Night shift - amok!
| Episode of the series Night Shift | |
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| Original title | Night shift - amok! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Network Movie , Cologne |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 1 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | March 24, 2003 on ZDF |
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| Director | Lars Becker |
| script | Lars Becker |
| production | Reinhold Elschot |
| music |
Frank Wulff , Stefan Wulff , Hinrich Dageför |
| camera | Wedigo von Schultzendorff |
| cut | Oliver Gieth |
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Night shift - amok! is a German feature film by Lars Becker from 2003. It is the first film in the series Nachtschicht . The investigators are embodied by Katharina Böhm , Armin Rohde , Ken Duken and Minh-Khai Phan-Thi . The main guest stars of this episode are Uwe Ochsenknecht , Cosma Shiva Hagen , Gustav Peter Wöhler , Florian Lukas , Ill-Young Kim , Meral Perin , Pierre Semmler , Hans Diehl , Oscar Ortega Sánchez and Ercan Durmaz .
action
On a summer evening in Hamburg the chief inspectors Erich Bo Erichsen, Paula Bloom and inspector Teddy Schrader from the permanent detective work start their night shift. Bloom gets on the phone with Rosa Perez, a young woman from a high-rise estate who announces that she wants to take her own life. Bloom, a trained psychologist, tries to stop the woman and at the same time extract information from her about the reason for her despair and her whereabouts. Rosa tells the inspector that her boyfriend Floyd Kim left her even though she was pregnant with him. They also have a three-year-old daughter. And now there is also a bailiff who is pledging her. Bloom tries to influence the man, whose name is Blechmann, but he finishes his work steadfastly and stoically. When he's finished with Rosa, he goes to meet her neighbor Randy Schlosser.
Paula Bloom is now on the phone with Rosa's friend Floyd Kim, whose number she gave him. Together with her colleague Teddy Schrader, the inspector then goes to the address where the bailiff has to be according to the investigation. When the team at Schlosser’s doorbell rings to talk to Blechmann, he threatens the officers with a pump gun 12 and forces them to get rid of their weapons and locks them in Rosa's apartment. Together with Blechmann, whom he has taken hostage, he drives to the Neue Hamburger Bank and there demands that he pay him € 24,855, the money he wants to give Blechmann. The employee says slightly mockingly that a payout of this magnitude is unfortunately difficult because Schlosser's account has already been blocked due to a seizure by the tax office. Also, one cannot simply assume that there will be further cooperation.
At the same time, Floyd Kim is also in the bank, who had problems with his debit card in the supermarket and needs € 100. He is also rejected in a less customer-friendly manner. When the branch manager Markus Maier treated Schlosser in a condescending manner, he took out his rifle and asked for two million euros regardless of the account. At that moment, the inspector Mimi Hu enters the counter and is taken hostage by Schlosser as well as Blechmann, the employees, Floyd Kim and two other customers. Maier turns to the permanent detective service and reports on the hostage-taking and Schlosser's request. You quickly set up a makeshift operations center in the pizzeria opposite the bank and collect information there. Schlosser is no stranger to Chief Inspector Erichsen. He explains that he is 44 years old, a stage worker, roadie , with several criminal records for minor offenses. Five years ago he took the box office with him at an open-air concert - officially € 200,000, but that was a mega- event , rumor has it something of half a million. Erichsen was able to convict him, but the stolen money stayed away. Schlosser sat for five years and has now been at large for about three months.
The LKA switches on. Paula Bloom is supposed to lead the negotiations. Bloom has ended multiple kidnappings and hostage-taking at the Pakistani consulate. Teddy Schrader comes across traces of explosives in Schlosser's apartment, which substantiates the suspicion that Schlosser may be carrying explosives. Meanwhile, at the bank, he demands that each of the nine hostages present introduce themselves. At the same time, Paula Bloom is surprised by the reaction of her colleague Erichsen, who doesn't want Schlosser to be approached again about the matter of the stolen money. This would just trumpet some names.
Surprisingly, Randy Schlosser's ex-wife Irene Novoselic reports to the permanent detective service, and Schrader takes the call. He tells her that he wants to pick her up right away, even though she really doesn't want anything to do with her ex-husband anymore. Meanwhile, Hu Schlosser at the bank can overwhelm at a propitious moment. Surprisingly, however, a young man among the hostages intervenes, grabs the rifle and tells Schlosser that he now has a new partner. The claim is now increased to € 2.5 million.
Walter Jülich from the LKA said to Paula Bloom that Erichsen could not take over the negotiations under any circumstances if it became known that in such an explosive case a high-ranking commissioner was in charge of the operation, who had a promotion ban due to various disciplinary proceedings, he could take his hat off. Meaningful glances are exchanged between Erichsen and Novoselic, who has meanwhile arrived at the operations center. Shortly afterwards, Erichsen makes his way to the bank with the suitcases, while Mimi Hu and two other hostages are released. Schlosser and his new partner, however, notice that the task force wants to storm the building via the back entrance at the same time and demand that branch manager Maier lock the door with the extra security. Maier is so confused that he wants to flee and does not respond to calls. Schlosser's accomplice then shoots him. The pharmacist Richter informs Mimi Hu that the second husband is Alphons Tøfting, an allergy sufferer who quickly gets nervous. Tøfting is 27, an unemployed scaffolding worker, convicted of manslaughter, grievous bodily harm and sexual assault, a total of seven years in prison, including three years of youth imprisonment, inconsiderate, unpredictable, released on probation.
