Murder in good company: The Senator's Nights

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Episode in the series Murder in good company
Original title The Senator's Nights
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Tivoli movie
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 3 ( list )
First broadcast October 25, 2008 on Das Erste
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Director Hans Werner
script Rolf-René Schneider
production Thomas Hroch
music Mick Builder
camera Gero Lasnig
cut Uschi Erber
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
The Dead in the Elk Forest

Successor  →
The sweet scent of evil

The Nights of Mr. Senator is a German TV film by Hans Werner from 2008 . It is the third episode of the crime film series Murder in the best company with Fritz Wepper as psychiatrist Wendelin Winter in the lead role and Wepper's daughter Sophie , who plays Winter's daughter Alexandra. The main guest roles in this episode are Gudrun Landgrebe , Wolf Roth , Carolin Fink , Uwe Rohde , Dietrich Hollinderbäumer , Daniel Roesner , Vaile Fuchs and Krystian Martinek .

When the film was first broadcast, Das Erste wrote that the psychologist Wendelin Winter's forensic instinct was required when he visited his daughter Alexandra in Hamburg. Alexandra's roommate Maike Südhoff, who pretended to study music, has been murdered. She actually worked as a call girl. Culture Senator Konrad Niehaus was also one of her customers.

action

Alexandra Winter lives with the law student Felix and the music student Maike Südhoff in a shared apartment in Hamburg. Her father, the psychiatrist Dr. Wendelin Winter, visit her there. When Maike doesn't come back after a concert, Felix worries. His feeling tells him that something is wrong, he tells Alexandra.

When Winter is out on the Elbe with Maike's dog Paulchen the other day, the dog barks excitedly and Winter finds Maike's corpse, which has severe head injuries, as he follows Paulchen, wrapped in a carpet. During initial research, the psychiatrist came across the address of a Villa Bellamusica on Alsterchaussee and found out that this agency had placed girls who wore nothing but instruments to their house concerts. Maike was active as “ Cello ” for “Bellamusica” . However, she could not play the instrument. The alleged music association offered sex behind closed doors.

Senator Konrad Niehaus, to whom Maike gave her last performance, doesn't know what happened that night. He has a film tear. He found Maike's body, wrapped it in an expensive carpet and set it down on the Elbe beach. Judge Julius Arndt and jeweler Steven Reinbeck were also present the evening before. The two men suddenly want nothing more to do with their boyfriend, who is suddenly no longer her boyfriend. They do not want to be drawn into the matter, they announce Niehaus coldly.

Maike's brother Uwe Südhoff, who has just been released from prison, looks for Simone Angermann from “Bellamusica” and threatens her. He wants her to give the names of the men his sister was with last. Felix, on the other hand, is completely beside himself because Maike was very special to him. When Winter implies that she has sold her body, he does not want to know anything about it, he will not let his image of Maike be destroyed.

Since the carpet quickly leads to Senator Niehaus, he is arrested by Detective Inspector Kliewer on suspicion of murdering Maike Südhoff. Angermann tells Winter that Clara Niehaus was not on Sylt on the night of the murder. She visited her and asked not to send any of the girls to her husband. It was their wedding day. To protect her husband, Clara Niehaus claims to Winter that she killed the young woman. However, there are further attacks, first judge Arndt, whom no one can help anymore, and then also jeweler Reinbeck, who is saved thanks to Winters' quick reaction.

In the washing machine in which Felix washed his things, Alexandra not only finds his T-shirt with blood still on it, but also the chain that the members of “Bellamusica” wore at their meetings, a golden clef. The young man is now on his way to kill the senator, who has been released from prison after his wife's confession. Winter arrives and talks to Felix, who still wants to maintain the image of a seduced woman. Winter says Felix never owned Maike, he just couldn't bear that other men could have bought her. She never took him seriously, not even that night when he suddenly appeared in the villa and confessed his love to her. He could not bear your rejection. Felix is ​​not deterred, however, and wants to attack the senator again. Winter's warning call causes Niehaus to step aside, and Felix falls over the railing into the depths.

Uwe Südhoff reveals that his sister did this job for him to pay off his debts. The next day, the newspapers announced that Senator Neuhaus had resigned from his position.

production

Filming, background

For The Nights of the Senator was filmed from November 20 to December 18, 2007 at locations in Hamburg and the surrounding area. Tivoli shot the film in collaboration with ARD Degeto for Erste and ORF . The editing was done by Hans-Wolfgang Jurgan (ARD Degeto) and Andrea Bogad-Radatz (ORF).

Harald Suerland from Westfälische Nachrichten spoke to Wolf Roth, who embodies Senator Konrad Niehaus in the film. He wanted to know whether as a spectator you don't have a much greater distance to such characters than to the nice guys. Roth said that this man was going through agony and that he was even pityed. There are hardly any do-gooders in our society, we all have a lot of such characters in us. Such a figure gives the viewer the opportunity to ask himself whether this is a monster and whether he himself could be like that or he knows types who could also be like that. Yes, he has known Fritz Wepper for so long. The main thing that he accepted the role, however, was the script. He liked a crime thriller with comedic facets that doesn't tip one way or the other. This “honesty of the bourgeoisie” reminded him of Claude Chabrol's films , and he deliberately reached up .

publication

The first broadcast of the film took place on Saturday, October 25, 2008, in the program of ARD Das Erste .

MCP Sound & Media GmbH released the film on September 28, 2012 together with the first two and the fourth and fifth cases on DVD. On August 28, 2020, all 15 episodes will be released on DVD, published by Bluray / Dvd (Mcp Sound & Media).

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm pointed with the thumbs up, gave one of three possible points for humor and eroticism, two for suspense and said that this was "the best episode of the crime series so far". It offers a "very entertaining hunt for perpetrators with a good cast and a fine Hamburg flair". Conclusion: "perpetrator riddle with some surprises."

The film service praised: “Amusing (TV series) crime thriller, which, with a certain smugness, arranges the corpses in the cellars of better society. - From 14. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Murder in good company - The Senator's nights see page daserste.de
  2. ↑ Murder in good company: The Senator's Nights See crew-united.com
  3. ↑ Harald Suerland: Wolf Roth: “There are no do-gooders” In: Westfälische Nachrichten . October 22, 2008. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  4. ↑ Murder in good company Ill. DVD cover, collection box, episodes I – V
  5. ↑ Murder in good company Fig. DVD case, 15-piece DVD box
  6. ↑ Murder in good company: The Senator's Nights See tvspielfilm.de (including 13 film images). Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  7. ↑ Murder in good company: The Senator's Nights. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 13, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used