Munich murder: on the street, at night, alone
| Episode of the series Munich Murder | |||
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| Original title | On the street, at night, alone | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 92 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Episode 6 ( list ) | ||
| First broadcast | October 14, 2017 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Anno Saul | ||
| script |
Friedrich Ani Ina Jung |
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| production |
Andreas Schneppe Sven Burgemeister |
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| music | Stephan Massimo | ||
| camera | Nathalie Wiedemann | ||
| cut | Dirk Gray | ||
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On the street, at night, alone is a German television film by Anno Saul from 2017. It is the sixth episode of the crime series Munich Murder with Bernadette Heerwagen , Alexander Held and Marcus Mittermeier in the leading roles.
action
Chief Detective Harald Neuhauser has a new girlfriend. Because of her, he makes his colleague Angelika Flierl wait for almost half an hour. It takes almost an hour for the two of them to arrive on the banks of the Isar, where a young, handsome man was found with a gunshot wound in his stomach. His body was washed ashore here. As they continue to work together on the case, another body is driving the Isar downstream. As it turns out, it is Neuhauser's and Flierl's boss, Chief Detective Ludwig Schaller, who is doing an experiment here in his more than unconventional way. Under the supervision of the water rescue team, he drifted downstream in the Isar and can thus calculate where the crime scene must have been after the coroners found that the body had been floating in the water for about an hour.
The head of the department, Chief Detective Zangel, accuses Ludwig Schaller of his attempts on the Isar. Schaller weighs down and defends Flierl and Neuhauser against his boss. He accepts the alibi of the two that they were stuck in a traffic jam in Munich and therefore arrived too late to the crime scene, but does not believe a word of it himself.
The next day, Schaller finds the missing second shoe of the victim at the spot he suspects was the crime scene. There is a kiosk here near a bridge over the Isar, which is open all night. Schaller can't find out more at his first on-site inspection.
After the hotel, in which the murder victim was often staying, could be determined, Neuhauser and Flierl hope to finally be able to determine their identity. But the man's name is not known there, because the rooms were always booked and paid for by the women he had accompanied. The investigation team realizes that the dead man must have been a callboy, a “spoiler” as Schaller calls this type of lover. Schaller is now compiling a list of men who have bought the exclusive welted shoes, of which the murder victim also owned a pair. But questioning the women who had booked the rooms in the hotel does not help the team of investigators either. They are silent or at least do not reveal the name of the callboy.
Only after Angelika Flierl also resorted to unconventional means and ordered “Enrico”, who works for the escort agency of the murdered call boy, into a hotel room, did she get closer to the matter. She tells "Enrico" that she actually called the agency about another man, but that he was recently murdered. “Enrico” has the feeling that she is being listened to and throws Angelika, who pretended to be “Maria”, out of the hotel room she had paid for. But he quickly changes his mind and lets "Maria" back into the room.
Schaller is now doing research again at the kiosk on the banks of the Isar. He observes the hustle and bustle around the kiosk into the evening hours and speaks to the salesperson, who works in the kiosk all night.
With Stefanie, a soccer fan, Neuhauser goes to the "Rampe", a seedy pub where police officers often frequent after work. There they meet the police officer Fellner, called "Ringo". He calls Neuhauser "Kellerassel" because the investigative office of Schaller's team is in the basement of the police building, where the three inspectors are living on a temporary basis. When Neuhauser also sees that his new girlfriend Ilona, who actually wanted to meet a friend from Hamburg, is also in the bar and is being hit on by "Ringo", he freaks out and wants to fight his colleague. The two are thrown out of the bar. Ilona explains to Harald Neuhauser that she often goes to such bars.
The next day, Chief Detective Zangel was waiting for Neuhauser. He is warned about the incident in the pub. "Ringo" Fellner does not want to complain if Neuhauser apologizes to him. Schaller wants to postpone the apology, however, as news in the current case urges further research.
Flierl learned the name of the dead callboy from "Enrico". It is Holger Gerl, whose apartment Neuhauser and Flierl are the first to look around to find a clue as to the motive for the crime. There is a Lukas Finke under the phone numbers in Gerl's notebook. It turns out that this is the young man who works in the kiosk near the crime scene. However, he claims not to know Gerl. This makes him even more suspicious.
Schaller shows Finke his ID card at the kiosk and asks if he has a gun. He affirms, but claims to have them legally and to have a gun license. Schaller finds out that the owner of the kiosk is Ilona Freitag. Ilona's sister, Anna Finke, is Lukas' mother. Anna and her sister Ilona inherited their father's fortune, including some real estate. The matter becomes even more explosive when it turns out that Ilona Freitag is Neuhauser's new love affair. Her name can also be found in Gerl's notebook. However, Neuhauser does not reveal to Schaller that he knows her.
Flierl and Neuhauser drive to Ilona's apartment. Neuhauser goes into the apartment alone and meets Ilona and her sister Anna. Neuhauser hits Ilona in the face because he does not want to admit that his new love seems to be involved in the murderous incident. Back at Angelika Flierl's, she notices that something must have happened in the apartment. She also goes into the apartment and talks to the sisters. Only later does Neuhauser confess to her that he hit his girlfriend.
Angelika Flierl now meets her supervisor Helmut Zangel, who used to work for the moral police. He explains to her how the sex life of the callboys works. He claims that most call boys are homosexual, maximally bisexual, but still go to bed with women, purely out of financial interests. They gained the trust of these changing acquaintances by pretending to them how much they admired their independence and self-confidence. This is exactly what Flierl experienced with "Enrico" and almost fell for it.
