Solo for white - the truth has many faces
| Episode of the series Solo for White | |||
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| Original title | The truth has many faces | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Production company |
Network Movie on behalf of ZDF |
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| length | 90 minutes | ||
| classification | Episode 2 ( list ) | ||
| German-language first broadcast |
November 9, 2016 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Thomas Berger | ||
| script |
Sören Hüper Christian Prettin Mathias Klaschka |
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| production | Jutta Lieck-Klenke | ||
| music | Florian Tessloff | ||
| camera | Frank Küpper | ||
| cut | Lucas Seeberger | ||
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Solo für Weiss - The Truth Has Many Faces is a German detective film by Thomas Berger from 2016. It is the second case in the ZDF film series Solo for Weiss in which Anna Maria Mühe plays Nora Weiss, who is an investigator at the LKA . Anja Kling appears as the depressed widow of the murder victim Thorsten Jensen, Marcus Mittermeier as his opaque brother-in-law and Rainer Piwek as one of the drivers of the bus tour operator Jensen.
prehistory
In Case 1, The Missing Girl , Matthias Mattner was sentenced to life imprisonment in a circumstantial trial because it was considered proven that he murdered 13-year-old Lisa Harms in his apartment. He was able to escape and go into hiding while using the toilet. Shortly afterwards, 9-year-old Daina Balodis, Nora Weiss' godchild, disappeared without a trace. Weiss was then pressured by Mattner to help him prove his innocence, only then will Daina be released. At the end of the film he was dead, killed by a headshot. The loverboys Valerio and Adrio Budescu appeared to be involved in the case and were shot by Weiss' superior and lover, Kriminalrat Jan Geissler. Daina was surprisingly released by the girl trafficking organization.
Nora Weiss must now comment on the allegations she made against Geissler with regard to the shooting of Valerio and Adrio Budescu. She insists that his going it alone was irresponsible and also against the agreement made. The brothers were important witnesses. Geissler explains that the armed Valerio Budescu saw him through the window. To prevent a possible hostage-taking, he shot. Weiss contradicts this. When she was presented with photos that were supposed to prove that Valerio had a loaded gun, she replied that it was then put on him and the photo was manipulated. She maintains that Geissler shot the two of them to cover up his involvement in this case. Matthias Mattner also undoubtedly did not commit suicide, a right-handed man who shot himself in the left temple. Weiss wants to know what is being played here. Geissler then told her that the Budescu brothers would still be alive. They would have offered information if they were included in the witness protection program . Her death was staged. She was not informed because it was believed that the kidnapping of her godchild, Daina Balodis, had left her emotionally unstable. Weiss' request to speak to the Budescus is flatly refused.
action
When investigator Nora Weiss is investigating what the reason for the continuous loud honking in front of her house is, she comes across a coach belonging to the Jensen bus company that contains the bloodied corpse of a man who, as it turns out, is the man Entrepreneur Thorsten Jensen acts. Together with Detective Superintendent Simon Brandt from the homicide squad, Weiss seeks out Conny Jensen, the dead man's wife. Both meet Conny's brother Falk Banzer there, who tells them that his brother-in-law had to fire several employees about two years ago, which some of them would have resented. In the victim's laptop you can also find some harsh emails, including particularly drastic ones from Niels Franke. Conny Jensen's reaction to the announcement about the death of her husband is rather restrained, it seems as if she is standing next to her.
The investigations reveal that Thorsten Jensen had agreed to have dinner with one of his bus drivers, the young Turk Murat Kaymaz, in a restaurant the previous evening, where the two of them had an argument. Jensen was not seen alive after leaving the place, and Kaymaz had not shown up for work today. When Weiss and Brandt want to question him, he storms past them and starts to flee. A wallet with around 25,000 euros is later secured in his apartment.
