
reception
Audience rating
When it was first broadcast on ZDF, the thriller was seen by 7.04 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 21.5%.
criticism
TV Spielfilm pointed with the thumb to the right, gave one of three possible points for claim, action and tension and criticized the fact that “script deficiencies” the questions whether Otto “let the pathologist persuade him to go to the opera” and “the boss felt that the threatened suspension of Linett at one point in time will also "pronounce" "almost more exciting than the search for the perpetrator". Conclusion: “Good stars. The plot is not entirely convincing. "
Tilmann P. Gangloff rated the film on the tittelbach.tv website , gave it four out of six possible stars and stated that “ Abbeucht” was “worth seeing, but not outstanding”. The film tells “basically a similar story” to the episode ' Nathalie ' broadcast in 2016 , which was “created in collaboration with Jürgen Pomorin (book) and Roland Suso Richter (director)”. “Above all, the image design by Andrés Marder” is “worthy of the anniversary”. The “constellation” is, however, “neither as explosive nor as emotional as with 'Nathalie'”. It is "understandable that Pomorin and Richter did not want to tell another love story". As a result, “the film lacks that certain something that made 'Nathalie' stand out in the series”. The “unavoidable district talks” can also be seen “that judges wanted to avoid the usual routine, at least visually”. "Neither the elaborate image design nor guest actresses like Julia Hartmann and Julia Richter" could, however, "hide the fact that a little more tension would not have harmed the film, which is not due to the very present music by Chris Bremus". “Nevertheless” there is “no real thrill even at the finale when Wachow and Kopp are in mortal danger”.
Martin Seng fromquotemeter.de said that the “anniversary episode” had a “strong premise” that she knew “to expand beyond her ninety minutes”. Stefanie Stappenbeck also shows that she can play the investigator Linett “in a differentiated way”. “Nevertheless,” the episode “loses a lot” of its “initially brisk narrative pace, especially in the middle section”. As a result, "the middle of the crime novel is more tough than entertaining". Instead, "the character Stefan, or rather his journey, is all the more interesting". Fabian Busch, who embodies him, walks "always on a level between pathetic and mysterious figure". So "the audience can never be sure how it should feel about the character and [must] wait for the finale". Finally it was said: “The anniversary episode was a success. An exciting case with an interesting character to be followed and the usual friendly investigative duo. Even if the humor is less than in the previous cases, 'A strong team - submerged' is definitely worthwhile as a successful evening entertainment. "
Harald Keller took on the film in the Frankfurter Rundschau , initially dealt with series and their status in general, before talking about the anniversary episode. "One of the features of the series that often turn out to be a strength" is "the respective current references". [...] “Chief Inspector Linett Wachow” is “endowed by leading actress Stefanie Stappenbeck with a likeable naturalness that is rather rare on German television”, wrote Keller. “As always” there are “a few dabs of humor that are mostly attributed to the grumpy crowd favorite Otto Garber (Florian Martens) and his old buddy Sputnik”. "Pleasingly discreetly incorporated here, not on display in a buffonesque way." [...] "Experimental debauchery" should not be expected from this series, but solid crime fiction. Apparently something that a majority of the audience goutier [e] ”.
Web links
- A strong team: Submerged in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A strong team: submerged at crew united
- A strong team. Submerged, episode 80 see page fernsehserien.de
- Submerged the complete film in the ZDFmediathek (available up to and including April 2, 2020)
Individual evidence
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↑ 25 years of the ZDF Saturday crime series "Ein starkes Team" 80th episode "Abgetaucht" with Stefanie Stappenbeck and Florian Martens
on the press portal page, January 2, 2020. Accessed March 2, 2020. - ↑ A strong team: submerged at crew united
- ↑ A strong team: For submerged, see page tvspielfilm.de (including six film images). Retrieved March 2, 2020.
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^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Series "A strong team - submerged". Stappenbeck, Martens, Busch, Ard, Roland Suso Richter.
A highlight for the anniversary see page tittelbach.tv . Retrieved March 2, 2020. - ↑ Martin Seng: A strong team - submerged see page quotenmeter.de, January 4, 2020. Accessed March 2, 2020.
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↑ Harald Keller: TV review "A strong team". A rental shark takes its last breath
In: Frankfurter Rundschau , January 4, 2020. Accessed March 2, 2020.