A fateful plan

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Movie
Original title A fateful plan
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2019
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Ed Duke
script Katharina Hajos
Constanze Fischer
production Dagmar Rosenbauer
music Richard Ruzicka
camera Sebastian Edschmid
cut Jochen Retter
occupation

A Fateful Plan is a 2019 German television film by Ed Herzog with Benjamin Sadler in the lead role. The film premiered on June 30, 2019 at the Munich Film Festival . Here he was awarded the Bernd Burgemeister TV Prize.

action

Jan Brenner is the chief detective and married to the MP Kathrin Hagen-Brenner. They have two children and give the image of a happy family in public. Nevertheless, Brenner lets himself be tempted to spend the night with another woman in the absence of his wife. When he wakes up the next morning, however, he finds the young woman dead in the living room. He can't remember anything himself and has to assume that he strangled Vesna while making love. Since he is about to become head of the homicide squad and his wife is in public, he cannot afford a scandal. He professionally cleans the house and his clothes of all traces, deposits Vesna's cell phone in the mailbox of her own apartment and buries the body in the forest. He takes care not to be seen by anyone.

Strange events soon piled up in Brenner's life. He is haunted by visions and the deceased appears to him several times as if she had just emerged from her grave. The police are informed by an anonymous caller that a woman in Brenner's house has called for help, the little daughter's barbie doll is suddenly naked, dirty and has a tie like a rope around her neck. When Vesna's body is found, it is not buried in the forest, but rather visible from afar on a lawn in the city. Brenner is called to the site and now declares that he knew the dead woman. She is a journalist who interviewed him about an old series of murders.

Brenner becomes more tense every day and suddenly finds Vesna's bracelet on his daughter's wrist. Sarah supposedly got it from a man. Brenner is extremely worried and his wife senses that something is wrong with her husband. She discovers sleeping pills in the bathroom that he claims are not his. When the active ingredients of this sleeping aid were found in the body of the corpse during the autopsy, Brenner began to be thoughtful. He becomes restless after Vesna's clothes are suddenly sent anonymously to the presidium. He had disposed of the things in a clothes bin in town. Wasn't someone watching him? Is it part of a perfidious plan? Brenner recalls a tip that Vesna had felt followed some time ago. In fact, there is a complaint with the police in this regard that was not followed up because only a light blue delivery van was known, but could not be assigned to anyone. Brenner wants to investigate again, but before he gets around to it, he himself is followed by a stranger in a light blue van. The attempt to ask the driver fails. The commissioner hopes for a clue from the anonymous phone call regarding a woman's calls for help. A decommissioned power plant in Berlin-Steglitz can be determined as the place of origin . On the same day, Brenner is called by his persecutor, who calls him to the power station. Here he shows him by projection a video that he had recorded from the evening of the crime and that shows Vesna being strangled. The perpetrator is not Brenner, but the persecutor! Here, too, he is one step ahead and can escape Brenner again. In return, he plays Vesna's laptop into his hands, on which her current work is saved. According to their research, the police arrested the wrong perpetrator of a series of murders ten years ago. Brenner claims that they caught the real murderer at the time, since all the evidence spoke against him, Peter von Haaren made a confession and later hanged himself in his cell.

In the meantime, the murderer has sent Brenner's office intimate photos of the victim and the superintendent, which were clearly taken shortly before Vesna's death. As a result, Brenner is immediately suspended and a house search is initiated. The sleeping pills and the remains of the tie with which Vesna was strangled are now found here. Brenner tries to make it clear to his superiors that someone is trying to blame him for the murder. But he has no proof and has to stay in custody. When the opportunity arises, however, he manages to escape. Since nobody seems to believe him, he goes looking for the perpetrator alone. He doesn't know yet that his colleague has already identified the man. It's about Karl von Haaren, Peter von Haaren's older brother. He recently bought a plot of land by the lake. Here they can catch him and before he is shot, he confesses his motive for revenge. He wanted Brenner to feel like his little brother - innocent in prison.

background

A fateful plan was produced by the Cinecentrum Berlin Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH on behalf of ZDF and was filmed in Berlin and Brandenburg from May 15 to June 14, 2018 under the working title Tödliches Erwachen .

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of A fateful plan on October 14, 2019 was seen by 6.02 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 19.7 percent for ZDF .

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv wrote: “This already award-winning television film is anything but an everyday television thriller. The film is extremely exciting in all its scenes and details. An ominous score is laid over atmospheric images and precisely cut sequences. The dramatic twists and turns can also be explained logically in retrospect, there is no stereotypical laying out of wrong tracks, instead there is an ambivalent protagonist with whom you can never be quite sure what drives him. "" This material with its clever interlocking Of the main character and plot, Hitchcock would certainly have liked too ! "

At the WAZ , Wolfgang Platzeck judged: "As with every unusual twist in this captivating game of appearance and reality, the tension arising from uncertainty increases, that is almost world-class."

Julian Miller fromquotemeter.de said: “The American series ' Dexter ' has already shown how dramatic it can be to have a (supposed?) Murderer investigated in his (possibly?) Own cases . But not only with regard to its innovative and sometimes provocative idea, 'A fateful plan' remains far behind its narrative possibilities and instead turns into a tolerably ordinary film in which Benjamin Sadler is once again deprived of the opportunity to shine with real playful talent . "

The film-rezensions.de assessed: “If in 'A fatal plan' a police officer is on the run from the truth and has a long-distance duel with Mister X who wants to add something to him, then the food promises to be exciting. It's the crime thriller but only in part, weakens both in the simple and nonsensical script and is also irritating due to the many unsympathetic characters. "

Awards

On June 30, 2019, A Fateful Plan was awarded the Bernd Burgemeister TV Prize at the Munich Film Festival .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A fateful plan at crew united , accessed on April 13, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Sadler, Triebel, Becht, Hajos / Fischer, Duke. A commissioner is investigating himself, accessed on Tittelbach.tv on April 13, 2020.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Platzeck: "ZDF-Krimi delivery high voltage" at waz.de, accessed on April 13, 2020.
  4. ↑ Julian Miller: Film review on quotenmeter.de, accessed on April 13, 2020.
  5. ↑ A fateful film review plan at film-rezensions.de, accessed on April 13, 2020.
  6. ↑ Bernd Burgemeister Prize 2019 to ZDF thriller “A fatal plan” at presseportal.zdf.de, accessed on April 13, 2020.