Commissioner Heller: Providence

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Episode of the series Commissioner Heller
Original title providence
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Ziegler film
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 8 ( list )
German-language
first broadcast		 January 20, 2018 on ZDF
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Director Christiane Balthasar
script Mathias Klaschka
using the figures by
Silvia Roth
production Gabriele Lohnert
Regina Ziegler
music Johannes Kobilke
camera Hannes Hubach
cut Andreas Althoff
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Providence is a German television film by Christiane Balthasar from 2018. It is the 8th film in the series Kommissarin Heller . It was shot from February 1 to March 7, 2017 in Wiesbaden , Berlin and the surrounding area and was first broadcast on ZDF on January 20, 2018 at 8:15 p.m.

action

Winnie Heller shot the hostage-taker in an emergency during an operation involving hostage-taking. In order to process this and the “farewell” of her colleague Hendrik Verhoeven better, she can be found with the psychiatrist Dr. Jacobi a. The detective sees this as a tiresome compulsory event and, as always, blocks her true feelings. Since she cannot go into her apartment because of a burst water pipe, she simply sleeps in Verhoeven's empty house, which is currently advertised for sale, and sets up a makeshift camp there. Here Verhoeven appears to her every evening as a hallucination and they talk to each other about everything that they have not dared to say before.

That same evening, Dr. Jacobi called, telling her that one of her patients may want to commit a crime. When the commissioner arrives at the practice, she finds the psychiatrist seriously injured on the floor. In the hospital, their stab wounds are operated on and Heller sets out to find the perpetrator together with the patrol officer Murat Yakin, who is assigned to her as a new partner. The fact that Dr. Jacobi is the only confidante who has remained after Verhoeven's departure, and lets her take this case almost personally. She researches the psychiatrist's last patients, and the cell phone seller Axel Kofler seems to be the only one who doesn't have a verifiable alibi for the time of the crime. He is with Dr. Jacobi is in treatment because he is trying to find a psychiatric arrangement to extend the restricted visiting rights for their son Finn after his divorce. But the former policeman Markowski also has a motive - he was in love with the psychiatrist and stalked her.

After reviewing the therapy session recordings of the current patients, Winnie Heller is certain that the violent Axel Kofler is the one Dr. Jacobi said when she called. In the video, he clearly expresses his intention to kill his family if he is not allowed to see his son again in full. However, this does not automatically mean that he has to be the one who stabbed the doctor. Nevertheless, Commissioner Kofler keeps an eye on what turns out to be correct, because this is how Heller succeeds in protecting Susanne Kofler and keeping the boy from being kidnapped by his father. She just doesn't manage to shoot Kofler, so he can beat her up in his rage. The wife manages to grab Heller's weapon during the scuffle, and a shot at her husband saves the inspector's life.

When looking through the crime scene photos, Heller had noticed that Dr. Jacobi had ordered food that evening. After she was able to locate the supplier with Yakin's help, she has a possible witness who saw the perpetrator. A phantom image can be created and Heller is certain that he has already met the man twice and even spoken to him. This lead leads to Jan Lorenz, who had a relationship with the bisexual Bernd Jacobi and was recently abandoned by him. When Lorenz meets with his ex-boyfriend, he is arrested by Yakin. Lorenz states that he only wanted to ask Jacobi's wife that evening to release her husband, which then escalated.

reception

Audience rating

When Providence was first broadcast on ZDF on January 20, 2018 , the film was seen by a total of 5.88 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 18.8 percent.

criticism

Harald Keller from tittelbach.tv said: “It's not just the unusually prepared content that lifts the film far above comparable programs. The visual design is also simply masterful. The scenes were illuminated with the greatest care by image designer Hannes Hubach, with partially shaded faces, a modern equivalent to Chiaroscuro, the light and dark painting of the late Renaissance. Images that would also convince on the big screen. Every moment is precisely staged. "

Sidney Schering assessed the results for Oddsmeter.de : "The ZDF series 'Kommissarin Heller' will continue to be written with the extra thick felt-tip pen - and with strong drama and complex lighting it will reach a high point in its history."

The editorial team of TV Spielfilm rated the crime thriller very positively and without comment with the "thumbs up".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filming locations at crew-united.com, accessed in September 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Harald Keller: Wagner & Wagner, Stolze, Schütz, Klaschka, Balthasar. First class psycho thriller, film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on August 31, 2018.
  3. ↑ Commissioner Heller - Providence at quotenmeter.de , accessed on August 31, 2018.
  4. ↑ TV Spielfilm : Film review at TV-Spielfilm.de, accessed on August 31, 2018.