Marie Brand and the song of death and love
| Episode of the Marie Brand series | |
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| Original title | Marie Brand and the song of death and love |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Eyeworks |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 10 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | November 15, 2012 on ZDF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christiane Balthasar |
| script |
Khyana el Bitar , Wolfgang Stauch |
| production | Micha Terjung |
| music | Florian Tessloff |
| camera | Markus Hausen |
| cut | Sebastian Thümler |
| occupation | |
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Marie Brand and the Song of Death and Love is the tenth episode of the Marie Brand crime series . The television film with Mariele Millowitsch as chief detective Marie Brand and Hinnerk Schönemann as chief detective Jürgen Simmel was broadcast for the first time on November 15, 2012 on ZDF .
action
Industrial climber Robert Muller is supposed to climb down a skyscraper for a commercial. Although he seems well secured, the rope breaks and he falls to his death. Marie Brand and Jürgen Simmel should take over the case. When they arrive at the scene of the accident, Marie has the recordings made and looks around carefully. It is believed that the safety ropes were tampered with and that Muller should fall. Later investigation reveals that the material was made brittle with acid.
To find out who was interested in the death of the man, Brand and Simmel interview the wife, Anna Lex-Muller. She seems very dismissive and has an alibi for the time of the crime, but she also makes a suspicious remark. Before they can deal with it any further, however, the investigators are called to a death in a brothel. Strangely enough, it is Björn Zeiss, the evangelical pastor whom they met with Muller's widow. Marie quickly finds out that the pastor's death was not an accident, but murder. Mrs. Zeiss doesn't seem overly shaken and knows about her husband's sinful hobby.
While Simmel wants to look around the brothel again that evening, Marie meets up with Claas Schubert, whom she recently met. Both of them go to work the next day in a good mood. While searching for a motive, Brand and Simmel find out that Muller had an affair with Marion Schumann, whom he met at the immigration office because he was still an American citizen. Marie finds a connection between the two murders, because both men had been unfaithful to their wives and both women knew each other. A third woman comes into play: Carlotta Berg. She witnessed the Muller crash and made a strange impression on investigators. The fact that she, too, is a betrayed wife fits perfectly into Marie’s scheme and her theory that the “club of betrayed wives” is on a vengeance campaign and that one of them will eliminate the husband for the other. At first, they cannot identify an unfaithful husband at Carlotta Berg, because she is divorced because she has left her husband. Simmel finds out that she has a lover whom she may seek revenge on. Unexpectedly, this is Marie's new friend Claas Schubert, who turns out to be a marriage fraud. The investigators do everything in their power to find him in order to save his life. At the last moment you can prevent Carlotta Berg from killing Claas Schubert, who had robbed you of a small fortune. Berg admits without further ado that he killed the other two men as well.
Anna Lex-Muller and Belinda Zeiss didn't want their husbands to die, they just wanted to give them a lesson. Carlotta Berg, on the other hand, considered it right to punish her with death.
background
The episode was produced by Eyeworks Germany GmbH, Cologne , and shot in Cologne and the surrounding area.
reception
Audience ratings
The television film Marie Brand and the Song of Death and Love reached an average of 5.34 million viewers when it was first broadcast on ZDF on November 15, 2012, which corresponds to 16.5 percent of the market share in Germany.
Reviews
Thomas Gehringer from tittelbach.tv says: “ZDF is showing Mariele Millowitsch and Hinnerk Schönemann for the tenth time, and the interaction is still fresh and amusing. […] The pace is leisurely, […] but after a while the film gets going and collects plus points. Johanna Gastdorf's pastor's wife tirades are just as worth seeing as Katja Flint's casual snob attitudes. Thomas Heinze also has the opportunity to play off the male vanity of his superior [...]. This is solidly made crime-comedy material. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm think about this new Marie Brand film: "Makes you happy thanks to the great actors."
Web links
- Marie fire and the song of death and love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Marie Brand and the song of death and love on fernsehserien.de
- Marie Brand and the song of death and love at ofdb.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Marie Brand and the Song of Death and Love Film criticism and audience rating at tittelbach.tv, accessed on January 5, 2015.
- ↑ Marie Brand and the song of death and love short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 5, 2015.