A strong team: please keep the parking lot clean
| Episode in the series A strong team | |||
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| Original title | Please keep the parking lot clean | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Production company |
UFA Fiction on behalf of ZDF |
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| length | 89 minutes | ||
| classification | Episode 81 ( List ) | ||
| German-language first broadcast |
February 1, 2020 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Maris Pfeiffer | ||
| script | Axel Hildebrand | ||
| production | Lena Kraeber | ||
| music | George Kochbeck | ||
| camera | Eckhard Jansen | ||
| cut | Simone Sugg-Hofmann | ||
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Please keep parking lot clean is a German TV film by Maris Pfeiffer from 2020 . It is the 81st episode of the crime series A strong team with Florian Martens as Otto Garber and Stefanie Stappenbeck as Linett Wachow as investigative detective agents in the lead roles. Wachow is investigating their 17th case, for Garber it is his 81st case. Arnfried Lerche is again there as the superior of the duo and Sebastian Klöckner, played by Matthi Faust , as well as Jaecki Schwarz as “Sputnik” and Eva Sixt as pathologist. The main guest stars of this episode are Annika Blendl , Marc Ben Puch and Lara Mandoki as well as Maximilian Gehrlinger and Sabine Vitua .
action
The Berlin detective inspectors Otto Garber and Linett Wachow are called to a case in a remote parking lot with the sign "Please keep the parking lot clean", where the body of a professor from Berlin University, found with hematomas in the neck area, was discovered. The injuries could have been caused by a camera strap that may have recorded harmful material, which could lead to an argument. The picture of a simulated robbery is emerging , but the case ultimately turns out to be a cold-blooded murder in swinger circles. The parking lot is known for the fact that heterosexual and homosexual couples enjoy the attraction of public sex there .
The dead person is Hannes Thalhammer, who held a chair in philosophy . Garber and Wachow learn from Susanne Kowalski, the professor's ex-wife, who is now married, that they have not had any contact with their ex-husband since their divorce a year ago. Only in a later conversation does she explain that her first husband also photographed her in erotic poses during the marriage; it was his way of telling her that he found her sexy. At first she liked that too, but at some point she stopped. And then she met Benno Kowalski, her current husband. The investigators also find out that there was a complaint against Thalhammer for sexual harassment. Even after the divorce, she still loved her first husband.
Thalhammer is said to have made recordings of the student Ely Hadraschek while she was in the shower after acrobatic training at the university. Hadraschek complains bitterly to Wachow that no one believed her at the time and that since she had no witnesses, testimony stood against testimony.
One of the residents near the parking lot, a fisherman, comes to the aid of the investigators. He had gone into hiding and written down the car numbers of the swinger couples. Linett Wachow talks to the nurse Janette Böhm, who gives information frankly, others react ashamed, such as Philipp Uhlmann. In a conversation with Monika Voigt, whose boyfriend was beaten up by a masked man during such a meeting, the officers learned that there was a man who wanted sex without condoms, which she rejected. He walked away briefly and then came back and beat up her friend Holger. Garber and Wachow also speak to Rosi, the owner of a cinema that shows sex films, who knows her way around the swinger scene very well.
Benno Kowalski meets with Vicky Müller-Gellinghaus and tells her that he is in trouble and wants to know if she can help him. Vicky is the wife of colleague Marvin Müller-Gellinghaus. When Otto Garber speaks to the couple a little later, Vicky makes a tell-tale remark. Both admit to have known the Kowalskis and the professor. There were often three of them. Benno wanted them to give him an alibi. Yes, on the night of the crime all three were in the said parking lot. The professor liked to watch when Susanne had sex with other men. Benno Kowalski is said to have threatened Thalhammer. Kowalski admits that he said a real man should know when he lost. He and Susanne just wouldn't have wanted him with us anymore.
