Munich murder: the whole city is a fool

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Episode of the series Munich Murder
Original title The whole city is a fool
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 7 ( list )
First broadcast September 22, 2018 on ZDF
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Director Sascha Bigler
script Matthias Kiefersauer
Alexander Liegl
production Andreas Schneppe
Sven Burgemeister
music Stephan Massimo
camera Ralf K. Dobrick
cut Manuel Reidinger
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
On the street, at night, alone

Successor  →
Living and Dying in Schwabing

The whole city is a dork is a German TV film by Sascha Bigler from 2018 . It is the seventh episode of the crime series Munich Murder with Bernadette Heerwagen , Alexander Held and Marcus Mittermeier in the leading roles. It was first broadcast on September 22, 2018 on ZDF .

action

Munich is in a state of emergency at the time of the Oktoberfest . Angelika Flierl tries desperately to win a table in the festival tent at a radio competition, Ludwig Schaller hates the Oktoberfest and Harald Neuhauser is wanted by Tanja, a woman who had hoped for a lot more from a flirt and one-night stand.

Josef Kleint, a lonely 70-year-old pensioner and neighbor of chief detective Zangel, is found dead in his apartment with a beer mug . Zangel himself is an ear-witness of the murder and is knocked down by the perpetrator, who can escape undetected. There is a picture gallery on a wall in the victim's apartment, but one picture may be missing. At the former workplace of the killed former caretaker at the Munich Music Academy , Flierl meets the flautist Fridolin Fehr, who tells her that he had seen Kleint three days before his death in an argument with the current caretaker Uli Schmidbauer there.

Rita Pellmeier, the 82-year-old sister of Josef Kleint and his only living relative, breaks into his apartment, which has been sealed by the police. The subsequent two-hour survey by Schaller was initially inconclusive. In Kleint's apartment there are several copies of a recently recorded video portrait about him for television. There is also an earlier recording of the picture gallery in which the missing painting, possibly a lost original by the painter Paul Klee , can still be seen. The investigators therefore suspect that it could have been a robbery murder. Schaller suspects Pellmeier of looking for the painting in Kleint's apartment. However, the fact that she is the sole heir to Kleint's estate speaks against this. Pellmeier finally tells Schaller how she came across the painting in April 1945 without knowing that it was an original by Paul Klee. She handed it to Josef without informing him of the origin of the picture. After the death of the parents of the two, there was an argument, he only wanted to make up shortly before his 70th birthday. After her confession, Pellmeier collapses dead.

Flier finds a book about Paul Klee from Stella Bast, an ambitious piano student at the music college who recently went to Kleint's apartment with a few others to congratulate him on his 70th birthday. The entry Stuhl im Aufbruch , looted art stolen by the National Socialists and lost since 1945 , is marked there. In addition, a new concert grand piano is currently being delivered to her apartment for 68,000 euros. At first she does not want to comment on the origin of the funds required, but later claims to have a rich patron whose name she does not want to mention.

Christian Mölder is a windy businessman and business partner of Uli Schmidbauer. He procures Schmidbauer buyers for those items that Schmidbauer finds in the basement of Königsplatz , including a fireplace set and a door handle to the fireplace room from Adolf Hitler with a "certificate of authenticity from the Ernst Röhm Foundation". Stella Bast tries to blackmail Uli Schmidbauer with her knowledge of his illegal machinations; she learned about Schmidbauer's activities from Kleint. Soon after Mölder and Schmidbauer had met potential Japanese customers in the basement, Schmidbauer was found injured by Flierl and Schaller. He claims that he needed the money from the sale to finance his mother's care. The picture that he had found in the basement and wanted to sell to the Japanese had disappeared. But it remains unclear who hid it there.

While observing Stella Bast, Neuhauser finds out that Professor Michael Knöpfle has a relationship with Bast. Knöpfle reports to the investigators because she did not show up for an important exam and he cannot reach her by phone either. Knöpfle also states that Stella has someone else. Knöpfle could only make out his red brogue shoes . Schaller remembers seeing them at Konstantin Zillenbrook, an employee at an insurance company who deals with paintings that have disappeared. Schaller had previously visited him because of his technical expertise.

Zillenbrook confesses to having had a relationship with Stella Bast, but ended it a month ago. The concert grand was his parting present. However, Schaller does not believe he has ended the relationship and pursues Zillenbrook to the music college, where he meets with his Stella. She has the painting by Paul Klee with her. Before that, when searching for the painting in the cellar, Flierl and Neuhauser are locked in the room for the raw ice-making , the perpetrator also switches on the cooling. The two try to warm each other. Schaller and Zangel temporarily arrest Zillenbrook and Bast on suspicion of murder of Josef Kleint. After a brief argument with Zillenbrook about the picture, Stella Bast reveals that Zillenbrook killed Kleint. Flierl and Neuhauser can be freed from the refrigerator after a hint from Stella Bast.

production

One of the locations: The Munich University of Music

The shooting took place together with the eighth part Living and Dying in Schwabing from October 4 to December 11, 2017. The film was produced by TV60Filmproduktion , with ZDF involved . Michael Björn Köning was responsible for the production design, Rainer Plabst for the sound and Theresia Wogh for the costume design.

reception

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv found that the seventh episode of Munich Murder is also a humorous, fluently narrated and correspondingly entertaining crime thriller that always has a wink for the viewer. Schaller and Co would remain lovable, the embarrassing misunderstandings and the awkward situations in which the commissioners put themselves would never seem silly or out of place.

Wilfried Geldner wrote in the Weser Kurier that this episode was more gaudy than crime, a lot of wit and little tension. “A Munich type comedy that gets its simple charm from the view into the depths of the Nazi era. And from the very nostalgic game in the style of police inspection 1. "

Tilmann P. Gangloff said on Evangelisch.de that the seventh episode remained true to the high level of the earlier episodes. The film is a pleasure with its wonderfully unnecessarily complicated dialogues and some malicious ideas on the fringes.

In Germany, the film was viewed by 5.78 million people when it was first broadcast, with a market share of 19.6 percent.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fernsehserien.de: Munich murder 07: The whole city is a fool . Retrieved August 17, 2018.
  2. ↑ Munich murder - the whole city is a dork at crew united . Retrieved August 17, 2018.
  3. ↑ Munich Murder - Welcome to Wahnmoching at crew united . Retrieved August 17, 2018.
  4. ↑ Rainer Tittelbach: Series "Munich Murder - The Whole City A Fool" at tittelbach.tv , accessed on August 31, 2018.
  5. ^ Wilfried Geldner: Paul Klee and the Oktoberfest. In: Weser Courier . July 4, 2020, accessed July 4, 2020 .
  6. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : TV tip: "Munich Murder: The whole city is a dork" (ZDF). In: Evangelisch.de . July 11, 2020, accessed July 12, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Timo Nöthling: Primetime check: Saturday, September 22, 2018.quotemeter.de, September 23, 2018, accessed on September 23, 2018 .