A strong team: a murderous reunion
| Episode in the series A strong team | |||
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| Original title | Murderous reunion | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| classification | Episode 4 ( list ) | ||
| First broadcast | April 13, 1996 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Michael Steinke | ||
| script | Neithardt Riedel | ||
| production | Klaus Michael Kühn | ||
| music | Johannes Schmoelling | ||
| camera | Michael Steinke | ||
| cut | Tanja Petry | ||
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Murderous Reunion is a German television film by Michael Steinke from 1996 . It is the fourth episode of the crime series A strong team with Maja Maranow and Florian Martens in the leading roles.
action
The fourth case takes the strong team to France . The ex-mercenary Jan Steinbeck escapes from custody after a robbery in France. The local police are certain that Steinbeck's destination is Berlin. His former lover, Carmen Vorberg, lives there and presumably has access to funds there. The French commissioner Pierre Duchamp is integrated into the SEK by Daniela Heitberg for the investigation. The investigation group is renting an apartment directly across from Vorberg's loft. The loft is a former factory building, which, with its large, floor-to-ceiling windows, is ideal for observation with cameras. The time until Jan's expected return offers the opportunity to do something outside of work. The male members of the group are particularly enthusiastic about the opportunity to secretly observe the attractive Carmen. Duchamp openly flirts with Verena, who also doesn't seem to be uninterested, which Otto registers with suspicion. Otto, on the other hand, took the initiative, purely on business, of course, and made contact with Carmen under a pretext. It sparks immediately between the two. An evening appointment in a Spanish pub offers the unique opportunity to see Otto Garber dancing flamenco. Then there is a hot approach in Carmen's loft, much to the pleasure of the observing colleagues. The coziness ends the next day when Jan arrives. He rents a nearby hotel. Disguised as a parcel deliverer, he manages to enter Carmen's apartment without being recognized. With Carmen, her old feelings for the ex flare up again immediately. Jan asks her to pick up the contents of a safe deposit box and then meet with him to further escape. Carmen desperately turns to Otto, whose true identity she now knows. Accompanied by Otto, she picks up the contents of the locker with the police shadowing her, 900,000 marks in cash. Then she disarms Otto completely by surprise and forces him at gunpoint to drive her to the meeting point with Jan. The showdown follows on a spacious railway area, where Jan can finally be overwhelmed.
background
Murderous Reunion was filmed in Berlin and Brandenburg and first broadcast on April 13, 1996 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF .
Locations (selection)
- Pierre Duchamps Hotel was the Intercontinental on Budapesterstraße 2
- Carmen's loft and the SEK group's apartment were at Pfuelstrasse 5
- The rest area scene during Jan's arrival was filmed on the A9 at the Fläming West rest area
- Jan's Hotel was the Hotel Sachsenhof at Motzstrasse 7
- The debate between Carmen and Otto was filmed on the banks of the Spreespeicher, Stralauer Allee 3
- The safe deposit box was at Deutsche Bank, branch Otto-Suhr-Allee 6-16
- The showdown on the railway site was filmed at the Berlin-Rummelsburg train station and at the Wustermark marshalling yard 35 kilometers away .
criticism
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm commented on the fourth episode Murderous Reunion as follows: "Quite okay, but not an outlier". They evaluated the film with their thumbs to one side.
Web links
- A strong team: Murderous bye in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A strong team: a murderous reunion at crew united
- A strong team: a murderous reunion at Moviepilot