Murderous hunt
| Episode of the series Finn Zehender | |||
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| Original title | Murderous hunt | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
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| length | 82 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Episode 3 ( list ) | ||
| First broadcast | April 15, 2013 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Markus Imboden | ||
| script | Holger Karsten Schmidt | ||
| production | Claudia Schröder | ||
| music | Detlef Petersen | ||
| camera | Peter von Haller | ||
| cut | Ursula Höf | ||
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Murderous Hunt is a German television film - crime thriller by Markus Imboden from 2012 . It is the third film about the private detective Finn Zehender with Hinnerk Schönemann in the title role.
action
Ex-policeman and current private investigator Finn Zehender receives a lucrative contract that his girlfriend Agnes Sonntag arranged for him. He is supposed to protect two teenagers because their father has been targeted by an organized crime group. According to Agnes research, Diego Vargas, the clan leader of this group, has already engaged two killers who are targeting Urs Jäger. Immediately after Zehender's first conversation with his client, an explosive attack was carried out on him, whereupon the detective rushed to leave the property with the two teenagers Mathilda and Moritz to bring them to safety. Without a plan, he brings them to Aschberg and entrusts them to the former village policeman Gerhard Mühlfellner because he wants to meet Agnes again. On the way back he notices that not only Diego Vargas, but also the BND are after the children because they are supposedly the key to a list of tax evaders. While Vargas wants to use the list for blackmail purposes, the BND tries to keep the names mentioned on the list, including high-ranking politicians, from being published.
After a chase with Diego's killers, Zehender and the young people quickly seek protection in a police station. The person in charge does not want to believe the detective's story, but the two killers also appear on the police station, begin an exchange of fire and shoot the police officer and his colleague. Although Zehender was able to send his protégés out of the building unharmed, they soon fell into the hands of the killers, who put them in their cars and took them with them. They try by all means to find out from them the hiding place of the list, but since the two of them know nothing about this ominous list, they cannot tell the killers anything about it. In order to get Mathilda to speak, one of the killers even pretends that he shot Moritz.
Meanwhile, Zehender tries to get a clue about where the list is hiding in another way. He finds clues that point to the church in a small village. When he gets there, the killers are already there with Mathilda and are looking for the hiding place. Zehender uses a trick and deposits a USB stick on a tombstone without being noticed. Then he faces the killers and offers them the hiding place of the list against Urs Jäger's children. So Diego's killers are actually satisfied with the disk they have found and retreat.
Finn Zehender finally succeeds in finding the real list that Jäger had hidden in the form of digital check bits in an image file. Since the Office for the Protection of the Constitution fears that the list will endanger the German government, the detective has to hand over the list of names. Nevertheless, he gives various names, which he was able to remember based on his photographic memory, to the press, whereupon numerous politicians and economic functionaries declare their resignation.
background
Murderous Hunt was filmed in Heiligenhafen, Plön and Hamburg. Even before the official TV broadcast, the film received the 2012 TV Producer Award at the Hamburg Film Festival .
reception
Audience ratings
The thriller had its first broadcast on April 15, 2013 on ZDF , where it was seen by around 4.02 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 12.7 percent.
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said: “The third film about Finn Zehender is also a welcome change from the pseudorealistic crime thriller, which is driven by the supposed lack of need of the private detective and the congenial game of Hinnerk Schönemann. The plot of 'Murderous Hunt' is simple, so there is a lot of room for crazy situations, and the images have a great immediacy. Fundamentally relaxed film, in which you shouldn't lean back too much, otherwise you will miss too much of the nuances and quotes. "
At the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Hans Hoff wrote that it was “Schönemann's figure that has to develop into a special form. The actor shows what he can do, he acts with great physicality, he also shows how well he can play with facial expressions. Schönemann carries this film over long stretches. ”But the film also offers“ wonderful dialogues, absurd comedy and surprising twists ”.
The TV Spielfilm editorial team gave the crime thriller a "thumbs up" and said with praise: "Clever, laconic chaos comedy."
"Delightful between leisurely and rapidly rhythmic (television) crime / comedy blend of the somewhat eccentric kind."
Web links
- Murderous hunt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Finn Zehender - Murderous Hunt official website of ZDF
- Murderous hunt at filmportal.de
- Finn Zehender - Murderous Hunt at Fernsehserien.de
- Finn Zehender - Murderous Hunt at crew-united.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for murderous hunt . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 160780 / V).
- ↑ Murderous Hunt at Abendblatt.de, accessed on January 24, 2017.
- ↑ a b Hinnerk Schönemann, Holger Karsten Schmidt, Imboden. “My beloved brother” at tittelbach.tv, accessed on January 24, 2017.
- ↑ Hans Hoff: Out of control , at sueddeutsche.de, accessed on May 19, 2017.
- ↑ TV Spielfilm : Film review at TV-Spielfilm.de, accessed on January 24, 2017.
- ↑ Murderous Hunt. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 27, 2017 .