Commissioner Heller: Hidden tracks

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Episode of the series Commissioner Heller
Original title Covered tracks
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Ziegler film
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 7 ( list )
First broadcast January 21, 2017 on ZDF
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Director Andreas Senn
script Mathias Klaschka
using the figures by
Silvia Roth
production Gabriele Lohnert
Regina Ziegler
music Johannes Kobilke
camera Markus Hausen
cut Melanie Margalith
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Covered Traces is a German television film by Andreas Senn from 2017. It is the 7th film in the film series Kommissarin Heller . It was filmed from April 25, 2016 to May 31, 2016 in Wiesbaden , Berlin and the surrounding area and was first broadcast on January 21, 2017 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF .

action

A series of burglaries shook Wiesbaden. The unknown individual perpetrator not only loots valuables during his raids, but also destroys all useful traces by spraying the houses with white foam. During his last break-in, an employee of the private security guards died, killed with a fire extinguisher, so that the homicide squad was called. Commissioner Winnie Heller and her colleague Hendrik Verhoeven take over the case and an eyewitness quickly becomes the investigators' sights. The former teacher Jan Drexler, who lives in the woods as a dropout and keeps his head above water with odd jobs, puzzles the inspector. After various fire extinguishers are found in the vicinity of his accommodation, she is convinced of his guilt and has him taken into custody.

However, when another robbery and murder happens while Drexler is still being questioned, the commissioners have to rethink. In this new case, too, things are different than in previous burglaries, because the victim seems to have expected the burglar. Two shots broke out in the scuffle, one of which was fatal to the victim, but obviously the perpetrator did not get away unharmed either, because there are traces of blood from the house.

Commissioner Heller and her colleague Verhoeven are gradually discovering a connection between the victims of the series of burglaries that takes them far back in time. The break-ins are not about theft at all, rather it is a case of vigilante justice. Fifteen years ago the St. Antonius Hospital infected a number of patients with contaminated blood, and they subsequently developed AIDS. The hospital was able to successfully fend off a lawsuit by the infected and the victims were left empty-handed. All break-ins to date have taken place among employees of this hospital, as well as an expert and a judge. The investigations reveal that at the time an operating room nurse wanted to testify for the injured party, but was ultimately dissuaded by those in charge of the clinic.

The closer the Commissioners get to the truth, the more they expose the human tragedy behind the deeds and they must realize that in this case nothing is what it seems. Clear traces lead to the KTU employee Paul Rottmann, which explains the blurred traces for Heller. Rottmann's daughter is one of the victims of the contaminated canned food. She had begun to take revenge in her own way, and committed the break-ins that ended up getting out of hand. Her father tried to cover her as best he could and manipulated traces right down to the fire extinguishers found on the suspect. Now, after Emmy Rottmann was shot and the wound became infected, Rottmann urges her to be taken to the hospital, which his daughter strictly refuses to do. As a result, the young woman dies and Rottmann now has nothing more to lose. It is now clear to him that Heller is on his heels. Nonetheless, he tries to punish the last, in his opinion, guilty party. He shoots the operating room nurse who withdrew her testimony and also wants to judge the lawyer Roland Jungwirth. However, Commissioner Heller gets in his way. Even if she finally understands Rottmann's reasons, she prevents him from also shooting Jungwirth.

With all professional problems, Heller has to find out that her colleague Verhoeven is transferring to Karlsruhe because his wife has accepted a job with the constitutional court there. She is deeply disappointed about this because he did not inform her of this plan directly and she had to find out about it indirectly.

reception

Audience rating

When Verdeckte Brille was first broadcast on ZDF on January 21, 2017 , the film was seen by a total of 6.90 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 21.2 percent.

criticism

Volker Bergmeister from tittelbach.tv said: the "seventh [...] case for the idiosyncratic ZDF investigator with the psycho-badger [...] doesn't just tell a crime story." It's also about the departure of colleague Hendrik Verhoeven from Wiesbaden and how Winnie Heller deals with the loss of his professional partner. The fact that it does not run harmoniously, but that the Commissioner lashes out wildly - and in all directions - lies in the character of this multifaceted figure. Lisa Wagner once again delivers an impressive acting performance. "

In Quotenmeter.de Sidney Schering solved: "The case of injustice, which relates to the AIDS sufferers, and the murder case successively from Klaschka, although überraschungsarm linked. In the director's chair, Andreas Senn follows in the footsteps of Christine Balthasar, who has staged all previous episodes in the series. While in the prologue he relies on a faster, closer to the action-oriented imagery than previously in the format, he takes the pace out in the rest of the episode, orienting himself more towards the usual 'Commissioner Heller' aesthetic. However, this does not do the criminal case advanced in instructive dialogues a favor - and so Hans-Jochen Wagner's 'Commissioner Heller' farewell is ultimately just off the shelf. "

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commissioner Heller: Hidden tracks at crew united
  2. ↑ Start dates for Commissioner Heller: Hidden Traces . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved December 20, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Volker Bergmeister: Lisa & Hans-Jochen Wagner, Senn. The hunt for perpetrators and the end of an investigative duo Film criticism at tittelbach.tv, accessed on November 13, 2017.
  4. ↑ Commissioner Heller - Hidden Traces at quotenmeter.de , accessed on November 13, 2017.
  5. ↑ TV Spielfilm : Film review at TV-Spielfilm.de, accessed on November 13, 2017.