Commissioner Heller: Heart failure

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Episode of the series Commissioner Heller
Original title Heart failure
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Ziegler film
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 9 ( list )
German-language
first broadcast		 February 16, 2019 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
occupation
chronology

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Providence

Heart failure is a German television film by Christiane Balthasar from 2019. It is the 9th film in the crime series Kommissarin Heller .

action

The sex offender Dirk Köster escapes during a release and kills the correctional officer Maik Riedeck on his escape. Commissioner Winnie Heller, who has just finished her therapy because she shot the hostage-taker in an emergency during her last hostage-taking situation, feels fresh and agile to take on this case. At the scene of the crime, she meets the LKA officer Isabel Vogt, who she inaugurates on their joint case. Surprisingly in a good mood and sociable, Heller gets to know Vogt. There is no longer any trace of her difficult, unfriendly manner for which Heller was previously known.

What is certain is that Köster must have had helpers during his escape. Therefore, Heller and Vogt ask Maren Kriener, the fugitive's partner. The young woman poses as the injured party and accuses the women “allegedly” raped by Köster as liars. Shortly after this conversation, Heller noticed a perception disorder. She talks about it with her therapist, who then reduces her drug dose. It later emerges that she had only received a placebo and that the drug did not explain her changes in personality and hallucinations.

Vogt finds out that the prison psychologist Hahnisch had an affair with Maik Riedeck. The investigation is thus also heading in the direction of contract killing, because Riedeck's wife is the director of the detention center and should not have been very happy about her husband's infidelity. After Köster was almost caught and a five-digit euro amount was found in his car, the inspectors assume that the prison director Köster helped him escape if he shot her husband in return. During the interrogation, Riedeck admits this motif and shows the investigators her body, which is covered with hematomas. She claims that she once tried to leave her husband, whereupon he hit her green and blue. With Köster she had used her chance to escape her personal martyrdom. Riedeck is arrested, but cannot help Heller and Vogt to find Köster's current whereabouts. The search is superfluous when the fugitive is unexpectedly found dead. Heller finds out that Köster made friends with a woman on his weekly outdoor walks. Laura Dobisch owns the nursery where he worked regularly. She had imagined that he had escaped prison just for her. However, when she found out that he had only taken advantage of her, she took his pistol and shot him. Commissioner Heller can track her down and arrest her.

background

The shooting for heart failure took place from March 13 to April 17, 2018 in Berlin and Wiesbaden . This ninth episode of the series as been sent ZDF - Saturday thriller .

reception

Audience rating

When Heart Failure was first broadcast on ZDF on February 16, 2019 , the film was seen by a total of 6.98 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22.8 percent.

criticism

The editorial staff of TV Spielfilm rated the crime thriller very positively ("thumbs up") and said: "Pleasantly weird crime thriller entertainment at a high level (and with many female roles)."

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv praised the crime thriller and said: “The films have increased continuously; The last episodes in particular were among the best that the respective crime fiction series had to offer "and" were outstanding not least because of the charming connection between case and fate. "

In Quotenmeter.de Julian Miller stated: "Winnie Heller is perhaps Germany's only television Commissioner, who must unmoved briskly and confidently occurs and this character trait not counteract with forced sexualization or entwined softness in non-occupational area of life." "That they (indirectly) just this strength has led to the slap, does not fit into the picture if it doesn’t get angry in view of this context. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filming locations at crew-united.com, accessed on April 6, 2019.
  2. ^ A b Tilmann P. Gangloff: Lisa Wagner, Wilson, Klaschka, Balthasar. "Anything Goes" instead of routine thriller film reviews at tittelbach.tv, accessed on April 9, 2019.
  3. ↑ TV Spielfilm : Film review at TV-Spielfilm.de, accessed on April 9, 2019.
  4. ↑ Julian Miller: Commissioner Heller - Providence at quotenmeter.de , accessed on April 9, 2019.