Traces of Evil: Longing
| Episode in the Traces of Evil series | |
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| Original title | nostalgia |
| Country of production | Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Josef Aichholzer film production |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 8 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | August 25, 2019 on ORF2 |
| German-language first broadcast |
September 2, 2019 on ZDF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andreas Prochaska |
| script | Martin Ambrosch |
| production | Josef Aichholzer |
| music | Matthias Weber |
| camera | David Slamal |
| cut | Daniel Prochaska |
| occupation | |
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| chronology | |
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Sehnsucht is a German-Austrian television film from 2019 and the eighth episode in the crime series Traces of Evil with Heino Ferch in the lead role of a criminal psychologist. Directed by Andreas Prochaska . Martin Ambrosch wrote the script .
The film follows on from the anger events in which Richard Brock was critically injured.
action
After criminal psychologist Richard Brock was deliberately shot in the back by a police officer, he is initially dependent on a wheelchair. His personal problems and his increased whiskey consumption paralyze him from further exposing the internal police corruption, in which Inspector Mesek seems to be involved. The criminal psychologist seems bitter and spends his day's work peeking through binoculars into the windows of the apartments opposite. One day he sees a murder going on there. Since he does not trust the police, he first calls his daughter, who is too busy and does not answer the phone. His closest confidante and friend is Klaus Tauber, whom he now alerts and asks to look around the apartment. Tauber actually finds the apartment broken and hesitantly enters. Fearing that he might still meet the murderer, he now calls the police. Commissioner Mesek shows little understanding for the call, especially since neither a corpse nor any evidence of a criminal offense can be found. Shortly afterwards, a young woman appears who pretends to be the missing neighbor. Mesek therefore does not believe Brock's testimony and stops the investigation. Brock is not satisfied with that, especially since events from the past stand between him and Mesek. The only ally he has left is his daughter Petra and since she works for the police, he hopes she will believe him and take the case as seriously as he is. But even she cannot change the visible facts, because the neighbor is Leila Nymann and the man her father wants to see is her husband Marc. However, Brock maintains that this Leila Nymann is not the woman he has seen in the apartment across the street for two months. He does not only mean the outward appearance of the woman, but also her behavior. The missing neighbor also has a toddler, which is still there, but is suddenly no longer breastfed by the current mother. He is certain that his neighbor had to die because the nymanns wanted the child to themselves. To get a DNA sample from “mother” and child, he asks the psychologist Brigitte Klein for help. She was hired by Brock's daughter to look after her father on a regular basis. After an initial rejection, he got involved with this new reference person, who is not only a specialist, but also skillfully offers resistance to him and his peculiarities. He can talk to her at eye level and also talk shop.
Strangely enough, the examination of the genetic material reveals that Leila Nymann is actually the baby's biological mother. Brock thus suspects a derailed surrogacy as the motive for the crime. After research by Brock's daughter, Leila Nymann had numerous miscarriages, which supports the psychologist's assumption. The Nymanns probably looked for a surrogate mother who looked a lot like Ms. Nymann and everything went well until the surrogate mother refused to give up her child. According to Brock, the body must still be in the large apartment building opposite. Because in the short time in which Brock acted after observing the crime, Marc Nymann could not get rid of it. So he sends Brigitte Klein again to find out. While she wants to look in the basement of the apartment building, she is surprised by Marc Nymann, who hits her in an affect. On her ringing cell phone he sees Brock's name and draws appropriate conclusions. Before Brock can defend himself, he is attacked by Nymann, who is now standing in front of him armed with a knife. In his plight, Brock explains to Nymann the psychological motives that drove him to his actions. After all, none of this was planned and everything was just a combination of unfortunate circumstances, based on the unbearable longing for a child. In his emotional situation, Nymann could hardly have acted otherwise. With that he hits Nymann's sore spot and he puts the knife down. But Nymann now reacts differently than Brock expected, because he jumps out of the window into his death. Leila Nymann, who had to watch this from across the street, does the same and also rushes out of a window with the baby. She is killed in the process, while the child remains unharmed.
When Commissioner Mesek appears at the scene of the tragic event, the psychologist's sad and angry look hits him, because if the Commissioner had taken his statements seriously, this tragedy on this scale would very likely have been prevented.
"Worries are like glue."
background
Sehnsucht was filmed from May 24th to July 2nd, 2018 in Vienna and the surrounding area. The television premiere took place on August 25, 2019 on ORF and on September 2, 2019 on ZDF .
