Snow White must die
| Episode of the series Der Taunuskrimi | |
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| Original title | Snow White must die |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 1 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | February 25, 2013 on ZDF |
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| Director | Manfred Stelzer |
| script | Henriette Piper |
| production |
Daniel Blum Carsten Kelber |
| music |
Moritz Freise Biber Gullatz |
| camera | Johann Feindt |
| cut | Bernd Schriever |
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Snow White Must Die (reference title Snow White Must Die - A Taunus Crime ) is a German television film by Manfred Stelzer from 2013 . The literary film adaptation is based on motifs from the novel of the same name by Nele Neuhaus and is the first episode of the crime series Der Taunuskrimi . Tim Bergmann and Felicitas Woll act as the team of investigators . The main guest roles in the opening episode are Vladimir Burlakov , Ulrike Kriener , Florian Bartholomäi in a double role, Anna Unterberger , Sarah Horváth , Brigitte Karner , Julian Weigend and Michael Schenk .
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Tobias Sartorius is released from prison after serving a sentence of seven years and takes the bus back to his home village Altenhain, where he is met with distrust and suspicion. After all, eight years ago, after a performance of the fairy tale Snow White , Tobias is said to have killed the leading actress Stefanie Schneeberger and hid the body. When Gregor Lauterbach, the director of the play at the time, visits Tobias, there is a dispute between the men. The next morning Lauterbach's body was found hanging from a tree in the forest. The responsible detectives Oliver von Bodenstein and Pia Kirchhoff are called to clarify whether it is a suicide or whether there is a foreign fault. The rumor about the found body quickly spreads in the village, although at first it is believed that Stefanie's body has finally been found. This time, too, the suspicion of having something to do with Lauterbach's death first falls on Tobias.
The investigative duo tries to interview as many people as possible, also with regard to the crime eight years ago. It is inevitable that different versions of what is said to have happened on that fateful evening eight years ago are presented to them. Tobias claims that Gregor approached Stefanie immorally and was beaten by him when she turned him away. She sustained a bloody injury. Her blood got onto his shirt when he tried to comfort her. He himself then drank too much alcohol that evening and woke up the next morning with a film tear, so that part of that night was in the dark. Lars Terlinden, a friend of Tobias at the time, on the other hand, says that Stefanie had been harassed by Tobias for a long time, including this evening. He ran after the young woman and his pent-up frustration turned into violence.
Meanwhile, two women are interested in Tobias, who is suspected again. On the one hand his ex-girlfriend Nadja Bredow, an ambitious actress who absolutely wants him back and can imagine a future together with him in Frankfurt am Main , where she now lives, and on the other hand Amelie Fröhlich, who has only been in the village for a short time has now found out about the crime at the time and is looking for Tobias. Tobias, however, is no longer interested in Nadja. Amelie, who wants to help Tobias and tries to provoke the village community again and again, comes to the conclusion that he didn't do anything to Stefanie at the time. So she decides to get to the bottom of the matter herself. Disguised as “Snow White”, she attends the service and observes the reactions of the villagers. Thies, Lars Terlinden's mentally handicapped twin brother, is so frightened at the sight that he storms off into the forest. Amelie finds him there, but can't calm him down. After he ran away again, she was attacked and kidnapped.
A search team of the police as well as von Bodenstein and Kirchhoff with their dog trained as a sniffer dog start the search for Amelie, the latter finally being led by the dog to the park-like property of the Terlindens. Where Thies Terlinden has laid out a garden, one comes across a vault and there a coffin in which the mummified corpse of Stefanie is. The presentation is reminiscent of "Snow White", next to the coffin lies Thies' open fairy tale book. Oliver von Bodenstein attracts the psychologist Dr. Horstmann added to the questioning of Thies, and hopes to find out what really happened that night of the murder. Under Thies' things you can find a hand-painted picture that shows Stefanie being raped by Lars. During the autopsy of Stefanie's corpse, traces of Lars' sperm can actually be found, so that the suspicion against him is confirmed. It turns out that it wasn't Lars who killed Stefanie, but his mother Christine Terlinden. She had caught her son raping and wanted to persuade Stefanie to keep quiet about the incident. Her attempt to cover up, however, had made no impression on the exceptional girl who was determined to report to Lars why she was dying. Christine Terlinden confesses the deed and reveals where she is keeping Amelie prisoner so that at least she can be freed.
