Marie Brand and the moment of death
| Episode of the Marie Brand series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Marie Brand and the moment of death |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Eyeworks |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 8 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | November 24, 2011 on ZDF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Josh Broecker |
| script | André Georgi |
| production | Micha Terjung |
| music | Florian Tessloff |
| camera | Dieter Deventer |
| cut | Knut Hake |
| occupation | |
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Marie Brand and the Moment of Death is the eighth 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 November 24, 2011 on ZDF .
action
Marie Brand and Jürgen Simmel are on their way to training when a man crashes into their car from a bridge. A motorcyclist leaves very quickly and Simmel takes up the chase, while Marie Brand looks after the traces of the crime scene. The dead man was Markus Sombart, a curator in a Cologne museum and was obviously persecuted by his murderer for a long time. A questioning of the museum director reveals that Sombart was responsible for the retrospective of the contemporary painter Murau and that a picture of this painter was recently stolen and a ransom demand was received. This is Murau's best-known picture, in which he captured the moment of his wife's death. Cornelia Lohmann - his daughter - rebels against these pictures of her mother and it is conceivable that she has something to do with the disappearance. But initially the investigation focuses on Daniel Küster, who was responsible for securing the picture and who recently disappeared. You can find him in his basement, where he is obviously hiding in great fear from someone. But the antique dealer Martin Wieland is also suspicious, in whose name a motorcycle is registered and who owns a farm near the crime scene. To have a look around there, Marie disguises herself as a negotiator for the insurance company that wants to buy back the picture and therefore seeks advice from Wieland in search of it. In doing so, she leaves no doubt that she considers him to be the person who commissioned the art theft. Which she can prove in the end, since he betrays himself when he puts the painter and his daughter under pressure. Wieland had the picture stolen from the museum by his accomplices Küster und Riegel, but it was just a fake. The curator Markus Sombart had already exchanged it in order to have the picture for himself. So he tried to get him to talk on his farm, but he fled and supported him to death. Wieland believed that the only clue to find the picture was with the artist.
Cornelia Lohmann had recognized that the picture was not real at the beginning of the exhibition and that the curator had taken it and hidden it in the cellar. There she found it and burned it because she did not want a picture of her mother showing her at the moment of death to be so publicly displayed.
background
The episode was produced by Eyeworks Germany GmbH, Cologne , under the working title Marie Brand and the moment of dying and filmed in Cologne and the surrounding area and broadcast on August 16, 2014 in Italy under the title Marie Brand e il momento della morte .
reception
Audience ratings
The TV film Marie Brand and the Moment of Death reached an average of 5 million viewers when it was first broadcast on ZDF on November 24, 2011, which corresponds to 15.2 percent of the market share in Germany.
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv rates this Marie Brand film as “an entertaining crime thriller which, with all the danger of death and some strong dramatic interludes, is largely designed as a game.” It goes on to say: “This crime thriller by André Georgi and Josh Broecker doesn't tell a super case. Instead, he comes up with extraordinary situations, pointed dialogues, strong characters and guest actors like Milberg, Dwyer or Wiesnekker, who are able to give their characters breaks and depth. Good entertainment!"
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm think of this new Marie Brand film: "Not ingenious, but the comedy is fun."
Torben Gebhardt atquotemeter.de comes to the conclusion: “Refinement and claim were not on the list of priorities in the 'Marie-Brand' series anyway. Rather, the loose series is about offering their fans and casual viewers good entertainment and, in the best case, an entertaining crime story. In previous films, however, the latter was often pushed to the very edge; rather, casual slogans and the comic situation between Brand and Simmel should be the focus of the plot. Compared to the many brutal and serious TV thrillers, it is a welcome and welcome change. And so the mix is also right in the eighth case in the series and makes you want more. The 'Marie Brand' films always offer new surprises and variety in the otherwise very tough and dreary everyday TV crime scene. Thumbs up for the entertaining and entertaining crime fiction. "
According to a program complaint against ZDF, scenes that were played in a slaughterhouse were objected to. The director's reply was as follows: “In the depiction in the slaughterhouse criticized by the complainant, a dead cattle was shown for two seconds and was falling into a collecting basin. The focus of the image design is clearly on the protagonist figure of the painter, who is capturing this scene in a drawing. In order to avoid any impression of false voyeurism, all animal welfare regulations were observed at the location and the animal was depicted in a wide-angle shot. "
Web links
- Marie fire and the moment of death in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Marie Brand and the moment of death at fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marie Brand and the Moment of Death Production, in the Internet Movie Database , accessed January 3, 2015.
- ↑ Start of shooting for “Marie Brand and the Moment of Dying” / Eighth episode of the ZDF crime series with Mariele Millowitsch and Hinnerk Schönemann at presseportal.de, accessed on January 3, 2015.
- ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Marie Brand and the moment of death Film review and audience rating at tittelbach.tv, accessed on January 3, 2015.
- ↑ Marie Brand and the moment of death short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 3, 2015.
- ↑ Torben Gebhardt: Marie Brand and the moment of death film review on quotenmeter.de, accessed on January 3, 2015.
- ↑ Ruprecht Polenz : Report in accordance with the ZDF statutes ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Marie Brand and the moment of death , page 8, at zdf.de, accessed on January 3, 2015.
