Commissioner Marthaler - Score of Death
| Episode of the series Kommissar Marthaler | |||
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| Original title | Score of death | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Production company |
Akzente Film & Fernsehproduktion GmbH | ||
| length | 89 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Episode 2 ( list ) | ||
| German-language first broadcast |
January 10, 2014 on ARTE | ||
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| Director | Lancelot of Naso | ||
| script | Lancelot by Naso Kai-Uwe Hasenheit based on the novel by Jan Seghers |
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| production | Susanne Freyer | ||
| music | Oliver Thiede | ||
| camera | Felix Cramer | ||
| cut | Dirk Gray | ||
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Marthaler - Partitur des Todes is a German television film from 2014 and the 2nd 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 . 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
Five people were shot dead on the restaurant ship Sultan . A retired couple, a state secretary and his assistant and lover, as well as an unknown man. The owner of the restaurant, Erkan Önal, can jump off the ship and tries to escape in the water. He is shot by the murderer and is later rescued, seriously injured. Inspector Marthaler and his team are now looking for the murderer. After the more detailed determination of the murder weapon, which apparently comes from the black market and whose power has been expanded, Oliver Frantisek, a colleague from the LKA, joins Marthaler's team. He belongs to a special commission and is on the trail of arms dealers. In the course of this investigation he comes too close to the ship's murderer and is killed by him.
A witness came in based on a newspaper report about the shooting on the ship. When Marthaler tries to find her, he finds her murdered in her apartment. Marthaler and his team have little evidence that can lead them to the perpetrator. The press suspects an escalation of protection rackets, but when it turns out that a French journalist who was on board was probably kidnapped, new investigations emerge. Marthaler had succeeded in identifying the unknown man as Joachim Morlang, an old schoolmate of his. The journalist Valerie Rouchard met him shortly before she disappeared.
When researching Rouchard, it turns out that she was currently working on a report on Arthur Hoffmann, who was in a concentration camp as a child and had survived it. Hoffmann had received from his father a score by Jacques Offenbach , which he believed to be lost and which he now wanted to sell. The prospective buyer wanted to meet Morlang and Rouchard on the ship to check the authenticity of the score. Together with his colleague Carlo, Marthaler can find the score in the hotel where Rouchard had hidden it. The forensic technician's trained eye quickly notices that the score contains a secret message. He sits down with experts from the Goethe University and the Fritz Bauer Institute and tries to decipher the text. This succeeds and reveals that Hoffmann's father wrote down secret information about the concentration camp doctor in the camp to which they were deported. This doctor has changed his name in the meantime, but Marthaler succeeds in locating him. Dr. Horst Niehoff is now an aged man, but he does not want to reveal his inglorious past at any price. Because of this, he had set a killer on anyone who got too close to his secret. Now exposed, Niehoff chooses suicide. In the course of their operation, the killer can be eliminated by Marthaler's new colleague Kirsten Höpfner and the kidnapped Valerie Rouchard brought to safety.
It turns out that the massive shooting on the ship only happened because the Secretary of State was carrying a gun and actually wanted to defend himself, thinking the attack was against him. The restaurant ship operator Önal also wakes up from his coma, but can no longer remember the attack.
Marthaler's relationship problems with his girlfriend Tereza don't end. She continues to criticize the fact that he is almost never home, or when it is too short. After a little break in the relationship, she reveals to him that she is pregnant.
criticism
“An exciting genre film that scores more with style and look than with plot and psychological logic. Likeable: Matthias Koeberlin as a team capable loner. Lots of footwork, wrong tracks, closely told, strong atmosphere. At Naso's Lancelot, the cops have to work more "night shifts" than at Lars Becker. "
background
After The Bride in the Snow ran successfully on ZDF, a sequel was decided. The shooting started from the end of October to the end of November and the film was shot again in Frankfurt and Berlin. The premiere was at the Festival of German Films 2013. On January 10, 2014 Marthaler - Score of Death had its television premiere on arte and was broadcast on April 14, 2014 on ZDF. A further sequel was decided after the successful premiere. The book is the third in the series, and the first film was also from the second book. Even the author Jan Seghers made a brief appearance as a musician publisher, who was followed and observed by Marthaler.
Web links
- Commissioner Marthaler - Score of death in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Commissioner Marthaler - score of death at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film review at Tittelbach.tv
- ↑ broadcast dates at fernsehserien.de; accessed on February 28, 2016.
- ↑ Cast List at the Internet Movie Database; accessed on February 28, 2016.