Marie Brand and the eternal race
| Episode of the Marie Brand series | |
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| Original title | Marie Brand and the eternal race |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Warner Bros. International Television Production |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 19 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | January 25, 2017 on ZDF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Zens |
| script | Stefan Rogall |
| production |
Micha Terjung Sabine de Mardt Iris Wolfinger |
| music | Florian Tessloff |
| camera | Enzo Brandner |
| cut | Anke Berthold |
| occupation | |
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Marie Brand and the Eternal Race is the nineteenth episode of the Marie Brand crime series . The television film with Mariele Millowitsch in the title role and Hinnerk Schönemann as chief detective Jürgen Simmel was first broadcast on ZDF on January 25, 2017 .
action
Commissioner Marie Brand and her colleague Jürgen Simmel are called to an accident with a hit and run. Obviously, the driver of the car intended to deliberately run over the teacher Lena Böhmer when she was jogging in the early hours of the morning. A courageous newspaper messenger wanted to protect the woman and was hit by the car and killed himself. The accident car belongs to the Renski family, who have not even noticed that their car was stolen. Since Justus Renski goes to the school where Lena Böhmer teaches, he is questioned urgently. At school he is considered very exemplary and talented. Lena Böhmer also values the boy and encourages him wherever she can. Accordingly, there are complaints from parents who are of the opinion that their offspring are disadvantaged and that their model pupil Justus Renski is preferred by her. In particular, the lawyer Haberland regularly writes letters of complaint so that his moderately gifted son Finn learns early on that it is easier to get good grades than to earn them with difficulty. Accordingly, Justus is exposed to the bullying of his classmates, which drive them to the point that they post fake photos from his laptop on the Internet, which compromise him and his teacher. For Marie Brand, the conflict between Finn Haberland and Justus Renski is worth a closer look. So she finds out that Justus' father was reported by Finn Haberland a year ago for allegedly being violent in the course of his sales activities, whereupon he was fired. Since then, the man has been unemployed and is still in a mental crisis.
Brand and Simmel are able to find a witness who watched a young man park the accident vehicle and leave. The description of the person is vague, but when compared, he is sure that he saw Finn Haberland. As a shrewd lawyer, Benedikt Haberland succeeds in making the witness so insecure that he withdraws his testimony. Nevertheless, the noose around Finn is tightening. This drives his father so far that he gets Oliver Renski to take on the crime with a six-figure sum. Despite all doubts, Commissioner Brand has no choice but to take the man into custody. He describes the circumstances of the incident very plausibly and his motivation also sounds plausible, because he was allegedly convinced that the teacher had seduced his son. The photos on the Internet and Justus' crush on Lena Böhmer were proof enough for him.
The rumor about a relationship between Justus and Lena Böhmer has also occupied her husband since the attack. When he drove back home on his way to town a few days after this incident, he surprisingly found his wife and Justus there alone. She says goodbye to him in front of the house and Alexander Böhmer interprets the situation according to his imagination and wants to teach the boy a lesson. He provokes Justus, who then wants to fight Böhmer. But Jupiter evades and Jupiter falls so unhappily that he falls with the back of his head on a stone and is dead on the spot. Jürgen Simmel has the thankless task of informing Ulrike Renski about the death of her son. The woman is shocked, gets into her car and races away. Brand and Simmel pursue her because they fear that she will want to take her own life. But she goes to school, where a sports competition is taking place and Finn Haberland's father is also present. Ulrike Renski throws the money at his feet and explains hysterically: "It was his son! 100,000 euros - my husband should go to jail for that. For his son."
Finn Haberland denies and his father is also convinced that the investigators cannot prove anything to his son, but Marie Brand is sure that she can provide this evidence that his son had decided to give his son out of fear of bad grades and personal failure Killing a teacher. Finn explains, "Everything has consequences. For everyone. Even the son of a lawyer is no exception."
background
The episode was produced by Warner Bros. International Television Production (Eyeworks) and shot in and around Cologne .
reception
Audience ratings
The television film Marie Brand and the Eternal Race reached an average of 7.57 million viewers when it was first broadcast on ZDF on January 25, 2017, which corresponds to 23.1 percent of the market share in Germany.
Reviews
Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv judges this episode only mediocre and says: “The ZDF crime series 'Marie Brand' is increasingly becoming a Simmel show: because the title heroine, once introduced as a genius, has long since become a completely normal TV commissioner . ”“ The stories [reach] just about the status of an ordinary crime story […] [and] the films [approach] arbitrariness; if it weren't for Hinnerk Schönemann, who gives the series a unique selling point with his humoresque. "
Others
In this episode there is a math problem on a school blackboard, in which equality is to be established by putting brackets. Commissioner Simmel takes a quick look at the task and puts two brackets perfectly right. This causes the model student Justus to notice as he goes out: "The brackets are in the wrong place." Inspector Brand then looks at the task, wipes away the correct brackets and sets two new (also correct) brackets. But the gag is: If you don't put any brackets at all, equality is also given - a typical mathematical fun task.
Web links
- Marie fire and eternal race in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Marie Brand and the Eternal Race website of ZDF , video available until April 25, 2017
- Marie Brand and the eternal race at Fernsehserien.de
- Marie Brand and the eternal race at crew united
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Tilmann P. Gangloff : Millowitsch, Schönemann, Mayer, Rogall, Zens. Jürgen Simmel and the eternal ...? Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 1, 2017.