Helen Dorn: Imminent danger

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Episode of the series Helen Dorn
title imminent danger
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Network Movie
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 5 ( list )
First broadcast March 5, 2016 on ZDF
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Director Alexander Dierbach
script Mathias Schnelting
production Jutta Lieck-Klenke ,
Dietrich Kluge
music Florian Tessloff
camera Markus Schott
cut Janina Gerkens
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
The Pact

Successor  →
The wrong witness

Danger in Default is a German TV film by Alexander Dierbach from 2016 . It is the fifth episode of the ZDF crime series Helen Dorn with Anna Loos in the title role .

action

Chief Detective Helen Dorn meets Adrian in a bar that evening and spends the night with him in a hotel. The next morning he calls her and tells her that she left her wallet in the hotel. They both arrange to meet in a café, where Adrian wants to give her the utensil back. Shortly before she reaches the café, a bomb detonates and Helen is injured. She has to go to the hospital, but luckily she only suffered a concussion and an impact trauma. However, five other bystanders were killed. Since Helen has time to ponder, she believes Adrian might have deliberately lured her there. To find out, she interferes in the investigation of her colleague Renko from the state security. On the basis of a confessional video, Ron Keller is believed to be the perpetrator, a psychologically problematic pharmacist's son who has converted to Islam. When the SEK accesses the unarmed Ron Keller is shot. Helen discovers hidden cameras that may have recorded this execution and again suspects that the police were lured here. So their suspicions remain that there is a different background to the bombing. She researches the victims and comes across ex-police officer Kaminsky. Despite his incurable cancer, he had worked as a security guard for a small jewelry store and had regularly visited the café. Helen finds an entry in Kaminsky's notebook that leads her to the correctional facility . There he had visited the Lebanese drug dealer Khalid several times, who had been convicted of the murder of his wife. Just the evening after the attack, Khalid broke out of the institution. For Helen this doesn't seem to be a coincidence and she continues to investigate in this direction.

In the meantime, the state security has also come to the conclusion that Ron Keller could not have been the bomber, as he was in Dutch police custody on the day of the explosion. Renko thus follows Helen's assumption that the attack must have something to do with Kaminsky and his relationship with Khalid. According to the files, the police officer at the time, together with colleagues from the civil search, arrested Khalid because he was supposed to have shot his wife while intoxicated. After Helen can track down and question the escaped man, she learns from him that he only wants to prove his innocence. Kaminsky had wanted to clear the table because of his approaching end and therefore spoke to the wrongly convicted. Five years earlier, Kaminsky and his colleagues Mertens, Kurth and Ahlsen had shot Khalid's wife in over-zeal and refused to admit this mistake and therefore covered it up. When Mertens found out about Kaminsky's action, he wanted to make him look like a random victim with the attack so that no one would think of investigating because he used to be a police officer. After the state security service can clearly identify Mertens as the bomber on the basis of the evaluated surveillance recordings, he shoots himself.

background

The shooting for danger in arrears took place in Cologne (Eigelstein), Neuss and Duisburg . This fifth episode of the series as been sent ZDF - Saturday thriller . From this episode, actor Daniel Friedrich takes on the role of department head Falk Mattheissen . He replaces Stephan Bissmeier , who held this part in the first four episodes.

In this episode, Helen Dorn learns from her father why her mother died of cancer so early: When she was pregnant with Helen, she refused chemotherapy so as not to endanger the unborn child. With this problem: only living because her mother had to die is what the Commissioner is now struggling with.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Danger in Default on March 5, 2016 on ZDF reached 6.11 million viewers and a market share of 18.8 percent.

criticism

Roger Tell from tittelbach.tv wrote: “'Helen Dorn - Danger in Default' is even more tailored to the inspector than before, Dorn gives the lone fighter even more here.” “The production is not so much based on her development as it is advancing history. But everything that weighs on Helen would have the potential to go deeper with the character. "" The plot adapts to the heroine and is similarly overloaded. "

The TV Spielfilm editorial team gave the crime thriller a "thumbs up" and said with praise: The director "succeeded in doing the trick of making an overconstructed and transparent story exciting."

Heike Hupertz from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung praises the sound design of the film, but says that the plot is “overly constructed” and made “extremely predictable”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Helen Dorn: Danger in arrears . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; December 2016; test number: 165 080 V). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ a b Roger Tell: Loos, Rohde, Stötzner, Schelting, Dierbach. The standing qualities of an investigator film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 26, 2017.
  3. ↑ TV feature film : Film review accessed on February 26, 2017.
  4. ↑ Heike Hupertz: This film sounds good on faz.net, accessed on February 26, 2017.