Deployment in Hamburg - The dead man on the Elbe

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Episode in the series Mission in Hamburg
Original title The dead on the Elbe
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 14 ( list )
First broadcast August 27, 2011 on ZDF
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Director Thomas Jahn
script Thomas Jahn,
Lorenz Lau-Uhle ,
Sathyan Ramesh
production Jutta Lieck-Klenke , Dietrich Kluge
music Marco Meister ,
Robert Meister
camera Matthias Papenmeier
cut Bernd Schriever
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Der Tote an der Elbe is a German television film by Thomas Jahn from 2011 . It is the fourteenth episode of the ZDF crime film series Einsatz in Hamburg , the first two films of which were broadcast under the series title Jenny Berlin .

action

The private detective Werner Zarkowski is followed by a car in Hamburg at night. He managed to escape his pursuer at first, but was found shot dead in his car the next morning. Investigators Berlin, Wolfer and Brehm find one last message on the windshield , it is a reclining eight (the sign of eternity) that Zarkowski drew with his own blood in his last breaths.

The first thing the commissioners want to do is look around the victim's apartment and find a visibly desperate woman there who is just about to burn photos that the detective had secretly taken of her. She claims to be Tsarkovsky's still-wife. With the photos he allegedly wanted to blackmail her in order to get custody of their son. Since there are countless documents from Zarkowski's cases in the apartment, the investigators want to concentrate on his most recent cases. According to the parking ticket found in the dead man's car, he was last at the airport and was murdered on the way from there. Perhaps he had seen and photographed something there that was his undoing. But there is already a suspect in Zarkowski's immediate environment: Rolf Bernstein. He produces porn films and the detective had his office right across the street. Bernstein states that Zarkowski took photos every day from his window in his studio and then even offered these photos to an internet dealer. Jenny Berlin now hopes that the last recordings that Bernstein made will allow conclusions to be drawn about movements and people in Zarkowski's apartment. While Wolfer sifts through these recordings, Berlin finds in Zarkowski's documents the visiting card of a jeweler whose logo bears the “lying eight” and in this case symbolizes two rings, or the two “oo” from the name of the jeweler and not that favored by Brehm Infinity symbols , as found on camera lenses. Berlin and Brehm then contact the jeweler Coosen, who immediately confirmed that he knew the detective, after all, he would have worked for him. Coosen asks the detectives to maintain secrecy and states that he recently sold a necklace worth 320,000 euros to a customer. When the piece of jewelery reached the customer, only synthetic diamonds would have been found there, which for Coosen only allows the conclusion that it could have been exchanged in his company. Therefore, he had commissioned Zarkowski to monitor his future son-in-law Kai Jensen, because he can only imagine that he, as a flight attendant, smuggles these inferior diamonds into the country. Coosen's daughter thinks this accusation is absurd and just one of her father's reasons to drive a wedge between her and Kai. Shortly after Kai came back from a flight from Turkey, Berlin and Wolfer observed him. You follow him into a large shopping arcade and you can watch him talking to someone non-stop. After she briefly loses sight of him and wants to check Wolfer in the toilet, a masked person comes towards him and immediately shoots him. The perpetrator can escape in the crowd. Wolfer is brought to the clinic. Berlin finds Kai Jensen in the toilet, also slightly injured. He confesses to the commissioner that he has been smuggling diamonds for an unknown person for four years because the latter would otherwise want to harm his bride. Some time ago, Teresa Coosen was even kidnapped without her father reporting this to the police.

As the research shows, Coosen has a son who is seriously addicted to drugs and is therefore in private therapy. Berlin also wants to speak to Phillip Coosen, who is being held in a kind of prison. The supervisor says that it is not normal for her methadone therapy not to work. In her opinion, the boy must somehow get on drugs. Berlin forms its own picture and initially suspects Frank Römer, the man who guards Phillip. But she also learned that Teresa comes to visit her brother almost every day. Just when Brehm discovered Teresa's face in the background of the film footage of Bernstein, which proves that she broke into Zarkowski's office, he received an emergency call from Berlin. Frank Römer locked them in and when Brehm freed them, they found Phillip's private nurse shot dead. Berlin and Brehm drive together to Coosen's villa. There Teresa confronts her father why she wasn't worth anything to him. While she had to endure six weeks of abduction, he would not have done anything. Frank Römer was one of the kidnappers. He had fallen in love with Teresa and when her father didn't pay, he had come up with a plan with her to free her to get her money in the form of diamonds from the company. When Zarkowski found out, they had turned him off.

In the meantime, Coosen's house is surrounded by the police and the situation is ended bloodlessly in a large-scale operation. Teresa Coosen and Frank Römer are arrested.

background

The shooting extended from July 12, 2010 to August 6, 2010. It was shot under the working title Tödliche Rubine in Hamburg and the surrounding area.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Einsatz in Hamburg - Der Tote an der Elbe on August 27, 2011 on ZDF reached 6.07 million viewers and a market share of 22.2 percent.

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said: “The commissioners stumble through a case, the logistics of which, charged with excessive but unfortunately invisible criminal energy, could have turned into a pretty trashy robber's pistol. The principle of this crime thriller is surprise. The joke level touches the regulars' table and the quality of the montage is on the level of a crime series. ”“ The sound design bangs just as suddenly pure as the brutal blackmailer in black. Overall, that is not unexciting, but far below the 'Saturday crime thriller' level. "

In Quotenmeter.de Jurgen Kirsch evaluated: "The film's title [...] leaves little idea of what the movie has to offer. At first glance, a typical crime film is suggested, but director Thomas Jahn [...] covers a wide range of topics. ”“ He also relies on the cinematic element of montage and thus brings the level of a good crime series in the 90s. Minutes. But not only the crime story is well staged. There is also a very funny level in the film, which - placed in the right places - loosens up the sometimes very serious story. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the film a medium rating, they pointed with the thumb to the side. They stated: "No crime thriller, but with a decent touch".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Use in Hamburg / Jenny Berlin on the networkmovie.de site
  2. See crew-united.com
  3. ↑ Audience rating at quotenmeter.de, accessed on December 1, 2019.
  4. Rainer Tittelbach : Aglaia Szyszkowitz, Thomas Jahn, porn films and investigations on the surface, film review at tittelbach.tv , accessed on December 1, 2019.
  5. Jurgen Kirsch: criticism of the film at Quotenmeter.de , accessed on December 1 of 2019.
  6. Film review retrieved from tvspielfilm.de .