Helen Dorn: After the storm

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Episode of the series Helen Dorn
Original title After the storm
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Network Movie
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 11 ( list )
German-language
first broadcast		 February 9, 2019 on ZDF
Rod
Director Sebastian Ko
script Nicole Armbruster
production Jutta Lieck-Klenke
Dietrich Kluge
music Olaf Didolff
camera Andreas Koehler
cut Dora Vajda
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Prague Embassy

Successor  →
Breathless

After the storm is a German television film by Sebastian Ko from 2019. It is the 11th episode of the ZDF crime series Helen Dorn with Anna Loos in the title role .

action

After a sociable evening in the clubhouse, Karla Petersen is found dead in the forest. Commissioner Helen Dorn, who is extremely concerned and emotionally troubled about her father, who is still in a coma, asks to have a case transferred so as not to go mad with worry. So she is sent to the small town in the Bergisches Land to start the investigation. Karla Petersen is, of all people, the sister of the village police officer Tom Petersen, who seems to be very professional with Karla's death, but is also very interested in convicting the murderer. His sister was knocked down, raped, and then drowned in a small forest lake. The traces lead to Christian Jännicke, a single father who had been chasing Karla for a long time. After a witness is found who saw Jännicke come out of the forest with blood-smeared clothes on the night of the crime, he is charged. But the defense succeeds in calling this testimony as well as the proper investigative work of the Commissioner into doubt. The defense attorney cleverly exploited Helen Dorn's private worries about her father and thus convinced the judge, which resulted in Jännicke's acquittal. Tom Petersen and his parents are disappointed and at a loss. When it turns out after some time that Jännicke is guilty after all, he cannot be charged again for this offense after his acquittal. Karla's parents are determined to take their daughter's atonement into their own hands. Her father wants to judge his daughter's murderer himself and kill him in his sleep. To do this, he sneaks into his house at night, but is surprised by Jännicke's little son, whom Johann Petersen then kidnaps. His wife hides with the child in a forest hut and wants to force Jännicke to admit the crime, which is the only way to start the proceedings again. Under such pressure, Jännicke makes a written confession. However, he immediately revokes this when his son is found. Tom Petersen is getting more and more into a conflict of interest. On the one hand he wants to stick to his parents, on the other hand he is also a police officer and the law, and he has entered into an affair with Helen, which is an additional burden for him. Now he almost can't stand to see how Jännicke is supposed to get away with impunity. Dorn has to use force to prevent him not to shoot his sister's murderer.

For Helen Dorn, in the end all that remains is the positive news that her father has woken up from the coma and has not suffered any permanent brain damage.

background

The shooting for After the Storm took place from August 14 to October 15, 2018 in Oberberg , Cologne and the surrounding area. This eleventh episode of the series as been sent ZDF - Saturday thriller .

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of After the Storm on February 9, 2019 on ZDF reached 6.7 million viewers and a market share of 20.5 percent.

criticism

Volker Bergmeister from tittelbach.tv said that the director “rarely lets real thriller suspense arise. His last 'Tatort' from Cologne, Weiter, Immer weiter , suffered, among other things, from the fact that the director over-staged some scenes; in 'After the Storm' the opposite is more the case. The film is worth seeing not least because of the way in which Ko stages the relationship between the village policeman and the city commissioner. ”Bergmeister also praises the background music:“ The music is [...] at least as complex as the plot. There is a similar pas de deux between the optical and acoustic level right from the start, when Dorn hits her father with Tony Holidy's 1970s party hit 'Tanze Samba mit mir' and the song also accompanies the images of the attack on the young woman in gruesome contrast. "

The TV Spielfilm editorial team gave the crime thriller a “thumbs up” without comment.

The Volksstimme came to the verdict: “Director Sebastian Ko and screenwriter Nicole Armbruster tell the gloomy story calmly and unadorned - and they give the characters a lot of space. In addition, there is a first-class ensemble of actors, above all Anna Loos […] and Lena Stolze as a desperate mother who goes too far with her husband in coping with the crime. Thanks to her acting - and the very atmospheric images - a breathtakingly exciting film was achieved right through to the thrilling end. "

Sidney Schering rated the 'Helen Dorn' part at Oddsmeter.de : “This 'Helen Dorn' part shows its title character more tired, disillusioned and permanently exhausted than ever before, and Anna Loos plays it with great persuasiveness.” “That this crime thriller has its key characters several times human, but Lets make serious mistakes is a consistent thematic thread, which Armbruster's script ties in with another idea by critically looking at potential loopholes in the law that have arisen because the legal texts have not provided for certain situations of emotional stress. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Crime with Helen Dorn ZDF commissioner determined in Oberberg at rundschau-online.de, accessed on April 8, 2019.
  2. ↑ Filming locations at crew-united.com, accessed on April 8, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b Volker Bergmeister: Loos, Zirner, Stolze, Preuss, Armbruster, Sebastian Ko. Pas de deux in the country film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on April 8, 2019.
  4. ↑ TV Spielfilm : Short review at TV Spielfilm.de , accessed on April 6, 2019.
  5. ↑ After the storm at volksstimme.de, accessed on April 8 of 2019.
  6. ↑ Sidney Schering: criticism at Quotenmeter.de , accessed on April 8 of 2019.