Spreewald thriller: Angel of Fire

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Episode of the Spreewald crime series
Original title Fire angel
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Telefilm production aspect
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 5 ( list )
First broadcast November 17, 2013 on ZDFneo
Rod
Director Roland Suso Richter
script Thomas Kirchner
production Wolfgang Esser
music Ralf Wienrich
camera Stefan Unterberger
cut Bernd Schlegel
occupation

Feuerengel is a German television film by Roland Suso Richter from 2012. It is the fifth film from the Spreewald crime series and was first broadcast on November 17, 2013 on ZDFneo and shown on the following Monday on ZDF as "Television Film of the Week". The film premiered back in 2012 when it was shown at the Hamburg Film Festival. In 2013 it was shown before the official TV broadcast at the Biberach Film Festival and the German Film Festival in Ludwigshafen.

action

Lübbenau is just celebrating Easter when the fire brigade is called to work because Karsten Hellstein's hotel has caught fire. Despite all their efforts, the comrades are unable to save the building and it burns down completely. Although the hotel operator had assured that the hotel was empty, a charred body was found the next day. Using the tooth profile, real estate speculator Tim Engel can be identified as the victim.

Hotel operator Karsten Hellstein is suspected of being to blame for the death of the man, because he showed great interest in the hotel and wanted to get Hellstein to sell him the property. He worked with very unsightly means. So he bought Hellstein's loans from the bank and denounced him to the environmental, building and health authorities, which brought Hellstein various inconveniences.

But Commissioner Krüger is also investigating in other directions, because the victim may have started the fire himself and then died in the process. But that was soon ruled out when, after a detailed autopsy, it became clear that Engel was already dead when the fire broke out and that he had the marks of knife wounds in his back. In addition to Hellstein, Lisa Engel would also have a motive, because her husband was very irascible and hit his wife. He also found out that Hellstein had a relationship with his wife. In her defense, Lisa Engel brings in a former business partner of her husband: Vladislav Bratic. He would have allegedly blackmailed her because he wanted to report a criminal company bankruptcy Engels ten years ago if he would not be paid properly.

Only with difficulty can Commissioner Krüger penetrate the thicket of greed, arrogance, envy, jealousy and fraud and find the solution to the case. Lisa Engel had overheard her husband and Bratic planning the arson of the hotel and also wanted to "dispose of" Hellstein. Engel wanted to blame his rival for the arson and at the same time get him out of the way. In her anger about this, Lisa Engel stabbed her husband with a knife and then had Hellstein bring the body to the hotel, which he then set on fire.

background

The plot follows on from the episode The Tears of the Fish , in which the character of Tim Engel was played by Christian Kerepeszki . In Feuerengel , this role was filled with Martin Lindow .

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Feuerengel on November 17, 2013 took place on ZDFneo . On November 18, 2013, the episode was broadcast on ZDF and seen by 5.24 million viewers. It achieved a market share of 15.7 percent for ZDF.

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said: “Roland Suso Richter's 'Feuerengel' [...] lets pictures speak more than ever. The inspector's mind, in which he plays through possible versions of the crime, is brought to life. A sensual narrative technique that gives the viewer an unfamiliar perception: visual combinations instead of murder rates. Innovative, never complicated, never an end in itself! "

The hard criticism of the odds meter. de summed up Julian Miller: “Thorsten Krüger is so mercilessly unexciting that this complete lack of even halfway interesting character traits offers a fascinating field of investigation again. Kruger’s trademark is that he has no trademark. He doesn't speak that much, he's not a team player and he thinks reasonably well. [...] He is a kind of creative zero quantity, a still water in the ocean of German crime investigators. "

Ulrich Feld wrote in the Frankfurter Neue Presse : “Compared to the narrative, the story behind it seems almost conventional: It is about insurance and bankruptcy fraud, arson, adultery, domestic violence and revenge. Classic crime topics, but well combined. The plot remains obscure for a long time due to the seemingly random narrative style, especially at the beginning, but cleverly scatters enough references to possible perpetrators and motives to develop an intense narrative pull. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm said about this crime thriller: "Instead of the perpetrator question, the focus is more on the how and why, visualized by flashbacks and various possible events." Conclusion: "Crime puzzle in a fairytale landscape."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Spreewald thriller: Feuerengel . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2014 (PDF; test number: 147 226 V).
  2. ^ "Spreewaldkrimi - Feuerengel" on ZDF and in ZDFneo / With Christian Redl and Anja Kling in the leading roles at presseportal.de, accessed on February 4, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Feuerengel audience rate at tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 4, 2017.
  4. ↑ Julian Miller: Feuerengel , at quotenmeter.de, accessed on May 16, 2017.
  5. ↑ Ulrich Feld: Crackling Erotica in Inferno , at fnp.de, accessed on May 16, 2017.
  6. ↑ Feuerengel at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on February 4, 2017.