Night Shift - The Dead Girl

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Episode of the series Night Shift
Original title Night Shift - The Dead Girl
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 8 ( list )
First broadcast November 18, 2010 on Zdf neo
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Director Lars Becker
script Lars Becker
production Reinhold Elschot
Bettina Wente
music Frank Wulff
Stefan Wulff
Hinrich Dageför
camera Holly Fink
cut Rebecca Khanide
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Night Shift - Das tote Mädchen is a German television film by Lars Becker from 2010. It is the eighth part of the ZDF crime series Nachtschicht . It premiered on October 3, 2010 at the Hamburg Film Festival and was first broadcast on November 18, 2010 by ZDFneo . This time the investigators have to solve the murder of a prostitute.

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Pauline Rodekamp anonymously informs the police about the location of a corpse. A car containing a shot young woman is then recovered from the Elbe. Investigators Brenner, Erichsen and Hu of the KDD start work. Apparently it is a prostitute who had just undergone minor cosmetic surgery. In this way, investigators can find out through the beauty clinic that the victim is Olga Lukalenko.

Lisa Brenner initially thinks it is possible that the clinic made a surgical error and that the patient therefore left the hospital in such a rush and was then brutally silenced. However, this does not seem to be true and there are indications of Friedrich Otto Winterstein, the head of a well-known private bank, who was last seen with the victim. Although the highly respected economist is unlikely to carry out such a brutal murder, the investigators have to follow up on this lead. He also had a demonstrable argument with Olga and was even violent against her. Winterstein admits this argument, but also declares that he was willing to marry Olga. His wife would have agreed to a divorce.

Erichsen also interrogates Olga's pimp Dicky Mangold, who he knows had illegally brought Olga into the country and is probably also involved in a larger human trafficking business. However, he cannot prove this to him. It also turns out that Olga was dating not only with Winterstein, but also with another man. Erichsen suspects that this is one of Winterstein's employees who was recently laid off. He has had Olga's colleague Marcella in his power since the early evening and demands free sex from her. In the end, he also wants her to play Russian roulette with him . Marcella fears that Olga died in this way. But Jacobs only plays with her, the gun is not loaded and only after the game does he put cartridges into the revolver. Since he had made an appointment with Marcella in one of Winterstein's apartments, the landlord comes in at the end and is threatened with a gun by Jacobs. He wants to force his reinstatement, but after Winterstein strictly refuses, Jacobs shoots himself.

In the end, Erichsen tracks down Olga's unknown “Client 8”. This is Bertram Rodekamp, ​​a suitor feared because of his brutality. When Rodekamp is arrested, Olga's sister Irina suddenly appears and unceremoniously shoots the suspect on the street. Mrs. Rodekamp was aware of her husband's antics and since she knew about the murder of Olga and this was a great burden for her, she had called the police anonymously.

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast as “TV film of the week” on Monday, November 22, 2010, the film reached 5.25 million viewers and 15.3 percent of the total market share.

Reviews

The critics of the program magazine TV Spielfilm think: “This case also remains true to the 'night shift' line: crisp dialogues, atmospheric images, plus a bitterly serious story and an ensemble that captivates right down to the supporting roles - including the little-known Sascha Göpel as more whimsical Bank employee. "They sum up:" Pointed, precise and perfectly timed. "

Kino.de wrote: “Brilliant actors ennoble the exciting story: the cockfight of the primeval creatures Dietmar Bär and Armin Rohde, the cold feeling of Jürgen Prochnow's banker, Lisa Maria Potthoff's milieu girl melancholy or the dignity with which Barbara Auer's police psychologist is covering up her colleague Erichsen withholding some things again, that's great. "kino.de:

The film was released on DVD together with Night Shift - We Are the Police on April 24, 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Night Shift - The Dead Girl . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2015 (PDF; test number: 149 668 V).
  2. Rohde, Auer, Potthoff, Bär, Lars Becker. Das Mädchen, der Kommissar und der Lude at tittelbach.tv, accessed on November 24, 2016.
  3. TV crime thriller. Whore murder: The police stir up the Hamburg Society. at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on November 24, 2016.
  4. Nachtschicht - Das tote Mädchen on kino.de, accessed on November 24, 2016