Marie Brand and the outstanding account
| Episode of the Marie Brand series | |
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| Original title | Marie Brand and the outstanding account |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Eyeworks |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 11 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | January 23, 2013 on ZDF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Florian Kern |
| script | André Georgi |
| production |
Micha Terjung , Sabine de Mardt , Iris Wolfinger |
| music | Ali N. Askin |
| camera | Bernd Fischer |
| cut | Darius Simaifair |
| occupation | |
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Marie Brand and the open account is the 11th 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 produced by Eyeworks Germany GmbH, Cologne , and first broadcast on ZDF on January 23, 2013 .
action
Marie Brand actually has three weeks of vacation, but the fact that her father's murderer is released after seven years in prison makes Jürgen Simmel take care of her. As was almost to be expected, Markus Rombach shows up at Marie Brand's and asks her forgiveness. Her father's death was an accident and he is still heartbroken about it. After all, Heinrich Brand was his colleague in the Cologne police. Together they investigated the kidnapping case of Rombach's daughter, who was kidnapped seventeen years ago and probably also murdered. The body was never found and therefore the possible perpetrator could not be convicted. Rombach had evidence that the undertaker Christian Bruckner was the guilty party and when he tried to confront Bruckner seventeen years ago, Rombach accidentally shot Marie's father.
As a former police officer and father, he wants to know that the crime has been atoned for even after so many years and cannot accept that his daughter's murderer is still at liberty. He asks Marie to finally solve Miriam's murder. But she refuses, since there was no evidence back then and she believes that unsolved cases have to be accepted. Thereupon Rombach threatens to take matters into his own hands.
While Rombach is still talking to the inspector, Bruckner's seventeen-year-old daughter Sophie disappears. Marie Brand and Jürgen Simmel are sure that Rombach is behind the kidnapping, especially since an anonymous caller asks Bruckner to make a confession and not, as usual, demand a ransom. Since Bruckner thinks that he cannot confess what he would not have done, Marie Brand takes another look at Miriam Rombach's old kidnapping case. Meanwhile, Simmel tries to find out with whom Rombach had closer contact during his detention, but initially does not come to any concrete results.
Bruckner visits his friend and fellow undertaker Philip Diekhaus. He was with him seventeen years ago at a party at which Miriam Rosbach was last seen. Marie Brand also becomes aware of Diekhaus after his alibi seems too perfectly prepared. Who else has taxi receipts issued, on which the time is noted? A closer examination shows that Diekhaus clearly came to the festival with one of his hearse. That finally explains how the body got away from the crime scene. The investigators go to Diekhaus and confront him with their suspicions. For an undertaker, it is no problem to make a corpse disappear without a trace, Diekhaus had had the car scrapped as a precaution, so that even then no traces could be found.
Simmel finds a connection from Rombach to fellow inmate Michael Lenz, who was released 18 months ago. The investigators seek him out and succeed. On Rombach's orders, he admits that he kidnapped Sophie and that he should “take her out of circulation for a few days”. After Sophie returns to her parents relatively unharmed, her father has disappeared. Since Rombach cannot be found either, Brand and Simmel set out to find both. When they find Bruckner, he is lying dead in hiding. That doesn't really make sense for Marie Brand and her colleagues. Everything looks like someone is trying to attribute this murder to Rombach. And they can actually identify Diekhaus on a surveillance video. Since Rombach has come to similar results in the meantime, he arrives at Diekhaus's funeral home before the investigators. He threatens him with a gun and makes him admit that he and Brucker killed Miriam. Since Bruckner threatened to collapse because of the kidnapping of his daughter, he also silenced him. For Rombach this is a satisfaction and he locks Diekhaus in one of his coffins and sets the combustion technology going. Brand and Simmel arrive before the coffin reaches the stove. You hear Diekhaus scream in agony and free him just in time. Rombach and Diekhaus are arrested.
background
The episode was filmed in 2012 at Unterbacher See in Düsseldorf and in Cologne and the surrounding area. The killer's surname was borrowed from the junior producer, Christopher Diekhaus.
Marie's father is shown in Marie Brand and the outstanding invoice as Heinrich Brand, which can also be read on his gravestone. According to the information from the first Marie Brand episode, his name was Hackvogel. Marie also tells Simmel that her maiden name would be Hackvogel.
reception
Audience ratings
The television film Marie Brand and the open account reached an average of 5.72 million viewers when it was first broadcast on ZDF on January 23, 2013 at 8.15 p.m., which corresponds to 17 percent of the market share in Germany.
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv says about this crime thriller: “It is the most personal case so far for the quicke Cologne inspector. This has a positive effect on the story and tone, which are appropriately serious, without completely renouncing the moody interludes of Hinnerk Schönemann's Simmel. The well-timed crime thriller with its reflections and images of primal fear is not only cleverly constructed and versatile, but also a single roller coaster ride of emotions. "
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm think this Marie Brand crime thriller is a: “Dark story, spiced with humor.” Conclusion: “Thanks to wit and speed, the bill works out.” Antje Wessels atquotemeter.de, on the other hand, says quite soberly: “ 'Marie Brand and the open account' is crime fiction on a better average level, in which above all the performance of the actors is convincing. Overall, however, the series remains too inconspicuous to establish itself permanently in the already highly competitive business for the favor of Germany crime fans. "
Web links
- Marie fire and open account in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Marie Brand and the outstanding account at fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Götz Middeldorf: location , accessed on December 18, 2014.
- ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Marie Brand and the open account Film criticism and audience rating at tittelbach.tv, accessed on December 18, 2014.
- ^ Marie Brand and the open account short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on October 18, 2014.
- ↑ Antje Wessels: Marie Brand and the open account film criticism on quotenmeter.de, accessed on April 22, 2014.