A strong team: old wounds
| Episode in the series A strong team | |||
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| Original title | Old wounds | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
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UFA | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Episode 57 ( List ) | ||
| First broadcast | March 15, 2014 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Thorsten Näter | ||
| script | Thorsten Näter | ||
| production | Michaela Nix | ||
| music | Axel Donner | ||
| camera | Joachim Hasse | ||
| cut | Julia von Frihling | ||
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Alte Wunden is a German television film by Thorsten Näter from 2014. It is the 57th episode of the crime series A strong team with Maja Maranow and Florian Martens in the leading roles.
action
Gerhard Brock, a criminal who has just been released from prison, threatens to take revenge on those who put him in prison for 20 years for the murder of his daughter Birte. When an incriminating witness of the trial at that time was downright executed, Criminal Investigator Reddemann had to fear for his life, because he had investigated the case at the time. The attack is not long in coming, because Reddemann's car was manipulated and when he tries to stop at a red light, the brakes fail. The team boss is seriously injured and brought to the clinic and Commissioner Verena Berthold is sure that the whole thing has to do with the old case. After Brock has illegally approached Reddemann's hospital room, he is put out to be searched. Shortly afterwards, another of the investigating officers was killed and the pressure to search the fugitive increased.
Verena Berthold has the old files brought to her, as Reddemann said that the process at that time did not run properly. She actually finds some inconsistencies, so that the evidence given today would not have been enough to convict her. Since a fellow inmate also testifies that Bock constantly protested his innocence and wanted to get a retrial after his prison sentence had expired, she considers it possible that Brock was actually wrongly in prison for 20 years. She learns from Reddemann that there was already a friend of the wife at that time who was definitely a possible perpetrator, but since Brock had already been convicted, no further search was made for another.
When Brock makes contact with his daughter, the police finally manage to catch him. He protests his innocence, but realizes that no one apart from Berthold believes him. When the murder weapon was found in his car, his situation seemed hopeless. In his distress he takes the Commissioner hostage and holed up in the police headquarters. He demands that the witnesses from that time be interrogated again. Under these conditions, one of the main witnesses admits that he did not tell the truth at the time. A policeman had given him the choice of incriminating Brock or imprisoning him for a break-in. This officer is Kurt Lehnert, an old school friend of Brock's, who cheated on him with his wife behind his back and also abused his two daughters. Through his connections to the police, he was able to incriminate Brock in such a way that he was convicted for the act. With Brock's dismissal and the intention to get a retrial, Lehnert came under pressure. He then arranged everything so that the new deeds would again be blamed on Brock. The murderess, however, was Brock's younger daughter Beatrice, who had dragged Birte under water after an argument in the bathtub, so that she drowned.
background
Alte Wunden was filmed in Berlin and premiered on March 15, 2014 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF .
Sputnik , whose role as a businessman in the series is designed as a running gag , opens a menu service in this episode and distributes, among other things, "Meals on Wheels".
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Alte Wunden on March 15, 2014 on ZDF was followed by 6.24 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 19.9 percent.
Reviews
Tilmann P. Gangloff from Tittelbach.tv judged: “'Old wounds' [...] comes up with a cleverly constructed story. The script is full of action, the staging is meticulous, but the final turns seem pretty magical. A well-known cast, with which there is also a mistake, a richly associative film music and a well thought-out image design round off this successful utility crime. "
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best rating (thumbs up) and said: "If you don't mind the joke about the investigators and some inconsistencies, you will be rewarded with an exciting episode." Conclusion: "Unrealistic, overconstructed, but quite gripping. "
Web links
- A strong team: Old wounds in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Alte Wunden official website of ZDF
- Old wounds at fernsehserien.de
- Old wounds at crew-united.com
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Tilmann P. Gangloff : Martens, Maranow, Berkel, Brambach, Näter. Events seem to be repeating themselves , at Tittelbach.tv , accessed on May 8, 2017.
- ↑ A strong team: Old Wounds at TV Spielfilm , accessed on December 6, 2016.