Helen Dorn: The Pact

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Episode of the series Helen Dorn
title The pact
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Network Movie
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 4 ( list )
First broadcast November 7, 2015 on ZDF
Rod
Director Johannes Grieser
script Leo P. Ard
production Wolfgang Cimera
music Robert Schulte-Hemming
Jens Langbein
camera Wolf Siegelmann
cut Sabine Brose
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
To the stop

Successor  →
imminent danger

Der Pakt is a German TV film by Johannes Grieser from 2015. It is the fourth episode of the ZDF crime series Helen Dorn with Anna Loos in the title role .

action

In Meerbusch, the sex offender Carsten Schneider, who has just been acquitted in an appeal process, is found hanged in a factory hall. In addition to chief detective Helen Dorn and her colleague Georgi, the retired detective Becker from the criminal investigation department is also interested in the case. At the time, he had worked on the case with Helen's father. Against all doubts of her colleagues, Helen Dorn succeeds in proving that Schneider could not have hanged himself, but was murdered. Accordingly, she investigates in the context of the alleged sexual offense. However, she also receives a tip that Schneider had messed with a drug dealer in prison, who actually still has a longer sentence to serve, but was able to escape the day before Schneider's death. Before Helen Dorn can further commit to him as the perpetrator, another murder takes place in connection with the rape case against Schneider. Judge Hoppe was killed in her home. She had recently contacted Helen Dorn to tell her something important. So the commissioner focuses on the sex offense again, but all suspects have an alibi. After Commissioner Georgi looked at the documents that the judge had requested from the district court shortly before her death, he noticed that the course of both crimes shows parallels to two murders that were committed a few years ago and were never resolved because they were suicides were classified. At that time, Helen's father was still in office, and a judge and a psychiatric expert were also found dead. There were suspicions that an investigating officer had withheld evidence, but this could not be proven. This means that both Helen's father and his colleague at the time, Becker, are now under suspicion for Georgi. Helen does not want to hear about it at first, but it does not leave her in peace and she asks her father. He still stands by his behavior, having stood up for Becker, after all, he belonged to his department. But Helen can now prove to Becker that he had left the path of justice out of sheer zeal for service. But Becker was not guilty himself, he tried to protect his friend Joachim Freynik with his manipulations. Since Schneider's acquittal and the judge's doubts would have ruined the work, he had killed her too. In order to evade the new suspicions, Freynik wants to kill Richard Dorn as an unwelcome confidante. When Becker intervenes, he shoots him. At the last moment, Helen Dorn was able to prevent Freynik from shooting her father and arrested him.

background

The shooting for Der Pakt took place in Cologne , Düsseldorf and the surrounding area. This fourth episode of the series as been sent ZDF - Saturday thriller . In this episode, Helen Dorn investigates with Gregor Georgi for the last time. The actor Matthias Matschke switched to ARD, where he can be seen as Commissioner Köhler on Police Call 110 from Magdeburg.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Der Pakt on November 7, 2015 on ZDF reached 5.65 million viewers and a market share of 18.7 percent. In the target group, the film reached 0.90 million viewers, which meant a market share of 9.0 percent.

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv wrote: In this “straightforward, classic case”, the “entry, [...] immediately generates attention, [...] the investigations [are] solid, but also conventional.” “'Helen Dorn - Der Pakt 'is a crime thriller with few surprises with an over-constructed scenario, some familiar faces in smaller roles and a routine staging. "

The TV Spielfilm editorial team gave the crime thriller a "thumbs up" and said with praise: "Tweaked case, crime thriller without antics."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filming locations at rp-online.de, accessed on February 25, 2017.
  2. ↑ Helen Dorn: The pact at focus.de, accessed on February 25, 2017.
  3. ↑ Audience rating at quotenmeter.de, accessed on February 25, 2017.
  4. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Loos, Matschke, Kranzkowski, Stokowski. Good utility thriller without finesse film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 25, 2017.
  5. ↑ TV Spielfilm : Film review at TV-Spielfilm.de accessed on February 25, 2017.