Munich murder: someone who made it
| Episode of the series Munich Murder | |||
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| Original title | One who made it | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 92 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Episode 5 ( list ) | ||
| First broadcast | March 18, 2017 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Anno Saul | ||
| script | Florian Iwersen | ||
| music | Ali N. Askin | ||
| camera | Nathalie Wiedemann | ||
| cut | Dirk Gray | ||
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One who did it is a German television film by Anno Saul from 2017. It is the fifth episode of the crime series Munich Murder with Bernadette Heerwagen , Alexander Held and Marcus Mittermeier in the leading roles.
action
The investigation team, chief inspector Ludwig Schaller, and the two chief inspectors, Angelika Flierl and Harald Neuhauser, meet during judo training. Neuhauser is then supposed to take part in anti-aggression training, but he claims there is no reason to do so. Then Flierl and Neuhauser received a radio message that a villa in Starnberg had been broken into. The two immediately set off. When they arrive there, the perpetrator is fleeing. Flierl can just make a note of the license plate number of the escape vehicle. It belongs to the fleet of the entrepreneur Petr Horvath, who built up a precision mechanics company that enjoys a good international reputation and also supplies the Ministry of Defense. In the villa, the two police officers find the entrepreneur seriously injured, he has lost a lot of blood and is being taken to the hospital.
Flierl and Neuhauser visit the Horvaths company. Aid goods are now being collected in one of the warehouses. The two policemen learn that Horvath himself fled the Czech Republic in 1984 and lost his family in the process. Since then he has been campaigning for refugees.
Flierl and Neuhauser invite Horvath's secretary, who they found in the villa, to the police station for interrogation. The secretary had a key to the house and called the police from there. She claims to have been called by a customer that Horvath did not show up for a meeting. Then she checked that everything was okay and found Horvath seriously injured. Although she claims to have been very satisfied with her boss, she does not inquire about his current health.
The head of the chief detective, Helmut Zangel, confronts Neuhauser for not having started the anti-aggression training. He wants to finally get rid of the unpleasant team around Chief Inspector Schaller after he has already banished them to the basement of the office.
But Neuhauser and Flierl were not deterred and searched Horvath's villa again. You'll meet Schaller there. He has discovered a camera and wants to watch the surveillance videos. However, the tapes appear to have been erased. You will be entrusted to the specialists of the criminal police for recovery.
Neuhauser learns from his former girlfriend Moni, with whom he had a relationship 15 years ago, that a child has emerged from this connection. The boy named Simon is now 14 years old and finally wants to meet his father. Neuhauser decides to take a paternity test.
The team learns that Horvath's wounds were already encrusted when he was admitted to the hospital. The robbery must have taken place the day before. The role of the secretary is becoming more and more opaque.
Schaller meets an informant in the park. From him he learns that after his escape Horvath had been a lecturer at the University of Munich for eight years and then founded his company. He decides to search Horvath's villa again with Flierl and Neuhauser. He notices a picture of Horvath's family having a barbecue. In addition to Horvath with his wife and daughter, another man is shown. Schaller and his employees make a list of the family on the spot . He notices the tension that exists between the two men in the picture. Then all three drive to the Bavarian Forest on the Czech border, where Horvath's escape is said to have taken place. While Flierl and Neuhauser take a look at the border town, Schaller goes to a hairdresser and has her hair cut. He hopes the hairdresser will provide information about Horvath's escape. In fact, she tells him about a family who drove into a river in the rain in a stolen car in 1984. The woman's body was later found miles downstream, the child was never found. In the meantime, Flierl and Neuhauser learned of an almost skeletonized male corpse that had recently been found during dredging work on the riverbank.
They drive on with Schaller to the border river, but where they have a flat tire. While Neuhauser is changing tires, Flierl and Schaller meet Alois Schneider, who immediately shoots them both. When Schaller identifies himself as a policeman, Schneider explains that he wanted to protect himself from real estate sharks who are stealing properties from the settlers in the area. It turns out that Alois Schneider was the owner of the getaway vehicle that Horvath and his family took into the river at the time. Alois wasn't even there at that time, his brother Fritz made the car available to the refugees. At that time Fritz Schneider was a customs officer at the Czech border in Eisenstein and hired himself as an escape helper. After the incidents of 1984, however, he no longer appeared on duty and was no longer seen by anyone, including his brother Alois.
