Behind blind windows
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Behind blind windows |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Matti Geschonneck |
| script | Hannah Hollinger |
| production | Reinhold Elschot |
| music | Jürgen Corner |
| camera | Carl-Friedrich Koschnick |
| cut | Inge Behrens |
| occupation | |
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Behind Blind Windows is a German crime film by Matti Geschonneck from 2009. The screenplay by Hannah Hollinger goes back to the novel of the same name by Friedrich Ani . The main roles are occupied by Hans Zischler , Maja Maranow , Lisa Maria Potthoff , Bernadette Heerwagen as well as Jürgen Tarrach , Adam Oest , Johanna Bittenbinder and Sissy Höfferer .
action
In Munich's Neuhausen district , the young Linda Gabriel disappears after getting into a man's car. Shortly afterwards, Dinah Schmidt, the partner and life companion of Clarissa Weberknecht, the operator of the Sado Maso club “Dinah”, is murdered. Chief Detective Polonius Fischer, who is supported in his investigations by Liz Sinkel, Neidhard Moll and Georg Ohnmus, is entrusted with the case. Two years ago he had dealt with Clarissa Weberknecht in a case: she had torn the carotid artery of a customer while being flogged and was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence for bodily harm resulting in death, as it was an accident according to investigations.
The next day there is another dead person, a homeless person has been murdered. Polonius Fischer speaks to Anita Soltersbusch, who found the malnourished man in the garbage house. The commissioner's conversation with the embittered woman turns out to be difficult. Her husband Rupert founded the civil association “Aktion Achtsamer Mitmensch”, which pretends to keep order in the district, but rather serves to spy on. The autopsy reveals that the man was slain with great force. Dinah Schmidt's autopsy result is now also available, she was stabbed with a sharp blade. It turns out that Anita Soltersbusch knew the homeless person who, according to further investigations, is Josef Nest, the former owner of a car repair shop, from before. She had a relationship with him at the time.
Only a little later, the former private detective Berthold Gregorian is missing, who, according to the police, observed Clarissa Weberknecht and Dinah Schmidt with binoculars. The apartment he rented was exactly opposite the two women. Fischer learns from Weberknecht that Gregorian was with her once, at a time when she was weak. However, that was long over and he actually accepted it.
In the meantime, Linda Gabriel has been found who had been kidnapped by the salesman Arthur Fallnik. She stiffly states that she was only initially held against her will and was not abused by Fallnik. She slept with him, but voluntarily, and she wanted to stay with him. Nonetheless, Fallnik is arrested.
After Clarissa Weberknecht's fingerprints have been found on Gregorian's pocket and clothes, Polonius Fischer arrests her. In a conversation he learns that she immediately suspected that Gregorian had killed Dinah Schmidt out of jealousy. She went to him to confront him. There was a fight in which she strangled Gregorian with a towel. When she wanted to dispose of his body in the garbage house, her Josef Nest got in the way, whom she killed and left lying. She buried Gregorian's body in the forest.
Clarissa Weberknecht, who did not like it when they wanted to hold her, as Liz Sinkel comments, is found hanged in her cell. Polonius Fischer is expected in front of the detention center by his partner Ann-Kristin Seeliger, a former journalist who is now getting by as a taxi driver.
production
Production notes, publication
The film was shot behind blind windows from October 14, 2008 to November 17, 2008 in and around Munich . The film, produced by Network Movie on behalf of ZDF , premiered on June 29, 2009 at the Munich Film Festival and was first shown on ZDF on February 1, 2010.
background
Idi Anin has published three novels so far in which Polonius Fischer is the main character. Ani's first novel Idylle der Hyänen was also filmed by Matti Geschonneck under the title Mortal Sin and premiered on November 24, 2008 on ZDF. The third novel, Deadness does not expire , has not yet been made into a film.
Polonius Fischer's partner Ann-Kristin Seeliger mentions in a love scene that Fischer spent nine years in the monastery before he became a police officer again. That was thirteen years ago.