The bus, which is now required instead of a car, sets in motion with the remaining hostages and Floyd Kim at the wheel. Schlosser informs Bloom that there is a bag of explosives on the bus. When the police tried to stop the bus with a roadblock, Tøfting's Tin Man was shot. On the bus, Erichsen asks Schlosser to turn off the detonator, when he doesn't, he shoots him. At the last moment Erichsen can stop the clock. Tøfting is now on the run with the money. Since he is dependent on the spray because of his allergy, he comes to the pharmacy, where Bloom and Hu are waiting for him. After a brief interlude, he is arrested.
Erichsen telephones with Irene Novoselic, who wants to know if he can come by, to which he replies: “What you can rely on.” Novoselic resides in a comfortable property with a pool.
production
Production notes, background
It is a production by Network Movie Film- und Fernsehproduktions GmbH, Cologne, producer Reinhold Elschot, on behalf of ZDF . Stephan Adolph was in charge of production. The title music comes from Malte Beckenbach.
Director Becker explained that the viewer could “expect that he does not experience constantly reproducing role models, but one sequence at a time a development within the rather ambivalent characters”. One can be particularly excited about the "development of the bad guy within the team", the chief inspector embodied by Armin Rohde, "an intolerant, chunky instinctive bull" who, it seems, has "some corpses in the basement".
Armin Rohde said that Lars Becker asked him if he wanted to take part in the series, whereupon he immediately accepted because he could blindly trust Becker. If Becker called again, he would leave everything behind again. But that doesn't happen so quickly because the director isn't an assembly line worker. No bank robbery with hostage-taking has so far been told so funny and at the same time exciting on German television as the one in the night shift .
publication
Night shift - amok! was first broadcast on March 24, 2003 in the ZDF program. In 2005 it ran at the Hamburg Film Festival .
The film was released on February 1, 2007 on DVD, published by Constantin Film. On January 30, 2015, it was released on DVD together with the episode Father's Day . The DVDs are also available as a complete package with films 1 to 14.
reception
Audience ratings
The film was viewed by 5.75 million viewers when it was first broadcast on ZDF, which corresponds to a market share of 17.4 percent. When it was first rerun in 2005, 1.17 million people watched. The market share was 12.7 percent. The second repetition of the film in 2007 attracted 4.54 million viewers with a market share of 16.6 percent.
criticism
The lexicon of international films stated: "(TV) crime film that tries to turn the tension screw through an escalation of violence and an increasingly confusing development."
Cinema praised in its editorial review: "Director Becker doesn't give a damn about realism and compensates with a great look, big sayings and many stars." Conclusion: "Real eye-catcher: sparse, gloomy, grotesque"
Rainer Tittelbach gave the film 5.5 out of a possible 6 stars on his website tittelbach.tv and said: “'Nachtschicht' relies on Germany's top-class police station with Armin Rohde, Katharina Böhm, Ken Duken and Minh-Khai Phan-Thi. 'Amok' also impresses with the elegance with which the everyday life of the heroes and skillful genre stylistics merge into something that was not known in this country for a long time: Becker succeeds in eliminating the contrast between the artificiality of the medium and the perception of realism in television. "Uwe Ochsenknecht played the slightly crazy gunman" great ", said Tittelbach. The “dense network of figures” enables “flexible perception”.
Kino.de praised: "Exciting, top-class genre crime thriller about a nerve-racking hostage situation." Director Lars Becker, who "made the first film in the 'Nachtschicht' series for ZDF", was "a stroke of luck" because he had "Put his personal stamp on the genre: Weird dialogues and absurd situational comedy, carried by excellent actors: Uwe Ochsenknecht as a maddened hostage-taker" has " pulp fiction quality as well as his opponent Armin Rohde, whose greasy chief inspector Erichsen is not necessarily on the right side of the Law "stands," which leads to tension with colleagues. Katharina Böhm gives her role, the cool psychologist Paula, “the necessary maturity”.
The TV magazine Prisma certified the film a "tight story, consistently good actors, upbeat dialogues and the necessary portion of tension". Lars Becker, who has already "skillfully addressed the unenviable everyday life of a group of police officers" in his films ' Jenny Berlin - Einsatz in Hamburg ' and ' Save your skin ' , can also do so with this film, the pilot film of a subsequent series.
Web links
- Night shift - amok! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Night shift - amok! at Fernsehserien.de
- Night shift - amok! at crew united
- Lars Becker's “Night Shift” For information on the series, see page rowohlt-medien.de
- Night shift. The TV film of the week ZDF press kit
- Night Shift - Amok Review of the film on the website zauberspiegel-online.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Night shift - amok! see page networkmovie.de (PDF document)
- ^ A b c Rainer Tittelbach : Series "Night Shift - Amok". Armin Rohde, Katharina Böhm, Ken Duken, Lars Becker: The team is the star, see page tittelbach.tv. Accessed December 1, 2019.
- ^ New ZDF crime thriller: Night Shift . Armin, the naked cannon In: Berliner Zeitung , March 24, 2003. Retrieved on December 1, 2019ö.
- ↑ Night shift - amok! see page networkmovie.de
- ↑ Night Shift I - Amok see page filmfesthamburg.de
- ↑ Night Shift - Amok Fig. DVD case Constantin Film
- ↑ Night shift - amok! and Father's Day Fig. DVD case ZDF
- Jump up ↑ Night Shift, episodes 1 to 14, images of the ZDF DVD covers
- ↑ Night shift - amok! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Night shift - amok! In: Cinema . Hubert Burda Media , accessed on December 1, 2019 . (including 42 film images)
- ↑ Night shift: Amok! see page kino.de (including photo series). Accessed December 1, 2019.
- ↑ Police thriller "Night Shift - Amok" see page prisma.de. Accessed December 1, 2019.
