A strong team: living goals
| Episode in the series A strong team | |||
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| Original title | Living goals | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 91 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Episode 29 ( List ) | ||
| First broadcast | February 26, 2005 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Peter F. Bringmann | ||
| script | Eva and Volker A. Zahn | ||
| music | Paul Vincent Gunia | ||
| camera | Michael Faust | ||
| cut | Vera Theden | ||
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Living goals is a German television film by Peter F. Bringmann from 2005. It is the 29th episode of the crime series A strong team with Maja Maranow and Florian Martens in the leading roles.
action
The landlady of detective chief inspector Otto Garber is killed on the street. Garber, who is not overly affected by the death, is investigating alongside his colleague Verena Berthold, who in this personal case helps him to keep a clear head.
In search of the perpetrator and his motive, the investigators concentrate on the tenants, as the dead woman was not exactly squeamish about them. The Wolf family in particular had a dispute with the landlady and Colonel a. D. was trained in handling firearms. However, he asserts that he has not touched a weapon in years. Rainer Lussow, a single tenant, was recently given notice of the apartment by the lady because she didn't like keeping pets. The man only has a heart for abandoned animals that he has taken in and to which he is now attached. Georg and Yüksel observe the two tenants in the hope of finding abnormalities.
The very next day, a young punk is killed in a similar way. Reddemann then orders that the group of suspects be expanded. When a blackmail letter arrives, the team is completely at a loss. All research comes to nothing. Otto finds out, however, that the master potter Monsanto, who lives in the landlady's backyard apartment, was with the Foreign Legion and should be far less harmless than he pretends to be.
Due to the surveillance, tenant Wolf is caught assembling a rifle and aiming it at the street. After the police got hold of the gun and checked the weapon, it can be ruled out that he was the culprit. He states that he only wants to shoot pigeons because no one else would do anything against the "vermin".
In the meantime, the blackmailer reports and the investigators manage to convict and arrest him while handing over the money. It turns out that he is just a free rider and wanted to use the situation for his own purposes. Neither a weapon nor any other evidence of the acts can be found on him. The next murder occurs while the blackmailer is still in custody. A plumber is shot in his company car and after it is established that the same weapon was used here, Otto constructs a vague connection. A tenant who only has to be annoyed with his landlord and who is then approached by an annoying punk on the way to work in the morning is also annoyed with the plumber who is supposed to repair something in the apartment and only sends unqualified people - like it happened to Otto. Verena does not find the approach inappropriate and is convinced that the sniper is a deeply social person who thinks he has to remove anti-social elements from society. The plumber also indirectly belongs to the environment of the angry tenants and Verena thinks of the young Lars Wittgenstein, with whom she had spoken in the course of the investigation and who had to break off his apprenticeship at precisely this employer. There are now further indications that point to the young man as the perpetrator. When the investigators track him down, he is about to carry out the next attack with his friend and work colleague Rainer Lussow. At the last moment, Verena can pull the master potter Monsanto to the ground, so that the ball misses him. Wittgenstein and Lussow are said to be arrested, with Wittgenstein falling out of a window after an exchange of fire.
Production notes
Living Targets was filmed in Berlin and first broadcast on ZDF on February 26, 2005 at 8:15 p.m. It is the last episode with Leonard Lansink as Georg Scholz, who ended his work in A strong team for his role as Wilsberg in the crime series of the same name .
Sputnik , whose role as a businessman in the series is laid out as a running gag , has given up his posh restaurant in this episode and opened a simple corner bar with a jukebox, home cooking, beer and cola.
Reviews
"[...] Routine crime thriller from a series set in Berlin."
“Even if the solution to the case comes too abruptly and seems artificial, the TV crime thriller inspires with casual slogans and charming skirmishes. Especially Florian Martens, who is involved in a love story, is convincing again as a brash cop with a heart. "
Web links
- A strong team: Pigeons in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Living goals at fernsehserien.de
- Living goals at crew-united.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for a strong team: living goals . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2011 (PDF; test number: 126 844 V).
- ↑ Start dates for a strong team - living goals . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved November 25, 2016 .
- ↑ A strong team: living goals. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ A strong team: Living goals TV feature film ; November 25, 2016.