Spreewald thriller: The secret in the moor
| Episode of the Spreewald crime series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The secret in the moor |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Telefilm production aspect |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 1 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | November 6, 2006 on ZDFneo |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kai Wessel |
| script | Thomas Kirchner |
| production |
Wolfgang Esser , Peter Lohner |
| music | Ralf Wienrich |
| camera | Holly Fink |
| cut | Tina Friday |
| occupation | |
| |
The Secret in the Moor is a German television film by Kai Wessel from 2006. The crime film , which was first shown at the Munich Film Festival , was broadcast on November 6, 2006 on ZDF . It is the first film from the Spreewald crime series .
action
During excavation work in the "Teufelsmoor" near Lübbenau , workers discovered a mummified corpse in 2005. According to the coroner's assessment, the dead man is likely to be a man who was no more than twenty-five years old and who died between 1985 and 1990. Fractures on the skull indicate a homicidal offense, and so the chief inspector responsible, Thorsten Krüger, sends the body to Berlin, where the dead man's face can be reconstructed with the help of a computer program.
Dr. Til Desno takes on this task and is horrified when he sees the designed face on the screen: The dead man is obviously Ralf Liebig, a school friend from high school who was said to have fled to the Federal Republic of Germany and his friends to the I betrayed state security . Without revealing his discovery, he drives to the Spreewald, where his mother and also his mentally handicapped sister Nelly still live on a rather neglected farm. He himself rents a hotel in the village and meets his childhood sweetheart Sabrina, who owns the hotel and is married to Karsten Hellstein, with whom he was also friends. He talks to her about the fact that the bog body is Ralf Liebig. At that time they all wanted to go to the West together. You, that was Til, Sabrina, Karsten and Ralf. When Til got into an argument with Ralf, he fell into a boat and drifted off. So their escape was canceled, the three were arrested surprisingly and had to answer for the planned escape from the GDR . They had to assume that Ralf had betrayed them, but according to Tils research he was already dead at this point in time. He knows that they were the last to have seen him alive. He talks to Chief Inspector Krüger about it, who then tries to recreate the situation from then in order to determine the flow speed and direction of the boat. The result is that the location of the corpse was too far away and cannot be directly related to the fall into the boat.
Til knows that Ralf raped fifteen-year-old Johanna before graduating from high school. An advertisement was covered up by the good contacts of his father, who was an influential general manager at the time. Possibly there was a later act of revenge, but Johanna asserts when Til asks her that she had done nothing to Ralf.
Til tries to find clues as to where Ralf could have been after their argument. Among the things found on the corpse, he discovers a marker ring for birds. He remembers that his sister Nelly often gave such rings as gifts to people she trusted. Since Nelly never leaves the farm due to her handicap, Ralf must have been there before his death.
Commissioner Krüger also found the ring and came to a similar conclusion based on the registration number. Shortly after he arrives at the farm, Til arrives there too. Krüger wants to arrest him because he now finally believes him to be Ralf Liebig's murderer. To prevent that, Til's mother breaks her silence. She admits that she hit Ralf on the head with a heavy vase because she found him alone with Nelly and assumed that he wanted to sexually abuse her. She sank the body in the moor. Since she expected that Ralf was being searched for, she anonymously disclosed the planned escape of the four friends to the Stasi and hoped to distract the police.
Due to the statute of limitations, Tils mother will not be prosecuted.
background
The shooting took place at the original locations in the Spreewald, especially in Lübbenau and on the Wotschofska . The film takes up regional characteristics. For example, scenes were filmed at a specially constructed fair on the market square in Lübbenau, which are intended to recreate the annual Lübbenau city festival. The shooting took place in September, the city festival is regularly in July. In one scene a comment is made in the Sorbian language , regional folklore groups also took part as supporting actors, for example the Saspower Heimat- und Trachtenverein from Cottbus provides a larger group of young women in Spreewald costumes. The town hall in Lübbenau was also used in particular. In the “Great Hall”, for example, the tumults shown at the beginning of the film were created on the occasion of a discussion about planned building objects City hall rotated.
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Mystery in the Moor on November 6, 2006 was seen by 6.76 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 19.9 percent for ZDF .
criticism
"Sensitively developed (TV) crime film with an East-West theme, which revives a traumatic past."
“The crime drama that unfolds in the magical world of the Spreewald is a wonderful imposition. [...] If the theater of lies and purification in the Stasi drama The Lives of Others came across as a bit too slick and too aesthetic, the secret in the moor is now confronted with a less sacred network of human errors. Real and assumed treason, petty crimes and monstrous rumors, youthful rebellion and pragmatic arrangement with the circumstances form an ominous alliance here. Memorizing is staged so consistently here that occasional dramaturgical weaknesses [...] are often overlooked. From the sound design […] to the image montage […], to the camera of Holly Fink ("Dresden"), who captures the play of light and shadow of the tree world in a terrific way - all of these are means to promote the disenchantment of the magic forest. "
“Kai Wessel's film Secret in the Moor […] is colossally cast, full of richness of plot and not immediately obvious. [...] The big melo finale, built one way or another close to the water, once again reveals the barely countable old wounds and closes with all comfortable illusions. Under the imaginative direction of Wessels, the ensemble has achieved one of the most entertaining and intelligent crime novels in a long time. He cleverly puts his not-so-secret main actress in the hazy light: The star is the landscape. "
Web links
- Spreewaldkrimi: The Secret in the bog in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Spreewald thriller - The secret in the moor at fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Primetime check: Monday, November 6, 2006 audience rating at quotenmeter.de, accessed on February 23, 2015.
- ^ The Secret in the Bog in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ Christian Buß : Demons in the Magic Forest , Der Spiegel from November 6, 2006
- ↑ Helge Hopp: At the end of the lies , Der Tagesspiegel of November 6, 2006