Marie Brand and the Angels of Death
| Episode of the Marie Brand series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Marie Brand and the Angels of Death |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Eyeworks |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 12 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | October 24, 2013 on ZDF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Florian Kern |
| script | Leo P. Ard |
| production |
Micha Terjung , Sabine de Mardt , Iris Wolfinger |
| music | Florian Tessloff |
| camera | Stefan Wachner |
| cut | Darius Simafair |
| occupation | |
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Marie Brand and the Angels of Death is the 12th TV film from the Marie Brand crime series . The film with Mariele Millowitsch as chief detective Marie Brand and Hinnerk Schönemann as chief detective Jürgen Simmel was broadcast for the first time on October 24, 2013 on ZDF .
action
Justus Ebermann lives in a senior citizens' residence and is known there as a difficult character. He shows little compassion for his fellow man and is a real troublemaker . During her visit, he even lets his daughter feel that he has no understanding of her financial problems. Although he has enough money and could help her, he strictly refuses to lend her anything.
The next morning he is found dead in his room. The attending physician, Dr. Krumberg, noticed an unusual puncture on the arm. The police are notified and Marie Brand and Jürgen Simmel are investigated. First they visit Ebermann's daughter and find out that she will not inherit anything because her father invested his money in an insurance policy that secured him the luxurious home stay.
In further interviews in the senior citizens' residence, Marie Brand and Jürgen Simmel meet Dr. Krumberg, who gives the residents there almost all examinations and treatments. In his opinion, his patients deserved the luxury of on-site medical care and long distances into the city would only be a burden for them. Your further research shows that after his daughter, Ebermann also contacted the physiotherapist Bastian Schmiegel. He is then questioned and states that he only stayed with Ebermann for a very short time. Since the nurse Thomas Klein had an argument with the victim, he is questioned, but he quickly leaves the group of suspects again because the argument was obviously a trivial matter and no reason for a murder can be derived from it.
Another resident of the senior citizens' residence was found dead the very next day. She was injected with a high dose of atropine , which, as with Ebermann, led to her death. Ebermann's daughter can therefore be excluded from the group of suspects with a high degree of probability. So the investigators focus on Dr. Krumberg and the physiotherapist Bastian Schmiegel, both of whom are close to the two victims. Simmel suspects Dr. Krumberg, as this has already been given wills by residents several times in the past. He has some of the residents who recently died exhumed, but the result does not fuel his suspicions.
Marie Brand asks Caroline Borgward, the half-sister of the second victim. This seems quite absent and Marie Brand can only get very few, specific information. But it seems strange that her sister had just made a funeral provision and, as in the Ebermann case, the Kleebaum funeral home benefited from it.
Unexpectedly, Bastian Schmiegel moves into the focus of the investigators after he wants to sell a valuable necklace that demonstrably belonged to the second victim. In his defense, he claims that Sibille von Samtleben gave him the necklace. Simmel looks around Schmiegel's apartment and finds considerable amounts of other stolen goods there. Schmiegel therefore denies having killed anyone. To do this, he directs the investigators' investigations towards the Kleebaum funeral home. According to him, the company is on the verge of bankruptcy. But the suspicion of murder against Kleebaum ultimately turns out to be false. In contrast, a statement by Ebermann's daughter Caroline Borgward weighs heavily. In addition, Brand and Simmel find out that Borgward has a relationship with the carer Thomas Klein. After learning from the commissioners that Sibille von Samtleben died of an injection with atropine and not of pneumonia as she reported to him, he is ready to cooperate with the police. He calls Borgward over and asks her if she had the idea with the syringe after he had mistakenly given Justus Ebermann such an injection when he was having a heart attack. He just wanted to help him and had made a mistake with the remedy, but she would now have intentionally killed her sister. She admits this and says she is tired of being bullied by her sister all the time. After this involuntary confession, Marie Brand and Simmel appear from an adjoining room and explain that they had overheard everything. Caroline Borgward is arrested for murder.
background
The episode was produced in 2013 by Eyeworks Germany GmbH, Cologne , and shot in Cologne and the Westfriedhof in Cologne. This time, a selection from the Schönebeck Youth Brass Orchestra was also used.
reception
Audience ratings
The television film Marie Brand and the Angels of Death reached an average of 6.38 million viewers when it was first broadcast on ZDF on October 24, 2013 at 8.15 p.m., which corresponds to 20 percent of the market share in Germany.
Reviews
Gïti Hatef-Rossa from tittelbach.tv comments on this thriller: “In 'Marie Brand and the Angels of Death', the investigative duo Brand / Simmel alias Millowitsch / Schönemann can charmingly play out their tongue-in-cheek humor. It's just a shame that the core of the case is so simple and that the numerous suspects are strung together in such a confusing way that even an attentive viewer can sometimes lose track. This episode of the ZDF series offers an inflationary number of suspects and only leads through various secret paths and dead ends to a surprisingly twisted end. "
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm think this Marie Brand crime thriller is: "Not credible, but amusing: The case is hopelessly over-constructed, which is hardly significant thanks to dialogue wit." Logic blunder. "
Web links
- Marie fire and the Angel of Death in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Marie Brand and the Angels of Death at fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Heiße: location , accessed on December 22, 2014.
- ↑ a b Gïti Hatef-Rossa: Marie Brand and the Angels of Death Film review and audience rating at tittelbach.tv, accessed on December 22, 2014.
- ↑ Marie Brand and the Angels of Death Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on December 22, 2014.