Matula (film)
| Episode in the Matula series | |
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| Original title | Matula |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 1 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | April 14, 2017 on ZDF |
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| Director | Thorsten Näter |
| script | Ben Brownish |
| production |
Anette Kaufmann , Klaus Laudi |
| music | Axel Donner |
| camera | Joachim Hesse |
| cut | Julia von Frihling |
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Matula is a German television film from 2017 and an offshoot of the crime series Ein Fall für Zwei , in which Matula was last seen in 2013. It was first broadcast on ZDF on April 14 ( Good Friday ) 2017.
action
After Dr. Markus Lessing emigrated to South America and Matula's loft was destroyed by fire, Matula works as a department store detective in Frankfurt and continues to advertise as a private detective . One day after he has just been released, Dr. Claas Jessen, who instructs him to help Prof. Agathe Wolert, an old friend of his, in Cuxhaven . That friend is a retired professor emeritus who lives in a senior citizens' residence in Cuxhaven. Matula sets off there with his mobile home and is accompanied by a stowaway: a dog, more precisely a terrier . The latter does not want to leave his side, so that Matula unwillingly takes the animal in with him. When Matula and the terrier arrive at the senior citizens' residence, Agathe Wolert is found dead. On behalf of Dr. Claas Jessen clearing up the death and speculates that the dead wanted to prevent an environmental plot.
Matula visits the institute where the woman last worked and there gets to know her successor Prof. Lech and his supposed doctoral student Helen Petersen. Prof. Lech is accused by the environmentalist Ann-Gret Dahus of being "paid". Matula secretly searches Prof. Wolert's room and finds the raw data of a study. A resident of the residence tells him that Prof. Wolert was last visited by a young woman. In an interview with the environmentalist, Matula learns that the raw data contradict the later results of the study. After returning to his mobile home, the raw data is forcibly removed from him. Prof. Lech does not deny having falsified the study, but says that Prof. Wolert helped him with it and that everything is for the benefit of the institute, and casually mentions a Heike . Matula's client, who has since turned out to be under a false name, ends the order.
Matula is really interested now. During an online search, Matula finds out that Prof. Wolert has published together with Heike Petersen. He locates her private address and meets Helen Petersen there, who is the daughter of Heike Petersen, who died years ago through suicide. Heike Petersen had previously worked with Wolert and Lech and a fourth person. Helen Petersen admits that she was the last visitor to Prof. Wolert and that the death was an accident. After a break-in at the mother's former family doctor, it turns out that she had been raped.
When he wanted to meet Lech, he was found dead in his apartment. It appears he died by suicide , but a man is walking out of the house. From an old newspaper article with photos it turns out that the fourth person, Dr. Klaus Arendt is his client. Matula's motorhome goes up in flames.
Helen Petersen finds out that the women's representative at the time was Ann-Gret Dahus. Matula just manages to prevent her from dying in an accident staged by Arendt. Now it is clear that Arendt was the rapist and tries to cover up his dark past, otherwise his political career is over.
Arendt kidnaps Matula on his boat and throws him into the North Sea. However, Matula survives and wakes up in the mudflats at low tide. He runs ashore to save Helen. He does not find Helen in the house, but instead his dog, who leads him to Helen, who is tied up on the beach in the sand. Arendt digs a hole out of sight, with the intention of burying Helen's body in it. Matula is able to free Helen, but Arendt surprises her and points his weapon at her. The dog then attacks Arendt and bites him on the arm, whereupon he drops the weapon. Helen takes her and forces her father to run into the mudflats .
At the end of the film, Matula takes the dog on a ferry back to the mainland and decides to give the dog a name after they have experienced so much together. He baptizes the animal Dr. Renz , which is an allusion to the first lawyer with whom Matula investigated in the 1980s: Dr. Dieter Renz .
background
The plot of the film takes place mainly in Bremerhaven . Matula's last case in the series A Case for Two was Last Words , which aired in March 2013 . By then, Gärtner had determined a total of 300 episodes since 1981, i.e. 32 years when he left the series in 2013 at the age of 70. With his role, he was one of the most popular television faces and one of the longest-serving investigators on German television.
Web links
- Matula in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Matula at Fernsehserien.de
- Press kit: Matula on the ZDF press portal