Marie Brand and the black day

Episode of the Marie Brand series
Original title	Marie Brand and the black day
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Warner Bros. International Television Production
length	90 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
classification	Episode 22 ( List )
German-language first broadcast	April 21, 2018 on ZDF
Rod
Director	Jobs Christian Oetzmann
script	Jobs Christian Oetzmann
production	Micha Terjung Sabine de Mardt Iris Wolfinger
music	Florian Tessloff
camera	Volker Tittel
cut	Anke Berthold
occupation
Mariele Millowitsch : Marie Brand Hinnerk Schönemann : Jürgen Simmel Thomas Heinze : Dr. Gustav Engler, head of the homicide department Leslie Malton : Dr. Carolin Kersting Werner Wölbern : Christian Grave Martin Aselmann : Radkau Isabel Thierauch : Melanie Stamitz Judith Bohle : Daniela Winter Gerhard Roiss : examining magistrate Wolf Ulrich Schmissat : Gruber, senior public prosecutor Regine Schroeder : Evelyn Grave Vittorio Alfieri : Mr. Olivieri Odine Johne : Tanja Schulze Ben Nicolas Behrend : Thorsten Grave Dagmar Operskalski : Ms. Maliori Luciana Caglioti : Cleaner Benjamin Grüter : Hotel manager Karmela Shako : Aminata, housekeeping

Marie Brand and the Black Day is the 22nd 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 April 21, 2018 .

action

Inspector Marie Brand is called one morning by her colleague Jürgen Simmel because he urgently needs your help: After spending the night with his new girlfriend Daniela, he found her dead in the hotel bed, and the evidence suggests that he was the perpetrator. Brand helps him to keep the matter secret from their boss Engler, otherwise Simmel would not be able to participate in the case and thus also in the proof of his innocence. Obviously someone wants to impute a murder on him, and Simmel can only think of the entrepreneur Grave, against whom he (unsuccessfully) investigated during his time in Rostock. He has recently lived in Cologne and knows that Simmel is still targeting him.

Brand's suspicion of a " Venus trap " is confirmed when she finds out that Daniela was a prostitute and was put on her colleague. There is evidence that Daniela worked for Grave. He himself has an alibi for the time of the crime, but could have commissioned the murder. Another point of contact is the public prosecutor Dr. Carolin Kersting, who was recently transferred to Cologne and was investigating Grave together with Simmel. In the course of this close collaboration, they had a brief affair. She is also supposedly convinced that Grave is behind the action to have Simmel out of the "line of fire". Although she assures Simmel that she is on his side, she does not prevent his arrest as a suspect. That gives him pause, and he realizes that she wants revenge on him as well as on Grave, who had made their relationship public at the time. Brand may not really believe that, but promises her colleague to do everything to help him. First, she watches the hotel surveillance videos and guest lists. She noticed a woman who checked in the day before the murder and checked out the day after, and who lived in the same corridor as Simmel and paid cash. Marie Brand is certain that it is actually prosecutor Kersting. She learns that this woman ordered two bottles of Prosecco in the afternoon and bought his general card from one of the maids for 100 euros. This supports Brand's thesis that Simmel and Daniela were put out of action with knockout drops and the bottle was later replaced so that no narcotic drug could be detected. Brand wants to set a trap for the prosecutor. She frees Simmel from custody and sends him to Kersting to lure her out of the reserve. She attacks Simmel and tells him how bitter she is still about the fact that her husband took his own life because of their affair and that her daughter has not forgiven her to this day. Kersting is arrested, and Simmel can also find evidence against Grave that finally proves the man's economic crimes.

background

Marie Brand and the Black Day was originally supposed to be broadcast on January 24th as the 21st episode of the crime series, but was postponed at short notice in favor of the Handball World Cup. The broadcast was postponed to April 21, 2018, bringing the following episode Marie Brand and the Scent of Death in the order ahead.

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 Black Day reached an average of 5.93 million viewers when it was first broadcast on ZDF on April 21, 2018, which corresponds to a market share of 23.3%.

Reviews

The Frankfurter Neue Presse assessed: "The script consistently sets high tempo, and there are many pointed dialogues even without squabbling between Brand and Simmel." It is "not easy to resolve a great approach accordingly." With Simmel's Escape, the plot [...] hits a couple of rather bold hooks, the details of which are not always really credible. Which makes the film fall apart from that moment on. All in all, Jobst Christian Oetzmann [...] managed to achieve a remarkably innovative approach with his first 'Marie Brand' crime thriller. It should therefore not be his last contribution to this series. "

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv rated this episode positively: “(It) ... is a pretty nifty story that Jobst Christian Oetzmann (script and director) tells, because besides the element 'Inspector under suspicion of murder' there is also that The 'shadow of the past' level, which makes this thriller even more worth seeing. "The story is told as a thriller, but takes into account viewers who, in case of doubt, find such films to be too exhausting."

Focus-online wrote: “Switching on is also worthwhile in the 22nd case - just to see how the relationship between Simmel and Brand is developing. In addition to professional distance, a kind of friendship also plays a role, which is also evident in the dialogues between the two. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm again gave the best rating (thumbs up) and said: “Simmel in a different way: cornered, this time he cracks less jokes. The case scores with grounded, persistent police work and once again tickles the unshakable, almost touching loyalty between the investigators. "

Web links

• Marie fire and the black day in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Marie Brand and the black day website of ZDF
• Marie Brand and the black day at Fernsehserien.de
• Marie Brand and the black day at crew united

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kleine Kiekser at fr.de , accessed on January 15, 2019.
2. ↑ Production data retrieved from the Internet Movie Database on January 15, 2019.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Tilmann P. Gangloff : Schönemann, Millowitsch, Malton, Oetzmann. Jürgen Simmel's black day film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on January 15, 2019.
4. ↑ Ulrich Feld: Marie Brand and the Black Day: Greetings from Hitchcock In: Frankfurter Neue Presse, April 22, 2018. (Accessed January 27, 2019)
5. ↑ Marie Brand and the Black Day at focus.de , accessed on January 15, 2019.
6. ↑ Short review at TV Spielfilm , accessed on January 15, 2019.