An unpopular woman
| Episode of the series Der Taunuskrimi | |||
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| Original title | An unpopular woman | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Episode 2 ( list ) | ||
| First broadcast | May 13, 2013 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Thomas Roth | ||
| script | Anna Tebbe | ||
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Annette Reeker , Carsten Kelber |
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| music |
Steffen Kaltschmid , Fabian Römer |
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| camera | Philipp Timme | ||
| cut | Birgit Gasser | ||
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An Unpopular Woman (reference title Eine Unbeliebte Frau - Ein Taunuskrimi ) is a German television film from 2013 . The literary film adaptation is based on motifs from the novel of the same name by Nele Neuhaus and is the second part of the crime series Der Taunuskrimi . Tim Bergmann and Felicitas Woll act as the team of investigators . The main guest roles are Ursula Karven , Juergen Maurer , Arnd Klawitter , Dörte Lyssewski , Doris Golpashin and Julia Bremermann .
action
Isabel Kerstner rushes through a corn field. She falls over in the open. “Six hours earlier”, Chief Public Prosecutor Joachim Hardenbach went hunting in the forest. At the same time there is a kindergarten group taking an excursion in the forest in question. Marie, the little daughter of the veterinarian Dr. Michael Kerstner and his wife Isabel are among the children. When she sees deer, she runs deeper into the forest. The kindergarten teacher only noticed Marie's absence when a shot was fired. Chief Detective Oliver von Bodenstein and his colleague Pia Kirchhoff from the Department for Violent Crimes at the Regional Criminal Inspection in Hofheim are called. While Kerstner is being questioned, Pia Kirchhoff's dog finds the body of Joachim Hardenbach, who appears to have committed suicide. Michael Kerstner is very worried about Marie, but evades questions about Isabel. Are both cases related? A Porsche that is registered on Kerstner is seen near the forest where Marie disappeared. He claims that the car is driven exclusively by Isabel Kerstner. After he hadn't seen her in ages, she came to him a few days ago and wanted a quick divorce and custody of Marie. In this conversation he also found out that he was not Marie's biological father. Von Bodenstein and Kirchhoff ask whether Isabel Kerstner took the opportunity to kidnap the child during the excursion.
The detectives drive to Gut Waldhof, where the woman is suspected by the Chief Public Prosecutor Hardenbach. A horse auction is currently taking place there. Isabel Kerstner is also known on the estate. She usually shows the stallions of the stud owner Friedhelm Döring at auctions and goes out to eat with the buyers in the evening. Döring's trick is to buy lame, cheap riding horses and have them doped by his Polish stable master Karol shortly before the auction. Isabel Kerstner is not very popular on the estate because she turns many men's heads and her reputation is not the best. On that day, however, she only showed one horse and disappeared immediately afterwards.
A short time later, Isabel Kerstner is found dead by the castle ruins in Eppstein. Your car is nearby, unlocked. It looks like suicide. During the forensic examination, however, an anesthetic is found that is normally used in veterinary medicine. Pia Kirchhoff remembers having overheard the veterinarian Dr. Sylvia Wagner complained to someone on the phone that two ampoules of the narcotic had been tampered with because an ineffective drug had been added to them. When Bodenstein and Kirchhoff continue researching Isabel Kerstner's life, they find out that she has been paying the rent for an apartment in Bad Homburg since separating from her husband, but lived in a different apartment in Frankfurt am Main. After Von Bodenstein gained access to this apartment, he saw a camera that was aimed directly at the bed in the room. After someone knocked him down from behind, Pia Kirchhoff managed to locate him using a cell phone location. Through a randomly discovered USB stick attached to the neck of a cat , the officers found out that Isabel Kerstner was in league with Döring. After successfully selling horses at Döring, Isabel Kerstner offered buyers her body. There is also a recording of a meeting with Joachim Hardenbach on the stick. In this recording, Hardenbach tells Isabel Kerstner that he is being blackmailed by Döring now that he is about to be promoted. In the past, he had done Döring several favors, he had rejected an expert opinion, dropped charges against him and warned him about a raid . For this, Döring gave him money and bought trips, and she, Isabel, he gave him too. Isabel then tells Hardenbach that his wife called her. She had him shadowed and knew about their meetings. A motive for Hardenbach's death has been found. But does this motif also have to do with the death of Isabel Kerstner?
After the stable master Karol behaves strangely, flees from the investigators and Friedhelm Döring is found hanging from a grating on his farm with his face smeared with blood and arms outstretched, Von Bodenstein seeks out the former landowner Marianne Jagoda, whom he has known since childhood. After her bankruptcy she had to sell the property to Friedhelm Döring. All that remained was the lifelong right to live in the manor house. From Bodenstein it is clear that Marie is with Jagoda. He learns from her that a man named Filipe Desplastes is Marie's father. He was Marianne Jagoda's great love, but then had robbed her of her inheritance and turned to Isabel Kerstner. All that was left was Marie, her lover's child. Isabel wanted to take this away from her because she was planning to take the child off to Paraguay . After Marianne Jagoda has released little Marie into the care of Pia Kirchhoff, Von Bodenstein cannot prevent her from shooting herself with a rifle.
It turns out that Marianne Jagoda had instructed Karol to take the child away from Isabel Kerstner. When she resisted, the groom became violent, whereupon Isabel tried to flee through a corn field. Karol then knocked her down with a blowpipe shot to stun her. She fell so miserably that she broke her neck. To cover up the circumstances of death, Karol later threw the body from the tower of the castle ruins in Eppstein. It should look like Isabel Kerstner has thrown herself into death. Karol has meanwhile been arrested, while Döring does not want to say who messed him up like that.
