Spreewald thriller: murderous heat

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Episode of the Spreewald crime series
Original title Murderous heat
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Telefilm production aspect
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 6 ( list )
First broadcast May 12, 2014 on ZDF
Rod
Director Kai Wessel
script Thomas Kirchner
production Wolfgang Esser
music Ralf Wienrich
camera Holly Fink
cut Tina Friday
occupation

Murderous Heat is a German television film by Kai Wessel from 2014. It is the sixth film from the Spreewald crime series and was broadcast on ZDF on May 12, 2014 as "Television Film of the Week".

action

This time Commissioner Krüger is dealing with a family drama. Gottfried Richter had thrown himself in front of a truck on purpose and was seriously injured in the process. Due to the massive traces of blood that Richter wears all over his body and which do not come from him, it can be assumed that he previously murdered his wife and teenage daughter. In search of the victims, Commissioner Krüger follows the trail that the man left on his way. In a small hut in the forest he finally discovers dismembered human parts, from which it cannot be determined immediately whether there are one or two victims. That is superfluous when Irene Richter and her daughter suddenly appear unharmed. This begins a new task for the forensic medical examination to be able to assign the body parts. According to initial analyzes, the victim was under twenty years old. Remnants of a tattoo on the right forearm suggest that it is Tobias Witko, the friend of Richter's daughter.

After Gottfried Richter can be questioned, the inspector learns the entire life story of the man, starting from the moment he got married in Spreewald, was very happy and had sworn to kill himself if he should ever hurt his beloved Irene. He worked for his father-in-law as a boat builder and did his best to meet the strict requirements of the man. But he had to learn that he did not have the right talent and that he was doing a lot wrong. After his father-in-law died of a heart attack, the family's allegations didn't stop and now his mother-in-law was "picking" on him. She even blamed him for her husband's death because he had little help with his son-in-law and had to work too much. Richter himself could not live from building the boat alone and was now trying to find a job from which he could support his family. At his age, however, it was only enough for a temporary employment agency, which also didn't exactly boost his self-esteem. There was not enough money in front and behind, and his family's old house was falling into disrepair. Irene Richter decided to take a part-time job that an old childhood friend had given her. With that, however, her husband's jealousy began, which went so far that he imagined that his daughter was not his. When Irene Richter couldn't take all this anymore, she left her husband in the end.

Richter endured the next few days without his beloved family as he threw himself more and more into his new job. He was currently working for a parcel service, which put him under enormous stress. Due to the daily time pressure and additionally annoyed by a moped driver who prevented him from overtaking for minutes, he ran over the man. He wanted to hide the body somewhere, so he had brought it to the little hut in the woods. As the body was dismembered, he realized what he had just done. He ran as if from his senses across the fields to the truck.

A hut built for this Spreewald thriller on the island of love at the confluence of the Vetschauer Mühlenfließ (coming from the right) into the Südumfluter

background

The shooting took place in Lübbenau , Burg and Vetschau at original venues.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Murderous Heat on May 12, 2014 was seen by 6.28 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 19.4 percent for ZDF .

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said: “'Murderous Heat' looks a bit like a revenant of Italian neorealism ': the human in the landscape, the social as the driving force of the soul. But Kai Wessel's film based on the atmospherically structured book by Thomas Kirchner tells today: with a bizarre montage, cool American imagery & the mythology of a magical landscape. "

David Denk wrote for the Süddeutsche Zeitung : "The film reconstructs [...] the failure of a man who loses everything, his job, his wife, his hope, and ultimately his mind." "This thriller has no answer, but many disturbing questions. "" Until the end it remains unclear who is actually the victim in this gripping regional thriller. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm write about this crime thriller: "The clever crime thriller with the sultry atmosphere of US southern crime novels won six awards from the German Academy for Television." Conclusion: "Kruger 's sixth case gets under your skin."

With quota meter. de, Sidney Schering praised the film in large parts, but also said: “The biggest weakness of this TV thriller is that, despite its unusual basic idea and narrative style, it still has to submit to the standardized running time and cannot take the time that its approach would be fair. Ten additional minutes of running time to give the characters more breathing space would be welcome. "

Awards

Murderous Heat received in the run-up to the German Television Prize - from the German Academy for Television the audience prize for:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Murderous Heat , at filme-schauspieler.de, accessed on February 4, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Murderous Heat , audience rating at tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 4, 2017.
  3. ↑ David Denk: Lodernder Wahnsinn , at sueddeutsche.de, accessed on May 16, 2017.
  4. ↑ Murderous Heat , at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on February 4, 2017.
  5. ↑ Julian Miller: Spreewaldkrimi: Murderous Heat , at quotenmeter.de, accessed on May 16, 2017.
  6. ↑ Murderous Heat , at presseportal.de, accessed on February 4, 2017.