Munich murder: no one, no problem
| Episode of the series Munich Murder | |||
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| Original title | No human, no problem | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 93 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Episode 3 ( list ) | ||
| First broadcast | January 2, 2016 on ORF 2 | ||
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| Director | Alexander Dierbach | ||
| script | Kai-Uwe Hasenheit | ||
| production |
Andreas Schneppe Sven Burgemeister |
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| music | Stephan Massimo | ||
| camera | Markus Schott | ||
| cut | Sarah Birnbaum | ||
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No man, no problem is a German television film by Alexander Dierbach from 2016. It is the third episode of the crime series Munich Murder with Bernadette Heerwagen , Alexander Held and Marcus Mittermeier in the leading roles.
action
A naked man is found dead in a large suitcase in a hotel. While the head of the department, Helmut Zangel, assumes a sex accident, the investigative team, consisting of Angelika Flierl, Harald Neuhauser and Ludwig Schaller, tends to commit murder. After the dead person's identity is clear and they inform his wife about the death of their husband, the question arises why he had rented a hotel room when he does have an apartment in Munich. His wife has no explanation for this either. The suitcase, which was obviously transported by plane, is also a mystery. But since the victim worked at the airport and his two closest friends, Konrad Saxinger and Marco Albertini, frequent the Kazan consulate, the whole thing becomes politically explosive. Neuhauser and Flierl unceremoniously go to the consulate to search for clues, disguised as a couple. The investigations in the world of diplomats and politicians do not make matters easy. When Konrad Saxinger and Marco Albertini notice that they are the focus of the investigation, they become increasingly nervous. Albertini can't stand it and his girlfriend urges him to make a statement to the police. Since Saxinger cannot and does not want to allow this, he kidnaps Albertini's girlfriend in order to have some leverage against him. Investigators initially assume that Jessica Pallack was only in hiding. But after Albertini suddenly confesses to his friend's murder, they are sure that he was forced to make this statement.
Ludwig Schaller is meanwhile trying to clarify the diplomatic status of Victoria Sokol, who allegedly came from Kazan at the invitation of Munich and officially acts as the country's envoy. Despite a diplomatic passport, it is not valid without the approval of the relevant authority. Trying to find out why the woman is really in Munich and what goals she is pursuing fails. Meanwhile, Neuhauser and Flierl can watch Sokol's son pulling a large suitcase out of a garage. They suspect the kidnapped Jessica Pallack in it, but they can't stop the man and he escapes with the suitcase to the premises of the Kazan embassy. After the investigators interrogate Albertini again and explain the explosive situation of his girlfriend to him, he breaks his silence. He says that Saxinger asked him to get the suitcase from the hotel room. He would not have known what was inside.
To save Jessica Pallack, the three investigators defy the political immunity of the Sokols and storm the consulate, but all they find here is abandoned rooms and an empty suitcase. When Schaller takes a closer look at it, he finds a forgotten bank note in it. It is clear to them that this is all about money. They find out that the Sokol family wanted to bring their “family treasure” of 150 million euros here to Germany. Since the victim knew this, he had already embezzled the suitcase at the airport and had it delivered to a hotel. When he wanted to pick up the money there, he was tracked down by Pawel Sokol and killed.
Neuhauser and Flierl find Jessica alive in another suitcase and then go straight to the airport to forestall the Sokols when they leave too quickly. Due to the unconfirmed validity of their diplomatic passports, they could arrest Victoria and Pawl Sokol.
reception
Audience ratings
The episode was able to win over the previous episode, both among the general public and among younger viewers. The broadcast on ZDF was followed by 5.59 million viewers, which means a market share of 17.1 percent. 9.8 percent of the younger viewers followed the crime film on ZDF, i.e. around 1.13 million.
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv draws the following verdict on this episode: “Where a few million euros were piled up, there is now one dead. Not only this change in the contents of a suitcase, but also the (almost impossible) investigation in diplomatic circles characterizes the third case of the Munich outsider gang around Commissioner Schaller. The stupid policeman (great: Alexander Held) gives “No man, no problem” that special note. There is a lot of absurdity and madness in the ironic game; and sometimes someone runs away naked from the police. "In the end he gives the following summary:" Even after the third prank, Munich Murder remains the most unconventional of the four ZDF Saturday crime series that started in 2014 "
Manuel Weis of Quotenmeter.de wrote: In the end "may be inhaled: No," Munich murder "was not necessary to cut lengths and thus stands out as almost the only ZDF Saturday thriller content nor significantly. And it is precisely this path that should be continued - with all due caution not to go too wild. The ZDF should even be told that some other series, including the newer ones, a piece of the courage of the Munich trio would do pretty well. "
Trivia
Josef Stalin is often named as the originator of the quote “No man, no problem”, with which Victoria Sokol describes the alternative to the kidnapping of Jessica to Konrad Saxinger ; However, it comes from Anatoly Rybakov's novel Die Kinder vom Arbat , published in 1987 , in which it is put in Stalin's mouth on the occasion of the arbitrary shooting of former Tsarist officers in Tsaritsyn in autumn 1918 .
Web links
- Munich murder: no one, no problem on zdf.de
- Munich murder: No man, no problem in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Munich murder: Nobody, no problem with Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clearance certificate for Munich murder: Nobody, no problem . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 163252 / V).
- ^ Robert Meyer: Primetime Check: Saturday, January 30, 2016.quotemeter.de , January 31, 2016, accessed on October 20, 2017 .
- ^ Munich murder - no human, no problem - criticism of the film. tittelbach.tv , accessed on October 21, 2017 .
- ↑ movie review at Quotenmeter.de accessed on 16 November 2017th
- ↑ Anatolij Rybakow: Die Kinder vom Arbat: Die Kinder vom Arbat, Volume 1 , Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2016. ISBN 346241027X , p. 564 ( online in the Google book preview ).
- ↑ Oleg Vitalievich Chlewnjuk : Stalin: Eine Biographie , Siedler Verlag 2015. ISBN 3641153492 , p. 85 ( online in the Google book preview ).