A strong team: people always die
| Episode in the series A strong team | |||
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| Original title | People always die | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| classification | Episode 71 ( List ) | ||
| First broadcast | September 16, 2017 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Thorsten M. Schmidt | ||
| script | Leo P. Ard | ||
| production | Alicia Remirez | ||
| music | Andreas Koslik | ||
| camera | René Richter | ||
| cut | Simone Klier | ||
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Always dies is a German television film by Thorsten M. Schmidt from 2017. It is the 71st episode of the crime series A strong team with Florian Martens and Stefanie Stappenbeck in the leading roles. It is Linett Wachow's seventh mission at Otto Garber's side . Matthi Faust alias Sebastian Klöckner is making his debut as a permanent member of Ein Starkes Team , after having already participated in the episode driven hunt .
action
The undertaker Sven Kreuzkamp is found shot in a freshly dug grave. The "strong team", which is only two after Ben Kolberg's resignation, quickly finds out that the funeral directors in Berlin are in a tough competition. The question arises as to whether a person has now been killed because of this competition. Since the “strong team” is currently under-staffed, Linett and Otto get a new team member at their side. Sebastian Klöckner changes from the organized crime department to the “strong team” so that it can work efficiently again.
Kreuzkamp and his business partner Hermann Lichte run a discount funeral home and compete against traditional family businesses. The two can offer dumping prices because their vans drive across the republic and bring the deceased to the Czech Republic for cremation in crematoria. Sebastian Klöckner therefore suspects Stefanie Lentz, whose father ran a traditional funeral home and who struggled with the dodgy methods of Kreuzkamp & Lichte, which recently drove him to suicide. According to Klöckner's observation, the daughter is behaving conspicuously and seems bitter. She was also in the cemetery at the time of the crime.
Furthermore, Hermann Lichte behaves suspiciously and seems to be keeping something from the investigators. A current and mysterious urn theft, to which the Kreuzkamp company fell victim, he takes relatively calmly. When a second corpse is discovered in an already occupied coffin, the investigators are puzzled. The dead person can be identified relatively quickly because he has already been noticed by the police because of a drug offense. Hermann Lichte and his young employee Kai Erichsen are now being observed by the “strong team”, because Lichte has obviously used the regular transports to the Czech Republic to bring drugs to Germany without being noticed. The investigators manage to observe Lichte at a nightly meeting with the drug dealer Karim Al-Jazari, who is known to the police. This man is known to the drug clan as a "problem solver" and investigators are certain that he shot the man who tried to do business himself with the drugs he stole from the urn. At another meeting with a drug transfer, the SEK can access and arrest Al-Jazari. Since after the forensic investigation it is clear that the man in the coffin was shot with Al-Jazari's weapon, this case has been solved for the investigators. However, Kreuzkamp was not shot with this weapon. Frank Sommer is initially suspected of doing this. Sommer is a recalcitrant man with a criminal record for assault. His mother was talked into an overpriced “funeral package” by Kreuzkamp, which caused the woman to go into debt excessively and ultimately to die prematurely of grief. Sommer then sent various hate mails to the undertaker and now even stormed into the undertaker armed with a pistol and threatened Lichte and his young employee Erichsen. This weapon was allegedly slipped to him in the cemetery. The investigators even believe that Sommer's simple statement is credible, because he identifies Stefanie Lentz as the one who spoke to him that day. They talked longer, during which they learned a lot about his fate and the trouble with Kreuzkamp. Stefanie Lentz is approached and she admits that she actually thought of killing the man, but then did not manage to do it. So she hoped that Sommer would do this for her.
The victim's cell phone, which has only now been found, takes an unexpected turn. There is a video that Kreuzkamp recorded himself and shows how he first got his intern Laura Krüger drunk and then raped her. Linett is certain that this is the real motive behind the Kreuzkamp murder. The intern is questioned, but the investigators do not consider the sensitive young woman to be a murderer. Therefore they deal a little more closely with Lichtes employee Erichsen. When he learns that his "beloved" is in custody, he admits the murder of his boss. He had involuntarily witnessed the rape and wanted to confront Kreuzkamp for it. Without further ado he took the pistol his colleague Lichte had in his desk and approached Kreuzkamp. He just mocked him and then he just pulled the trigger.
background
Dying Is Always was filmed in Berlin and first broadcast on September 16, 2017 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF . The title Road to Nowhere by Talking Heads can be heard as input and output music.
Sputnik , whose role as a businessman in the series is laid out as a running gag , works as an insurance agent in this episode and this time tries to sell his friends a death insurance , in line with the case .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast on September 16, 2017 reached 6.63 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 23.5%. 0.95 million of the younger viewers tuned in, which brought in a market share of 10.8%.
Reviews
Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv draws the following judgment on this episode: “If that wasn't it, then maybe that one? Or is it someone else? Weaker than the last [sic!] Episodes. "
The Focus said: "The team from the proven author Leo P. Ard and director Thorsten M. Schmidt" "set [...] entirely on a conventional, but tension builds narrative style with various expressions and supporting roles that are very well cast. Incidentally, it becomes clear what an emotional dichotomy it means for many people when they have to pay particular attention to the costs of an upcoming funeral. If, however, macabre even drugs are smuggled into urns, there can really be no question of piety and respect. "
Ulrich Feld from the FNP said: This time “the ZDF crime thriller actually does everything right. The drug smuggling story fits in well as a background, there are nice twists and turns and, as is usually the case in the crime series that has been running since 1994, well-pointed dialogues. As a new member of the team, Matthi Faust doesn’t make himself bad, and as befits a classic murderer search in a crime film, in the end someone turns out to be the culprit from whom one would least have expected. "
Web links
- A strong team: Died is always in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- People always die at fernsehserien.de
- People always die at crew-united.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Primetime check: Saturday, September 16, 2017.quotemeter.de , September 17, 2017, accessed on October 15, 2017 .
- ↑ A strong team - people always die - review of the film. tittelbach.tv , accessed on October 15, 2017 .
- ↑ A strong team: People always die at focus.de , accessed on November 19, 2017.
- ↑ Ulrich Feld: A killer to empathize with FNP , accessed on November 18, 2017.