Garber and Wachow, as well as other officers, observe another meeting in the parking lot. Wachow discovers the nurse Janette Böhm, who answered her so frankly. The young woman gets involved with a guy with a mask and is in great danger. Fortunately, Garber and Wachow intervene before anything worse happens. The arrested Dustin Kroeger justifies himself by saying that the women who come there are all hookers and would lie if they only opened their mouths. It was always about women for him, the dead professor does not fit into the victim scheme.
When the commissioners want to speak to Uhlmann again, he behaves extremely suspiciously, so that Wachow and her colleague take Sebastian Klöckner and with them to the station. When they want to see his cell phone, he first protests. To Wachow's surprise, he took a photo of them. He justifies this by saying that it reminds him of his mother in his childhood. Shortly afterwards, a video is played to Wachow that shows how the professor recorded his wife and Kowalski in the parking lot. In addition to his shoes, he can also be seen briefly. When the video was uploaded online, Thalhammer was already dead.
The investigation leads to Uhlmann, who leaked Ely Hadraschek Thalhammer's video. When he was arrested, he said it was nice, as always, then he saw someone taking pictures and recognized the professor immediately. He knew what this Ely had done and also that no one believed her. That's why he approached Thalhammer and asked for the camera to be handed over. The professor did not want to give it up, however, because a fight had broken out in the course of which he strangled Thalhammer without knowing what he was actually doing. He just wanted to help Ely. At home he then saw that the camera had captured everything.
Otto Garber's self-disclosure because of irregularities, which he had reported in order not to offer his colleague Müller-Gellinghaus a target, his boss Lothar Reddemann disappears in the trash.
Production notes
The filming for the parking lot please keep clean extended from April 25 to May 28, 2019 and took place in Berlin and the surrounding area. Milena Baumann was in charge of production for the film created by UFA Fiction GmbH, and Günther van Endert was responsible for the editing .
reception
First broadcast, audience rating
The first broadcast on ZDF on February 1, 2020 reached 6.62 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 21.8 percent.
criticism
Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv gave the film 2.5 out of 6 possible stars and said about this thriller: “A film title can also be a burden. 'Please keep the parking lot clean': That sounds original and is also quite sarcastic, because in the parking lot where this sign is, a corpse was found in addition to all sorts of rubbish. In fact, the subject is the only unusual thing about this 81st episode from the ZDF series 'A strong team', because the dramaturgy and implementation hardly go beyond the previous evening format. ”Gangloff explained that the topic“ could have become something if it had Author Axel Hildebrand would have been more interested in his characters; and if Maris Pfeiffer hadn't staged the film in such an uninspired way ”.
Cinema saw it similarly , whose conclusion was: “You would have liked more courage.” […] “Despite (at least hinted at) public sex and slippery secrets, the investigation is only moderately exciting. Overall, however, a solid staging. "
The Hamburger Abendblatt read: “In crime-oriented TV Germany, 'A strong team' is still one of the guarantees that good old analog television cannot be crushed.” Reference was then made to the very good ratings of the series, the "Easily passed the seven million mark".
Web links
- A strong team: Parking please keep clean in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A strong team: please keep the parking lot clean at crew united
- A strong team - please keep the parking lot clean at fernsehserien.de
- A strong team - please keep the parking lot clean see page presseportal.zdf.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ A strong team: please keep the parking lot clean at crew united
- ↑ Daniel Sallhoff: Primetime check: Saturday, February 1, 2020. In : quotemeter.de . February 2, 2020, accessed February 5, 2020 .
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Series "A strong team - please keep the parking lot clean". Stappenbeck, Florian Martens, Blendl, Hildebrand, Pfeiffer. Outdoor swingers club. In: tittelbach.tv . January 10, 2020, accessed February 5, 2020 .
- ↑ A strong team: please keep the parking lot clean, see page cinema.de (including photo series). Retrieved May 17, 2020.
- ↑ A strong team - please keep the parking lot clean. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , February 1, 2020. Retrieved on May 17, 2020.