Schwarzach 23 and the skull of the Saatans
| Episode of the series Schwarzach 23 | |
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| Original title | Schwarzach 23 and the skull of the Saatans |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 3 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | April 30, 2018 on ZDF |
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| Director | Matthias Tiefenbacher |
| script | Christian Jeltsch |
| production |
Sven Burgemeister Andreas Schneppe |
| music |
Beaver Gullatz Andreas Schäfer |
| camera | Hanno Lentz |
| cut | Horst Reiter |
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Schwarzach 23 and the skull of the Saatans is a German television thriller by Matthias Tiefenbacher . After Schwarzach 23 and the hand of death (2015) and Schwarzach 23 and the hunt for the murder finger (2016), it is the third part of the Schwarzach 23 series about the turbulent Germinger family of police officers. The film ran on April 30, 2018 on ZDF .
action
The head of the corn farmer Herbi Zidinger is found on a stake in one of his harvested corn fields. Zidinger was a major buyer of Sax , a chemical and seed company, and was therefore unpopular with the surrounding organic farmers . Inspector Germinger starts the investigation together with his sister Anna, who was transferred to him as a punishment.
The family ties around Herbi Zidinger are complex. Zidinger had recently learned that he suffered from Parkinson's and that he had a life expectancy of just a few weeks. He lived separately from his wife Klaudia, but continued to live with her on the farm. Klaudia's heavily pregnant sister Lucy, who is expecting a child from Zidinger, lives with them. Klaudia has an affair with the supposedly Polish farm worker Wazlav. Zidinger's choleric son Alois, separated from his wife and children, also lives on the farm. He hated the despotic father and his monoculture , and blamed him for the early death of his sister and the many misshapen piglets from pig breeding because of the pesticides . The Sax Saatgut representative Joon De Ville, a “friend of the family”, appears again and again with apparently watertight alibis.
The Germingers' relationships are also complex. Franz Germinger senior, a retired detective, repeatedly poses as Inspector Germinger with expired ID cards and interferes with his former colleague Obermaier in the investigation of his son. Mother Erika had a relationship with the opaque bon vivant De Ville 30 years ago and spends a night with him. Now she wants to catch up on what she had renounced in favor of the family at the time: to run away with De Ville. Anna Germinger's house blessing is wrong because she suspects her partner, the patrol officer Didi, of having cheated on his colleague.
After Alois first came into the focus of the investigators because of a video with death threats against the father as the main suspect, they finally found out the alleged course of events: In view of his illness, Zidinger wanted to clean the table with his son Alois and refrain from using pesticides. For De Ville it would have been a business failure, and so he had tried to change his mind, but to no avail. So he knocked him unconscious and deposited him in the corn field, knowing that Wazlav would harvest the field with the forage harvester early in the morning . The chopper cut off Zidinger's head while his body, ground up, disappeared into the silage . At the police station, they confront De Ville about it and that he has impaled Zidinger's head as a warning to all farmers, but in the absence of solid evidence, De Ville's lawyer can get him released. Erika shows up with a packed suitcase to run away with him, but he smiles at her plan and rejects her. When he makes off across the parking lot, Erika kicks him over with her car, which he doesn't survive.
At a final barbecue without Erika, the Germingers decide to stick together and support Erika, whose lawyer has suggested "sudden braking failure" as a defense strategy.
background
The title "Schwarzach 23" refers to house number 23 of the Germingers from Schwarzach in Bavaria.
criticism
On kn-online.de, Juliane Görsch judges that the film “often cannot choose between seriousness and black humor. [...] The black humor punchline at the end comes unexpectedly ”.
On quotenmeter.de, Sidney Schering confirms that the film is similar to the classic The Invisible Third , but overall the verdict is rather negative: “These entertaining approaches in this ZDF crime thriller sink into a lifelessly staged story in which some external scenes are excessively color-filtered are. [...] Thanks to the well-rehearsed cast, the tragicomic subplot about the Germinger family prevents the third “Schwarzach 23” film from slipping completely into arbitrariness - but requires knowledge of the previous films. "
Web links
- Schwarzach 23 and the skull of Saatans in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Schwarzach 23 and the skull of the Saatan at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b "Schwarzach 23" - A head in the corn field. kn-online.de, April 29, 2018, accessed on May 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Schwarzach 23: And the skull of Saatans. quotenmeter.de, April 29, 2018, accessed on May 2, 2018 .