Lindburg's case
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Lindburg's case |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 86 minutes |
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| Director | Franziska Meyer Price |
| script |
Marie Reiners , Sylke Lorenz |
| production | Matthias Walther |
| music |
Eike Hosenfeld , Moritz Denis , Tim Stanzel |
| camera | Theo Müller |
| cut | Angelika Sengbusch |
| occupation | |
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Lindburgs case is a German television - crime comedy by Franziska Meyer Price from the year 2011 with Fritz Wepper in the lead role.
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Peter Lindburg is an actor and has been known to his fans for decades as "Kommissar fighter" in the crime series "Blaulicht". But this fan base is shrinking and so after 280 episodes the series does not reach enough quota for the TV station to discontinue the series. Lindburg is upset about retiring to his hometown in Thuringia. First of all, he wants to enjoy the peace and quiet there and perhaps write his own script that could then help him make a comeback. So he makes his way to the little town of Lindburg, after which he chose his stage name, rents a room in the “Zur Traube” hotel and starts work. In the evening he goes for a walk and observes from the park how a man appears to be arguing with a woman in a tenement house and then kills her. He immediately reports the incident to the police, but they do not take him seriously at first. Inspector Biehl takes on him and visits the alleged crime scene with him. Lindberg is wrong, however, in assigning the window behind which he claims to have observed the murder and therefore cannot convince the inspector. However, the apartment above the one just checked belongs to the public prosecutor Dr. Eugen Wangenheim, against whom any suspicion seems impossible. For the commissioner it was all over, but not for the die-hard television investigator. He observes Wangenheim and even brings in his TV assistant Conny so that he can take turns with him, because after all, he actually wants to write his script.
Lindburg's siege in front of Wangenheim's apartment makes the public prosecutor increasingly nervous and the prosecutor threatens him. But that really spurs Lindburg on and he can find out that until recently an old woman had besieged Wangenheim's apartment just as he is now. Lindburg investigates this tip and finds out that it is Hilde Zietkov, who was the domestic servant at the old Wangenheims 30 years ago and who recently disappeared. Since the police do not believe Lindburg's accusations against the public prosecutor, he is on his own in the investigation. According to what he has collected so far, Hilde Zietkov is likely to have blackmailed the public prosecutor so that he could help her to obtain a remission for her son Oliver, who is currently serving a prison sentence. Obviously, Wangenheim's parents were siblings and Hilde Zietkov knew this. Since Wangenheim is about to make a career leap, he couldn't afford such a scandal.
Through Lindburg's persistence, he succeeds in luring Wangenheim out of the reserve for a short time and so the police are finally paying attention. After Hilde Zietkov's body was actually found on the grounds of the old Wangenheim mansion, the public prosecutor is said to be arrested for murder. But Lindburg objects that Wangenheim may only have disposed of the body, because, according to his observations, the perpetrator is right-handed, which does not apply to Eugen Wangenheim. Cäcilie Wangenheim makes a confession because she did not want to allow Eugen's career to be destroyed.
After Lindburg's sense of crime is now being marketed positively in the media, he is supposed to receive a new television series, but the actor refuses. He has taken a liking to his private life, which has been neglected all these years and makes contact with his former childhood sweetheart Sabine Arnhold, who still lives here in Lindburg. He rings the doorbell with a huge bouquet of flowers and finds that it is never too late.
background
Lindburg's Fall was filmed in Leipzig and Freyburg (Unstrut) from February 17 to March 18, 2011 . The film location was, among other things, the Hotel Zur Traube in Oberstrasse. The production was carried out by the Neue Deutsche Filmgesellschaft in cooperation with ARD Degeto and was broadcast on the first on August 19, 2011.
Renate Blume, who is known from DEFA productions such as Der teilte Himmel , Ulzana or Barefoot in Bed , plays the attentive neighbor, Ms. Kampmann, here at the age of 67.
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Lindburg's case on August 19, 2011 was seen by 4.66 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 17.4 percent for ZDF .
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv said: “For Fritz Wepper's seventieth (August 17, 2011), ARD wrote a 'delicacy' for him in a comedic tone. 'Lindburgs Fall', with ample allusions to the television actor's serial investigative work, is one of the better attempts to revive the smirking thriller genre à la Agatha Christie for German television. " well-known cast down to the smallest role. The icing on the cake is Barbara Schöneberger as the gossip presenter, who also plunges into the close combat interview as a reporter. "
A "successful crime comedy" is what Jürgen Kirsch from Oddsmeter.de called this film. It is “a well-rounded story that contains tension on the one hand, but also funny moments on the other. The role of Peter Lindburg with Fritz Wepper is brilliantly fulfilled. The actor once again proves his enthusiasm to play and ensures an authenticity of his role that, despite some exaggerations, never drifts into the ridiculous or the slapstick. ”“ However, it is not entirely happy that the viewer is presented with a murderer after a quarter of an hour, by the executive is not arrested. "
Tilmann P. Gangloff wrote for Kino.de : “Even the initial idea is great, and Fritz Wepper breathes life into it with a lot of self-irony.” “The plot [itself] is not exactly told dynamically, Franziska Meyer-Price [...] already set a completely different pace. But the film lives from playing with Lindburg's previous history anyway. ”“ The case, on the other hand, is so far-fetched that it would appear highly implausible elsewhere. ”
Web links
- Lindburgs case in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lindburg's case on Fernsehserien.de
- Lindburg's case at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ Location retrieved from filme-schauspieler.de.
- ↑ shooting dates at naumburger-tageblatt.de.
- ↑ a b Fritz Wepper, Bernd Michael Lade, Fulton-Smith. “Conny, something's wrong here!” At tittelbach.tv , accessed on April 1, 2020.
- ↑ Jurgen Kirsch: Lindburgs case at Quotenmeter.de , accessed on April 1, 2020th
- ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Film review retrieved from Kino.de on April 1, 2020.