Spreewald thriller: The storm night

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Episode of the Spreewald crime series
Original title The storm night
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Telefilm production aspect
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 8 ( list )
First broadcast November 22, 2015 on ZDFneo
Rod
Director Christoph Stark
script Thomas Kirchner
production Wolfgang Esser
music Thomas Osterhoff
camera Frank Blue
cut Manuel Reidinger
occupation

The Storm Night is a German television film by Christoph Stark from 2015. It is the eighth film from the Spreewald crime series and was broadcast on ZDF on November 23, 2015 as "Television Film of the Week". A preview took place the day before on ZDFneo .

action

Commissioner Krüger is supposed to clear up the disappearance of three film students who wanted to make a film about the sagas and legends of the Spreewald in the Hochwald. They did not return after a storm and the superintendent only has their laptop on which the filmed scenes are saved.

Kruger comes across an old story when fifteen years ago two young women suddenly disappeared after a wedding reception. The legendary figure Nix , who lives underwater and, according to legend, had killed two miller's boys who wanted to seduce his two daughters, was held responsible for this. It looks like the students Mirko Wächter, Laura Düren and Dennis Kaufmann were exactly on the trail of this myth.

While the local police officer Fichte considers the film scenes to be pure staging, Inspector Krüger finds it strange that the three of them rented the exact same house in which the two disappeared women were last seen at the time. And now they disappear themselves in exactly this place. Krüger speaks to the responsible investigator, who was unable to solve the case fifteen years ago, and also questions Sebastian Fähnrich, whose wife was one of the two who had disappeared. After reviewing the film scenes, it is clear to the superintendent that it was precisely this old missing person case that preoccupied the three students and was possibly the actual reason for making the film. Further research reveals that the student Mirko Wächter is the illegitimate son of Astrid Kamper, who then disappeared. His father had taken the then nine-year-old with him, and now he had returned to the Spreewald to investigate his mother's disappearance. Since he was getting closer and closer to the alleged murderer, the young people were now in mortal danger. For Mirko Wächter it was clear that only Sebastian Fähnrich could be considered as his mother's murderer, but the investigations brought unrest in this family and son Peter did not want his family to be destroyed so easily by others. He locked the three students in a basement, which is now threatening to flood due to the persistent rain.

When Commissioner Krüger finds out the connections, it is already too late. All three can only be recovered dead after the basement rooms have been pumped out. Shocked by this tragedy caused by his son, Sebastian Fähnrich breaks his silence and reveals to the police where he had hidden the bodies of his wife and her friend at the time.

background

The shooting took place in Brandenburg at original places in the Spreewald under the working title Das Nix-Projekt .

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Feuerengel on November 22, 2015 took place on ZDFneo . On November 23, 2015 the episode was broadcast on ZDF and seen by 4.89 million viewers. It achieved a market share of 14.7 percent for ZDF.

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv commented: “In 'Die Sturmnacht' in the impressive autumnal wetness, the layers of reality blur even more than before by adding a film-within-a-film layer to the plot. […] Christoph Stark's lyrically ballad-like film calls for a less discursive reception and focuses more on the associative moment. In this way, film and viewer come closer than rarely on television. "

Ulrich Feld wrote at the Frankfurter Neue Presse : “The eighth 'Spreewald crime thriller' unfolds a magic through its structure and images that one can hardly escape.” “Scriptwriter Thomas Kirchner, director Christoph Stark and above all cameraman Frank Blau tell the story The plot is not linear, but literally blurs the narrative levels into one another again and again in an ingenious way. The perspective changes again and again from fiction to reality, from recorded images to actual events. "

Sidney Schering judged forquotemeter.de : “In the pictures of the cameraman Frank Blau, the Spreewald is always damp, autumnal-cool and permeated by a cutting wind. Orientation is hardly possible in this blue-gray-black, wet thicket, with which the visual aesthetics and storytelling go hand in hand: 'The Storm Night' is a complex, imaginative labyrinth, without ever using the pseudo-philosophical tricks through those the weaker ones Issues of this crime series have been such disappointments. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm said about this crime thriller: “You have to get involved in playing with the levels of time and fiction. But: It's worth it! "Conclusion:" Boldly designed and thoughtfully implemented. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spreewald Krimi - Die Sturmnacht press kit of the ZDF.
  2. ↑ Die Sturmnacht , at filme-schauspieler.de, accessed on March 13, 2017.
  3. ^ A b Christian Redl, Christoph Stark, Kirchner. Land under, two cases & many missing people , at tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 13, 2017.
  4. ↑ Ulrich Feld: Narrative Masterpiece , at fnp.de, accessed on May 17, 2017.
  5. ↑ Julian Miller: Spreewaldkrimi - Die Sturmnacht , at quotenmeter.de, accessed on May 17, 2017.
  6. ↑ The Storm Night at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on March 13, 2017.