Traces of Evil: Desire
| Episode in the Traces of Evil series | |||
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| Original title | desire | ||
| Country of production | Germany , Austria | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Production company |
Josef Aichholzer film production | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Episode 6 ( list ) | ||
| First broadcast | March 4, 2017 on ORF1 | ||
| German-language first broadcast |
March 6, 2017 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Andreas Prochaska | ||
| script | Martin Ambrosch | ||
| production | Josef Aichholzer | ||
| music | Matthias Weber | ||
| camera | David Slama | ||
| cut | Daniel Prochaska | ||
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Begierde is a German-Austrian television film from 2017 and the sixth episode in the crime series Traces of Evil with Heino Ferch in the lead role. Directed by Andreas Prochaska . Martin Ambrosch wrote the script .
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The industrialist Johannes Rink is afraid of being schizophrenic, like his father. But he does not want to be treated in a clinic. His wife Clara, who deliberately has no children with him because of the feared hereditary disease, turns to Richard Brock. She hopes to get help from him as her husband begins to become violent and she fears disaster. According to the family doctor, a brain tumor has been ruled out, so that she too shares her husband's fears. Brock also comes to this conclusion after talking to Rink and believes that clinical treatment is inevitable. What gives him pause, however, is a phone number that Rink had written on his hand during their conversation. He calls this number and gets to the call girl Eva Faller. When she hears from Brock the reason for his call and the name Johannes Rink, she withdraws without a word.
Clara Rink informs the police after her husband injured himself and attacked the family doctor, Peter Bode, with a knife. Then he left the property and disappeared. Brock's assumption that there could be more than just a business relationship between Eva Faller and Johannes Rink is true. Faller calls Brock for help, because Rink is standing in front of her door that night and she feels threatened. Brock rushes to her and accompanies her to her car, where, however, Rink is already waiting for her and attacks with a knife. Brock defends the young woman and his own life. After a long fight Brock goes to the ground for a short time and then finds Rink with the knife in his chest. He is being taken into custody by the police and will be charged with violating self-defense .
Clara Rink visits him in custody and tries to find answers because she would not understand any of this. Brock explains her husband's behavior through his illness, which had undoubtedly started. In his opinion, Eva Faller is pregnant by Johannes Rink and because he did not want to pass the disease on, he tried to kill the child's mother. Since Brock has a lot of time to think in prison, he has some doubts. He asks his daughter to urge a toxicological examination at Rink's autopsy and to look for a dopamine agonist in the blood. This test is actually positive and explains to Brock why the disease broke out so suddenly and so violently.
Meanwhile, Clara Rink contacts Eva Faller and calls her over. She tries to convince her that Johannes' child can only grow up well with her. She makes Faller a lucrative offer to "buy" the child from her. Faller rejects this, however, because she assumes that the child as heir will give her half of the fortune. Later, however, she had doubts whether she should have the child at all and went to a counseling center.
Brock is released from custody and is certain that only Rink's family doctor could have procured the means that Rink was given to make his illness break out. He seeks out Peter Bode and confronts him with his (theoretical) knowledge that he had got Johannes Link out of the way as a rival in order to win over his wife, with whom he would have been in love for years. Bode can then be arrested by the police without resistance, because Brock told him:
"In a crime of passion, only the crime remains - the passion dies."
background
Desire was filmed from February 25 to March 24, 2016 in Vienna and the surrounding area. The German television premiere took place on March 6, 2017 on ZDF .
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Begierde on March 6, 2017 on ZDF reached 5.18 million viewers and a market share of 15.4 percent.
Reviews
At the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Axel Weidemann said: “What makes the film by director Andreas Prochaska a really exciting television experience in the first place is - and in this it resembles the character of Johannes Rink - its unpredictability. Even after fifty minutes, when the viewer lulls himself and all his premonitions into safety, the plot of Martin Ambrosch's script hits such a hook that one is at a loss in the best sense of the word or is still hooked. "
Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv wrote appreciatively: “Seldom has the staff been so manageable, the plot so reduced and the visual language so focused on the essentials. Not the crime dramaturgy takes the lead, but the pictures. The darkness minimizes the visible space. The story comes from the Viennese night, the darkness of sick souls. The result is a fascinating intimate play in which the audience is often allowed to think through what has been suggested. "
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave it the best rating (thumbs up) and wrote: “You want to have a whiskey from Brock's bottle, the atmosphere in this dark thriller about melancholy, loneliness and sadness is so shivering. Cool and gloomy, carried by the top ensemble. "
Sebastian Hagner from rtv.de said: “The story looks very familiar , but at least it takes some unexpected twists and turns. The great strength of 'Traces of Evil' is - in addition to the excellent performance as an actor - once again the style: 'Desire' may tell of passion and greed, but the film does it in cold, yet very atmospheric images. "
Web links
- Traces of evil desire in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Traces of Evil: Desire on fernsehserien.de
- Traces of Evil: Desire at crew united
Individual evidence
- ^ Desire at crew united . Retrieved January 23, 2019.
- ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach: Ferch, Koschitz, Mavie Hörbiger, Ambrosch, Prochaska. In the eye of the beholder , accessed on Tittelbach.tv on January 23, 2019.
- ↑ Axel Weidemann: He dares to step over the abyss at faz.de, accessed on February 28, 2019.
- ↑ Heino Ferch is the taciturn, lonely psychiatrist in Vienna for the sixth time. Film review at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on January 23, 2019.
- ↑ Sebastian Hagner: Unhappy hero at rtv.de, accessed on February 28, 2019.