North by northwest - the wild Sven

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Episode of the series North by Northwest
title The wild Sven
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Telefilm production aspect
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 2 ( list )
First broadcast October 22nd, 2015 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Jochen Alexander Freydank
script Holger Karsten Schmidt
production Claudia Schröder
music Stefan Hansen
camera Philipp Timme
cut Bernd Schriever
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
North at Northwest - Captain Hook

Successor  →
North near northwest - Estonia

North at Northwest - The wild Sven is a German television film by Jochen Alexander Frey thanks from the year 2015. This is the second episode of the ARD - Police drama series North at Northwest with Hinnerk Schönemann and Henny Reents in the lead roles.

action

Hauke ​​Jacobs got off to a good start as a veterinarian in the Baltic Sea town of Schwanitz. His latest patient is a cow that no longer wants to eat and whose owner threatens to be slaughtered in an emergency. For him the curse of the savage Sven is to blame, because the vet cannot discover any organic cause. Hauke's assistant, Jule Christiansen, explains to him that over 1000 years ago the citizens of Schwanitz had lured the Viking leader into a trap. When the savage Sven was executed on a February 24th, he had cursed all the Schwanitzers and since then he would get two of them every seven years. No sooner had Jule told him than Hauke's cell phone was ringing. The local police officer Lona Vogt asks him to step in for the village doctor, who cannot be reached at the moment, and to conduct an investigation into the corpses. Confused, he says yes. He is even more confused when he realizes that Oliver Selchow must have drowned, but he is lying on his bed. So someone must have carried him there. Despite the agreed silence, news of the first death quickly spreads around the village.

Since Lona Vogt has suffered a bruise on her foot, she asks Hauke ​​to support her for the next few days, as she cannot drive at the moment. She tells him about Melanie Bittner, who fell victim to Wild Sven seven years ago . She had gone on a boat tour with three men and washed up dead the next day. Oliver Selchow, today's dead, was one of these men. A second hanged himself the day after Melanie's death. So Lona and Hauke ​​are initially investigating in this direction. They question Melanie's mother, who admits that she would have loved to take revenge on the guilty party, but if she did, it would have happened seven years ago. Lona makes sense and she wants to take care of the victim's personal environment again. She noticed a doctor's appointment that Selchow had noted. She asks the attending physician, from whom she learns that Selchow was seriously ill with cancer and that instead of going to the clinic immediately, she would have preferred to go to confession. The pastor Schlagmann is interviewed, who confirms a pastoral conversation with Selchow, but also refers to his confidentiality. Nevertheless, he indirectly confirms Lona's assumption that the three men were to blame for the girl's death, because they had simply thrown Melanie overboard. So that Jörn Overkott, the third of the men, does not also become a victim of the murderer, Lona wants to “hide” him until she has arrested the perpetrator. Everything indicates that this is Björn Bittner, because after evaluating the traces, a hair was found on Selchow's corpse, which most likely came from Melanie's father. Lona and Hauke ​​therefore want to set a trap for him and wait for him in Overkott's house. It becomes clear to them that the actual solution must have to do with Selchow's “confession”, since the murder only happened afterwards. When they want to visit the pastor, he has just gone out to sea with Overkott and his motor yacht. In the church, however, they meet Claudia Bittner and learn that the pastor was actually Melanie's biological father and that Selchow drowned in anger in the baptismal font after his confession.

Lona alerts the coast guard and takes up the chase with Hauke. You can just prevent Pastor Overkott from throwing him into the sea. Both can be arrested, but there is still a second victim of Wild Sven : Björn Bittner. The memory of Melanie, which was refreshed by the current events, drove him to hang himself. But there is hope for the cow Gabi, because Hauke ​​had found out that she was "exposed to music" every day on the previous owner's farm, which she is now missing, and that she therefore refuses to eat.

background

In this episode, Hauke ​​Jacobs said that he went into hiding in Schwanitz and was "hiding" because he was supposed to testify as a key witness to a trial.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Nord on Nordwest - Der wilde Sven on October 22, 2015 in the first reached 4.68 million viewers and a market share of 14.7 percent. When it was repeated on December 27, 2016, the values ​​even rose to 5.18 million viewers (15.3 percent MA).

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said: North by Northwest - The wild Sven takes the series “a bit of the wind out of the sails - and puts the viewer off until later. In any case, the erotic promise that 'Käpt'n Hook' made and the top line-up still makes, is unfortunately not (yet) kept by 'Der wilde Sven'. There are other strong moments for that. And the idea of ​​curse and spook is at least initially pleasing. ”“ The narrative rhythm of the film is rather leisurely according to the landscape. The constant weather changes when shooting in winter made it visibly difficult to give the film a uniform atmosphere. "

For the FAZ , Oliver Junge wrote: “Comedy, Schnulze or crime novel? That is the question when public television is making a film. 'Nord bei Nordwest - Der Wilde Sven' shows what can go wrong. Someone even drowns in his bed. ”Otherwise“ the plot is almost completely submerged in the coastal fog, which is helped here by digital technology and smoke bombs. ”

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Rainer Tittelbach : Schönemann, Reents, Lohse, Schmidt, Freydank. The pitfalls of horizontal storytelling, film criticism at tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ Oliver Junge: This Viking saga is no cowhide at faz.net, accessed on March 6, 2017.