Since only Von Bodenstein and Kirchhoff know that Marie is not Michael Kerstner's biological daughter, the investigators are silent for Marie's sake so that she can stay with the man who is her father to her.
production
Production notes
The film was produced by All in Production on behalf of ZDF . The shooting lasted from August 29 to September 29, 2012. The film was shot in the Taunus .
Nele Neuhaus, on whose novel the script is based, can be seen in a cameo in a veterinary practice.
Private the investigator
Kirchhoff's wife Cosima learns that she is pregnant again, but, unlike her husband, is not sure whether she wants to keep the child, as the pregnancy would hinder her in her work. At the end of the episode, however, she decided to carry the child, a girl who is to be named Sophia.
Submission, publication
The first book in the Bodenstein & Kirchhoff series was filmed with An Unpopular Woman . The film was broadcast on May 13, 2013 on ZDF . In Spain it was published on February 11, 2017 under the title La mujer no deseada .
Studio Hamburg Enterprises released the film on DVD on May 13, 2013.
reception
Audience rating
When the film was first broadcast, it was viewed by 7.09 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 22%. On its first iteration, it still reached 5.57 million viewers with an 18% market share.
criticism
Heike Hupertz from the Frankfurter Allgemeine criticized: “In 'An Unpopular Woman' according to Nele Neuhaus, a rigid plot meets helpless acting.” Hupertz went on to say that the script was “in an effort to somehow create a thousand and one twists and turns and figures of the original by stroking and tightening to get a grip on the dramaturgic, its and-then-and-then structure is even simpler than its predecessor ”. The critic drew the conclusion: "Lovers of Nele Neuhaus crime novels can only be warned about this brazen case of fraudulent labeling."
The author Dieter Wunderlich saw this in a similarly negative way and wrote: “The story, which is fast-paced, developed with quick cuts and constantly changing perspectives, is absurd, and the characters do not become characters. 'An unpopular woman' cannot score with acting either. "
TV Spielfilm pointed its thumb to the side, gave one for humor and two of three possible points for suspense and asked the question: “Is it because of the streamlining of the original? This second Neuhaus adaptation offers such a dense thicket of plots and personnel that a lot remains in the dark and you as a viewer lose your bearings. "Conclusion:" Phew, quite a lot going on in the 'idyllic' Taunus. "
Also Rainer Tittelbach of tittelbach.tv the style criticized the film, saying that the crime-story fall "just in the category Business-as-usual ''. But the critic hardly found anything else that he could have rated positively: “The optics - including Felicitas Woll - are occasionally appropriate for the ZDF Monday TV film. Everything else is above all in terms of narrative economics and dramaturgically the deepest 70s explanatory TV and - in terms of genre - how Lieschen Müller imagines a detective film! A dialogue chases the next bloom of style. The result is a Reinecker-style question-and-answer game. Everything in “An Unpopular Woman” aims to have an impact. The industry can really blaspheme! ”'An unpopular woman' plays,“ in terms of narrative economy, dramaturgy and dialogues ”,“ in the lowest television film league ”, Tittelbach stated.
Kino.de said it was "no wonder that the ZDF had moved quickly to the filming", since "the Taunus thrillers by Nele Neuhaus are popular bestsellers". Also Kino.de attacked the previously complained about things on and continued: "The Thomas Roth staged thriller, a woman infamous' confused with an overloaded story and too many characters. The dialogues from Anna Tebbe's script seemed uninspired and old-fashioned. Although the author herself praised the adaptation of her book, her fans were rather disappointed. "
The same was also true forquotemeter.de : “The basic framework for a suitable television thriller is in place, but all the elements that make this framework a coherent overall work are missing. The figure drawings come from the cliché moth box (the wicked raven mother, the arrogant upper ten thousand, ...) and the dialogues are all unpolished. The commissioners straight out ask suspects for the important information, while supporting characters are only used to provide exposure. And in the end everything turns out the way you expected it to be halfway through the running time at the latest. ”The ZDF was doing“ no favor ”with the second Taunus thriller, as the main thriller characters were“ degraded to cardboard figures, the celebrities Name of the book author Nele Neuhaus for a thin, television-compatible, watered-down version of the bestseller 'An Unloved Woman' and the atmosphere, which was initially the figurehead of the new crime series, has been deleted without replacement.
Web links
- An unpopular woman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- An unpopular woman at Fernsehserien.de
- Nele Neuhaus - For film adaptations see page neleneuhaus.de
- An unpopular woman - a Taunus thriller the film in pictures on the page diethelm-glaser.net
- An unpopular woman - A Taunus thriller on the ZDF website (including the full film, available until October 6, 2019)
Individual evidence
- ↑ An unpopular woman. A Taunus thriller at crew united
- ↑ a b Dieter Wunderlich: An unpopular woman. see page dieterwunderlich.de, 2013. Retrieved on September 10, 2019.
- ↑ An unpopular woman Fig. DVD case (in the picture: Doris Golpashin)
- ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Series “An unpopular woman. A Taunus thriller ". Lowest television film league: Nele Neuhaus crime thriller between “Derrick” & Guldenburgs (two out of six possible stars) see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
- ↑ Heike Hupertz: Even the fallow deer look scared. In: faz.net , May 13, 2013. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
- ^ A Taunus thriller: An unpopular woman see page tvspielfilm.de (including trailer and 69 film images). Retrieved September 10, 2019.
- ↑ For an unpopular woman see page kino.de (including picture series with 31 pictures). Retrieved September 10, 2019.
- ↑ Sidney Schering: An Unpopular Woman. The ZDF continues its Taunus crime series, but the qualities of the first part are lost. see page quotenmeter.de (quota meter deflection at 40 percent). Retrieved September 10, 2019.
