Commissioner Marthaler - an all too beautiful girl
| Episode of the series Kommissar Marthaler | |||
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| Original title | An all too beautiful girl | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Production company |
Akzente Film & Fernsehproduktion GmbH | ||
| length | 89 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Episode 3 ( list ) | ||
| German-language first broadcast |
May 1, 2015 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Lancelot of Naso | ||
| script | Lancelot by Naso Kai-Uwe Hasenheit |
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| production | Susanne Freyer | ||
| music | Oliver Thiede | ||
| camera | Lars Liebold | ||
| cut | Kilian von Keyserlingk | ||
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Kommissar Marthaler - A too beautiful girl is a German TV film from 2015 and the 3rd episode 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 and was shot together with the follow-up film Kommissar Marthaler - Angel of Death . The director was again Lancelot von Naso , who wrote the script together with Kai-Uwe Hasenheit . The film is set in Frankfurt am Main , was shot there as well as in Berlin and Saarbrücken and is about a beautiful young girl who takes revenge on the men who abused her.
action
Late in the evening a car drives through the Alsatian Vosges . It comes off the road and rolls over several times. After the accident, a female uninjured is the only one to get out of the accident vehicle and disappear into the darkness.
Three years later, Commissioner Marthaler, who actually wanted to go on vacation with his pregnant girlfriend Tereza, is called to a murder on a motorway bridge pillar. The victim was stabbed and found by a cyclist. This states that he saw a red Alfa Romeo at the scene and that he was also able to remember the license plate number. This leads first to Jörg Gessner, a man known as a pimp, but there is evidence that he had just sold the car: to a groom who had previously taken a car ride through Germany with two friends and was now found dead on the bridge pillar. Marthaler and his team inquire at the registry office and find out that the groom's best man, Pepe Bartozek, has not turned up either. It can be assumed that he is one of the passengers from the Alpha.
Chief Police Officer Herrmann has the pimp Gessner in his sights and has an arrest warrant issued. But before the initiated large manhunt can begin, Gessner shows up with his lawyer in Marthaler's office and gives a voluntary testimony on the record, which is supposed to exonerate him. Nevertheless, he is arrested.
The next morning the missing Alfa Romeo is found in a quarry pond; with the trio's second murder victim. This prompts Marthaler and Kai Döring to “race” the clubs in Frankfurt's red-light district to see whether the three friends had celebrated there. That brings success, because here the three men were seen briefly. Meanwhile, the fugitive Pepe Bartozek is found, but is able to flee again when two police officers try to catch him. Bartozek succeeds in grabbing one of the service weapons.
Meanwhile, Petersen takes a closer look at the sales contract for the Alfa Romeo, and the team can narrow down the search for the stag party tour based on the mileage and fuel level. At a gas station, Marthaler and Petersen can see surveillance recordings and recognize a woman in the car. On the way back to Frankfurt, they received the message that Pepe Bartozek was tracked down in the myZeil shopping center and has now taken a hostage here at gunpoint. Marthaler talks to him, but Bartozek swears not to be a murderer. Driven into a corner by the SEK, he takes his own life by jumping from the top floor. Chief Police Officer Hermann considers the case to be solved, but Marthaler and his team see it differently.
Marthaler receives the decisive information about the woman through an internal call from a colleague in Saarbrücken. Manon Schuhmann has been reported missing for three years after the car she was sitting in had an accident in the Alsatian Vosges. Her father and other family members were killed. An anonymous letter that Marthaler received leads to the conclusion that the father could have caused the accident deliberately and out of desperation. Marthaler investigates the allegations that were made against Schuhmann in the letter. Accordingly, he is said to have abused his daughter, who is said to have been extremely beautiful.
When another stabbed person, this time a journalist, is found in a hotel, Marthaler initiates a large-scale manhunt. Based on the information from Saarbrücken, he suspects Manon Schuhmann to be responsible for the murders. After a long research, Marthaler learns the last whereabouts of the now 19-year-old Manon Schuhmann in Alsace and finds their diaries there. It can be placed at Frankfurt Central Station . She refuses to give any testimony and is ultimately taken to a psychiatric clinic because it is not known whether she was sane during the murders. After Marthaler has read Manon's diaries, it is certain that the allegations against her father are true and that she herself is severely psychologically disturbed. The inspector learns from Manon's friend that the men on her bachelorette tour picked up Manon and raped her, whereupon she fought in her own way. The journalist in the hotel had also come too close to her, which she could not bear.
Marthaler's and Tereza's relationship wavers again, but in the end they reconcile in Carlos' restaurant, where Marthaler proposes to Tereza, which she accepts.
background
After Commissioner Marthaler - Score of Death ran again successfully on ZDF, a sequel was decided. The shooting started from the end of April to the end of July and the film was shot again in Frankfurt and Berlin. This time two films were shot at the same time, including Commissioner Marthaler - Angel of Death .
The film adaptations of the crime novels by Jan Seghers did not initially take place in the order in which they were written by the author. The film Kommissar Marthaler - A too beautiful girl , which is based on Segher's first novel, was only produced as the third film in the Marthaler series. In order to adapt to the chronological order, some plot lines were therefore changed, as Marthaler's girlfriend was not yet pregnant at this point. On May 1, 2015, Commissioner Marthaler - A too beautiful girl had its television premiere on arte and was broadcast on ZDF on October 12, 2015.
Subplot
Robert Marthaler continues to have relationship problems with his girlfriend Tereza. She meets several times with an unknown man who speaks her native language and she stays away several times late at night. That makes Marthaler jealous and even ensures a brief break in the relationship between the two when he sees them together late at night in the course of the investigation. When asked about this, Tereza explains that it would be Ludwig Slama, her ex-boyfriend from college.
criticism
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: “Anyone who likes things complicated and likes to puzzle up to the last minute whether the third or fourth suspect could be the culprit is at the right address with 'Inspector Marthaler'. He can't apply for the arrest warrants as quickly as the shady staff changes. The examining magistrate tends to send promising characters home at the wrong time. So that Marthaler and his colleagues chase after them again. Something like that can be quite exhausting. Fortunately, Carlos, the forensics man who runs an Italian restaurant in the evening, has a grappa at the end. Marthaler usually needs it. "
Harald Keller from tittelbach.tv rated: Inspector Marthaler - An overly beautiful girl is "at best as an example of a particularly bad crime thriller: the dialogues are written on paper, the interaction is cumbersome and everything is brushed too much for effect!" because only 3.91 million viewers attended the thriller.
Web links
- Commissioner Marthaler - A too beautiful girl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The-detective Commissioner Marthaler with Mathias Koeberlin geraet somewhat complicated. retrieved from faz.net.
- ↑ Harald Keller: Koeberlin, Jentsch, Seghers, from Naso. Weak crime, neglected drama at tittelbach.tv , accessed on January 7, 2019.