A strong team: security level 1

Episode in the series A strong team
Original title	Security level 1
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	UFA
length	89 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
classification	Episode 28 ( List )
First broadcast	April 24, 2004 on ZDF
Rod
Director	Peter Fratzscher
script	Pim Richter
production	Norbert Sauer
music	Robert Schulte-Hemming Jens Langbein
camera	Wolf Siegelmann
cut	Vera Theden
occupation
Maja Maranow : Verena Berthold Florian Martens : Otto Garber Leonard Lansink : Georg Scholz Tayfun Bademsoy : Yüksel Yüzguler Jaecki Schwarz : Sputnik Arnfried Lerche : Lothar Reddemann Helmut Zierl : Rühle Vinzenz Kiefer : Jürgen Stach, "Pattex" Arnel Taci : Aljoscha Struwe, "Tick" Nora Tschirner : Katharina Stein Hartmut Becker : Dr. Haberland Orhan Güner : Sultan Reza Bin Sadir Armin Dallapiccola : Ambassador Robert Seethaler : Dr. Armin Kneissler, forensic doctor Ralf Dittrich : Frank Richartz Joachim Kretzer : Head of Operations Christian Blietz : Marius Schroth Dirc Simpson : Security Guard
chronology
←  Predecessor The suspicion Successor  → Living Goals

Security level 1 is a German television film by Peter Fratzscher from 2004. It is the 28th episode of the crime series A strong team with Maja Maranow and Florian Martens in the leading roles.

action

In this case, Chief Detective Verena Berthold and colleague Otto Garber first have to clarify the identity of a 15-year-old boy whose body was found at the Tiergarten lock in Berlin. Only a conspicuous tattoo reveals that it is a victim from the prostitute scene . A supervisor of the scene kids remembers a dispute between the victim and Jürgen Stach over a video camera. When Otto locates Stach and the camera, there are photos of the victim and his last suitor. Although it cannot be ruled out that Stach killed the boy himself, the investigators are also following up on the information about the suitor. He initially denies having even known the boy. But it quickly turns out that he is the actual owner of the video camera and that Stach and the victim stole the camera, including five other tapes, which would be a motive for the man. In order to be able to prove anything to him, he is under surveillance and thus has an alibi when Stach is also killed a few days later.

Verena finds explosive connections to an upcoming state visit by the Sultan von Domar and the murders. Both boys had moved into their quarters on private property belonging to a professor who knows the Sultan personally and wants to meet with him there. Therefore, the investigators believe it is possible that a GSG 9 man had ensured "order" in advance and "disposed of" the uninvited guests. In search of the perpetrator, the investigators monitor the Sultan in parallel with the security forces from the special operation and manage to prevent a planned assassination attempt, which in the end was the ambassador of Domar. In the course of the preparations, the assassins killed Stach and his friend because they got in their way in their work.

background

Security level 1 was filmed in Berlin and first broadcast on April 24, 2004 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF .

Sputnik , whose role as a businessman in the series is designed as a running gag , has set up a shop for esoteric elixirs from the Orient in this episode next to his restaurant .

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best rating (thumbs up) and gave an appreciative rating: "Berlin thriller with a political dimension."

Web links

• A strong team: Security level 1 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Security level 1 at fernsehserien.de
• Security level 1 at crew-united.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for a strong team: Security level 1 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2011 (PDF; test number: 126 801 V).
2. ↑ A strong team: Security level 1 at TV Spielfilm , accessed on December 1, 2016.