North by Northwest - Estonia

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Episode of the series North by Northwest
title Estonia
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Telefilm production aspect
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 3 ( list )
First broadcast March 30, 2017 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Dagmar Seume
script Holger Karsten Schmidt
production Claudia Schröder
music Stefan Hansen
camera Carl-Friedrich Koschnick
cut Oliver Grothoff
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
North by Northwest - The wild Sven

Successor  →
North by Northwest - The Transport

North in North West - Estonia is a German television film by Dagmar Seume from the year 2017. It is the third installment in the ARD - Police drama series North at Northwest with Hinnerk Schönemann and Henny Reents in the lead roles.

action

Hauke ​​Jacobs has been asserting himself more and more since his new beginning as a veterinarian in the Baltic town of Schwanitz. His practice is also developing into a rescue station for animals. When he was walking his dog on the beach during a break from work, he heard gunshots in the nearby senior citizens' residence "Schönblick". Jacobs rushes over and tries to help a wounded man. With the last of his strength, he can slip a piece of metal to the vet before he dies. Police officer Lona Vogt immediately searched the senior citizens' residence and gradually the evidence that the attack was actually aimed at her father was growing. He was apparently not the harmless traveling salesman he claimed to be, but probably worked for an intelligence service. Lona Vogt investigates and comes to the conclusion that her mother's fatal accident was also an attack that targeted her father.

Meanwhile, Hauke ​​Jacobs receives an uninvited visit on his boat. The armed man demands the piece of metal that has been entrusted to him. When Hauke ​​does not immediately get involved and the man becomes more energetic, Hauke's dog attacks and is shot. For the vet, the threat is now of secondary importance and he leaves the boat with the seriously injured animal to operate in the practice. The removed projectile takes police officer Lona, has it examined and is now sure that she is closely on the murderer's trail.

The piece of metal entrusted to Hauke ​​turns out to be part of a ship's wall. And the victim is no less mysterious, because 20 years earlier he had assumed a false identity. So the investigation leads far into the past and to Lona's great surprise, the murderer of her mother. Matthias Kruse, under which name the victim lived in recent years, worked for the State Security and was supposed to kill Lona's father seven years ago, who was his opponent in the Federal Intelligence Service . Instead of Vogt, however, his wife had an accident. Since then, Kruse had felt guilty and wanted to calm his conscience a little by warning Vogt that the KGB was meanwhile on the trail of him.

Based on a serial number that appears on the piece of metal, it is clear that it is part of the Baltic ferry Estonia , which sank in 1994 . Hauke ​​and Lona try to lure the murderer to their home with this piece of evidence that he apparently desperately wants. But Victor Apov turns the tables. He kidnaps Lona and demands the part of the ship as the price for her release. While Lona's father handles the handover, Hauke ​​follows the murderer to a hotel, where he meets with a middleman to hand over the piece of metal, which Hauke ​​can prevent. Victor Apov escapes first.

After Lona has been freed, Reimar Vogt finally talks to his daughter about his mysterious past: The KGB had found out where Vogt lives and that he also owns a piece of Estonia , so the agent was put on him. The pieces of metal can be used to prove that there was an explosion on the ship at that time and that it was therefore a deliberate attack.

Since Victor Apov has still not fully completed his assignment, he sneaks into Vogt's room at night. But he was prepared for it and shoots Apov. Then he drives out to the Baltic Sea and sinks the body in the sea.

background

Nord bei Nordwest - Estonia was filmed in 2015 and was originally scheduled for broadcast in summer 2016. The working title was "Estonia 12".

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Nord bei Nordwest - Estonia on March 30, 2017 in the first reached 5.96 million viewers and a market share of 19.2 percent.

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said: Nord bei Nordwest - Estonia “impresses with a pleasantly slimmed-down concept and the clever work on detail. Striking at first glance: the relaxed narrative rhythm, the sympathetic but not the audience, the top cast, a lot of northern German mentality & scenic atmosphere. And with a second look you can see how an ironic sub-floor is created, how clever and deep emotions are generated, how the laconic arises from ellipses and that this Schönemann figure has its own style. "

At the Frankfurter Rundschau , Harald Keller wrote: “Instead of developing the crime story from the local characteristics, screenwriter Holger Karsten Schmidt brings remote international affairs together in the fictional hamlet of Schwanitz. The regional thriller is puffed up into a would-be agent thriller, but of course that doesn't work. "" There are exciting moments in this television thriller, but they are not due to the absurd agent plot, but to the question of whether the monosyllabic veterinarian Hauke ​​Jacobs the advances of his colleague Jule Christiansen (Marleen Lohse) out of sheer paddling or deliberately - and if so, why? - ignored. These scenes are fun, the rest is coastal fog. "

Julian Miller fromquotemeter.de came to the conclusion: “This is not exciting. Particularly intelligent, engaging or informative certainly just as little. But 'Nord bei Nordwest' sticks to its sincere style, tells with an honest interest in its characters, who are much more funny, intelligent and personal than the comparable competition from genre and broadcasting slot. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nord bei Nordwest - Estonia bei fernsehserien.de, accessed on September 13, 2017.
  2. ^ A b Rainer Tittelbach : Schönemann, Reents, Lohse, Schmidt, Seume. Spy thriller in the country Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on September 13, 2017.
  3. ↑ Harald Keller: Schrott vom Ostseegrund at faz.net, accessed on September 13, 2017.
  4. ↑ Julian Miller: Film criticism at Königinmeter.de , accessed on September 13, 2017.