The memorial service held by Pastor Weiss on the same day at the request of the Harms parents for their daughter Lisa, again shows how much Lisa's father suffers from the terrible loss of his child. Daina is also struggling with the aftermath of the kidnapping. Since then she has refused any physical contact with her mother Anna. She says Daina wants to punish her for not being there when her daughter was in need. Nora's attempts to talk to the girl about the time when it was in the hands of the kidnappers is stopped by both Pastor Weiss and Daina's mother. At least she learns that Daina met a girl there who played the witch game with her. A game that Brigitte Harms once taught her daughter Lisa. A glimmer of hope that Lisa might still be alive.
Weiss' attempt to get information on where the Budescus is being kept using Geissler's computer fails. At the same time it becomes clear that Kaymaz has a key to the Jensen's house and belongs to the family, as Conny Jensen later says, because he is the son of the murdered man. Since the investigation in the direction of Niels Franke does not reveal anything, one tries to find out to what extent Kaymaz could be involved in the death of his father.
Nora learns from her father that Falk Banzer fled to the West shortly before the fall of the Wall. He was incredibly ambitious and had almost no sense of community. Later on, Pastor Weiss enables her to look at papers that prove that Banzer spied on people for the Stasi , including Weiss himself. When Franke is found dead in the bathtub of his apartment shortly afterwards, everything indicates that a suicide was only should be faked. Conny Jensen also continues to seem quite uninvolved and neither knows that her husband just recently bought a new car, nor that he bought a house by the sea.
Then Nora, who is in her lonely house, is shot three times through the window. The young woman explains to colleague Brandt, who rushed up, that the shots were a warning that someone wanted them not to investigate any further. The investigation continues nonetheless and a hiding place is found in one of the Jensen's buses, a kind of tube that has been cleaned, but in which there are still traces that clearly show that people were there in a confined space. The suspicion of smuggling is obvious, especially since the DNA traces found on the bus can only be assigned to very young girls who have disappeared undetectable in the immediate vicinity. Quick action is now necessary, as the girls who are still in the hands of the organization on site are now being taken out of the country as quickly as possible, says Weiss. Geissler then agrees to meet the Budescus. Weiss only has ten minutes and indirectly threatens Valerio Budescu with revealing the brothers' hiding place if he does not tell her where the girls have been put. She also asks him about Lisa Harms and receives the answer that Lisa has been sold to southern Germany, to high-ranking politicians who could afford it. They auctioned the girl as normal, but sent Lisa back after a short time because she was “not a good product”. They then kept her on site and took photos and films with her. Valdero wants to know from Nora whether she even knows what she is getting into, this is not a street gang, this is a network that extends across Europe, he and his brother and many others are just accomplices for the dirty work, the money and the rules would make completely different. When she shows the young man a picture of Falk Banzer, he says it's just a chauffeur, there are hundreds of them. Then he shows her on the phone where the girls are hiding and, after a moment's hesitation, says that no one touched her godchild.
Weiss and Brandt find the house where the girls were hiding abandoned. When the investigator wants to speak to Falk Banzer again, she comes in when Murat Kaymaz puts a gun to his daughter's head to get him to admit that it was he who killed his father. Weiss can get him to let her have the weapon. He tells her that his father discovered the tube on the bus. At first they had thought that drugs would be smuggled there and did not investigate any further, because they suddenly felt much better financially. But when his father found out what the hiding place was really for, he didn't want anything to do with it. However, Falk said to his father that he was solely responsible as the company was licensed to him. On the evening that Thorsten Jensen had to die, Falk ordered him to a parking lot, his father got out and then suddenly collapsed. He sat there petrified. Banzer threatened him if he went to the police that the same thing would happen to him. That's why he drove his murdered father to see Weiss in the hope that she would find out the truth. Since Banzer denies everything, testimony stands against testimony. Brandt is desperate that there is no way to arrest Banzer. Weiss explains to him, however, that his lawyer will get him free faster than you can count to three and then both would coordinate their actions. In the end they would be left empty-handed and the bus with the girls had long since become unreachable. Nevertheless, she tries to prevent Banzer from contacting his lawyer by explaining that he has to come to the station. In the car, Weiss talks about his estate, where the girls are temporarily stored. However, he does not get involved and insists on his rights. Knowing full well that she is not allowed to do what she is doing now, Weiss has now called for Lisa's mother and gives her all the information she has about Banzer. She puts her gun in front of the windshield and tells Brigitte Harms that her hands are tied and that she can only look in another direction. Since Banzer is handcuffed to the car, he has no choice. When Lisa's mother points the gun at him, he shivers in fear and breaks his silence under the pressure before it turns out that the gun is not loaded.
