Solo for white - silence forever
| Episode of the series Solo for White | |||
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| Original title | Forever silence | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Production company |
Network Movie Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH, Jutta Lieck-Klenke, Hamburg | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| classification | Episode 4 ( list ) | ||
| First broadcast | November 25, 2019 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Maria von Heland | ||
| script | Mathias Klaschka | ||
| production | Jutta Lieck-Klenke | ||
| music | Florian Tessloff | ||
| camera | Moritz Anton | ||
| cut | Sanjeev Hathiramani | ||
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Solo für Weiss - Forever Silence is a German detective film by Maria von Heland from 2018. It is the fourth case in the ZDF film series Solo for Weiss , in which Anna Maria Mühe plays the LKA investigator Nora Weiss. In addition to Jan Krauter and Peter Jordan , who play colleagues from Weiss, and Rainer Bock in the role of their father and Natalia Rudziewicz as the mother of their godchild, the main guest stars of this episode are Johanna Gastdorf , Hanns Zischler , Ole Doll , David Korbmann , İlknur Boyraz , Jana Julia Roth , Maren Eggert and Nina Petri .
action
The LKA target investigator, Nora Weiss, is pursuing the suspected sex offender Karl Strasser, who fell from a scaffolding while he was fleeing because he could no longer hold his own. He had previously asked the investigator for help, whereupon Weiss said that no one had helped the women he raped. When her colleague Jan Geissler asked what happened, she replied that she did not know, whereupon Geissler replied: "Should we hope that he dies?"
Not long afterwards, the respected Syrian ENT doctor Tarek Al-Salim dies from a bomb installed in his car. Weiss' colleague Simon Brandt from the Lübeck criminal police informs her that the anesthetist Ines Geissler was the last to speak to Al-Salim. She then saw the explosion from the window. Weiss remembers that she saw the doctor yesterday in the entrance area of the clinic together with a man with whom he appeared to be involved in an argument. The video from the entrance area confirms her memory. Simon Brandt and his colleagues are trying to find out who this man is.
A conversation with Amina Al-Salim, the doctor's widow, reveals that her husband helped people in his home country Syria in the resistance against the regime. When his practice partner was murdered, the family, which includes a son, fled to Germany. She was well received here, says Amina Al-Salim, and in this respect she can only say positive things. A call from colleague Geissler alerts Weiss. The arrest warrant against Strasser was canceled with immediate effect. Weiss is beside himself, they had been looking for him for six months, he raped three women - "presumably", Geissler interrupts her. He explains to Weiss that the DNA sample seized is contaminated and cannot be used. Strasser have now turned on his lawyer. You won't get a confession from him. Geissler also declines with regard to an eyewitness.
On top of all the annoyance that Nora Weiss feels, there is now also the fact that an official complaint has been made against her, because Strasser claims that Weiss purposely pushed him off the scaffolding. Weiss explains to Geissler and her supervisor LKD Böhnisch that she tried to help Strasser, but could not hold him, everything went very quickly. Geissler emphasizes that a further internal investigation will have consequences not only for you, but for the entire department. Böhnisch adds that it is not the first time that one has to answer for her going it alone.
Brandt has now determined that Al-Salim called the medical association three times shortly before his death. When Nora Weiss showed her father, Pastor Rainer Weiss, the picture of the man with whom the doctor had an argument in the hospital corridor, he said it was Hannes Brendner. He knows his mother, she is involved in the Bible study group. She is going through a difficult time, her husband died two years ago and her youngest son Paul died six months ago after an almond operation . In a conversation with Karin Brendner, she said that Al-Salim operated on her son, and four days later he was dead. Al-Salim released him too early. The hospital cannot afford to have patients just lying around. When Paul got bleeding that night, it took an ambulance 15 minutes to get there. The cause of death has been called cardiovascular arrest .
In the hospital, Dr. Roland Petri Nora Weiss that it is customary to discharge patients after four days after such an operation. He also states that Hannes Brendner sent emails to him and Dr. Al-Salim that could be classified as threatening. Weiss and Brandt learn from Al-Salim's wife that their husband was against such an early discharge of the boy, but the hospital insisted on it. Her husband made serious allegations after the boy's death. For Nora Weiss, the references to Hannes Brendner, a former member of the Bundeswehr and explosives expert, are too obvious, she thinks something is wrong. In addition, Karl Strasser, who has meanwhile been discharged from the hospital, continues to bother her, who seeks her closeness and does everything to provoke her and her colleagues in order to then use any frenzy against them. Since Simon Brandt got carried away and hit Strasser, he is withdrawn from the case, which Nora Weiss doesn't like at all.