It is now also certain that Gregor Lauterbach hanged himself. Thies discovered him in the forest and took the stool he climbed on with him. The depressed man was blackmailed by Nadja Bredow with photos that showed that he and Stefanie were more than teachers and students.
production
Production notes, locations
The fourth book in the Bodenstein & Kirchhoff series was filmed with Snow White Must Die . It is the best-selling book by Nele Neuhaus and has appeared in more than 20 countries. The film was produced by All in Production. The scenes that take place in Commissioner von Bodenstein's apartment were filmed in a house on Gimbacher Weg in Kelkheim . The inns "Zum Schwarzen Ross" and "Zum Goldenen Hahn" were found in Maibach , a district of Butzbach in the Wetterau district. The place was renamed Altenhain in the film . Interior shots from the "Black Horse" were taken in the paneled hall of a restaurant in Wallrabenstein ( Rheingau-Taunus district ). The Hofheim police station is located in Usingen Castle , the old-fashioned shop of the mother of one of the murdered girls is in the Niederauroff district of Idstein . Sommerberg Castle in Wiesbaden-Frauenstein became Villa Terlinden. In the New Town Hall in Wiesbaden , scenes were shot that take place in the Hessian Ministry of Culture. Forensic medicine is located in the Tannenwald Clinic in Bad Homburg . Outdoor shots were mainly taken in the Hochtaunus district , forest scenes on the Eschbacher cliffs and near Grävenwiesbach . Pia Kirchhoff rides over the high plateau near Wehrheim .
Private the investigator
During her investigation, Pia Kirchhoff meets her divorced husband, the coroner Henning Kirchhoff, who is surprised. The film implies that Kirchhoff is still struggling with the consequences of a rape committed against her and is still receiving treatment from the psychiatrist Dr. Horstmann is. Oliver von Bodenstein has to look after his son and daughter because his wife is in California for a longer period of time. At the end of the episode, however, she returned surprisingly earlier than von Bodenstein invited Kirchhoff to his home for coffee.
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A 500-page novel “with dozens of storylines” cannot of course be packed in 90 minutes. The script had to “weight differently” and “partially retell” the story. Of course, "some things have been left out", but "next to nothing has been added".
When the first episode began to be broadcast, the station advertised that "an unconventional duo" was investigating the Hofheim police force: Pia Kirchhoff, played by Felicitas Woll and Oliver von Bodenstein (Tim Bergmann). It also said: "In the fairy-tale and mystically enchanted Taunus, the two approach the suspects and their motives with a keen sense and knowledge of human nature and often look into the depths of the soul." Both would "with skillful meticulousness and sometimes different investigative approaches" [...] " ideal complement ”. Von Bodenstein is a straw widower with two pubescent children who “fears for the future of his marriage”, while Kirchhoff, on the other hand, struggles with “traumatic memories” that are back in view of her first case.
Dieter Wunderlich wrote on his side that the investigators Oliver von Bodenstein and Pia Kirchhoff are not a harmonious investigative duo, which differs from the original book.
publication
The film was broadcast on February 25, 2013 on ZDF .
On DVD was released Snow White must die on February 26, 2013, published by Studio Hamburg Enterprises.
On May 13, 2013, the film adaptation of Nele Neuhaus' first book An Unpopular Woman was broadcast on ZDF.
reception
Audience rating
When it was first broadcast, the film was seen by 6.76 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of around 19.7 percent.
criticism
TV Spielfilm gave a thumbs up, gave one of three possible points for humor, ambition, action and eroticism, two for tension and drew the conclusion: "Dark, grim and profound."
