Sparrow and the fallen angel

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Episode of the series Sperling
Original title Sparrow and the fallen angel
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Polyphonic film and television company
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 2 ( list )
First broadcast February 1, 1997 on ZDF
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Director Kai Wessel
script Rolf Basedow
music Jan Scheibe ,
Andreas Bick
camera Michael Epp
cut Petra Heymann
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Sparrow and the hole in the wall

Successor  →
Sparrow and the lost stones

Sperling and the Fallen Angel is a German TV film directed by Kai Wessel from 1997 . It is the second episode of the ZDF crime film series Sperling with Dieter Pfaff in the title role. Sperling's team consists of Karsten Rohde, embodied by Benno Fürmann , Vera Kowalski ( Petra Kleinert ) and Norbert Wachutka ( Hans-Joachim Grubel ). The main guest stars of this episode are Meret Becker , Sylvester Groth and Christian Redl .

The film comes from an idea by Rolf Basedow and Dieter Pfaff.

action

Preface: “'Look at this city'. Do you still remember the words? I've been looking at this city for a very long time, and I've spent almost my entire life here. To be honest, this is the place from where I would most like to look at Berlin. This corner is trimmed to my size. I love Berlin and I love my job. Both have changed a lot in the last few years. I know what I'm talking about, I'm a cop. You won't find me in the corridors of our headquarters and you won't find my name on the office doors of the individual departments. You might find me on the streets of this city and if you call me, my phone will ring where the new administrators of Berlin have deported us. This is our little outpost of civilization against the tide of crime that is supposedly rolling towards Berlin. Here we tell ourselves every day that if we don't make it, no one will. My name is sparrow . "

In Berlin, a series of burglaries is troubling detective chief inspector Hans Sperling, investigative group for serious crime, and his team. But first of all he has to keep the promise he made to the neighbor boy Sven on the occasion of his birthday to visit the fair. When he and Sven ventured onto the Ferris wheel with mixed feelings, he witnessed an attack on a showwoman from above. The perpetrator escapes, but due to a fairly precise description of a security guard who also claims to have recognized the perpetrator's car, Ewald Ries is arrested as a suspect. All the evidence speaks against Ries, who also gets entangled in contradictions during the interrogation. When confronted, the security guard says he is not one hundred percent sure, but believes that Ries could have been the culprit. During his interrogation, the former boxer goes mad and hits everything that gets in his way. Again and again he swears it wasn't him.

For Sperling, too many clues lead to Ries, who also seems to be hiding something. Reason enough for him to conduct further investigations and not be satisfied with a quick solution. The inspector visits Ewald Ries' brother Harald, who runs a bar, and tells him about Ewald's arrest. He says that Ewald is not exactly lucky, first his business bust, then his conviction for a relatively minor drug offense, and now this arrest. He doesn't believe that Harald committed an armed robbery. Harald Ries lets it be known that he did not agree with the choice of his brother, who took his wife out of a red light bar. Next, Sperling and his colleague Karsten Rohde seek out Magda Ries without really bringing the woman's statements any further. Rohde also observes Ries entering a church and then disappearing into a house on Jägerstrasse. In the meantime, Sperling has visited the bartender Rosa, whom Magda worked for a long time, and spoke to her about the Ries couple. He let it be known that he knew that Magda Rohde was a drug addict and she replied that Ewald Ries had expressed his desperation to her. Sperling says Ries loves his wife more than anything and Rosa replies that they are not good for each other. Since Ries was in the bar at the time, he has an alibi.

It turns out that Ries even went to prison for an offense committed by his wife, she could not have endured, says Magda Ries. Sperling wants to know from her who is giving her material and giving her presents. Yes, she told her husband that someone else was looking after her, that she was so alone. But the man meant nothing to her.

