Traces of vengeance
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Traces of vengeance |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 174 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nikolai Müllerschön |
| script | Holger Karsten Schmidt alias Klaus Burck |
| production |
Alexander Funk , Heiner Lauterbach Nikolai Müllerschön |
| music |
Cop Dickie , Julius Kalmbacher |
| camera | Daniel Koppelkamm |
| cut | Yvonne Tetzlaff |
| occupation | |
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Traces of Vengeance is a German two-part TV series from 2016. It was directed by Nikolai Müllerschön . The premiere took place at the Biberach Film Festival held on November 5, 2016 the premiere of the first part was on January 2, 2017 the first program of the ARD , the second part was aired on January 4.
action
- part One
The BKA officer Frank Hennings, who retired early, loses his wife and daughter in a bomb attack in Berlin . After the police stopped the investigation after two days, he used the access to internal information channels of the police from his active time and found clues about the possible mastermind Sharif Nader, who is suspected in Morocco . With a fake identity he travels to Tangier and hires in Nader's heavily guarded property as a piano teacher for his daughter Yasmin. He plans to shoot Nader as soon as an opportunity arises, but is discovered by Nader's men while trying to smuggle a gun into the house. At the same time armed men break into the property, Nader is killed in the fighting and Hennings flees to town with Yasmin, but is believed by the Moroccan authorities to be Nader's murderer and is wanted. Yasmin's aunt helps them go into hiding and gives Yasmin a small notebook that she should keep for her father. Hennings, meanwhile, locates Nader's employee Abdellah, who was the only employee who escaped the massacre, and now learns from him that he had positioned the bomb in Berlin that killed Henning's family. Thereupon he is shot by Hennings.
- part two
Hennings and Yasmin are hiding on a boat. Based on the notes, it can be assumed that the arms dealer Abu Bahir was responsible for the attack on Sharif Nader. Hennings keeps in touch with his friend and former colleague Martin Ritzenhoff. He urges him to leave Morocco as soon as possible. With the help of the boat that Hennings can get up and running, this is possible in the end. Meanwhile in Berlin, Ritzenhoff is summoned by BND investigator Dieter Michaelis, who also shows keen interest in Nader's notebook. Ritzenhoff is therefore clear that the BND has its own fingers in the game and that Hennings will have to hide in Germany for the time being as soon as he is back from Morocco.
Immediately after Henning and Yasmin's escape, the hit man Nazimah set on their heels and when Yasmin made the mistake and went shopping with her credit card in Spain, the persecutor immediately knew her whereabouts. Ritzenhoff travels to meet Hennings and can only with difficulty outrun the BND pursuers. When he arrives in Henning's quarters, Nazimah is already there with a companion and shoots Ritzenhoff without warning. After a duel, Hennings can overpower Nazimah and her companion and thus saves Yasmin's and himself's life. From Spain, the two travel by bus to Berlin.
After Hennings managed to decipher Nader's notebook, he found detailed information on arms dealers in war zones and arms deliveries from Germany. He contacts Dieter Michaelis and offers him the book if, in return, he enables Abu Bahir to come to Germany and Yasmin to talk to him, her father's murderer, undisturbed. During the conversation with Michaelis, Hennings learns that the BND had set up Bahir as their spy, but that he would no longer adhere to any agreements. In principle, the BND is responsible not only for Henning's family, but also for the massacre in Nader's house. Hennings therefore prepares a suitcase with an explosive device with which Yasmin is supposed to hand over the notebook to Bagir. But then he changes his mind and leaves Bahir the notes only with the word of honor to Yasmin that the two will remain unmolested in the future. The BND sees her gesture, dedicated to personal forgiveness, differently and Michaeli's employee Bommer shoots Bahir from behind and takes the notebook.
In the final scene, Hennings and Yasmin walk arm in arm like father and daughter, while Bommes follows them at a greater distance.
production
The production was carried out by Oberon Film GmbH and Handschlagfilm Produktion on behalf of ARD .
criticism
After its publication, Traces of Vengeance received mostly negative reviews. Above all, the implausible script and bad dialogues were criticized.
Oliver Junge from the FAZ criticizes that the character of the hero is "carelessly constructed" and "highly untrustworthy". The "sub-complex dialogues" are "sometimes a nuisance" and the story seems "as artificial as it is extravagant". Overall, the production is "downright silly".
DJ Junge from the Frankfurter Rundschau judges hardly more mildly : The “global security situation [is] shown here in something as realistically as in a picture-newspaper synopsis of the last James Bond film”, the script shows “unexpected dilettantism” with “terrible Dialogue sentences [n] ”“ that sound like Google Translate translations of fortune cookie sayings ”. The story is a "silly omnipotent fantasy of the West". It is understandable that the screenwriter and three-time Grimme Prize winner Holger Karsten Schmidt withdrew his name to the pseudonym “Klaus Burck” in view of this “script disaster”. Director Müllerschön seems “noticeably overwhelmed” with the staging.
Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv has similar objections, but sees positive aspects in addition to the obvious weaknesses of this " colportage " in the "cast, the authentic use of foreign languages [...] and a certain realism in the visual language".
Web links
- Traces of revenge in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Traces of revenge at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Program Biberacher Filmfest , accessed on January 3, 2017
- ↑ Oliver Junge: Pensioners out of control , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 2, 2017, accessed on January 3, 2017.
- ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach: Multi-part “Traces of Revenge” , tittelbach.tv from December 12, 2016, 2017, accessed on January 2, 2017
- ↑ DJ Frederiksson: Die Rache des Pensionners , Frankfurter Rundschau of January 2, 2017, accessed on January 2, 2017.