Volker Albers rated the film for the Berliner Morgenpost and said that the "tension in the film" could "not keep up with that in the novel". Because “even if Nele Neuhaus likes to use clichéd staff in her Taunus thrillers, how to build tension, the author understands something. And that's exactly what the television adaptation of the rather complex novel suffers from ”. In conclusion, Albers wrote that the film "inevitably had to do without a large part of the storylines of the novel", "but had to offer a surprising showdown".
The author Dieter Wunderlich pointed out that this was “not a true film adaptation of the crime novel of the same name by Nele Neuhaus”. "On the one hand two thirds of the novel are missing, on the other hand - some superfluous - own ideas have been added," continued Wunderlich, and that film and book would be "very different". “Snow White has to die”, is “done professionally. No more and no less".
“The filmmakers had only adopted a few storylines, retained a few basic ideas of the story about a girl who had disappeared in the small Taunus town of Altenhain, and traced the narrowness of the province, where everyone knows everyone and at the same time somehow mistrusts them. In the end, however, the perpetrator is different from the one in the book. And the main actors have the same names, but their characters are partly brittle, partly ironed flat or only hinted at like a woodcut. They no longer have much to do with the highly detailed characters in Nele Neuhaus's novel. This also applies to the two detective detective officers at Hofheim, Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein, who brusquely and brusquely attacked each other in the film for almost 90 minutes. In addition, a trauma that the scriptwriter added, which causes multiple flashbacks of a rape, makes Pia Kirchhoff difficult to manage. The dramaturgical meaning of this is not revealed. "
"Snow White Must Die" is a film that comes light years too late. Without any feeling for material, characters and atmosphere, Manfred Stelzer - not a bad one in his field - staged the book, which is overloaded with strange sentences and banal secrets. [...] Do all crime novels (whose rights are affordable) have to be filmed? 'Everything is wrong, back and forth,' says one of the characters. "
"Pale (television) crime thriller, whose uninspired book neither the director nor the actors can win much."
Web links
- Snow White must die in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Snow White Must Die on the ZDF website (including the full film, available until September 29, 2019)
- Snow White has to die at Fernsehserien.de
- Nele Neuhaus - For film adaptations see page neleneuhaus.de
- Snow White must die - for a Taunus thriller see page diethelm-glaser.net + the film in pictures
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Andrea Rost: Nele-Neuhaus-Krimi on ZDF Snow White dies in the Taunus In: Frankfurter Rundschau Rhein-Main, August 3, 2012. Accessed July 1, 2019.
- ↑ For a Taunus thriller see page fernsehserien.de
- ↑ a b Dieter Wunderlich: Snow White must die see page dieterwunderlich.de. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
- ↑ Snow White Must Die Fig. DVD case ZDF (in the picture: Gloria Endres de Oliveira)
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↑ TV ratings from yesterday evening “Circus Halligalli” celebrates its successful premiere.
In: stern.de, February 26, 2013, accessed on July 1, 2019. - ↑ A Taunus thriller: Snow White must die see page tvspielfilm.de (including 35 film images). Retrieved July 1, 2019.
- ↑ Volkers Albers: Taunus crime thriller “Snow White Must Die” - more suspense, please! In: Berliner Morgenpost, February 25, 2013. Accessed July 1, 2019.
- ↑ Andrea Rost: Snow White Must Die, But Different , Frankfurter Rundschau, February 23, 2013, accessed on July 1, 2019.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: TV film "Snow White Must Die. A Taunus thriller ". Woll Bergmann, Burlakov, Kriener in a ZDF provincial thriller that nobody needs , tittelbach.tv, accessed on July 1, 2019 (2.5 stars out of a possible 6).
- ↑ Snow White must die. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 1, 2019 .