The story of longing is inevitably reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's window to the courtyard , although the story and Heino Ferch set their own accents. Tilmann P. Gangloff said that although the “story is not told exclusively from the perspective of the main character”, “the transfer is still more than successful. The hero of ' Das Fenster zum Hof ' is a photo reporter, a person for whom a certain voyeurism is part of the job description. Brock, on the other hand, as a psychiatrist has to take deep insights into the human soul, so he is, if you will, also a voyeur who, however, manages without technical aids. That makes the psychological duel with the colleague all the more interesting. No wonder that the film owes the most entertaining scenes to this idea. "
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Sehnsucht on September 2, 2019 on ZDF only reached 4.46 million viewers and a market share of 15.3 percent. This was owed to the offer of the other TV stations, because RTL had the anniversary show 20 Years Who Wants to Be Millionaire on offer at the same time, and SAT1 came up with the audience magnet Fack ju Göthe 2 .
Reviews
The editorial staff of the Golden Camera judged the film: “Although this episode takes place for the first time in summer, the staging is, as usual, gloomy and minimalist. The story takes some time to get going, but then it wakes up to a suspenseful thriller with a shocking finale. Katrin Bauerfeind and Heino Ferch shine as an opposing pair of psychiatrists. "
Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv wrote appreciatively: “With ' window to the courtyard ' references, elaborate imagery and a sub-plot extending over several episodes, which seems to hover over the sad existence of the main character like a latent deadly threat, succeeds it […] [the filmmakers] with 'Sehnsucht' […] to surpass the consistently high quality of their Austrian-German crime drama series 'Traces of Evil'. The principle of reduction is extended from the action, the language and the game to the rooms, to the looks and perspectives. "Tittelbach hopes for further consequences and said:" Beyond the examination of spiritual abysses and basic human emotions, there are perhaps even more complex, a variety of exciting stories possible. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best rating (thumbs up) and wrote: “The well-rehearsed team of Ferch, director Andreas Prochaska and author Martin Ambrosch celebrates the rapid change between soulful, exciting, funny and spooky. The virile Ferch is allowed to simmer sexy as an invalid, the bitter finale goes to the kidneys. The horizontal narrative thread about the shady investigator Mesek [...] is so cleverly integrated that even newcomers can follow the plot well. "
Claudia Reinhard from the FAZ sums up: “It could hardly have hit him worse. Since the criminal psychologist Richard Brock got a bullet in his last case, he has been confined to a wheelchair. He of all people, the loner, the smartest in every room, the always superior. Now he has to ask for help with the simplest of moves, his mood is accordingly even darker than usual. And another circumstance turns his spacious old apartment into a prison: The knowledge of a corrupt network within the police, in which Gerhard Mesek, the superior his daughter Petra (Sabrina Reiter) is involved. "
Awards and nominations
- Award in the Best TV Film category
Web links
- Traces of evil desire in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Traces of Evil: Longing on fernsehserien.de
- Traces of Evil: Longing at crew united
- Traces of Evil: Longing for the ZDF press kit
Individual evidence
- ↑ Traces of evil at crew united . Retrieved January 12, 2020.
- ↑ Longing: actors, plot, location at giessener-allgemeine.de, accessed on January 12, 2020.
- ↑ TV tip: "Traces of Evil - Longing" The window to the courtyard at stuttgarter-nachrichten.de, accessed on January 12, 2020.
- ↑ Comparison to the classic “Das Fenster zum Hof” at kino.de , accessed on January 12, 2020.
- ↑ Primetimecheck at quotenmeter.de, accessed on January 12, 2020
- ^ A b Rainer Tittelbach: Ferch, Bauerfeind, Miko, Reiter, Ambrosch, Prochaska. The crime from across the street , accessed on Tittelbach.tv , on January 12, 2020.
- ↑ Heike Hupertz: Traces of Evil: Sehnsucht - a homage to Hitchcock at goldenekamera.de, accessed on January 12, 2020.
- ^ TV thriller with Heino Ferch as a German criminal psychologist in Vienna, this time assisted by Katrin Bauerfeind. Film review at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on January 12, 2020.
- ↑ Claudia Reinhard: What is written on the tombstone of a tensioner? at faz.net , accessed January 12, 2020.
- ↑ Christoph Silber: ROMY Academy selects winners: androids, underworlders and drug dealers. In: Kurier.at . May 19, 2020, accessed May 19, 2020 .