Marie Brand and the appeal of violence
| Episode of the Marie Brand series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Marie Brand and the appeal of violence |
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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 24 ( list ) |
| German-language first broadcast |
January 2, 2019 on ZDF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nicole Weegmann |
| script | Stefan Rogall |
| production |
Iris Wolfinger Micha Terjung |
| music |
Sven Rossenbach Florian van Volxem |
| camera | Emre Erkmen |
| cut | Claudia Wolscht |
| occupation | |
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Marie Brand and the Charm of Violence is the 24th 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 2, 2019 .
action
Patrolman Jan Nowak and his colleague Arndt Krieger are called late in the evening to a case of disturbance of the peace in a park. This routine operation escalates unexpectedly and Superintendent Nowak dies of a gunshot wound. Krieger, still in shock, cannot remember which of the eight to fifteen rampaging young men could have shot. They definitely would not have provoked the group additionally. After reviewing surveillance recordings from the cameras in the park, Commissioner Marie Brand and her colleague Jürgen Simmel encounter the convicted Oliver Pesko, who is known for his propensity for violence. Brand and Simmel question Pesko, who denies any allegations. Immediately after the arrival of the two police officers, he ran away so as not to be drawn into anything. He couldn't remember a shot.
During their research, the investigators find out that warrior's son Dennis is one of the rioters in the park. When they want to question Dennis, he goes into hiding. Marie Brand can thus explain why the police officer Krieger refers to his gaps in memory: He wants to protect his son. Brand and Simmel go in search of Dennis and also interview his grandfather Gregor Hoffmann. Hoffmann is a retired judge and admitted without further ado that he didn't think much of his son-in-law Arndt and that he was a coward in his eyes. Instead of taking tough action, he would just "duck away". The tensions within the Krieger family are not hidden from the investigators.
Police officer Arndt Krieger is therefore under a double burden, because he wants to keep his son Dennis out of the investigation at all costs and is now under suspicion among his colleagues of being partly to blame for Nowak's death because they believe his son to be the perpetrator. They let him feel this immediately and Simmel believes he has to protect himself from warriors. He learns from Arndt that Gregor Hoffmann has been stirring up Dennis against his father for a while. In addition, Hoffmann leads a kind of military sports group and trains violent young people, including Oliver Pesko. For Hoffmann, “law and order” has a different meaning than for Arndt Krieger, which he let him feel again and again.
Dennis is now looking for help from Oliver Pesko, who does not want to hide him with himself for fear of the police. He gets him a driver who is supposed to take him out of town and to safety. In fact, he slipped the murder weapon to Dennis unnoticed , set him down in the middle of the city and sent the police an anonymous tip. When Dennis realizes the betrayal and his hopeless situation, he wants to bring the gun to the police himself. He meets Marie Brand in the courtyard and wants to give her the pistol. An officer misjudges the situation and shoots, but hits a colleague standing nearby. Dennis escapes, scared, but still has the gun with him. Brand and Simmel take up the chase and also have Dennis' friend Melissa monitored. For Brand, the solution to the case lies with Gregor Hoffmann, who instigated the young people and supplied them with weapons. However, she cannot prove this to him and hopes for a confession from Pesko. He is arrested after Dennis clearly stated after his capture that Pesko had shot at Nowak.
reception
Audience ratings
Marie Brand and the allure of violence reached 7.56 million viewers at its premiere. The film thus narrowly missed the audience record of 7.57 million, set by the episode Marie Brand and the eternal race . In the advertising-relevant target group, the crime thriller achieved a market share of 9.9 percent. A market share of 23 percent was determined among all viewers.
criticism
The program magazine TV Spielfilm praised the 24th episode in the Marie Brand series . The episode combines "a family drama with the desire of some parts of society to counter the 'softening' through liberal thinking with all harshness and masculinity rituals."
Film critic Tilmann P. Gangloff reviewed the crime thriller on the online platform Tittelbach.tv . The character Marie Brand is about “pacifism in person”. The screenwriter Stefan Rogall uses "this attitude as the basis for a crime thriller, which, however, for a long time turns into a didactic play about violence". While the title character tends to “teach too much”, “the scenes in which the film suggests Simmel's relationship to his service weapon” are “noticeably less intrusive”. Although the subject is "in good hands with Nicole Weegmann, especially since many of her films are about physical or structural violence", some of the characters are too one-dimensional.
In the Weser Kurier , Hans Czerny assessed that “despite the sometimes moderate jokes and sentences that Brand and Simmel […] pass each other like tennis balls, and although Simmel only has to act as a bodyguard and madmen over long distances”, the “spiral of action over time, it is understandably tightened ", until" a last strong showdown of two young men from the reactionary scene. "
Web links
- Marie fire and the appeal of violence in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Marie Brand and the appeal of the violence website of ZDF
- Marie Brand and the appeal of violence at Fernsehserien.de
- Marie Brand and the appeal of violence at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ DWDL.de: 'Marie Brand' reaches more viewers than 'Tatort'. Retrieved January 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Tvspielfilm.de: Marie fire and the appeal of violence. Retrieved December 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Tittelbach.tv: Series 'Marie Brand and the Charm of Violence'. Retrieved December 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Weser-kurier.de: A police officer is shot. Accessed December 30, 2018 .