Numerous police cars are now in motion to check the Jensen buses, which are on their way in the direction Banzer mentioned, and to find the right one in good time. And it actually works. However, Lisa is not one of the girls from the tube. Then, in desperation, Weiss hears a knock and Lisa appears behind the torn disguise. Deeply moved, Nora takes the girl in her arms. A little later, Geissler says that what she did with Banzer will have consequences, which the investigator is aware of, but at the same time Geissler also lets her know with appreciation: "Good work!" The shocking reunion of mother takes place in Pastor Weiss' church and daughter Harms instead. And Daina also seems to slowly find herself again and back to her mother.
Production notes, audience rating
Solo für Weiss - The Truth Has Many Faces was made by the production company Network Movie . The shooting took place from June 21, 2015 to July 20, 2016 in Hamburg , Kiel and Lübeck and the surrounding area. The working title of the film was: Solo for White - The Pact of Silence . It was first broadcast on November 9, 2016 on ZDF . When it was first broadcast, the film was watched by 6.41 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 19.8%.
criticism
TV Spielfilm pointed a thumbs up and gave one of three possible points for claim, action and tension. For the film service , the thriller was an "exciting, largely coherently developed sequel to 'Solo for White - The Disappeared Girl'". Criticism was leveled at the fact that the "sometimes unfocused continuation of some unresolved subplots from the previous film" "inhibited the thriller [e] ". Tilmann P. Gangloff , whoreviewedthe film for Tittelbach.tv , spoke of a "great thriller with many surprising twists, especially since the new case turns out to be a sequel [] e". Gangloff went on to write: "Director Thomas Berger keeps the tension at a high level and ensures a worthy conclusion to the complex story with the dramatic finale." The critic said it was desirable to continue the series with Anna Maria Mühe the main character still has "a lot of potential". "Just the contrast between the often brusque appearance of the Schleswig-Holstein target investigator from the LKA and the angelic face of the actress [is] enormously attractive." Elmar Krekeler from Der Welt also found it "absolutely desirable" that Solo for Weiss after the first go in series in both cases. He wrote to Anna Maria Mühe: "A great actress, the face of truth." The target investigator blows around "an icy loneliness". It is "small, rather fragile", but if you get too close, it is estimated to be "two meters tall". “She [could] be rough and tough and unapproachable. Then her beautiful blue eyes look as if there were temperatures below zero in the soul behind them. "
Web links
- Solo for White - The truth has many faces in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Solo for white - the truth has many faces at fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Solo for white - The truth has many faces (2016) Project data at crew-united
- ↑ a b Start dates for Solo for Weiss - The truth has many faces . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved December 27, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Tilmann P. Gangloff : Series “Solo for White - The Truth Has Many Faces” Mühe, Krauter, Jordan, Thomas Berger: The LKA investigator still has potential at tittelbach.tv
- ↑ Solo for White - The Truth Has Many Faces In: TV feature film (with 13 pictures from the film). Retrieved December 27, 2016.
- ↑ Short review of Solo for Weiss - The truth has many faces. Film service , accessed December 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Elmar Krekeler: crime series "Solo für Weiss" Anna Maria Mühe finally goes into series In: Die Welt , November 7, 2016. Accessed December 27, 2016.