Commissioner Heller: Heat stroke

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Episode of the series Commissioner Heller
Original title heatstroke
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Ziegler film
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 5 ( list )
First broadcast January 16, 2016 on ZDF
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Director Christiane Balthasar
script Martina Mouchot based
on the novel by
Silvia Roth
production Regina Ziegler
Gabriele Lohnert
music Johannes Kobilke
camera Hannes Hubach
cut Andreas Althoff
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Hitzschlag is a German TV film by Christiane Balthasar from 2016. It is the 5th film in the film series Kommissarin Heller .

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In her fifth assignment, Winnie Heller has to deal with a serial rapist who acts repeatedly. He secretly goes into the houses of his victims, anesthetizes them and then offends them. His latest victim is Irina Portner, who, after waking up from unconsciousness, finds her husband stabbed to death on the ground. For Commissioner Hendrik Verhoeven, the situation is clear: the rapist was surprised by the husband and therefore killed him. Commissioner Heller does not want to commit so quickly because some aspects do not really fit into the series of past cases. Since Irina Portner was ultimately not raped, which Commissioner Verhoeven attributes to the appearance of the husband, but shows signs of older abuse, Heller believes it is possible that the wife killed her husband. Based on the blood analysis and the resulting state of anesthesia, the examining doctor is convinced that Irina Portner was unconscious at the time of the crime.

Jan Portner was a renowned star chef , so Commissioner Heller suspects the perpetrator in the professional environment. She considers the connection with the attempted rape of the wife to be a diversionary maneuver. The main suspect is therefore Richard Havel, the co-owner of Porter's starred restaurant. According to Heller's research, Havel had gambling debts and Portner wanted to part with him. Only after a valid alibi for the time of the crime emerges, Havel is exonerated.

Thus, Commissioner Heller deals with those affected in the past cases and possible similarities. In doing so, she comes across a pool service company that employs a Damian Kender. He was already suspected in the first rape cases six years ago, but was exonerated at the time due to a testimony of his grandmother. After Kender feels the pressure to investigate again, he loses his nerve and tries to kill his grandmother. He is then arrested and interrogated. Heller can bring the psychologically conspicuous young man to a confession of rape, but he denies the murder of Jan Portner. When Kender was transferred to pre-trial detention, he managed to escape. He takes the wife of Inspector Verhoeven hostage and escapes with her to the roof of the police headquarters.

Unexpectedly, the doctor Kira Schönenberg also witnessed this kidnapping. Heller summoned Schönenberg to the presidium for a questioning because it was found that the doctor was a good friend of Jan Portner's first wife. Since she has hushed this up so far and heads a self-help group for “women of domestic violence”, this makes her very suspicious in the eyes of the Commissioner. When she wants to ask the doctor more about it, the kidnapping takes place and the situation seems to escalate when Kender threatens his hostage with a weapon that he had recently taken from a police officer. While Heller ponders how she can master the situation, Kira Schönenberg takes the initiative, rushes towards Kender and with him from the roof of the building. She had previously confessed to the Commissioner that she did not want what is happening now. Portner would not only have hit his (first) wife, but downright destroyed her, so that she has had to live in a psychiatric clinic for years. The same martyrdom began with his second wife, which she could not see and which is why Portner killed. She thought she could handle killing someone, but that didn't work. So she straightened herself by jumping off the roof.

background

After the death of her sister, Commissioner Heller tries to solve her family problems with therapeutic help. She and her mother take part in Dr. Jacobi part.

Heat stroke was first broadcast on January 16, 2016 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF .

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv rated it positively and said: Heatstroke is an "exciting, subtle psychological thrill", "well-structured utility crime story that is technically premium in terms of cast, script, look & narrative flow. And Lisa Wagner plays Winnie Heller a bit more weird and gruff than before. ”“ Sebastian Urzendowsky ('Polizeiruf 110 - Because they don't know what they're doing') is very convincing and has a strong influence on the mood of the film. No one sweats as pitifully as he does in 'heat stroke'. "

In Quotenmeter.de Julian Miller came to the conclusion: "With a coherent stress buildup is happening, heat stroke '[...] quite heavy. On the one hand, this is due to the fact that at least one of the perpetrators is kept open and few other plot structures can be made out from which one could squeeze an acceptable level of suspense for an hour and a half. And on the other hand in the duty-to-rule culture that pervades this episode. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and found: “Strong figures, strong case, despite slight exaggerations”.

Ulrich Feld in the Frankfurter Neue Presse also found the episode “quite passable.” “So some of the crime thriller seems more bizarre than really conclusive, but Martina Mouchot (screenplay) and director Christiane Balthasar - who also directed the previous Heller films - cleverly set some shock effects so as not to let the viewer's interest wane. In addition, there is Hannes Hubach's camera, which often captures the scene charged with tropical heat and thus optically gives the plot a certain surreal sensuality. Just like Lisa Wagner gave her Winnie Heller the necessary vulnerability and thus credibility despite her bulky character. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Start dates for Commissioner Heller: Heat stroke . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved December 20, 2016 .
  2. ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Lisa Wagner, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Urzendowsky. Good genre thriller entertainment Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on August 20, 2017.
  3. ↑ Julian Miller: movie review at Quotenmeter.de , accessed on August 20, 2017th
  4. ↑ Commissioner Heller: Heatstroke TV feature film ; 20th December 2016.
  5. ↑ Heat stroke: To cool off in the Opel bathroom ( Memento from March 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at fnp.de, accessed on August 20, 2017.