Night shift - one murder too many

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Episode of the series Night Shift
Original title Night shift - one murder too many
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 9 ( list )
First broadcast January 17, 2011 on ZDF
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Director Lars Becker
script Lars Becker
production Reinhold Elschot ,
Bettina Wente
music Stefan Wulff,
Hinrich Dageför
camera Andreas Zickgraf
cut Sanjeev Hathiramani
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Night Shift - One Murder Too Much is a German television film by Lars Becker from 2011. It is the ninth part of the crime series Nachtschicht and was first broadcast on January 17, 2011 on ZDF .

The Hamburg KDD team, which quickly has a prime suspect, is preoccupied with a series of murders.

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The violent criminal Pinky Brühl has to answer in court for several murders. His lawyer Kurt Rockenbach had a psychological report drawn up, according to which his client is not at fault due to an extreme psychosis. However, Brühl considers himself very normal and does not want to be labeled as a psychopath. When four victims are spoken of during the trial, but he can only remember three acts, Brühl “ticks” and is able to flee despite being guarded. The permanent detective service is notified and tries to find the fugitive, who is considered extremely dangerous. A young woman's body has just been found in the sewers. The circumstances of death show strong parallels to the fourth murder, for which Pinky Brühl was just in court. The psychologist Iris Wilhelmina certifies Brühl's potential for violence, which he cannot control at the moment, but does not consider him to be dangerous to the public because his actions were always related to personal conflicts. Femicides with mutilation and torture do not fit into his scheme for the psychologist. Lisa Brenner knows her colleague Iris very well and hopes that she is not mistaken because such perpetrators often know exactly how to behave towards the therapist.

After forensic science found out that the two most recent feminicides must clearly have come from the same perpetrator, Brühl can be ruled out for these two acts, because at the time of the last murder he was in police custody. So it is important to find a second murderer. Lisa Brenner and Mimi Hu suspect Danny Osterwald, the fiancé of the last victim. He has a criminal record for repeated sexual assault and is a little conspicuous. When it turns out that he also knew the first victim, he is temporarily arrested. However, he has to be released when his given alibi is confirmed at the time of the last murder.

Pinky Brühl now turns to his lawyer and asks him for help. He wants to prove innocence for the accused, fourth murder on his own initiative. On the basis of testimonies, Erichsen, Brenner and Hu find the trail of the two. However, an arrest fails and Brühl is still on the run.

Lisa Brenner is convinced that the two feminicides were deliberately carried out so that Pinky Brühl would be held responsible. A prison officer reported a dispute between Brühl and Osterwald, so that he was again under suspicion and wanted to find him. After he reports to the psychotherapist, he can be arrested again. During interrogation, he denied being able to do violence to women. He would only work verbally and with constant presence to ensure that the women he desires would notice him. Violence would not be a solution for him, because he knows completely different people who would just take what they wanted. When asked by the investigators, he names the law enforcement officer Edgar Danziger. Erichsen and Brenner are following up on this point. However, you can no longer prevent Danziger from bringing the psychotherapist into his power. He shows himself to her as a sick psychopath who has a general grudge against women and blames his actions on other offenders. When the KDD team found Iris Wilhelmina, like the last murder victim, she was already lying in a sack in the sewer system - but she was still alive.

Brühl also found the trail to Danziger. Before the police can arrest the man, he wants to shoot him. Brenner managed to get him to give up and he was arrested along with Danziger.

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast as “TV film of the week” on Monday, January 17, 2011, the film reached 6.08 million viewers and 17.8 percent of the total market share.

Reviews

“As a director, Lars Becker does an excellent job: The visual implementation is quite good, and the actors are consistently excellent. [...] But oh dear, the plot itself is so full of logic errors that you quickly lose the common thread and with it your interest. Lars Becker should have revised the story urgently. Or even better, just throw it in the bin - some stories are simply useless, especially if you want to tell them in a few hours of a single night. "

- Ulrich Feld : fnp.de

“The ZDF Monday crime thriller has [...] impurities ... that throw the viewer out of the tension curve again and again. And that's a shame. Because the story is nice and some of the dialogue turned out great. [...] Drowned in unfortunately too many sloppy things. "

- Josef Seitz : focus.de

The critics of the program magazine TV Spielfilm awarded a symbolic "thumbs up" without comment.

The film was released on DVD together with Night Shift - Journey to Death .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Night Shift - One murder too many . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2015 (PDF; test number: 151 423 V).
  2. ↑ One murder too many at tittelbach.tv, accessed on November 24, 2016.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Feld: “One murder too much”: What nonsense! In: fnp.de. Frankfurter Neue Presse , June 23, 2015, accessed on November 24, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Josef Seitz: Monday is the new Sunday. "Night Shift - One Murder Too Many". In: focus.de. Focus , January 18, 2011, accessed November 24, 2016 .
  5. ^ Night Shift - One murder too many on tvspielfilm.de