Commissioner Marthaler - The Sterntaler Conspiracy

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Episode of the series Kommissar Marthaler
Original title The Sterntaler Conspiracy
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Akzente Film & Fernsehproduktion GmbH
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 5 ( list )
German-language
first broadcast		 March 17, 2017 on ARTE
Rod
Director Züli Aladağ
script Kai-Uwe Hasenheit
Lancelot from Naso
production Susanne Freyer
music Oliver Thiede
camera Fabian Rösler
cut Kilian von Keyserlingk
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Commissioner Marthaler - Angel of Death

Commissioner Marthaler - The Sterntaler Conspiracy is a German television film from 2017 and the 5th sequel in the series Kommissar Marthaler . The crime film produced for ZDF is based on the novel of the same name from the Marthaler crime series by Jan Seghers . This time it was directed by Züli Aladağ . The script was again written by Lancelot by Naso and Kai-Uwe Hasenheit .

action

The journalist Anneliese Weißgerber was executed with two aimed shots in her hotel room. Since Marthaler's colleague Carlo Sabato happened to be at the hotel to book rooms for a private visit, he was there immediately and informed Commissioner Marthaler. As soon as this arrives, the LKA officer Axel Rotteck also shows up at the hotel and withdraws the case from him. Sabatos to anger, he also seized the forensic kits and the collected thus he tracks. Despite all the trouble, Marthaler's team welcomes Sarah Jonas to the Presidium, who has been transferred to them and replaces Kirsten Höpfner. Also new is Charlotte von Wangenheim, who takes the position of chief police officer after Hans Herrmann's death. She instructs Marthaler to investigate the alleged suicide of Baron Freiherr von Munzenberg. The member of the state parliament hit the headlines after the public prosecutor's office investigated him for child pornography offenses. His housekeeper, who was also a close friend of Munzenberg's private life, thinks these allegations are nonsensical. She has a young son and she would have noticed if such ambitions had existed. She also knew every corner of the house and hadn't found any clues about it.

Marthaler doesn't want to accept the humiliation that Axel Rotteck had inflicted on him by withdrawing the hotel murder case. After a lot of research, he and his team find the victim's car. This means that it is clear that the journalist lived in the hotel under a false name and is actually Herlinde Scherer. Marthaler and his new colleague go to Berlin, where the journalist comes from, and learn there that Scherer was an investigative journalist and had already uncovered a number of political scandals. For this purpose she had an informant directly in the Hessian state parliament, from whom she could find out that the Hessian prime minister had only achieved his election with purchased votes.

When Marthaler learns that Axel Rotteck, of all people, carried out the incriminating search of von Munzenberg's house, he realizes that both cases are related and von Munzenberg was the journalist's informant. Photos found in Scherer's car lead Marthale's team to the seedy Sterntaler sex club . There, however, they are not welcomed in a very friendly manner because they are not recognized as police officers in civilian clothes and are not mistaken for gangsters. Only when they come out as police officers does the firefight end. Marthaler's colleague Kai Döring was taken to hospital seriously injured, but his life was not in danger. The evaluation of cell phone data leads the investigators to the conclusion that Scherer and von Munzenberg met on the night of the murder. All in all, Marthaler doesn't really get anywhere. Unexpectedly, a stranger phoned and offered the investigators information about the hotel murder. The man underestimates the Marthaler team, because they quickly find out that this is Rotteck's employee Daniel Fichtner from the LKA. Apparently he no longer wants to participate in the machinations of his boss; but it can also be a ruse to find out what the criminalists know. Fichner should prove that he means it honestly. He is supposed to help Marthaler get the forensic investigation kit back. This succeeds and the evaluation of the secured tracks is initiated.