There was also no trace of Fritz Schneider's wife Edeltraud after his disappearance. Angelika Flierl, however, finds evidence of a couple named Fritz and Edeltraud Leiss. Leiss was Schneider's wife's maiden name. The team visits the Leiss family and learns that Fritz Schneider has actually built a new family life under his wife's maiden name. The couple have a daughter named Bianca. However, Fritz has been dead for two years, he died of lung cancer. His little granddaughter is now in the hospital, she has leukemia. The daughter Bianca is looking for a suitable bone marrow donor.
Schaller is sitting at Horvath's bedside in the clinic. He has not yet woken up from the coma. Neuhauser meanwhile observes the hustle and bustle in a suburb, where he is shadowing a young couple who he believes are drug dealers. However, he has to find out that the package handed over is not drugs, but condoms.
Fingerprints have shown that the Horvaths secretary spent more than a short time in his villa. Obviously she was all over the house and left marks everywhere. Neuhauser tells her on the head that she was in Horvath's bed. The secretary only admits that she and her friend Holger often used the villa for a rendezvous when her boss was not there. The two of them used the sauna and pool there for themselves. Holger was there when Horvath was found, he deleted the surveillance tapes in order to conceal his own presence and at the same time destroyed the video recording of the crime.
Schaller is now receiving files from the Czech Republic. He calls the Czech authorities and finds out that Horvath's mother is still alive. He decides to visit her in the retirement home in the Czech Republic. There he learns that the old woman has dementia. She says that Petr is always hungry and that he is a skilled boy who can still become something. Schaller shows her the family photo that was taken while barbecuing. She then recognizes Jan Tomek, Petr's best friend. Schaller realizes that the man from the villa must be Jan Tomek. Tomek accepted the offer from the Ludwig Maximilians University to Horvath and slipped into his role.
So the dead person on the construction site could be Horvath. Flierl drives to Schaller on the border in Eisenstein, while Neuhauser does a paternity test. Schaller and Flierl visit the accident site on the river again. Schaller wades into the water with Flierl. In rainy weather, he tests the flow in the border river.
Neuhauser examines the surveillance videos from Horvath's villa, which have since been restored. It can be seen that Schneider's daughter Bianca Leiss had visited the alleged Horvath in his villa. She didn't realize that it was really Jan Tomek. She wanted to ask her father for a bone marrow donation that would have saved her daughter's life. However, during the tests it turned out that this man was not related to her. She confronted Tomek with these facts. In an argument, she struck him down with the sculpture.
Tomek confesses the whole story to Schaller in the hospital. The Horvath couple's car had lost its way during an argument and crashed into the river. At that time, Tomek had to bury Horvath in a pit by the river in order to be able to assume his identity. Horvath's daughter Bianca didn't cross the border until later. It was smuggled in a statue of St. Nepomuk that was carried across the border in a procession. After the death of her parents, she was taken in by the Leiss couple and passed off as their daughter. In the meantime, Flierl speaks to Horvath's daughter and tells her about her grandmother in the home, who is a possible bone marrow donor.
Neuhauser's paternity test is positive, he meets with his 14-year-old son Simon. This is the boy that Neuhauser shadowed in the alleged drug deal with his girlfriend. However, at his age, Simon is no longer interested in a new father figure.
While the team was investigating in the field, the department head Helmut Zangel had forged a plan to finally blow up the team. He wanted to get Schaller a promotion and believed that he could get rid of the team. However, Schaller tears up the offer for the promotion and cancels Zangel. So the team will continue to stick together and solve cases in its own way.
reception
Audience ratings
The episode, One Who Made It, is the episode of the Munich Murder series followed by most viewers . Overall, the episode was followed by 6.76 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 21.2 percent. Of the younger viewers, 13.1 percent, or around 1.34 million, opted for this crime film.
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv draws the following verdict on this episode: “Even 'one who made it' […] is pleasantly different from all the commercial thrillers that flood the program. Thanks to the strange methods of lateral thinker Schaller, the viewer is soon confronted with a complex story about a relationship act, a car accident, a buried dead person, smugglers and people smuggled, about identity changes and second chances. The film has the ironic note that is so typical for this series and lives from its dry characters. The cinematic impression is atmospheric, varied, unobtrusive: Accentuated time and decelerated montage determine the narrative flow. "
Web links
- Munich murder: one who made it on zdf.de.
- Munich murder: managed one who's has in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Munich Murder: One Who Made It . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 166913 / V).
- ↑ Manuel Nunez Sanchez: Primetime Check: Saturday, March 18, 2017.quotemeter.de , March 19, 2017, accessed on October 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Munich Murder - One Who Made It - Review of the film. tittelbach.tv , accessed on October 21, 2017 .