A strong team: Knastelse
| Episode in the series A strong team | |||
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| Original title | Jailer | ||
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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 65 ( List ) | ||
| First broadcast | March 12, 2016 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Maris Pfeiffer | ||
| script | Axel Hildebrand | ||
| production | Michaela Nix | ||
| music | Jörg Lemberg | ||
| camera | Gunnar Fuss | ||
| cut | Simone Sugg-Hofmann | ||
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Knastelse is a German TV film by Maris Pfeiffer from 2016. It is the 65th episode of the crime series A strong team with Florian Martens as Otto Garber . For Stefanie Stappenbeck it is her first assignment as Linett Wachow at Garber's side after the departure of his longtime colleague Verena Berthold. Key guest roles are Jeanette Hain , Michael Rotschopf , Inga Busch and Marek Harloff .
action
Their first joint assignment takes Chief Detective Otto Garber and his new colleague Linett Wachow to a construction site at the main train station. There the body of Boris Kastel, who had just been released from prison, was found. According to the research, the victim had a relationship with two women whom Kastel had met through a dating agency behind the prison walls. These "jokes" could well have been capable of an act of jealousy. But he could also have had enemies with former fellow prisoners because of his frequent prison sentences.
A first suspicion falls on Akki Holzer, who had committed a robbery together with the victim and had been cheated of the booty by him. He works in a glazier, which almost exclusively employs former prisoners. Melanie Kipper, the owner, has a lot of understanding for the stumbled men and is also in a relationship with Holzer. So the alibi she gives him isn't very credible. Holzer's conspicuous behavior is later explained when investigators find out during an observation that he is providing doner kebabs to his former prisoners in prison . He regularly secretly throws these fast food products over the prison wall.
The lawyer Olivia Eisner, Boris Kastel's second lover, is very cool in contrast to her competitor and besides Kastel has a relationship with the prisoner Frederick Losen. As it turns out in the end, Kastel Eisner surprised when she was with Losen. A violent argument broke out between the men, Kastel choked Losen, who in return hit him with a heavy figure over the head. Assuming he was dead, the couple then took him to the construction site, where he would have been cemented the next day. Just as Eisner was about to leave, she noticed that Kastel was still alive and suffocated him in panic by pulling a plastic bag over his face. At this point, Losen was already on his way back to prison as his exit ended.
background
Else jail was in Berlin turned and on 12 March 2016 at 20:15 in the ZDF erstausgestrahlt.
Sputnik , whose role as a businessman in the series is laid out as a running gag , is used in this episode by Otto for a "friendship service". He went to jail for a few days for unpaid fines and spied on a prisoner for Otto.
At the beginning of the film it is explained that Commissioner Berthold has emigrated to Australia and therefore Linett Wachow will be added to the team. The previous leading actress Maja Maranow left the series in the summer of 2015 and died in January 2016.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Knastelse on March 12, 2016 on ZDF was followed by 6.96 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 21.8 percent.
Reviews
Tilmann P. Gangloff from Tittelbach.tv judged: “The title is unusual, as is the story, but not the implementation: 'Knastelse' tells of women who fall in love with prisoners. However, Maris Pfeiffer's film owes its special position in the series 'A strong team' primarily to Stefanie Stappenbeck's debut as the successor to the late Maja Maranow. Actor and character fit into the ensemble in an exemplary manner, especially since the author Alex Hildebrand has refrained from providing his new colleague with starry airs. Rock solid! "
At rtv.de, Martina Borgschulze rated: "In the current case [...] the effect unfortunately fizzles out a bit in a run-of-the-mill thriller due to new entry Stefanie Stappenbeck."
Sidney Schering atquotemeter.de assessed: “Dramaturgically, this case represents assembly line goods: There are the usual wrong tracks, a chase in the last minutes and a semi-thoughtful ending. What stands out from the mass of ZDF thrillers is how the eponymous topic of 'Knastelsen' is dealt with. ”Conclusion:“ All in all, UFA Fiction is entering the new era of its Saturday night crime series under the motto 'Business as usual'. Stappenbeck fits in well with the format in order to attract attention, but instead of just inconspicuously joining in, the mime will need a case that pays more attention to her figure. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm only gave a medium rating (thumbs straight) and said: “Maja Maranow died surprisingly on January 4th, a few days before her last episode was broadcast. We may find out in the next few episodes why her successor always alternates between crowing kindness and sudden aggression. This drags on like a house, the eternal sidekick Sputnik (Jaecki Schwarz) is condemned to an undercover job this time. ”Conclusion:“ Not exactly a rousing new start. ”
Web links
- A strong team: jail Else in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A strong team: Knastelse at Fernsehserien.de
- A strong team: Knastelse at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Tilmann P. Gangloff : Martens, Stapp Beck, Hildebrand, Pfeiffer. The new one, calmly brought into play , at Tittelbach.tv , accessed on May 9, 2017.
- ↑ Martina Borgschulze: Luft nach oben at rtv.de, accessed on May 9, 2017.
- ↑ Sidney Schering: Knastelse at quotenmeter.de, accessed on May 9, 2017.
- ↑ A strong team: Knastelse at TV Spielfilm , accessed on December 7, 2016.