Karin Brendner tries to kill herself with pills, but is saved by the intervention of Pastor Weiss. At the same time, Nora Weiss received a call from Ines Geissler, who told her that the surgery nurse Marta Polanski had disappeared without a trace one day after the attack on Dr. Al-Salim reports. Weiss drives to the Polish hometown of his sister, who admits she is afraid. But then she tells of a dispute between Dr. Al-Salim and Dr. Petri after the almond operation and that Petri saw her. She heard that Al-Salim said he could no longer be silent. No, about what, she doesn't know. She doesn't want to risk anything happening to her too, because she has two little girls to look after. All of a sudden Nora Weiss realizes what the digits, which she thought were a telephone number, mean. They are related to Petri's license to practice medicine, which is fake. He failed the exam at the time and is not a doctor at all. Al-Salim found this out by accident. When Weiss confronts him that he deliberately wanted to cast suspicion on Hannes Brendner, he says that he made sure that Al-Salim was able to gain a foothold in Germany as a doctor. He could just have been silent. Petri is arrested and taken away.
When Weiss came to her lonely house that evening, she was horrified to find that Strasser must be in the house. She calls Simon Brandt, who drives off immediately. At the same moment Strasser attacks her from behind. A bitter fight ensues between the two of them. Weiss gets hold of a heavy object and hits Strasser over the head. When he got up and came up to her anyway, she shot him several times. Meanwhile Simon Brandt is there, in whose arms Nora collapses sobbing. Strasser, who had previously admitted the rapes to Nora Weiss, is dead.
production
Production notes, filming, background
It is a production by Network Movie Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH & Co, Jutta Lieck-Klenke, Hamburg. The editor in charge at ZDF was Daniel Blum. Solo für Weiss - Forever Silence was filmed from January 31 to March 3, 2018 in Hamburg , Lübeck , Travemünde and Kiel and the surrounding area. The song Yellow Bird by Edda Lou can be heard in the soundtrack .
Anna Maria Mühe worked with director Maria von Heland in 2002 in her feature- length debut Big Girls Weep, not for the first time. After von Heland had approached Mühe in a Berlin pub and invited them to the casting for the film, she got one of the leading roles in it. It was Mühe's first ever role.
Horizontal plane : Simon Brandt shows Amina Al-Salim, who asked him for an interview, a photo of his son Tim, in which he is one year old. He explains that he is fine and that he is living with his mother Helen. He had some problems in Dortmund. His wife then left him with the child. That would be better for his son.
Nora Weiss obviously has a problem with continuing her love affair with her superior Jan Geissler since she met his wife, the doctor Ines Geissler, personally, which she denies. Ines Geissler even tries to establish private contact with Weiss by telling her that her husband had ignored her request to invite Nora to dinner at home. In this episode, Weiss is even more taciturn and more harsh than she is anyway. So she indirectly accuses her father and her friend Anna Balodis of having an affair with each other. Balodis has sold her hotel in her home country and lives with her daughter Daina in the pastor's large house.
publication
On September 3, 2018, the film was shown for the first time at the 15th Festival of German Film in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. In the program booklet it was said: “The fourth film in the series about the unconventional investigator, who is usually stuck in personal problems and is not able to obey the staid rules of police work anyway, is based entirely on the multilayered acting skills of Ulrich Mühe's daughter. 'Solo', all alone again, she is finally facing her greatest enemy in an exciting showdown: uncompromising hatred. "
The first broadcast on ZDF took place on November 25, 2019 during prime time . So far only films 1 to 3 have been released on DVD.
reception
Audience rating
When it was first broadcast, the film was viewed by 5.91 million viewers, resulting in a market share of 18.4 percent.
criticism
Tilmann P. Gangloff rated the film on the tittelbach.tv website and gave it three out of six possible points. The critic said that Anna Maria Mühle's fourth case “as an undercooled commissioner” was a thriller “that the criticism of the health system robs the tension”. While “the first two episodes were gripping thrillers”, this film “focuses too much on the message”. The film is said to be “captivating” “only for the finale when Nora Weiss has to fight for her life at home”; apart from that, “the staging impresses primarily with its supercooled atmosphere, which fits the main character perfectly”. It is also “a shame” that “the criminalistic level is hardly a mystery because prominent guest actors are naturally the first to be suspected”. “Unfortunately”, the series “diverged from the quality of the first two episodes (2016)”. The third case already “no longer had the intensity of the two-part start”. 'To be silent forever' is "a commercially available crime thriller that also deals with a socially relevant topic". The script of this case is “well below” the “usual level” of Mathias Klaschka. “Especially with an experienced author like Klaschka” it is “all the more astonishing that the plot appears extremely constructed”. The film differs "from the everyday thriller only in the main character and her freezing cold embodiment by Anna Maria Mühe". All of this may not least have to do with the director of the Swedish-born Maria von Heland, speculates Gangloff, who, in addition to several fairy tale films, recently shot “family dramas disguised as comedies”. That explains why the film "is primarily convincing in the interpersonal scenes". For example, “Nora's mistrust towards her friend” is primarily “a question of the atmosphere” and arises “to a certain extent between the images”. The “cool winters” would “perfectly match the essence of the main character”. “Really gripping” is the “last scene when there is a final duel in Nora's house”.
