Murder by the Sea

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Movie
Original title Murder by the Sea
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2005
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Matti Geschonneck
script Thomas Kirchner
production Reinhold Elschot
music Nikolaus Glowna
Siggi Müller
camera Hannes Hubach
cut Petra Heymann
occupation

Mord am Meer is a German TV film directed by Matti Geschonneck from 2005 . It was based on Ulrich Woelk's novel The Last Performance and was produced on behalf of ZDF . The main roles are cast with Heino Ferch , Nadja Uhl , Birge Schade and Manfred Zapatka .

action

In Husum Hans Jacoby is found shot dead in his house tied to a chair. Anton Glauberg from the local Kripo takes over the first investigation and learns from a witness that he had recently seen a red convertible with a Berlin number near the house. Paula Reinhardt from the Federal Criminal Police Office appears a little later and explains to Glauberg that the dead person is Hans Wolgast, who was a member of the RAF and who would have retired here. Because of Wolgast's activities in the Berlin scene, Reinhardt would like Glauberg to accompany her there. Glauberg leaves his colleague unaware that the dead man was his half-brother and that he has a personal interest in clearing up the case, but her superior has already informed her about the family relationship. The BKA hopes that Glauberg's cooperation will lead to a faster search success.

When they arrive in Berlin, they both take quarters in a hotel and Glauberg immediately begins to investigate on his own. He visits Veith Seewald, who asks him about the whereabouts of his brother's flat-share members at the time. Glauberg quickly notices that he is being observed by the BKA, but is not further impressed. He draws Reinhardt's attention to an old murder case from 1978, which he believes is related to the current case. First they examine the victim's former environment and find out that Wolgast had worked for both the Stasi and the BKA. Nevertheless, Glauberg believes the 1978 Christian Curland murder case is the key to the solution. Curland had been shot in the head after attending an opera on the street. The case has not yet been resolved and Curland's escort has never been found. After Glauberg managed to get Veith to confirm his suspicion that his brother had shot Curland, he wonders whose thirst for revenge could have lasted 25 years. Curland's wife is out of the question because she is now severely disabled in a wheelchair. So Glauberg discovered that Curland's companion was his then seven-year-old daughter Paula. She had to see her father die in front of her eyes. Paula Reinhardt later went to the BKA to work there until she found her father's murderer. Glauberg confronts Reinhardt with his suspicion, finds confirmation and has it carried away.

Subplot

Both investigators are confronted with their own past in the murder case. While Paula Reinhardt comes from the former GDR, her father fled the republic and she grew up in constant fear that she would be spied on and her mother could end up in prison, Anton Glauberg never fully came to terms with his youth in (West) Berlin . He was 14 years younger than his half-brother and did not have a good relationship with his father. That is why he is fighting desperately for a normal relationship with his wife with whom he is in divorce and he does not want to neglect his children at any price.

background

Mord am Meer was filmed under the working title The Last Performance from September 9, 2003 to October 12, 2003 at locations in Berlin and on the North Sea . Network Movie was responsible for the production .

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Mord am Meer on March 14, 2005 was seen by 6.17 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 17.9 percent for ZDF .

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv judged: “It is an exciting thriller about two chapters of German political past, which pleasantly sets itself apart from that TV realism to which the ostensibly everyday means everything, and it cleverly opens doors and gates that in lead the history of the two German states. Stasi meets RAF! And it all starts like a thriller. ”“ The viewer follows the characters, the tracks, the wrong tracks. Action as a chain of events whose end cannot be foreseen. This is what distinguishes 'Murder by the Sea' from the 'Where-were-you-yesterday-evening' thrillers. Thinking becomes the top duty of the audience. "

For the critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm , Mord am Meer was a "stylish political crime thriller with a D mark". They gave the film the best possible rating by pointing their thumbs up.

Christian Buß from Spiegel-online assessed: "The murder on the edge of the country leads directly into the darkest chapters of German-German history: It is about fathers and daughters, betrayed children and foreign brothers, the RAF and the Stasi." Under this laconic everyday routine of repression and justification, an outrageous plot is opening up, in which the two investigators are always emotionally more involved than they are admitting. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See crewunited.de
  2. ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Nadja Uhl & Heino Ferch in Geschonneck's political thriller based on Ulrich Woelk's novel at Tittelbach.tv , accessed on May 26, 2020.
  3. ↑ See tvspielfilm.de
  4. ↑ Treason as a reflex at spiegel.de , accessed on May 26, 2020.