Solo for white - the missing girl
| Episode of the series Solo for White | |
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| Original title | The missing girl |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Network Movie on behalf of ZDF |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 1 ( list ) |
| German-language first broadcast |
November 7, 2016 on ZDF |
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| Director | Thomas Berger |
| script | Thomas Berger (director) |
| production | Jutta Lieck-Klenke |
| music | Florian Tessloff |
| camera | Frank Küpper |
| cut | Barbara Hennings |
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Solo für Weiss - The Disappeared Girl is a German detective film by Thomas Berger from 2016. It is the first case in the ZDF film series Solo for Weiss in which Anna Maria Mühe plays Nora Weiss, an investigator employed by the LKA .
While looking for an escaped criminal, she comes across a girl trafficking organization. The circle closes in case 2 Solo for Weiss - The truth has many faces .
prehistory
The court is convinced that at the end of this long circumstantial process it is clear that 13-year-old Lisa Harms was murdered in Matthias Mattner's apartment. In addition to clothing and DNA traces of the girl, her blood was also found at the crime scene. The judge stressed: “The court is aware of the media attention this case has generated. I would like to emphasize once again that convictions and sentences are not influenced by public opinion. Only the testimony made here in this room and the evidence presented form the basis for the following decision: In the case of the murder of 13-year-old Lisa Harms, the court follows the prosecutor's request and sentenced Matthias Mattner to life imprisonment. "
action
In Latvia, the 9th birthday of Daina, the sponsored child of the target investigator Nora Weiss, is celebrated. At the same time, the convicted Matthias Mattner manages to escape from the toilet of the courthouse, which the judicial officer supervising him had previously opened wide. He then hit his own head against the wall and attacked Mattner with a pistol. There was a fight. Weiss, who is on the ferry from Latvia back to her place of residence Lübeck with her niece, misses the girl who just wanted to go to the toilet for a short time. In the toilet anteroom she finds a necklace, her birthday present for Daina. The target investigator fails to prevent the cars from leaving the ferry. Meanwhile, Daina has disappeared.
When Weiss spoke to her new colleague Simon Brandt, who had been transferred by the fraud department in Dortmund for private reasons, he told her about the Lisa Harms case, the girl who disappeared without a trace a year ago. There was no ransom demand. In the course of the investigation, Matthias Mattner came across more by chance. His neighbor noticed a bloody girl's panties in the shared garbage can, and traces of blood were found in Mattner's apartment that could clearly be attributed to Lisa.
Nora tells her father, Pastor Rainer Weiss, that her boss Jan Geissler will personally take care of Daina's disappearance, since he has given her the case of Matthias Mattner, who has fled. Her father insists that she inform Anna Balodis, Daina's mother. This call is very difficult for Nora. Balodis announces her immediate arrival. In the Mattner case, Weiss finds out that he was married until two years ago and has two children. One comes across the trail of Henrik Baer, who is supposed to be friends with Mattner and who works in the shipping company in the freight papers department. When Weiss and Brandt want to hear him, he runs away; their attempt to catch up with him fails.
Weiss next has a conversation with Lisa Harms' parents. Her father in particular struggles with what has happened, but her mother is also badly. In Lisa's room, the agent sees a dress that is far too expensive for the young girl's circumstances. She finds out that this was bought over a year ago by a young guy in Travemünde who appeared there with Lisa and paid $ 600. In the meantime, countless photos of children in unambiguous poses have been found on Baer's laptop. A message arrives on Weiss' mobile phone with which someone signals that he can help her find Daina. But you mustn't show the message to anyone. It also says: “I am innocent, help me prove it, then I'll tell you where you can find Daina.” Weiss drives to Geissler and informs him. However, he does not want to know that Mattner is not Lisa's murderer.
A telephone contact between Mattner and Weiss is inadvertently almost thwarted by Brandt, whereupon Mattner wants to withdraw. It is now clear that Valerio D., a so-called loverboy, bought Lisa the dress. Valerio came to Germany from Belgium with his brother Adrio. Weiss recognizes Adrio in a photo she took on the ferry from Daina, he can be seen in the background. A call from Mattner directs Weiss to the container port. Baer is found there. He's dead. When Geissler asked where she got the clue from, Weiss gave no answer. She sees Mattner as her only chance to find Daina.
You come across Henrike Kreutzer, an Internet acquaintance of Mattner's who once denounced him for having "touched" her child. In an interview with Weiss, she says that Mattner wasn't looking for a girlfriend, but a mommy. In another call, Mattner orders Weiss to a meeting point where she is to get into a delivery truck that has been provided. As soon as this has happened, the door is closed and the car starts moving. Mattner contacted Weiss by phone and told her that the girls were mostly kidnapped from the ferries by drugging them and hiding them in the trunk of the cars leaving the ship. He then took over these cars. That's what they paid him for. The guys were young Romanians, but he didn't know exactly, and he didn't know what they would have done with the girls. Lisa, who was checked and anesthetized on the way to school, resisted, she wanted to go to the police and tell everything. Since the car didn't start, he should have taken Lisa home with him until she was picked up. She bled because she injured herself in the trunk while being transported. He didn't take off her slip, that was "they". He vehemently denies having pedophile inclinations, and he never touched Henrike's daughter. Lisa Harms was alive when she was picked up and taken away from him. He had to flee because the policeman wanted to shoot him, it should have looked as if he had been shot trying to escape. At the same time as the conversation, which ended abruptly, a shot was fired. The car door is opened. Geissler stands in front of Nora, Mattner is dead. Via a stick that Mattner has with him, the two of them come across the address of a Roman Sokolov who was living with Valerio D. in Hamburg two years ago. A police detachment led by Geissler and Weiss drives to the Valerios apartment house. Geissler shoots Valerio and his brother Adrio without warning. There are many very young girls in the house.
