Commissioner Heller: Death at the pond

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Episode of the series Commissioner Heller
Original title Death at the pond
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 1 ( list )
First broadcast April 12, 2014 on ZDF
Rod
Director Christiane Balthasar
script Mathias Klaschka based
on the novel by
Silvia Roth
production Ziegler film
music Johannes Kobilke
camera Hannes Hubach
cut Andreas Althoff
occupation
chronology

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Tod am Weiher is the first episode of the crime film series Kommissarin Heller of the ZDF . The role of the investigator is played by Lisa Wagner . The premiere was at the Munich Film Festival in 2013, the first broadcast on ZDF followed on April 12, 2014.

action

Detective Inspector Winnie Heller has been transferred from Cologne to Wiesbaden because she can better take care of her sick sister there, who is in a coma in a Wiesbaden clinic after a car accident caused by her father. At first she doesn't get along well with her new colleague Hendrik Verhoeven; The young commissioner is too brash and stubborn for him. Verhoeven would like to close the current case immediately, because it initially seems very clear: A young woman is dead in her bedroom and her husband Jasper Fennrich confesses to the fact. It is strange that he has apparently shielded his wife from the outside world for fifteen years and the corpse shows numerous broken bones from childhood. However, Heller is adamant about her investigation because she wants to understand what is behind this case.

In parallel to the case of the dead young woman, the police are investigating a second case, which involves a little girl who has disappeared without a trace in front of her mother. Based on some evidence, Heller suspects a connection between the two cases. The child reappears after a few days, disturbed, but immediately afterwards a second girl is missing under similar circumstances. In the end, it turns out that both girls were kidnapped by a pedophile student. Heller rescues the second girl and is in danger herself when she is briefly taken hostage by the perpetrator before he can be overpowered by other police forces.

Ultimately, it turns out that Jasper Fennrich actually killed his wife because he believed she had something to do with the disappearance of the girls. His wife was severely physically abused by her own mother as a child. The mother suffered from Munchausen proxy syndrome and inflicted severe injuries on her children, only to be able to subsequently request medical treatment and take excessive care.

background

Winnie Heller investigates unconventionally. As a personality, she appears stubborn and determined, but also vulnerable. Hendrik Verhoeven is the serious part of the investigative duo. He doesn't seem very innovative, especially at the beginning, and would like to put the case aside quickly. He is suspicious of a partner who speaks to her fish.

The film was produced in 2012/2013 by Ziegler Film GmbH & Co. KG (Berlin + Cologne). It was premiered on July 1, 2013 at the Munich Film Festival in the New German Television series .

criticism

TV critic Rainer Tittelbach thinks that the new commissioner at the Wiesbaden Criminal Police Office is not only brighter than her somewhat more brazen colleague, but is also called: Winnie Heller . The prelude, "Death at the pond", could be seen, so Tittelbach. The film is exciting and cleverly constructed, but overall a lot more can be expected in the future .

Kino.de particularly emphasizes the emotional and psychological tension. The director succeeds in creating a thriller atmosphere with inclusion-like stylistic devices and optical alienations .

Awards

Lisa Wagner received the Hessian TV Prize 2013 for her role in Tod am Weiher .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Commissioner Heller: Death at the pond . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2014 (PDF; test number: 147 955 V).
  2. ↑ Commissioner Heller: Tod am Weiher - film description TV feature film
  3. ↑ Death at the pond. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on April 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Commissioner Heller - Death at the pond criticism from Rainer Tittelbach - tittelbach.tv
  5. ↑ Kino.de - Film review on Commissioner Heller: Tod am Weiher at kino.de
  6. ↑ Hessian Film and Cinema Prize 2013. In: Hessian Ministry for Science and Art , accessed on October 24, 2018.