Meanwhile, Marthaler learns that Axel Rotteck was seen by the hotel staff in the lobby a day before the murder. That's why he has his people watch over him. These witnesses become when Rotteck shoots the convicted Lennart Kallenberg: allegedly in self-defense, which Marthaler's colleagues can refute. According to Rotteck's statement, he had convicted Lennart as the journalist's murderer and was about to arrest, which then escalated. Marthaler's team, when researching Kallenberg, can only assign this to sexual offenses, which the brutal and targeted killing in the hotel does not really match. Nevertheless, the man had rented a room in the hotel at the time of the crime and, contrary to expectations, Mathaler's team found the weapon hidden in Kallenberg's backyard. They would much rather have found them at Axel Rotteck. But not only the murder weapon, also the DNA traces, which have since been evaluated, clearly show that Kallenberg is the journalist's murderer. Research on Axel Rotteck shows that he knew Kallenberg from earlier times, spared him a crime and now probably recruited him as a murderer.

Marthaler still assumes that Herlinde Scherer was in the process of uncovering a new political scandal and that the night of the crime she saw something she shouldn't see. That is why the investigators take on the Sterntaler Club . There Marthaler arrests the club owner. After he proves that the weapon Scherer was shot with came from him because he had used it to commit a robbery a few years ago, he also makes the man aware of the explosive nature of his situation. Because Axel Rotteck, to whom he sold the pistol, will not let anyone who knows about it live. So the club operator can be persuaded to testify against Rotteck and Marthaler can thus prove Rotteck incited to murder. The cause of the journalist's murder were secret agreements between politicians that took place in the Sterntaler Club . The only one who didn't want to take part was von Munzenberg, who was therefore blamed on incriminating material. Instead of keeping still, he met with the journalist and passed on information to her, which in the end was also his death sentence, with Rotteck staging his suicide.

Even if Marthaler can record a success professionally, he has to accept a defeat privately. His girlfriend Thereza leaves him. She no longer wants to bear his unreliability and constant absence and therefore goes back to Prague.

background

After it became known that Naso's Lancelot would no longer sit in the director's chair for this film, the German-Turkish director Züli Aladağ was hired instead . New roles for the commissioner team have also been added. Among them, the actress Liane Forestieri will take over the part as Charlotte von Wangenheim, replacing Peter Lerchbaumer . Also met Alice Dwyer new to the team to do so.

The film was shot from February 23, 2016 to March 24, 2016 in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin , and the television premiere took place on March 17, 2017 on arte . The broadcast on ZDF took place on September 11, 2017.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of The Sterntaler Conspiracy on March 17, 2017 on ZDF reached 5.52 million viewers and a market share of 18.0 percent.

Reviews

At the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Matthias Hannemann assessed: “The fact that the full ninety minutes are not worn is due to a surprisingly uninspired, jerky scene towards the end that spoils the skilful exit. Here, Koeberlin's Marthaler seems over the top, talks far too long and suddenly seems almost a little out of place. Unfortunately, the ambitious 'Sterntaler conspiracy' lacks a worthy ending. But that doesn't matter. The air that is still up in this case arouses anticipation for the coming Marthaler case. "

Volker Bergmeister from Tittelbach.tv wrote: The Die Sterntaler Conspiracy has a very "cleverly constructed story [and] an atmospheric staging that manages to balance loud and quiet scenes: the new crime thriller from the ZDF series is solid, exciting, entertaining and scores with a strong ensemble. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave it the best rating (thumbs up) and wrote: "A few inconsistencies and bumpy, formulaic scenes, but the team is interesting, the case is exciting, and in the end the pace is picking up." solid police work (despite quirks). "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commissioner Marthaler - The Sterntaler conspiracy at crew united
  2. ↑ Audience rating on March 17, 2017 at quotenmeter.de , accessed on February 24, 2019.
  3. ↑ Matthias Hannemann: The friendly politician who knew no scruples at faz.de, accessed on February 24, 2019.
  4. ↑ Volker Bergmeister: Koeberlin, Hennicke, Tonkel, Dwyer, Trepte, Aladag. A real big city thriller accessed on Tittelbach.tv on February 24, 2019.
  5. ↑ TV crime thriller. Murder in the Frankfurt red light district - an extremely spicy case. at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on February 24, 2019.