Wilfried Geldner dealt with the film for the television magazine Prisma and emphasized that what was going on in the film was “essentially” a “criminal mulloper”. In it, "Hanns Zischler, the thoroughly indestructible intellectual actor in young German film for many years, has played the seedy dark man". In the film there are many “weird sentences”, there are “a lot of explanations”, and there are “dubious relationships”. This crime thriller moves “on often irritating paths. Too many “aha” declarations, too many sidelines “would be opened up. So the “central plot of a hospital scandal that has long appeared rather striking [...] falls behind”. "At least", there is a "quite surprising ending - and a reasonably exciting showdown". Those who persevere in Lübeck will be “rewarded”.
The weekly magazine Stern said that Anna Maria Mühe had to “imitate this piece of art” first. ZDF has presented three thrillers with her to its audience in the Solo for White series since 2016; the first saw “more than five million viewers”, “the second shortly afterwards more than six and the third in March 2018 7.25 million viewers, which is very remarkable even for the Monday film, which is always quite popular”. That raises the question of whether ZDF is now able to "overcome the eight million mark" with difficulty in the fourth case in the series. As consistent as Nora Weiss, screenwriter Mathias Klaschka remains, who does not allow his main character "a spark of humor". "If the soloist Nora Weiss [...] does not overcome the eight million hurdle with this thriller", she "still has another opportunity", since "the fifth film in the series with the working title 'Sleepless" "is already in the On hold ".
TV Spielfilm wrote that “the monosyllabic investigator goes about her work with the usual command tone”, but there are “moments in which Anna Maria Mühe can skillfully break the strict facade”. The figure becomes "more approachable - and even a slight hint of closeness to colleague Simon possible". The “two converging cases” appeared “sometimes almost irrelevant” and were “told in a very routine way anyway”. Conclusion: "Top-class investigator refines average crime thriller."
Marie-Luise Braun found in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung that the fourth case by Anna Maria Mühe was also "coherent" and gave the film five out of six possible stars.
The television magazine Gong wrote: “No small talk, no beer with colleagues. With an ice-blue gaze, Anna Maria Mühe explores the facets of her character as the rugged northern light. ”The film was recommended by the editors, received two out of three possible points for feeling and tension and a total of five, which corresponds to the rating“ very good ” . Conclusion: "Frosty, stringent, yet emotionally charged."
Awards
- Maria von Heland was nominated for a prize at the German Film Festival in the “Criminally good” category.
Web links
- Solo for White - Forever silence in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Solo for White - Forever Silence at Fernsehserien.de
- Forever silence see page zdf.de (including the full film, available until February 17, 2020)
Individual evidence
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↑ Filmed in Hamburg, Lübeck, Kiel: Solo for Weiss - Silence forever on the site anderswohin.de.
Retrieved August 17, 2018. - ↑ a b Solo for White - Silence forever see page networkmovie.de
- ↑ Anna Maria Mühe: Fourth assignment as LKA target investigator see page goldenekamera.de
- ↑ Solo for White - Forever Silence at filmportal.de
- ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Series "Solo for White - Silence Forever". Anna Maria Mühe, Klaschka, from Heland. Topic beats drama, drama beats crime fiction see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved November 30, 2019.
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↑ Wilfried Geldner: "Solo for White - Silence Forever": See page prisma.de for holding out until the showdown .
Retrieved November 30, 2019. - ↑ Solo for Weiss: Forever Silence. The cold, wintry Schleswig-Holstein and the extremely cool LKA target investigator Nora Weiss - do they fit together? Yes, if it is up to the ZDF viewers. In: Stern, November 25, 2019. Retrieved November 30, 2019.
- ↑ Das geht & Mediathek: Solo for Weiss with Anna Maria Mühe see page tvbutler.at. Retrieved November 30, 2019.
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↑ Be silent forever. In her fourth case, the investigator investigates a bomb attack with her eyes. see page tvspielfilm.de.
Retrieved November 30, 2019. -
^ Marie-Luise Braun: Harmonious: Anna Maria Mühes fourth case in "Solo für Weiss" In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, November 24, 2019.
Accessed November 30, 2019. - ↑ Solo for White - Forever Silence In: Gong No. 47/2019 of November 15, 2019, p. 49.
- ↑ Solo for white - forever silence at crew united