Helen Dorn: Shadows of the Past

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Episode of the series Helen Dorn
Original title Shadow of the past
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Network Movie
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 9 ( list )
German-language
first broadcast		 March 17, 2018 on ZDF
Rod
Director Alexander Dierbach
script Clemens Murath
production Jutta Lieck-Klenke
Dietrich Kluge
music Wolfram de Marco
camera Ian Blumers
cut Simon Blasi
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Shadows of the Past is a German television film by Alexander Dierbach from 2018. It is the ninth episode of the ZDF crime series Helen Dorn with Anna Loos in the title role .

action

The secretary of the lawyer Johannes Trautwein alerted the police because she said she heard gunshots during a phone call with her boss and Trautwein has not been available since then. Commissioner Helen Dorn is informed and learns that the lawyer wanted to meet a witness who wanted to exonerate his client Robert Lorenz. This is accused of having raped his daughter's nanny. After Trautwein's last whereabouts were determined, there are actually traces of an act of violence there, but no corpse.

When Robert Lorenz learns of the disappearance of his lawyer, it is clear to him that the man has been set up a trap because someone wants to prevent by all means that he is possibly acquitted. Helen Dorn seeks out Lorenz's wife, who, to her surprise, is a former classmate. Britta Lorenz does not speak very well about her husband because she has suffered from his violence for years. She lives with her mother-in-law's stud and riding stables, which she runs together with her two sons. Recently, however, the family property was brought into Lorenz real estate company, which he runs with his partner Maybach. Helen Dorn doubts that this transfer should have occurred without any familial complications.

The murder investigation leads the detective to a call girl who, strangely enough, is Eva Czerny, the nanny and alleged rape victim. Czerny says that lawyer Trautwein recently contacted her to get her to retract her testimony. At the upcoming arrest test against Lorenz, Lorenz is surprisingly set free and his wife turns up at Helen Dorn that same evening. Robert Lorenz had become violent against her again and now she was scared to death.

In the meantime, not only is the missing Trautwein found dead, but Robert Lorenz as well. The latter is apparently killed in self-defense by his wife in his apartment. However, she denies having killed her husband. Helen Dorn is inclined to believe her and wonders who will benefit most from Lorenz's death. Since separation of property was agreed for his marriage, Britta Lorenz is actually leaving. On the other hand, Maybach would now own the entire company alone, including the Lorenz family property worth 15 million. The inspector wants to visit Maybach, but finds only Eva Czerny on his property. It is clear to her that Maybach had smuggled her into Lorenz's house as a nanny so that she would lure him into a Venus trap, because as long as Robert Lorenz was in custody, he was able to take the valuable property "under the nail" through a dummy company ". But Helen Dorn finds out that Maybach had planned everything together with Britta Lorenz, because the front company is registered under both of their names. The attempt to put the murders on Lorenz's brother Alexander failed, as did Britta Lorenz's plan to remove Maybach as the last confidante after the lawyer, who had seen through her wrong game. Desperate for not having achieved her goal, she ends up committing suicide.

background

The shooting for Shadows of the Past took place from October 16 to December 15, 2017 in Cologne and Düsseldorf . This new episode of the series as been sent ZDF - Saturday thriller .

In this episode, Helen Dorn has great self-doubts about the meaning of her work.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Shadows of the Past on March 17, 2018 on ZDF reached 7.38 million viewers and a market share of 23.1 percent.

criticism

Harald Keller from tittelbach.tv commented: “Helen Dorn is an alert investigator, determined and determined, at the same time a bitter figure, harsh and aloof, warmly alone when dealing with children and young people. Anna Loos gives this investigator a completely unpretentious and completely convincing visual severity and carelessness - this suits someone who is excessively stressed by his profession. But Dorn's nature cannot be explained just by revising it. One of the weaknesses in this episode is that Dorn's behavior does not consistently follow her character, but rather the requirements of the script. "

The editorial staff of TV Spielfilm gave the crime thriller a “thumbs up” and wrote: “Some crime novels stand out from the TV monotony because they are a tad better played, written and staged and therefore appear more dramatic. This is exactly what happens to this elaborate poking around in unclear circumstances. "" Not perfect, a bit old-fashioned and really good. "

Ulrich Feld from fnp said: “The ninth episode of the crime series 'Helen Dorn' turns out to be a real surprise. After the outstanding start of 'The Third Girl' in 2014, the successors were of a very mixed quality. But not a single story could even come close to reaching the gripping effect of the debut. But the plots weren't the only problem. ”“ A real step forward compared to many of its predecessors, however, is the plot that leads Helen Dorn into high society. The disintegration of existence and appearance - a court with a glamorous appearance is deep in the red - and a rather elaborate network of unclean business, murder and sex gives the crime thriller a remarkable pull that grows more and more in the course of the story. "

In Quotenmeter.de Sidney Schering wrote: "The new, Helen Dorn' Case is driven by laboriously constructed Plotmechanismen while the usual dedicated Ensemble attempts to bring the shell-Dialog book to life."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filming locations at crew-united.com, accessed on February 28, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Harald Keller: Anna Loos, Stötzner, Weisse, Kinski, Dierbach. Sufficient material for several thriller film reviews at tittelbach.tv, accessed on September 6, 2018.
  3. ↑ TV Spielfilm : Film review at TV Spielfilm.de , accessed on September 6, 2018.
  4. ↑ Ulrich Feld: Shadows of the Past: Murder, Sex and Other Businesses ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at fnp.de, accessed on September 6, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fnp.de
  5. ↑ Sidney Schering: criticism at Quotenmeter.de , accessed on September 6, 2018th