Police call 110: death in the studio
| Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110 | |
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| Original title | Death in the studio |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Saxonia Media film production for the MDR |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 303 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | August 9, 2009 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thorsten Näter |
| script | Thorsten Näter |
| production | Peter Gust |
| camera | Joachim Hasse |
| cut | Julia von Frihling |
| occupation | |
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Death in the Atelier is a German crime film by Thorsten Näter from 2009. It is the 303rd episode in the film series Polizeiruf 110 and the 41st case for Schmücke and Schneider .
action
Jakob Brehme, a well-known painter, is found dead in his studio . He was killed by several stings with a painter's knife, which suggests a very powerful perpetrator or great hatred. It seems strange that there are no signs of defense and therefore he did not fight back.
Brehme was known to have been very uncontrollable and had led a rather dissolute life. Investigators Schmücke and Schneider think it is unlikely that his marriage should not have suffered as a result. But Ruth Brehme thinks that she has come to terms with this life and that she was happy with her husband. Since her fifteen-year-old daughter Aurelia has been in a wheelchair for several months due to an accident and is mentally and physically handicapped, Schneider considers this a sufficient alibi, as the girl has to be constantly looked after. Schmücke doesn't see it that clearly, but both initially concentrate on the victim's college colleague: Professor Grima. He was publicly humiliated several times by the painter and he suffered from being unable to match Jakob Brehme artistically.
From Grima, the investigators receive a reference to the art student Anja Schult, who had a relationship with her painter professor. She visits Schmücke and learns that she accuses Brehme of having copied her artistic method. Yet she loved him and could never have killed him.
The entrepreneur Kolbe could also have a motive for murder after he had commissioned a portrait of himself and his wife from the famous artist and was very disappointed with the result, as it was not as turned out as he had imagined. At the time of the crime, however, he can show an alibi.
Schmücke finds out that Aurelia's accident was very likely a suicide attempt. While following this trail, Schneider finds incriminating evidence against Professor Grima. After Anja Schult was also found dead, Grima got more and more distressed. Cornered, he admits that the student had blackmailed him and that when he wanted to meet her, she fell fatally. It was clearly an accident, he hadn't killed anyone, not even Brehme.
Aurelia's fate cannot get out of Schmücke's head. Brehme had painted his daughter remarkably often, and he even worked through her self-induced accident artistically. But these pictures were never shown publicly, as he probably blamed himself. But the truth is even more terrifying. On the hard drive of his computer there are photos, according to which an abuse of Brehmes with Aurelia is very likely, so that this should also be the reason for her suicide attempt. Schmücke and Schneider confront Ruth Brehme with the result of their investigation and she admits that she recently found out what he did to her daughter. As a result, she would have killed him because he didn't deserve it any other way. However, Schmücke sees some inconsistencies and so it turns out that Aurelia had driven in a wheelchair to her father's studio in an unnoticed moment and killed him, so he had not resisted. She had to listen to an argument between her parents and since she can consciously grasp something at times, she burst into anger.
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Tod im Atelier on August 9, 2009 was seen by a total of 6.3 million viewers in Germany and thus achieved a market share of 22.0 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv has this to say about this thriller: “Black gloves, reaching for a painter's knife, a staccato of deadly stitches, motifs and montage in the Edgar Wallace style. The new 'police call' from Halle gets straight to the point. 40 seconds to the murder. Messrs. Schmücke and Schneider drive up to the crime scene with unusual speed. Even the 'look' of Halle has changed. ”And he thinks:“ It's the little things that captivate you: an expression on the face of Rudolf Kowalski, Dieter Montag's pleasantly quiet variant of playing the unloved boss, or Katharina Schüttler, that of her character gives a secret that will make you forget any script cliché. Ann-Kathrin Kramer had the most difficult role: Näter wrote too much and too weak text for her. The actress solves the paradoxical situation in which the widow she plays finds herself with too much emotion. "
Even with Quotenmeter Julian Miller judges fairly subdued and finds: "From time to time can be quite nice moments find; for example, when the characters are talking about modern art in well-written dialogues and come up with some interesting theses. Unfortunately there are far too few of these scenes, and there are far too many banal ones that end up in nowhere over and over again. There is almost nothing interesting or dramatic in 'Polizeiruf 110: Tod im Atelier'. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm , on the other hand, gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and found: "Quiet tension, staged with feeling".
Web links
- Police 110: Death in the studio in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of the film on the ARD website
Individual evidence
- ↑ TV ratings: 6.3 million viewers choose "Polizeiruf 110" rating at mediabiz.de, accessed on May 4, 2015.
- ↑ Rainer Tittelbach : MDR "Polizeiruf" with a slight jump in quality by Thorsten Näter film review at tittelbach.tv , accessed on May 4, 2015.
- ↑ Julian Miller: Die Kritiker: "Polizeiruf 110: Tod im Atelier" at quotenmeter.de , accessed on May 4, 2015.
- ^ Police call 110: Death in the studio at TV Spielfilm.de , accessed on March 27, 2015.
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