Marie Brand and the restless souls

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Episode of the Marie Brand series
Original title Marie Brand and the restless souls
Marie-brand-logo.jpg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Warner Bros. International Television Production
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 18 ( List )
First broadcast September 21, 2016 on ZDF
Rod
Director Florian Kern
script Christian Schiller
Marianne Wendt
production Micha Terjung
Sabine de Mardt
Iris Wolfinger
music Florian Tessloff
camera Gerhard Schirlo
cut Thomas Stange
occupation

Marie Brand and the restless souls is the eighteenth episode of the German crime series Marie Brand . The television film with Mariele Millowitsch in the title role and Hinnerk Schönemann as chief detective Jürgen Simmel was first broadcast on ZDF on September 21, 2016 .

action

The faith healer Sarah di Maga is a sought-after shaman. In courses and workshops she conveys her supposedly psychic abilities to the participants. However, one night she is found dead in the forest. Commissioner Marie Brand and her colleague Jürgen Simmel take over the investigation. First they check the participants in the last workshop, but quickly discover that there are also some suspects outside of this group. On the one hand, the victim's colleague, Kyra, who had built up her company and gradually had to experience that Sarah was obviously the more successful of the two. She admits to having quarreled with her friend, but another suspect is the student Dankwart Fischler, who supplied Sarah di Maga with self- mixed hallucinogenic drugs that she secretly administered to the participants in her workshops.

During their investigation, Brand and Simmel came across the Kuttner couple. Her son had disappeared without a trace a year ago and Ingrid Kuttner hoped that Sarah di Maga and her psychic abilities would point to the young person, for which she had paid a lot of money in the course of the meetings. This tells Brand that the shaman was basically an unscrupulous businesswoman. She had told her previous employer, the psychotherapist Dr. Beussel, patient files stolen and thus wealthy private customers like the Kuttners "brought" to them. Ronald Kuttner is a successful businessman, and during his wife's meetings, Sarah di Maga learned that he had stolen research results from his colleague and passed it off as his work. With this knowledge she had extorted 78,000 euros from Kuttner. This makes Kuttner the main suspect of Brands and Simmel, but unexpectedly another suspect is found: Felix Eichler. He was Jonas Kuttner's best friend and the last one to see him before he disappeared. Brand suspects that he knows what happened to the boy, that this could come out of Jonas' mother's frequent meetings. Brand and Simmel confront Felix and it turns out that Jonas had a fatal accident and that Felix blamed himself the whole time and couldn't talk to anyone about it.

Since Marie Brand cannot find any concrete evidence of the suspect's perpetration, apart from a wide variety of motives, she resorted to a ruse. She has all the suspects come together and in the middle of her interrogation, she receives a bogus phone call that the murder weapon has just been found. Brand and Simmel then leave the room and hope that the real culprit will give himself away. The plan works and they can catch Ingrid Kuttner inflagranti as she pulls the murder weapon, an Indian ax, from a hiding place. She claims to have hit Sarah di Maga in anger because she found out that the alleged shaman had only gained her trust in order to blackmail her husband.

background

The episode was produced by Warner Bros. International Television Production (Eyeworks) and shot in and around Cologne .

reception

Audience ratings

The TV film Marie Brand and the Restless Souls reached an average of 5.48 million viewers when it was first broadcast on ZDF on September 21, 2016, which corresponds to 18.6 percent of the market share in Germany. Among the 14 to 49 year olds, 0.9 million viewers was enough for a remarkable 9 percent market share in this group.

Reviews

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv judges this episode only mediocre and says: “The script seems constructed, the actors are not always credible and the title heroine all too often has to express her lack of esoteric methods in the form of short lectures. On the other hand, the funny interludes by Hinnerk Schönemann are amusing, even if they basically disrupt the flow of the plot just as much as the Millowitsch's monologues (sic!). "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marie Brand and the restless souls Audience at quotenmeter.de, accessed on October 5, 2016.
  2. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Mariele Millowitsch, Hinnerk Schönemann, Tscharre, Kern. Death of a Shaman Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on October 5, 2016.