After an unproductive interrogation, Ries succeeds in tricking Rohde and fleeing. Sperling then orders security guard Berger to be observed, but who is able to escape them. Via Josch, an informant, Sperling receives a reference to a Kurt Vogel in relation to the series of burglaries, who also admits everything, including the robbery at the fair. He points out that Berger knew where to get what, but that he needed money for his "slut". And the woman had previously found out where something could be obtained, but had previously been to the rich suitors as a call girl. When Sperling asks Berger, he frankly admits that Ries was in his way. Then he gives Sperling, after he has made it unmistakably clear that he shouldn't mess with him, a reference to a gallery owner on Jägerstrasse.

Ewald Ries loses the fight he wanted to get through with his wife. When she puts a knife on her wrists, he hands her the bag of cloth and runs away. Sperling can put it on the roof of the gallery owner's apartment on Jägerstrasse. He wanted to commit this break-in to get money for his wife. There is a monastery in Thailand, he tells Sperling, and Magda could be helped there.

production

Production notes, filming

It is a production of the Polyphon Film and Television Company . The film was shot in and around Berlin .

Horizontal narrative : In this episode you learn that Sperling's colleague Karsten Rohde is in a marital crisis and is playing with the idea of ​​ending his marriage. Sperling advises him to think about his child when making this decision. In the course of the plot, Rohde is hit twice in the face by the former boxer Ewald Ries at different time intervals.

Dieter Pfaff, who groans as a sparrow in the film: "Finding the truth is hard work", explained: "Tension in crime novels has something to do with accuracy, cleverness, intelligence and wit."

publication

Sperling and the Fallen Angel was first broadcast by ZDF on February 1, 1997 in prime time.

This second episode in the series was released on DVD on April 10, 2015, together with all the other 17 episodes, published by Edel Germany GmbH. In addition, on October 2, 2006, Universum Film GmbH released a DVD box with the first four films in the series from 1996/1997.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the film the best possible rating, thumbs up, for humor and claim it was one of three possible points, for suspense it was two. The talk was of a "class series", which led to the conclusion: "This sparrow is a real crime star".

Rainer Tittelbach gave the film five out of six possible stars on his website tittelbach.tv and stated: “The chemistry between Sperling inventors Basedow & Kai Wessel was obviously right. Another excellent big city thriller! ”The“ unconventional detective in the Berlin Kiez ”does“ investigative work also as a milieu care ”and otherwise“ relies on his good powers of observation, intuition, knowledge of human nature and meticulous research ”. Tittelbach said that “the 'fat man' had been in the shadow of the wiry investigator and the soft balcony” for far too long ”. Now his sparrow can "show for the second time how he and his actors prefer to solve their cases". With the impersonation of Commissioner Sperling, Pfaff has a role "that is tailored entirely to the 49-year-old." “Director Kai Wessel also made a significant contribution to the quality of the second Sperling case with strong images and an unusual soundtrack”.

Spiegel Online stated: “The second film in this series takes a calm look at the everyday lives of people for whom stolen cakes are as important as food for the cat. But there is not always only strength in rest, sometimes there is a lack of tension. "

The Berliner Kurier read: “Sperling joins the web of love, jealousy, and dependence. Much of it was so knotted that the thread was lost. Nevertheless, the detective team still had fun. Especially to Pfaff and Benno Fürmann, to fat and thin. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sperling and the fallen angel at crew united
  2. ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Series "Sperling and the fallen angel". Dieter Pfaff, Fürmann, Becker, Groth, Basedow, Wessel. The Stoic from the Kiez
    see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved November 28, 2019.
  3. ↑ Dieter Pfaff is Sperling Fig. DVD cover Dieter Pfaff is Sperling, the complete series 1996–2007
  4. ↑ Sperling 1996–1997 ill. DVD cover ZDF
  5. ↑ Sparrow and the fallen angel cf. tvspielfilm.de (including 11 film images). Retrieved November 28, 2019.
  6. ↑ Sperling and the fallen angel In: Der Spiegel 5/1997, January 27, 1997. Retrieved November 28, 2019.
  7. ↑ Crime fun with "Dick und Dünn" In: Berliner Kurier, February 2, 1997. Retrieved November 28, 2019.