In the forest - a Taunus thriller

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Episode of the series Der Taunuskrimi
Original title In the forest
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 all-in-production GmbH
length 180 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 10 + 11 ( list )
German-language
first broadcast		 January 2nd and 3rd, 2018 on ZDF
Rod
Director Marcus O. Rosenmüller
script Anna Tebbe
production Caroline Daube
music Florian Tessloff
camera Marcus Kanter
cut Claudia Klook
occupation
chronology

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The Living and the Dead - A Taunus thriller

Im Wald - Ein Taunuskrimi is a two-part German television film from 2018. The literary film adaptation is based on the novel of the same name by Nele Neuhaus and is the tenth and eleventh episode of the crime series Der Taunuskrimi .

action

Part 1

When a camper van explodes at night on a campsite in the Taunus, a charred corpse is found in the remains. The inspectors Oliver von Bodenstein and Pia Kirchhoff take over the investigation. Since traces of fire lead to the caravan, the investigators assume a murder. The later autopsy reveals that the man was killed before the explosion. Von Bodenstein has known the campsite since he grew up in the associated village of Waldhain. So he knows everyone very well and hopes to solve the case quickly. A witness claims to have seen a man who ran away from the explosion. He can quickly be identified as the young drug addict Elias Lessing. Von Bodenstein's father went to see him, Peter Lessing, whom he knew well from his childhood. They were playmates and a tightly knit community whose leader Lessing was at the time. He states that his son is criminally and mentally ill. In addition, he has a house ban. He doesn't know where he is. Meanwhile, the owner of the exploded trailer, Rosie Herold, is also killed. At first it was assumed that the seriously ill pensioner had succumbed to cancer, but Commissioner Bodenstein quickly found evidence of a homicide. Furthermore, the dead person in the camper is very likely her son Clemens. The investigators learn from his older brother that Clemens was working on a village chronicle and that he had dealt a lot with the unexplained disappearance of the eleven year old Artur Berjakov. The son of Russian repatriates disappeared without a trace on August 24, 1982. Since this chronicle was in the destroyed camper, the investigators suspect a connection to the current events. Such old memories are awakened in Bodenstein, and he realizes that he has still not got over his childhood trauma. Driven by this thought, he does not rest and finds the remains of his then friend Artur. At the time, the police had only looked half-heartedly for the boy, because the resettlers were not exactly welcome in the village. At that time, Arthur's mother had put a curse on the residents, which now seems to be having an effect after 35 years.

Part 2

Events come to a head when Pastor Maurer is murdered and Pauline Reichenbach, a school friend of the wanted Elias Lessing, disappears. He hides at the campsite with the journalist Felicitas Molin and tries to prove his innocence together with her. Pauline should help him and deliver a message to Elias friend. While he is looking for her, the perpetrator kills the journalist in order to incriminate Elias further. Pauline is found seriously injured in a cave. In order to finally get on the track of the truth, Bodenstein had the “children's gang from back then” questioned: Peter Lessing, Inka Hansen, Edgar Herold and Ralf Ehlers. This reveals that the group always considered Artur not to be part of it and one day they followed him in the forest. Artur climbed a tree out of fear and fell. The children - bound by their blood oath - left Arthur and ran away. Seriously injured, the boy dragged himself to the street, where he was run over by a car. At the wheel sat the amorous Rosie Herold and her boyfriend at the time, Jakob Ehlers, Ralf Ehlers' older brother. Together they hid Artur's body in an old grave and were silent for 35 years. When Rosie Herold wanted to ease her conscience in her old age, she confessed to the pastor and helped her son with the village chronicle. This did not go unnoticed by Ehlers, and so he killed everyone who knew of his secret. When Peter Lessing, Inka Hansen, Edgar Herold and Ralf Ehlers learned that they had falsely believed over the years that they were to blame for the boy's death, they pushed Jakob Ehlers onto a mountain from which he was in danger of falling . The arriving officers can just prevent this and arrest Jakob Ehlers.

background

The eighth book in the Bodenstein & Kirchhoff series was filmed with Im Wald . The shooting took place from May 16 to July 25, 2017 in the Taunus and the surrounding area.

reception

Audience rating

Part 1 of Im Wald reached 6.98 million viewers in prime time on ZDF on January 2, 2018 , which corresponds to 20.7 percent of the market share. On January 3, 2018, the second part was seen by 7.46 million viewers and thus achieved a market share of 22.6 percent.

Reviews

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv said: “The two-parter [is] not as successful as the last two Nele Neuhaus films. The plot offers enough material for 180 minutes, but the second part in particular repeats too much information from the first. Nevertheless, the enormous amount of staff means that you can lose track of things in the meantime. Also, not all celebrity contributors are really convincing. Thanks to the cast of well-known television faces, author Anna Tebbe and director Rosenmüller involuntarily reveal early on who the killer is. "

Heike Hupertz wrote for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : “In the new film adaptation, the third, which allows itself one hundred and eighty minutes instead of the previous ninety minutes to sort out an almost unmanageable personnel table and countless entanglements in a kind of main storyline and many secondary threads, the day is once again Billing. While the earlier adaptations were occasionally reminiscent of Grzimek documentaries, this time there are at most fillings of wood lice here and there climbing slowly over leaves (camera Marcus Kanter). The fog is wafting in the cemetery, the screech owl calls. "Conclusion:" Scary for beginners. "

In Quotenmeter.de remarked January Schlüter: "The fact that, in the forest 'brings a good amount of power, [...] is partly due to Oliver Stone soil personal involvement in the case. Anyone who has accompanied the investigator duo on ZDF for years will therefore value this case more than newcomers. ”He continued:“ This 'Taunus crime thriller' is comprehensible on two narrative levels, in the present and in the past. The numerous, partly blurred flashbacks paint the deceptive picture of a village idyll and a shaken childhood. Socially critical tones rarely flash through "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Im Wald - Ein Taunuskrimi, Part 1 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 176385 / V). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Release certificate for Im Wald - Ein Taunuskrimi, Part 2 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 176381 / V). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  3. ↑ In the forest - A Taunus thriller at crew united . Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  4. ^ A b Tilmann P. Gangloff : Bergmann, Woll, Tebbe, Neuhaus, Rosenmüller. Too much is sometimes too little! Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on January 19, 2019.
  5. ↑ Heike Hupertz: Commissioner in the comfort zone crisis at faz.de, accessed on January 19, 2019.
  6. ↑ Stefan Turiak: Film review at quotenmeter.de, accessed on January 19, 2019.