Falk (TV series)
| Television series | |
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| Original title | Falk |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| year | 2018 |
| Production company |
Bavaria television production |
| length | 47 minutes |
| Episodes | 6 in 1 season |
| idea |
Jan Hinter , Stefan Cantz |
| music |
Curt Cress , Flo Leissle |
| First broadcast | May 15, 2018 on Das Erste |
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Falk is a lawyer series starring Fritz Karl , the first season of which was broadcast on German TV station Das Erste from May to June 2018 .
content
Falk is introduced by his former boss as " John McEnroe of the legal world". With his eccentric demeanor and his unusual manner, he actually does not fit into the dignified rooms of the renowned Düsseldorf law firm "Offergeld & Partner". But that's exactly where he ends up after his break as a restaurateur - to the horror of his correct boss Sophie - as a specialist in absurd and absurd cases.
Episodes
| No. | title | First broadcast | Director | script |
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| 1 | Clean laundry | 15th May 2018 | Pia Strietmann | Peter Güde |
| Prime Minister Stein likes to wear lingerie under his suits. When he was blackmailed anonymously with photos of it, he turned to the renowned Düsseldorf law firm "Offergeld & Partner". Senior boss Richard Offergeld brings his eccentric ex-employee Falk back from retirement in a delicate case. He gave up his work as a lawyer to open a small gourmet restaurant that has since gone bankrupt.
Offergeld offers him a deal: If Falk works for his law firm for a while, Offergeld will help him get the restaurant back. Falk is forced to agree. On the very first day at work, he messes with Offergeld's daughter Sophie, who now runs the firm. He accused Stein's party colleague Weigand, apparently for no reason, of being behind the blackmailer photos. |
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| 2 | Nestling | May 22, 2018 | Pia Strietmann | Peter Güde |
| Falk causes a scandal in court: annoyed by his client, Falk just gets up in the middle of a process and leaves. Office manager Sophie Offergeld takes on the case. The entrepreneur Braunroth, who is fighting in court for his 42-year-old son to finally move out, is one of her most important clients.
Falk is supposed to take care of Sophie's private problem. Her 18-year-old daughter Marie is apparently about to give her 40-year-old friend Mischa her entire inheritance. Falk should find out what the money is all about. With the help of his long-time assistant and best friend Trulla, he can reveal Misha’s secret. In the end, he can persuade Braunroth Junior to move out of Braunroth Senior. |
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| 3 | Naked Facts | 29 May 2018 | Peter Stauch | Peter Güde |
| Sabine Schmidt wants Falk to help her friends Tina and Hanno with the divorce. But Falk is not so sure whether divorce is the best solution for the two arguers.
Sabine flirts with Falk, but Falk reacts distantly because he has difficulties with human closeness. Only at the urging of his assistant Trulla does Falk break into his former restaurant in the evening to surprise Sabine with a romantic meal. The two actually get closer, but are disturbed by the police. Sophie takes care of an annoying neighborhood fight. An important client, master butcher and self-made millionaire Kaletsch, enjoys being naked in his secluded garden. But now Kaletsch's neighbor Rüther wants to have a window installed, from which he could see Kaletsch at his hustle and bustle. Sophie should prevent the windows from being built. |
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| 4th | The Roberto Blanco case | 5th June 2018 | Peter Stauch | Peter Güde |
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Roberto Blanco is suing the unknown DJ Volbeck, who has recorded a version with a pornographic text of his classic A bit of fun must be . Offergeld's law firm is supposed to prevent the DJ from continuing to perform with this version. Sophie takes on the case herself against her father's wishes. Falk believes that confrontation is the wrong strategy. Because DJ Volbeck alias Volker Becker is a bank employee who wants to break out of his dreary everyday life. He tries to reconcile Blanco and Becker.
Falk found out that Sabine is married. To her surprise, he has no problem with it. But when Sophie realizes that Falk is having an affair with a client and that he is also meeting Blanco behind Sophie's back, she has enough. The result is a heated argument between them, which leads to a kiss. |
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| 5 | Stalking or love | June 12, 2018 | Peter Stauch | Peter Güde |
| Sophie is embarrassed about the kiss, while Falk fears that Sophie may have fallen in love with him. They try to avoid each other even though they are both working on the same case, albeit on different sides. Raimund, the cook from Falk's former restaurant, has reported his old school friend Katrin for allegedly stalking him. In turn, Katrin turns to Sophie in search of legal support. It quickly becomes clear to them that Raimund only invented stalking to cover up his affair with Katrin from his wife.
When Sophie can refute the allegations against Katrin, Raimund simply disappears - and Falk has to step in in the restaurant to save a closed society from Offergeld. |
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| 6th | The agony of choice | 19th June 2018 | Peter Stauch | Peter Güde |
| Falk offers offergeld to get the restaurant back. But Falk is no longer sure whether he really wants to let his work as a lawyer rest. Sophie also doesn't know how to react to Falk's threatening farewell.
Falk takes on one last case: Nina Heinlein, CEO of an airline, is said to have beaten up another woman. That doesn't fit the smart manager and single mother at all. Sophie once again has to grapple with a special request from a difficult client. It is supposed to help the married couple Nass, who have become rich through a brewery, legally to obtain a title of nobility. |
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Filming
The shooting of the first season took place in two blocks from November 21 to December 15, 2016 and from January 9 to the end of February 2017 in Düsseldorf and the surrounding area.
Filming for the second season started at the end of January 2020. It had to be canceled early in mid-March due to the Corona crisis.
reception
The series received mixed reviews. Heike Hupertz wrote in the FAZ : “The broadcaster praises Falk as the reinvention of the genre, which is of course gross nonsense. The fact that the series has its moments, however, is mainly due to Fritz Karl, who lets the ingenious dandy lawyer look down on the ordinary like a revenant Oscar Wilde, in order to bring him up to Sherlock Holmes operating temperature as soon as a case is only seems sufficiently hopeless. ”The Berliner Morgenpost praised the witty dialogues and stated that leading actor Fritz Karl had found his star role with Falk. In the Frankfurter Rundschau, Harald Keller criticized the series’s “criminally simple image of women” and attested that the main actor was merely a “routine exercise”.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Falk. Production notes. Bavaria Fiction GmbH, accessed on April 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Press release on the start of shooting season 1
- ^ The first: "Falk": The dandy among the lawyers is back. February 7, 2020, accessed February 7, 2020 .
- ^ Criticism in the FAZ
- ^ Criticism in the Berliner Morgenpost
- ^ Critique in the Frankfurter Rundschau