A strong team: Late revenge
| Episode in the series A strong team | |||
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| Original title | Late revenge | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
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UFA | ||
| length | 88 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Episode 59 ( List ) | ||
| First broadcast | October 22, 2014 on ZDFneo | ||
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| Director | Thorsten Näter | ||
| script | Leo P. Ard | ||
| production | Michaela Nix | ||
| music | Axel Donner | ||
| camera | Joachim Hasse | ||
| cut | Julia von Frihling | ||
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Late revenge is a German television film by Thorsten Näter from 2014. It is the 59th episode of the crime series A strong team with Maja Maranow and Florian Martens in the leading roles.
In this episode, in keeping with the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall , the investigators go deep into the past of German-German history.
action
Chief Detective Verena Berthold and colleague Otto Garber try to investigate an assassination attempt on a German-American tourist couple who accidentally fell victim to an uninvolved pensioner. Thanks to an attentive witness who briefly saw the shooter, a phantom drawing can be made. The rifle that was left behind suggests a Russian perpetrator who is feared will strike again to kill the couple.
Alwin Elliott immediately noticed that the attack was aimed at him and is now getting a gun. For security reasons, the couple won't go back to the hotel either. Christiane Elliott comes from Berlin and asks her former work colleague Roswitha Gerstenberg for quarters for one night. The Elliotts don't know that the police are looking for the couple to protect them.
Gregor Romanov, who was trained in the Russian army, can be identified using the phantom image and the evaluation of surveillance recordings. While the police are feverishly looking for him, he has brought Roswitha Gerstenberg into his power and is waiting in her apartment in the hope that the couple will be there again. Unexpectedly, he himself is a victim and is found dead by Verena Berthold.
In search of the killer’s possible client, Otto Garber ends up in a bar, where he is put out of action by means of knockout drops . When he wakes up, he is in Nicolai Rataev's house, where Romanov was employed. He and his daughter Jelena take care of the superintendent, but he still feels a certain distance.
Verena Berthold finds out that the Elliots came to Germany because of Christiane's father's funeral. A chance for the commissioners to finally find them. Only Christiane Elliot appears at the funeral, but Otto Garber also discovers the man from the bar in the cemetery who probably gave him the knockout drops. Christiane Elliott is taken to the police station and questioned, but she cannot give any clues about the background to the attack. Her husband only ever told her about the difficulties he had with the authorities at the time. Only now does she realize the danger they were in and obviously still are. Although Christiane Elliott is under police protection, one of Rataev's men manages to kidnap her and bring her to Rataev.
The investigators find out that Alwin Elliott was temporarily hiding with his old friend Rolf Becker. Becker is on record as a former escape helper and may have also worked for the secret service. Reddemann therefore suspects that Elliott works for the CIA and that he therefore received no answer to his inquiries in the USA. After Becker learns that Rataev has kidnapped his friend's wife, he breaks his silence. Something went wrong in an agent exchange in 1984, in which Alwin Elliott was in charge, and Nicolai Rataev, who was then working for the KGB , had to watch his wife get shot. So it can be assumed that Rataev now wants to take revenge on his part.
With Becker's help, Alwin Elliott can finally be found, who admits to having shot Gregor Romanow in self-defense. With nothing else against Elliot and he is an American citizen, he remains at large. Together with the police, he sets a trap for Rataev. He kidnaps Jelena Rataev and offers her father to exchange the hostages "as in the old days" at Glienicke Bridge . During this operation, Rataev and his accomplice, whom he has since hired to replace Romanov, are arrested.
background
Late Vengeance was filmed in Berlin from March 4 to April 4, 2014 and was originally intended as the 60th episode of the crime series. However, due to the imminent 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall , it was decided to bring forward this thematically appropriate episode and postponed the previously filmed episode Tödliche Verführung (working title Housewives are not Angels ) to a subsequent broadcast date. Regular viewers noticed this shift visually due to the changing hair length of the leading actress.
Sputnik , whose role as a businessman in the series is designed as a running gag , works as a dog sitter in this episode.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Late Revenge on October 22, 2014 on ZDF was followed by 6.49 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 20.9 percent.
Reviews
Tilmann P. Gangloff from Tittelbach.tv judged: This time the investigators are dealing with “a tricky case [dealing] that leads back to the Cold War era. In its best moments, the plot looks like a material by John le Carré, especially since Näter largely dispenses with the usual comic moments. Outstanding soundtrack, good cast, but also some logic holes. "
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm only gave a medium rating (thumbs straight) and believe that the film is only "mediocre despite the participation of Katja Flint and August Zirner."
Web links
- A strong team: Late revenge in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Late revenge on fernsehserien.de
- Late revenge on crew-united.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ rotation time accessed at ufa.de.
- ^ A b Tilmann P. Gangloff : Maranow, Martens, Flint, Zirner, Thorsten Näter. Agent thriller made in Germany at Tittelbach.tv , accessed on May 8, 2017.
- ↑ A Strong Team: Late Revenge at TV Spielfilm , accessed December 6, 2016.