Commissioner Marthaler - Angel of Death
| Episode of the series Kommissar Marthaler | |||
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| Original title | Angel of Death | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Production company |
Akzente Film & Fernsehproduktion GmbH | ||
| length | 88 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Episode 4 ( list ) | ||
| German-language first broadcast |
September 18, 2015 on ARTE | ||
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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 Dirk Grau |
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Kommissar Marthaler - Angel of Death is a German TV film from 2015 and the 4th episode in the series Kommissar Marthaler . The crime film produced for ZDF is based on the novel The Rose Heart Files from the Marthaler crime series by Jan Seghers . The director was again Lancelot von Naso , who wrote the script together with Kai-Uwe Hasenheit . The film is set in Frankfurt am Main and was shot there and in Berlin .
action
Tereza Prohaska and her former college friend Ludwig Slama accompanied an art transport with the famous painting Engel Übervoll by Paul Klee . On the way to Frankfurt Airport , the van is attacked by two motorcyclists. A security guard dies, his colleague is seriously injured, as is Tereza, who subsequently loses her unborn child.
On arrival at the scene of the crime, Commissioner Robert Marthaler found out that his fiancée Tereza had been shot and taken to the trauma clinic. Through his anger, he urges his colleagues to get information about the motorcyclists as quickly as possible. Marthaler also learns that the transporter had changed the route at short notice due to an accident, as well as about Slama's participation in the transport. He went to his art gallery and arrested him out of jealousy and anger as a possible informant for the perpetrators.
Marthaler receives a tip from a journalist by the name of Grüter to talk to the previously convicted art dealer Bruno Kürten, because he knows who committed the attack. When he succeeds in locating Kürten, he finds him seriously injured. Before Kürten dies, he can whisper the words pictures and rose heart to the inspector. Researching these terms leads to a 30-year-old murder case of the prostitute Karin Rosenherz, which was never solved. Using the old files and the witnesses named in them, Marthaler contacted a former professional photographer who had photographed Karin Rosenherz. Marthaler recognizes two pictures on the wall in one of the pictures that were no longer there after the murder. These are two preliminary drawings of the stolen painting Angel Overflowing . When he and Kirsten Höpfner want to question the bicycle dealer Albanelli, who may have seen the murderer at the time, they are called to arrest the motorcyclists. There is a shootout in which one of the perpetrators is shot. His accomplice refuses to give any statement and does not reveal his client. Chief Police Officer Hermann feels compelled to suspend Marthaler until the exact circumstances of the shooting have been clarified.
Ignoring the instructions of his boss and driven by personal feelings of revenge, Marthaler continues the interrupted interview with Albanelli. It turns out that the old files are incomplete and statements have obviously disappeared. According to Albanelli's statement, he had seen the influential businessman Philipp Lichtenberg and his school friend and business partner Hubert Orthmann on the night of the crime, so that Marthaler considers the two of them to be urgently suspect. Two prostitutes had given the two of them an alibi at the time, but the two women are no longer alive. Since Hannelore Wilke disappeared one day without a trace, Marthaler suspects the murder as an act of concealment. After checking Wilke's bank statements, Marthaler is certain that Wilke witnessed the murder of her colleague Rosenherz and extorted Lichtenberg, which then led to her murder. In order to prove this, Marthaler Lichtenberg tries to provoke publicly, which is why he has to justify himself in the end to his boss Herrmann, who does not approve of the commissioner's approach.
After the last whereabouts of the missing Wilke are examined more closely, corpse dogs strike and the woman's remains are found at a quarry pond. She was presumably slain and buried near the lake. Marthaler and his team are happy with the results, but also frustrated because so many traces are no longer usable after all these years. You therefore want to outsmart Lichtenberg with a trick so that he can make a confession. This succeeds and so the investigators learn that Rosenherz's death was an unfortunate sex accident. Lichtenberg and Orthmann had been to the prostitute's. In order to make the accident look like robbery, Orthmann had taken the two pictures and jewelry. Orthmann then admits that he had a buyer who would collect angels, which is why he had commissioned the current theft of Paul Klee's picture . 30 years ago he would have given the first two pictures to Bruno Kürten for sale. Even angels over full should sell Kürten to the prospective customer. Orthmann, however, denies having anything to do with the Kürten murder.
Due to the success of the arrest, Marthaler's suspension is withdrawn. He goes to the archive of unsolved murders again to find clues about who was responsible for the manipulation of the Rosenherz file. During one of the testimonies, he noticed Hermann's abbreviation and immediately confronted him with it. Herrmann admits that he wanted to consolidate Lichtenberg's alibi and dispel any suspicion against the businessman so that he could exercise his influence on Hermann's career in the police. He committed the murder of Bruno Kürten so that he could not make a statement and that this old story would not be known. He insults Marthaler as an idealist and wants to flee. Marthaler tries to prevent him from doing so by force of arms, but Hermann also draws his gun and indicates he is going to shoot, so Marthaler has to get ahead of him and shoots his boss in self-defense. Marthaler's team found that the gun was unloaded and that Hermann had provoked a suicide by cop .
background
Commissioner Marthaler - Angel of Death is based on the novel The Rose Heart Files by Jan Seghers , which is the fourth book in the Marthaler series. The film was shot together with Commissioner Marthaler - A too beautiful girl from the end of April to the end of July 2014 in Frankfurt and the surrounding area, as well as in Berlin. It is also the last film by Lancelot von Naso , who acted as director here, but he will be working on the next screenplay with co-writer Kai-Uwe Hasenheit . The premiere was at the Festival of German Films 2015. On September 18, 2015, Commissioner Marthaler - Angel of Death had its television premiere on arte and on March 7, 2016 on ZDF .
criticism
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote:
“The adaptation of the director Lancelot von Naso, who with Kai-Uwe Hasenheit also took care of the script adaption, actually merges with atmospheric, cold-colored night scenes and fast-paced action. This case, which was still called "The Rose Heart Files" as a novel, is about the murder of a high-class prostitute (think of the Rosemarie Nitribitt case). Marthaler's inspiration and chance lead him on the right track. The inspector searches for answers in the luxury mansion of the businessman Lichtenberg (Rüdiger Vogler). Aren't there art lovers who walk over dead bodies?
Angel of Death is manageable as a criminal case, [...]. The appealing look of the thriller makes it seem more than it is, even if the dramaturgy and plot weaken. "
Web links
- Commissioner Marthaler - Angel of Death in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Commissioner Marthaler - Angel of Death at filmportal.de