The situation escalates when Brandt von Geissler wants to know about Mattner's death, how a left-hander is said to have shot himself in the right in the head and that there were two other dead who he, Geissler, shot. In addition, the policeman who wanted to shoot Mattner was a friend of his and was actually off duty that day. Weiss is beside himself when Geissler cannot or does not want to give an answer to any of the questions.
Nora's father gives a sermon. Brandt later said that he couldn't get rid of the dull feeling that some of those who went to a children's puff were also in church. When Weiss and Brandt are in the harbor, they suddenly see little Daina appear. Brandt says they let them go so that we could stop looking for them, but we won't.
Profile Nora Weiss
Jutta Lieck Klenke, responsible for production, asked the producers to ask themselves about a new figure to be established, namely, how do you create a figure “who can be seen next to all the other investigators on German television? “Nora Weiss is a tough, courageous loner, young, highly intelligent and perfectionist. She grew up in the east in a pastor's household. That’s what makes them. She loves her home, likes to live in her house by the sea. Her nature is marked by seriousness, always knowing that she has a great responsibility not only towards the victims, but also towards their relatives.
The producer said, “Anna Maria Mühe [is] a godsend for every film she [e] appears in. Wherever she [is], magic spreads on the canvas ”. With “this strong pound” you go into “two highly complex cases”.
Production, publication, quota
Solo for White - The Missing Girl was made by the production company Network Movie . The shooting took place from July 28, 2015 to August 30, 2015 in Hamburg , Kiel , Lübeck , Travemünde , Riga and the surrounding area. The working title of the film was: View into the Abyss .
The film premiered on October 1, 2016 at the Hamburg Film Festival . The first broadcast on German television will be on November 7, 2016 on ZDF .
Solo for White - The Missing Girl was seen by 5.84 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 17.3%. The film thus achieved the highest prime-time audience share that evening.
criticism
According to TV Spielfilm, the viewer can expect “thriller suspense with emotional implications.” And to Anna Maria Mühe: “Mühe masters the balancing act between tough civil servant and desperate godmother with flying colors. Open storylines make you curious about part two [...]. "
The film service called the film a "solidly played, dramaturgically overloaded [...] crime thriller that draws its charm from the heroine, who acts coolly."
Tilmann P. Gangloff wrote the review for tittelbach.tv and showed understanding that Anna Maria Mühe had now also caught it, who, after many offers to play a commissioner, apparently could not refuse at Solo für Weiss , which was understandable. The title heroine is "a cool and rational acting LKA target investigator, an extremely interesting figure". The script "save yourself lengthy prefaces and get straight to the point". The officer was struggling "very strictly as a controlled woman" who could "turn off all emotions as if at the push of a button". Gangloff continued: “Except for the leadership of the little Daina actress Grace Serrano-Zameza, whose dialogues sound aloud, the dense staging of the story-rich is good craft in a positive sense anyway [...]. Florian Tessloff's music is coherent and takes the lead in exactly the right places. In the end, some important questions remain open; Fortunately, ZDF is showing the second film, 'The truth has many faces', just two days later. "
Ulrich Feld wrote in the Frankfurter Neue Presse : "Like the ZDF series ' Stralsund ', the new series 'Solo für Weiss' is essentially carried by a strong female figure and an actress: In the first case, Katharina Wackernagel as Commissioner Nina Petersen, here Anna Maria Mühe. Mühe benefits from a well-accentuated, but not over-profiled character and a script that uses tried and tested ingredients to create speed, frequent changes of location and exciting situations. ”A director who“ does the case very well and the fine use of music and sound effects was also praised ". So far, crime fans are “offered something”.
Matthias Hannemann from Frankfurter Allgemeine saw it a little differently and complained: “Anna Maria Mühe could make it big as an investigator, but the ZDF crime thriller 'Solo für Weiss' is too dull for that. The very good actors do not deserve such a template. ”The critic states that the story could have turned into something, but it is not. The beginning seems "awkward" and only becomes "more interesting" with part two. It's not because of the actors. The story itself only “touches” one “instead of grabbing us as a crime thriller with this cast, which is a promise, should grab us”.
Web links
- Solo for White - The missing girls in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Solo for White - The Missing Girl at filmportal.de
- Solo for white (1) adS zdf.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Solo for Weiss Zwei - an investigator asks the question of trust in presseportal.zdf.de
- ↑ Solo for White - The Missing Girl Project data at crew-united.com
- ↑ Start dates for Solo for Weiss - The Missing Girl . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved November 7, 2016 .
- ↑ "Solo für Weiss" gets a primetime victory at quotenmeter.de, November 8, 2016.
- ↑ Solo for white - The disappeared girl In: TV feature film . Retrieved May 7, 2017.
- ↑ Short review of Solo for Weiss - The disappeared girl. Film service , accessed May 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Series "Solo for White - The Disappeared Girl". Anna Maria Mühe, Krauter, Bock, Thomas Berger: Cool heroine without weaknesses? at tittelbach.tv
- ↑ Ulrich Feld: "The Missing Girl": A fine start. The first film from the new series "Solo for White" shines not only because of Anna Maria Mühe in the title role. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse, November 8, 2016. Accessed May 7, 2017.
- ↑ Matthias Hannemann: "Solo for White" - Girls disappear on the Baltic Sea. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine, November 7, 2016. Retrieved on May 7, 2017.