Marie Brand and the charm of evil
| Episode of the Marie Brand series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Marie Brand and the charm of evil |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Eyeworks |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 2 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | December 29, 2008 on ZDF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christoph Snow |
| script |
Alexander Adolph , Eva Wehrum |
| production | Micha Terjung |
| music | Dieter Schleip |
| camera | Diethard Prengel |
| cut | Guido Krajewski |
| occupation | |
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Marie Brand and the Charm of Evil is the second episode of the German crime series Marie Brand . 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 December 29, 2008 on ZDF .
action
After the successful collaboration with Jürgen Simmel, Marie Brand becomes his new partner in the investigation team. She surprises him with this news, as well as with her analytical skills à la Sherlock Holmes . Her new case takes her to an underground car park, where a young woman was killed by a car bomb. As it turns out, the attack was very likely against Dr. Tilmann, a respected lawyer who rigorously represents employers' interests and is also responsible for mass layoffs. He even used dubious methods to force employees who could not be dismissed in theory. Thus, he should have many enemies, which shows the large number of threatening letters that Tilmann has received over time.
Finke is identified as the first suspect, whom Brand and Simmel seek. Tilmann harassed his wife until she became so sick that she even committed suicide in the end. After Finke admitted the attack and threatened Marie and her colleague Simmel, he committed suicide. For Simmel and Dr. Gustav Engler seems to have solved the case, which Marie does not see as such. Their observations and conclusions make them doubt that Tilmann escaped the attack by chance. According to her, he knew there was a bomb installed in his car. This means that he deliberately sent his secretary Gloria to her death when she was supposed to be bringing his car for inspection.
During their investigation, the commissioners come across the private detective Hans Mauthes. They learn from him that he had shadowed Finke on Tilmann's behalf. So he could have found out from him that Finke had installed the car bomb. Marie seeks out Tillmann and finds that he is as analytically gifted as she is. She frankly lets him feel that she thinks he is a murderer. When Mauthes also kills himself shortly after their conversation, Marie realizes that Tilmann drove him to his death too.
The inspectors learn from the victim's friend that Gloria helped her boss to hold a very unusual and expensive seminar. To find out what is going on there and whether Gloria may have had to die because of her knowledge of it, Brand and Simmel go to the venue. There they will witness Tilmann's lecture, in which he passed on his knowledge and strategies for dismissing unpleasant employees to the participants. Just as he wrote in his recently published book, according to which it would be the art of war to ensure that the opponents annihilate each other. Marie Brand and Jürgen Simmel are caught by the security officers and as a result Simmel suffers a broken bone and Marie is discredited by her boss. She is suspended from duty and her husband also receives an anonymous complaint, which puts the continuation of his pet shop at risk.
Marie decides to beat Tilmann with his own weapons and goes on the offensive. She goes to him and confronts him with her conclusions, according to which Gloria felt guilty because she had noticed that the detective Mauthes had killed Frau Finke on Tilmann's behalf. She succeeds in unsettling Tilmann and looking for a letter that doesn't even exist, thus persuading him to make an involuntary confession. Since Simmel overhears everything secretly, they have proof and can arrest Tilmann as convicted, whereupon Marie Brand is officially allowed to resume her service.
background
The episode was produced in 2008 by Eyeworks Germany GmbH, Cologne , and shot in Cologne and the surrounding area. In the production phase, the working title was “Marie can do magic”.
reception
Audience ratings
The television film Marie Brand and the Charm of Evil reached an average of 6.32 million viewers when it was first broadcast on ZDF on December 29, 2008, corresponding to 19.3 percent of the market share in Germany.
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv comments on this thriller: “The fact that a duo grows together here that solves the cases humorously and seriously at the same time and does not bore the viewer with hackneyed buddy scams was already clear in the opening thriller. In the second case, Grimme Prize winner Alexander Adolph concentrated more on story and socially critical nuances. 'Marie Brand and the Charm of Evil' developed into a duel between the commissioner and a radical employer lawyer who, in his feeling of omnipotence, does not shy away from criminal methods. An exciting duel, not least because of Harald Krassnitzer, who gave his bad boys provocatively self-confident. A new color, a convincing film. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm believe that this new Marie Brand series offers the "charm of funny dialogues."
Tilmann P. Gangloff from Kino.de praises the thriller and writes: “'Marie Brand and the charm of evil' is even better than the start. Millowitsch and Schönemann not only seem more well-rehearsed, the characters deepen their typical characteristics in an almost loving way. "
Philipp Stendebach at Quotenmeter.de however, thinks quite soberly: "Unfortunately there is a lack of production in hindsight to dramatic tension and the 90-minute film suffers from histrionic display of Mariele Millowitsch. The beginning is nicely staged [...], [but] the thriller remains only moderately exciting until the end and the big reveal - compared to the previous story - comes too late and suddenly. "
Web links
- Marie fire and the charm of evil in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Marie Brand and the charm of evil at fernsehserien.de
- Marie Brand and the charm of evil at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Marie Brand and the Charm of Evil . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 960 V).
- ^ Marie Brand and the Charm of Evil Location, Internet Movie Database , accessed December 31, 2014.
- ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Marie Brand and the Charm of Evil Film review and audience rating at tittelbach.tv, accessed on December 22, 2014.
- ↑ Marie Brand and the Charm of Evil Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on December 31, 2014.
- ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Marie Brand and the Charm of Evil Film criticism and audience rating at kino.de, accessed on December 31, 2014.
- ↑ Philipp Stendebach: Marie Brand and the Charm of Evil film review on quotenmeter.de, accessed on December 31, 2014.