Hanns Zischler commented on his role as Polonius Fischer that he found it “attractive”, “because the gestural potential is associated with withdrawn dialogues, with looks, and because not everything is texted”. In the press portal it was read that the film told the search for the reasons for a crime. Perhaps Polonius will be able to understand evil better because he knows that it is not just a police problem.
reception
Audience ratings
When it was first broadcast on February 1, 2010, the film was watched by 6.40 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 18.3%; the repetition of the film attracted 4 million viewers with a market share of 13%.
criticism
The critic of the television magazine TV Spielfilm said that the investigating ex-monk Fischer said “wise words”, was “religious and always a little bit brittle - a unique specimen that is worth seeing, but unfortunately it was found in an implausible case”. It remains "the hope for the next adaptation". The best possible rating was awarded (thumbs up) and the conclusion is: "Crime with a slightly different detective".
Kino.de found that the second film version based on a template by Friedrich Ani was "anything but speculative or even bloodthirsty". Matti Geschonneck "succeeded again in great quiet crime fiction". So nothing escapes the “analytical gaze” of Hanns Zischler's “appropriately melancholy embodied” en Polonius Fischer, a former monk. In this film adaptation, Zischler leads a “remarkable ensemble”. The actors succeed "the trick of embodying actually dazzling figures so withdrawn that they seem almost inconspicuous". Maja Maranow, for example, is “making herself very small as a nightclub owner with a background”. Jürgen Tarrach plays an unemployed serial actor who “bitterly withdrew behind his closed shops”. But the “scariest characters in the group” are “the Soltenbusch couple, wonderfully played by Johann Adam Oest and Johanna Bittenbinder”. The husband in particular represents the "unpleasant species of those attentive fellow human beings who sniff after their neighbors but look away when looking and intervening".
Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv gave the film five out of six possible stars and wrote: “It's a look, a lurking, a disguise. Commissioner Polonius Fischer, himself a strange saint, penetrates this microcosm. Years ago he was a monk. And so he also determines: priestly. ”Zischler added:“ 'He makes the others talk through his silence.' ”Tittelbach said that the ZDF crime novel, in contrast to the book, discusses“ philosophical and existential questions rather marginally ”. Leading actor Hanns Zischler, “who plays his Polonius Fischer as a concentrated silence”, said: “It's not just about finding the murderer, but getting an idea of why he or she is capable of murder, what energies are there condensed into an evil deed. "Tittelbach emphasized that Geschonneck and Hollinger had succeeded in" an exemplary literary adaptation ". Anis was also satisfied: "Here a detective novel was not smoothly planed for television, here television lost all fear of the rough edges of a literary original." Grimme Prize winner Matti Geschonneck "allow yourself and the viewer a slow, concentrated storytelling, that gives you time ”to“ recognize nuances ”.
The lexicon of international films spoke of a “carefully staged (television) crime thriller about a protagonist who is used to“ looking behind the facade and being confronted with human dramas ”“ which is largely unnoticed by of the public ”. "Thanks to the brilliant cast ensemble" it is "easy to get over the fact that classic thriller suspense rarely occurs".
Web links
- Behind blind windows in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Behind blind windows, full 3sat movie at thtip.com
- Behind blind windows, explanations of the film on the website dieterwunderlich.de
- Polonius Fischer investigates "Behind blind windows" see background information on the page derwesten.de
- Interview Matti Geschonneck: Behind blind windows see page tittelbach.tv ("In the interview, Geschonneck also talks about his art of scarcity, about trust, empathy and concentration on the set and about sensitivity kitsch.")
Individual evidence
- ↑ Behind blind windows at crew-united.com.
- ↑ Behind blind windows. In: filmportal.de . Deutsches Filminstitut , accessed on May 4, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Behind blind windows. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Commissioner Polonius Fischer series by Friedrich Ani in their order see page buechertreff.de
- ↑ Polonius Fischer see page fernsehserien.de
- ↑ Interview with Hanns Zischler: For behind blind windows see page tittelbach.tv
- ↑ Behind blind windows see page filmfest-muenchen.de
- ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : TV film "Behind blind windows". Zischler, Ani, Hollinger, Geschonneck: God and the world of the Munich suburb see tittelbach.tv. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
- ↑ Behind blind windows See tvspielfilm.de (including 26 film images). Retrieved May 20, 2019.
- ↑ Behind blind windows, see page kino.de (including picture series (25 pictures)). Retrieved May 20, 2019.