Marie Brand and the lady in the game
| Episode of the Marie Brand series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Marie Brand and the lady in the game |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Eyeworks |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 6 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | April 14, 2011 on ZDF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christoph Snow |
| script | André Georgi |
| production | Micha Terjung |
| music | Florian Tessloff |
| camera | Diethard Prengel |
| cut | Guido Krajewski |
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Marie Brand and the Lady in Play is the sixth 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 on ZDF for the first time on April 14, 2011 .
action
Commissioner Marie Brand and her colleague Jürgen Simmel attend the final of the Euro Chess Championship , in which the favorite and champion Wladimir Stirner competes against Robert Ehrenberg. Stirner is paralyzed, sits in a wheelchair and loses after his opponent deliberately disturbs his concentration.
Somewhat disappointed about the defeat of her chess idol, Marie Brand sets off on the same day to the wedding of her ex-husband. On the way back, she notices at a motorway service station how a man is dragging a heavy plastic bag into the bushes. When she discovers that there was indeed a body in the sack, the stranger knocks her down. After she comes to, she calls the police and Simmel. The victim is obviously a young call girl who worked for an escort service. Her father is the sex baron Bülow, who is known to the police. The investigators look for him and find out that Amelie's last customer was the chess champion Stirner. Brand questions him and initially receives some cynical answers. Stirner states that someone sent the girl to his room to make him nervous before the crucial game the next day. Brand and Simmel then try to find out who sent the call girl to Stirner. The new chess master Robert Ehrenberg and Stirner's former second Winkelmann, whom he recently dismissed, come into question. Since the latter, unlike Ehrenberg, came by car, he could be considered the stranger from the rest area. When the two of them are questioned, the investigators do not get very far, and the actual motive for the crime is still unclear.
Not only Inspector Brand, but Amelie's father also wants to find his daughter's murderer and considers Stirner to be the key figure. He threatens him massively and learns that Amelie was also at Ehrenberg's that evening and that he should have been the last to see her alive. He then kidnaps Ehrenberg and makes it unmistakably clear to him that he thinks he is guilty of the death of his daughter.
Winkelmann is now found dead in his burned-out car. Although the corpse is badly charred, traces of fiber can be ascertained, which most likely come from Robert Ehrenberg. Jürgen Simmel wants to look him up and finds him in the solarium, where Bülow has locked him up and he is almost burned under the sun. In the meantime, Marie Brand learns from Stirner's assistant that Winkelmann had killed Amelie because she wanted to blackmail him. She had learned from Stirner that Winkelmann had betrayed his former boss' game strategy to Ehrenberg. He, in turn, had to fear that his wrong game would come out after Winkelmann lost his nerve and wanted to face the police. That's why he killed him. The real culprit, however, was Stirner, who had deliberately used Amelie for his goals. Stirner was now rid of his competitor and his traitor. Amelie was the pawn sacrifice.
background
The episode was produced by Eyeworks Germany GmbH, Cologne and shot in Cologne and the surrounding area. The film was broadcast in Italy on August 2, 2014 under the title Marie Brand e il gioco pericoloso .
reception
Audience ratings
The television film Marie Brand und die Dame im Spiel reached an average of 5.31 million viewers when it was first broadcast on ZDF on April 14, 2011, which corresponds to 16.9 percent of the market share in Germany.
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv says: “'Marie Brand and the lady in the game' develops a bizarre network of relationships. As far as the interpersonal stories are concerned, the viewer always has an information advantage, which is of little use to him for the crime case [...] At first sight the case remains opaque, a little gloomy due to the bitter characters. In contrast, what Brand and Simmel do together looks like an open book. An open book that is a pleasure to look into. Seldom has a buddy couple in German TV thriller been less annoying than this one from Millowitsch and Schönemann. At least in this film based on the self-contained script by André Georgi, which is cleverly built, finely reduced and more than a Whodunit. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm give the 'thumbs up' and say about this Marie Brand film: “Fun team, colorful characters, but the plot seems very constructed. It's a shame. "They sum up:" Nice features, but not necessarily combined. "
Torben Gebhardt atquotemeter.de comes to the conclusion: “The script is… not always quite as logical as you would have liked as a viewer and after a little more than half of the airtime the whole thing clearly runs out of air, the logic falls by the wayside. In the end it is too constructed, but it is definitely enough for appealing and entertaining entertainment, especially since the visual components of the film are also very coherent. Most of the film was shot in a true design temple. Red and gray dominate the play of colors. In the end, all in all, it is a rather average crime thriller, but with an above-average investigative duo that continues to make you want more and is able to set itself apart from the rest of the crime scene. "
Web links
- Marie fire and the lady in the game in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Marie Brand and the lady in the game at fernsehserien.de
- Marie Brand and the lady in the game in the online movie database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marie Brand and the Last Ride Production, in the Internet Movie Database , accessed on May 28, 2015.
- ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Mariele Millowitsch & Hinnerk Schönemann determine American film reviews and audience ratings at tittelbach.tv in the best sense of the word, accessed on May 28, 2015.
- ↑ Marie Brand and the lady in the game short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on May 28, 2015.
- ↑ Torben Gebhardt: Marie Brand and the lady in the game film review on quotenmeter.de, accessed on May 28, 2015.
ref> Marie Brand and the lady in the game Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on May 28, 2015.