Helen Dorn: Merciless
| Episode of the series Helen Dorn | |||
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| title | Merciless | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Production company |
Network Movie | ||
| length | 89 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Episode 7 ( list ) | ||
| First broadcast | January 28, 2017 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Alexander Dierbach | ||
| script | Mathias Schnelting | ||
| production |
Jutta Lieck-Klenke Dietrich Kluge |
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| music | Wolfram de Marco | ||
| camera | Markus Schott | ||
| cut | Janina Gerkens | ||
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Gnadenlos is a German television film by Alexander Dierbach from 2017. It is the seventh episode of the ZDF crime series Helen Dorn with Anna Loos in the title role .
action
During a search of the apartment of the intensive offender Marek Kurth, the police discovered a cupboard whose doors were decorated with pictures of the merciless youth judge Werner Kleinert. The LKA is notified and Chief Detective Helen Dorn appears. Due to the situation, it can be assumed that the judge is in acute danger. Kleinert is informed and offered personal protection, which he refuses, however, because he thinks he is used to enduring the anger of his clientele. Even when the judge's house is arson, he refuses to use personal protection. For Helen Dorn this is incomprehensible, after all, it's also about his family, but the commissioner first has to worry about her father, because he has to be taken to hospital after a brain hemorrhage.
In addition to the search for Marek Kurth, Helen tries not to ignore other possible perpetrators. For example, as part of his judgments for the protection of minors, Kleinert recently withdrew the guardianship of his daughter from the former nurse Martin Thomczyk for driving under the influence of drugs. Since he is on the run, he is also being searched for. The search for Marek Kurth, on the other hand, can be stopped because he has now been found dead in the harbor basin. An indication suggests that Thomczyk may have something to do with Kurth's death. But that is not enough evidence for the Commissioner, especially since she cannot see any real motive. After Thomczyk is caught, he admits the arson attack on Kleinert, but denies having anything to do with Kurth's murder.
Family problems begin at the Kleinert home. The teenage daughter happened to see her father in town with a young man in a very clear pose. When asked about this, Kleinert weighs it down and pushes his work forward. In her emotional conflict Lisa tries to take her own life. Gradually, Helen Dorn also discovered that Kleinert had a secret. She finds out that Marek Kurth was gay and had a boyfriend: Tristan Kramer. During a house search of Kramer's apartment, the inspector found the lease, from which it emerged that Kleinert rented this apartment for Kramer. She wants to confront Kleinert, but finds him neither in court nor at home. Daughter Lisa says he could be in her hunting lodge, and Helen takes her with her to find the way there. On the way, Helen senses that Lisa knows about her father's sexual preferences but simply cannot talk about them. While she leaves Lisa in the car, she tries to catch Kleinert alone. She can talk to him and he confesses to having killed Kurth in anger because he was blackmailed by him after he was seen with Kramer. The main reason, however, was Kurth's friendship with Kramer, because he would have lost the boy because they both wanted to start again abroad with the extorted money.
When the SEK arrives, Kleinert shoots himself.
background
The shooting for Gnadenlos took place in Cologne and Düsseldorf . This seventh episode of the series as been sent ZDF - Saturday thriller .
Helen Dorn must fear for her father's life in this episode. After a brain hemorrhage, he is in a coma.
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Gnadenlos on January 28, 2017 on ZDF reached 6.71 million viewers and a market share of 20.6 percent.
criticism
Thomas Gehringer from tittelbach.tv wrote: “The seventh 'Helen Dorn-Film' [...] begins as a tough themed film on juvenile criminal law and then turns into a solid crime tragedy in which human relationships, the psychology of the characters and their secrets take center stage. "
The TV Spielfilm editorial team gave the thriller a “thumbs up” and said: The film is “not mercilessly exciting, but solidly laconic”. “In some passages the dialogues have a very instructive effect, psychologically one could have gone deeper. But the basic idea of secrecy and double standards is convincing, and the grumpy Dorn is allowed to show soft sides [finally]. "
Matthias Hannemann from the FAZ said: "'Gnadenlos' has everything for an exciting thriller, but [...] the story [is] going astray."
Web links
- Helen Dorn: Mercilessly in Internet Movie Database (English)
- Merciless in the ZDFmediathek
- Helen Dorn: Merciless at Fernsehserien.de
- Merciless at crew-united.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filming locations at quotenmeter.de, accessed on February 28, 2017.
- ↑ a b Thomas Gehringer: Loos, Ferch, Schnelting, Dierbach. Dorn is expanding its emotional repertoire of film reviews on tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 28, 2017.
- ↑ TV feature film : Film review accessed on February 28, 2017.
- ↑ Matthias Hannemann: Consistently against others, but not against yourself? at faz.ne, accessed on February 28, 2017.