Meanwhile, Schaller tries to follow his visions and comes to the conclusion that Lukas Finke could have had a homosexual relationship with the victim and possibly got into an argument with Gerl. Since he has a weapon that can be used as a murder weapon after examination, he becomes the main suspect.
The weapon is seized in Lukas Finke's apartment. He denies, however, that he has ever shot anything alive. There are actually no traces of smoke on his hands.
Neuhauser, however, continues to shadow his girlfriend Ilona's house. When she leaves the house, he confronts her. However, she likes her independence, she doesn't want to include Neuhauser too much in her surroundings, but also to lead a life apart from him. When she leaves, Neuhauser climbs up a tree to see where she is going. He falls down and lies there.
Schaller is now busy with a Mr. Siebert, who often hangs around the kiosk. The demented man claims that Lukas Finke's mother gave him a biscuit three days ago. Nobody believes the old man.
Angelika Flierl is now searching Lukas Finke's apartment again on her own. There she finds 2500 euros in cash and notices how Lukas is suffering from the death of his friend Holger Gerl. In his apartment he set up a kind of altar with memorabilia from Holger.
While Schaller and Flierl deal with the murder investigation, Neuhauser wants to talk to his Ilona again. He is shocked to find her strangled in her apartment. He now informs his colleagues who switch on the forensic investigation. Chief Detective Zangel also comes to the scene and makes Neuhauser reproaches. After the forensic investigation has finished its work, Schaller also sends Neuhauser and Flierl away so that they can examine the crime scene again on their own. His intuition tells him that Ilona must have been knocked down in the affect.
The traces found at the crime scene very quickly point to the call boy Sebastian Steinbichler. He is arrested and turns out to be the "Enrico" Flierl met in the hotel. He just played the southern accent. "Enrico" admits to have been ordered by Ilona on Friday. Then he got into an argument with her and pushed her away. Her head fell on the edge of the table and lay motionless on the floor. But he did not strangle her.
Zangel interrogates Anna Finke and she tells him that her sister Ilona was totally in love with Holger Gerl. As a callboy, Gerl had entered into the relationship with Ilona, although he had also developed a relationship with Lukas Finke, which Ilona knew nothing about.
Schaller remembers old Mr. Siebert, who had claimed that Lukas Finke's mother had given him a biscuit. Since Anna Finke never visited the kiosk on the Isar, it must have been mistaken for her sister Ilona. However, Neubauer claims that Ilona was with him on the night of the murder. In the morning, however, she was gone briefly to buy chocolate chip cookies. This makes it clear to Schaller that it could only have been Ilona Friday who shot Gerl after she was rejected by him.
Lukas Finke is now again summoned to the police station. He can be convicted of being the one who strangled the unconscious Ilona with her belt instead of calling the ambulance. The 2500 euros that Angelika Flierl had discovered on him came from his aunt's safe. He had also taken a valuable ring with him. Lukas knew that it could only have been his aunt who shot his friend Holger Gerl. On the night of the murder, the gun, which had always been kept in the kiosk, was missing for a short time. After it was put back, however, a cartridge was missing.
In the courtyard of the police station, Anna Finke talks about her sister. As a teenager, she repeatedly stopped cars on the street to get in and be picked up. Whoever took her with her soon had something to complain about and got into an argument with the driver. Often she was just thrown out in the middle of the road and then she stood there, on the street, at night, alone.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast on ZDF was watched by 5.80 million people on October 14, 2017. That means a market share of 20.2 percent. The film was seen by 10.3 percent of viewers between the ages of 14 and 49, which corresponds to around 0.88 million.
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv draws the following judgment on this episode: “A male corpse on the Isar. Always this banal killing! Meanwhile, Neuhauser and Schaller are looking for something higher: for magical love, for difficult poetry - and Flierl once again feels ignored. She is not alone in this. Many in the sixth 'Munich Murder' episode long for not only sexual fulfillment but also some recognition. The case, the relationships between the main characters and this 'theme' of desperate hearts, which circles all the stories in this crime thriller, are interwoven in an almost exemplary way in 'On the street, at night, alone'. There are also a dozen scenes to remember, the actors are great, and Munich is a village. "
Kino.de commented: In “'On the street, night, alone' the trio […] basks a little too much in its otherness, the sentences that the script puts in their mouths don't always fit. Often, however, they are also an absolute hit and so you stay wonderfully entertained, also thanks to a nested love drama as the main story. "
Ulrich Feld from the fnp assessed: “The amorous and criminalistic entanglements of all those involved, heterosexual and homosexual, balance particularly well in this episode on the fine line between drama and comedy. In doing so, Commissioner Schaller, embodied by Alexander Held with the usual precision and precise language style, repeatedly stands like a rock against the emotional waves of his employees. "
Web links
- Munich murder: on the street, at night, alone on zdf.de.
- Munich murder: On the road, at night, alone in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Munich murder: on the street, at night, alone at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the Munich murder: on the street, at night, alone . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 173327 / V).
- ↑ Manuel Nunez Sanchez: Primetime check: Saturday, October 14, 2017.quotemeter.de , October 15, 2017, accessed on October 20, 2017 .
- ^ Munich murder - on the street, at night, alone - criticism of the film. tittelbach.tv , accessed on October 21, 2017 .
- ^ Film review at Kino.de , accessed on November 17, 2017.
- ↑ Ulrich Feld: On the street, at night, alone: Munich murder in top form ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at fnp , accessed on November 17, 2017.
