Use in Hamburg - murder on board
| Episode in the series Mission in Hamburg | |
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| Original title | Murder on board |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 15 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | February 9, 2013 on ZDF |
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| Director | Carlo Rola |
| script | Benno Kürten |
| production | Jutta Lieck-Klenke , Dietrich Kluge |
| music | Florian Tessloff |
| camera | Meinolf Schmitz |
| cut | Friederike von Normann |
| occupation | |
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| chronology | |
Murder on board is a German television film directed by Carlo Rola from 2013 . It is the fifteenth and last 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
Katja Heissler was responsible for the musical entertainment on a cruise ship . Now her body is found floating in the water at the port of Hamburg . Commissioner Jenny Berlin and her team first look around the victim's apartment, but discover that someone has already been here before them and has ransacked everything.
On the ship it was not even noticed that Katja Heissler was no longer on board. Since the captain refuses to stay with the ship in the port until the murder investigation has been completed, Berlin decides without further ado that they will investigate the ship incognito. She assumes that the perpetrator is still on board. Disguised as a married couple, Berlin and her colleague Wolfer question the crew and passengers at sea, while Brehm is accommodated as an alleged member of the cleaning crew. There he quickly finds out that the singer had a boyfriend, but was allegedly also ensnared by the captain . The friend is currently known as an on-board mechanic on the ship and as very jealous. According to her friend Anna Mangold, with whom the victim shared a cabin, Heissler often had a different husband, but lately she has only had eyes for Lawrence. When Brehm wanted to “feel it out”, he immediately got to know his irascible side, which continues to make him suspicious. In the meantime there is even a new suspicion: In the Hamburg apartment of the dead, gold dust particles were detected on a scale. This leads to the conclusion that Katja Heissler smuggled fine gold with other accomplices on her ship tours.
Shortly after Berlin and Wolfer went on board, they were immediately approached by Ludwig Hagen, who regularly cruises with his wife and daughter. Hagen seems to be very sociable and the Commissioner has the feeling that he is particularly fond of women. What his wife seems to tolerate. Since they now sit at the table with the Hagens every day, they don't miss it when Ludwig Hagen suddenly suffers from weakness at the bar in the evening. Wolfer helps bring him to the ship's doctor and stays with him for the near future. However, he falls asleep fast and does not wake up again until the next morning. Hagen can now also leave the infirmary and says that he also slept very soundly.
That morning Anna Mangold is unexpectedly found shot dead. The captain insists that the detectives give up their cover and officially investigate. During the first examination of the victim, the investigators also found fine gold dust particles here. They thus suspect gold smuggling as the perpetrator's motive. They also find a photo in their cabin showing the two friends and Lawrence. That makes him suspicious again, since the three are presumably involved in the gold smuggling together. After Volker Brehm actually finds various parcels of gold dust hidden in Lawrence's bunk , the latter becomes the main suspect and is taken into custody. He admits to having obtained gold dust through his relationships, which the two singers then resold on land, but he would not have killed the girls. Jenny Berlin doesn't really want to believe in Lawrences as a cold-blooded murderer either and looks around the victim's cabin again. She finds a hidden camera and recordings of Katja Heissler with Ludwig Hagen in clear poses. That the attractive singer got involved with the older Hagen of all people and also filmed it, suggests an extortionate intention. The investigators suspect that Hagen did not want to be blackmailed and therefore became a murderer. However, Hannes Wolfer interjects that Hagen was in the infirmary with him at the time of the second murder. But when they check it more closely and the ship's doctor is not sure that Hagen actually took the sleeping pills assigned to him, the inspectors consider a clever plan by Hagen to be probable: his attack of weakness was played and Wolfer's care was even a stroke of luck for his plan, because he could show such a valid alibi, or because it never occurred to anyone that Hagen might be the murderer he was looking for. So that they can prove their hypothesis, they set a trap for him. They ask Lawrence Hagen to offer the compromising footage. Since his wife had brought the fortune into the marriage, he would be destitute in the event of a divorce, which is a very strong motive for the investigators. After Hagen apparently accepts Lawrence's offer, he suddenly shoots the new "blackmailer". He plans to let Lawrence stand there as a suicide and use the murder weapon to put the blame on him. The commissioners are there in time and arrest Ludwig Hagen.
background
The shooting lasted from April 14, 2012 to May 14, 2012. It was filmed under the working title on the high seas in Hamburg and the surrounding area. The episode premiered on February 9, 2013 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF .
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Operation in Hamburg - Murder on Board on February 9, 2013 on ZDF reached 6.85 million viewers and a market share of 21.4 percent.
criticism
Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv said the episode was “a bit disappointing, especially compared to earlier episodes. After all, the composition of the picture is remarkable, especially since the shooting in the engine rooms, for example, was certainly not easy. ”“ It is a popular means of tearing investigators out of their routine by temporarily relocating them. While city commissioners are sent to the countryside elsewhere, teams from port cities can suddenly find themselves on the high seas. ”“ The appeal of Berno Kürten's story is not only the change of locations, but also the reversal of roles. ”
In Quotenmeter.de Renatus Töpke evaluated: "Now that's a beautiful and above all fresh approach to a crime: to scare Instead the investigators by a too tight time frame," to put them on a different venue. “The unobtrusively told” story also offers “situation comedy” and lets the investigators “step on the floor, but also keeps the tension high”. “Meinholf Schmitz's camera [...] captures the adventure on the water in great pictures, explores the huge ship with luxurious trips over and threatening steady cam shots below deck. Time and again, romantic lighting conditions are thwarted by vibrating engine room shots. ”Even though Gangloff wrote that the film had“ little tension! ”, Töpke said, murder on board was“ a real crime highlight. ”
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the film a medium rating, they pointed with the thumb to the side. They stated: "Seafaring is necessary, this thriller is not".
Web links
- Use in Hamburg - Murder on board in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Use in Hamburg - murder on board at Fernsehserien.de
- Mission in Hamburg - murder on board at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ Use in Hamburg / Jenny Berlin on the networkmovie.de site
- ↑ See crew-united.com
- ↑ Audience rating at quotenmeter.de, accessed on November 25, 2019.
- ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Aglaia Szyszkowitz as Jenny Berlin in a crime thriller on Carlo Rola's "Traumschiff" film review at tittelbach.tv , accessed on December 1, 2019.
- ↑ Renatus Töpke: criticism of the film at Quotenmeter.de , accessed on December 1 of 2019.
- ↑ Film review retrieved from tvspielfilm.de .