Stralsund: Defenseless
| Episode in the Stralsund series | |||
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| Original title | Defenseless | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| classification | Episode 9 | ||
| First broadcast | October 15, 2016 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Lars-Gunnar Lotz | ||
| script |
Sven S. Poser , Marianne Wendt , Christian Schiller |
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| production | Wolfgang Cimera | ||
| music | Oliver Kranz | ||
| camera | Jan Prahl | ||
| cut | Anton Korndörfer | ||
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Schutzlos is a German television film by Lars-Gunnar Lotz from 2016. It is the ninth film in the ZDF crime series Stralsund . Katharina Wackernagel , Wanja Mues , Alexander Held and Michael Rotschopf play the main roles of the investigators . The main guest roles are occupied by Lucas Gregorowicz , Ivan Shvedoff , Jan Henrik Stahlberg , Rudolf Kowalski , Katharina Nesytowa , Anja Antonowicz and Emilia Pieske .
action
Looking back, Max Morolf can be seen in an intimate love scene with Anna Breetz, at the end of which she asks him which side he is actually on.
Seven years later. Chief Detective Karl Hidde, who collapsed while working on the steps of a bridge with a bleeding stump, is in the hospital. His colleague Nina Petersen visits him while a call for help comes in at the police station. In fact, a man rushes through downtown Stralsund with a gun in his hand. He is arrested. It turns out that Vitali Komerenko, who comes from Belarus , is in the witness protection program together with his wife Tatjana and his little daughter Nadja . His wife had accidentally overheard a drug delivery in Frankfurt an der Oder. The family hopes that their testimony against the drug cartel, which has been operating in Frankfurt for many years, will gain the much-awaited recognition as political refugees . Shortly before, a policeman had been shot dead in the apartment that was chosen as a shelter for the Komerenkos. That is the reason why family man Vitali fled into the street in a panic after he had previously helped his wife and daughter to escape.
A local resident who took a photo of the alleged police officer leaving the Komerenko apartment with his cell phone enabled forensic technician Stein and his colleagues to identify the man through facial recognition. It is 39-year-old Anton Robak. Petersen notices that her colleague Max Morolf reacts strangely tense to the name, as does commissariat manager Gregor Meyer. Marten Kroos, who is responsible for the security of the Komerenkos, receives a call from Tatiana Komerenkowa a little later and orders her to an underground car park. She also asks him not to forget the insulin that her daughter will need soon.
Inspector Petersen visits drug lord Peter Schuhmacher, alias "Victor", who has been put behind bars, in prison and speaks to him about Anton Robak. He makes it difficult for her by talking about Benjamin Lietz and the incident in which Petersen lost her unborn child. When Petersen tells him that his wife is getting worse and worse and offers him the prospect of spending time with her, Schuhmacher gives in and tells her that there is someone on “Pawel's” payroll who works for the Police work. If you find this out and stick to him, sooner or later it will lead to Robak.
In the underground car park where Tatiana Komerenkowa and her daughter are waiting for Marten Kroos, it becomes apparent that he is making common cause with Anton Robak when a car with Robak at the wheel sets in motion to kill mother and daughter. However, the Komerenkowas managed to escape. When Marten Kroos says that they have now been seen together, Robak shoots him in the head in cold blood and unsuccessfully pursues the duo.
Morolf is sitting in the car parked in front of the hotel “Zur Goldenen Robbe” and stroking Anna Breetz's photo while his thoughts briefly go back. After informing Stein and entering the hotel, he suddenly stands across from Anton Robak, who is pointing the gun at him. The men know each other. It's been seven years since they had contact with each other. When Petersen and her people arrive, Morolf is standing at the window with his gun drawn, Robak has disappeared. A little later it becomes apparent that the chiefs of the commissariat Gregor Meyer and Max Morolf have something to hide when Meyer suggests that he always knew that they would catch up with "this shit".
Petersen speaks again with Vitali Komerenko and then passes on the information to Meyer and Morolf that "Pawel" is probably from the construction industry and that at least one civil servant is on his payroll. She notices that both colleagues are behaving strangely. In a phone call with Karl Hidde, Petersen learns that Morolf, as a so-called “drug bull”, was scheduled to go to a “Pawel” seven years ago. Meyer was also involved in the matter. All of a sudden, Meyer and Morolf explain to her that they know who is hiding behind “Pawel”. It is the code name of Jan Pawlowski, the alleged head of the largest drug cartel in the new federal states with headquarters in Frankfurt / Oder. He laundered drug money on a large scale in his construction businesses. You've been trying to get over it for years, but in the end you only get your straw men.
Petersen meets himself in Hiddes apartment, where she wants to look at documents, and learns that seven years ago there was an investigation against Morolf in a case in which Anna Breetz died. She was a secretary in Pavlovski's construction company and Morolf's informant. After she was exposed, she was shot. The circumstances have not yet been clarified, explains Hidde. The investigation against Morolf had been set at the instigation of Gregor Meyer.
Tatiana Komerenkowa has now managed to organize a cell phone and call the police. She wants to speak to Petersen, Morolf accepts the call and can convince the woman to tell him where she is. Before he starts, Morolf will inform Jan Pawlowski about the meeting point “Karow Farm”. When he arrives at his destination with the insulin, Tatiana Komerenkova is waiting for him in great concern. Petersen, who now knows about the meeting point, also shows up there. She no longer trusts Morolf, takes his weapon from him and orders him to put on handcuffs. Meanwhile, Anton Robak is also there. Shots are fired. Morolf can get Petersen to let him go and save her life shortly afterwards. Together with the Komerenkowas, they try to escape from the dark hall. A task force that has meanwhile arrived secures their way out into the open. Morolf says that is not the end, this guy won't give up. Morolf's thoughts go back to the fateful day when Robak stormed into the room and shot the woman he loved and couldn't protect.
Robak has now made it into Nadja's hospital room disguised as a policeman. There he is expected by Morolf. When he wants to shoot Morolf, he shoots first. Meyer tells Petersen that the circumstances of the fatal shot would be carefully investigated. Morolf receives a call from Pawlowski, who tells him that he now has to take over Robak's job, that time is running out and he urgently advises him not to disappoint him.
production
Production notes
The film was produced by Network Movie , Film- und Fernsehproduktion Wolfgang Cimera GmbH & Co. KG, Cologne, production management: Andreas Breyer, production management: Ralph Retzlaff, responsible ZDF editor Martin R. Neumann .
Unprotected was filmed in Stralsund , Hamburg and the surrounding area between November 5 and December 4, 2015 . Lars-Gunnar Lotz is directing this series for the third time after Kreuzfeuer and The attack .
publication
The film was premiered on October 15, 2016 in prime time on ZDF .
On March 29, 2018, Studio Hamburg Enterprises released this episode along with episodes 10, 11 and 12 on DVD.
reception
Audience rating
When it was first broadcast, the film had 5.70 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 18.8%.
criticism
Martina Rathke wrote about the film in the Volksstimme daily newspaper that the colors of the film were “gloomy” and that almost threatening music lay over the entire new episode “Defenseless”. This Stralsund thriller is "not a film full of action and effective stunts, rather a psychogram looking into the soul of the protagonists in a gloomy atmosphere". Rathke commented on Wackernagel in her role as Nina Petersen that she gave her "a melancholy that is reflected in the gloom of the film". The Hanseatic city of Stralsund also "does not show its glamor in the Stralsund thriller". "Simple apartments and offices, dingy backyards, rain-soaked streets and even the otherwise stately market" are "the blueprint for the gray look and plot of the film".
TV Spielfilm gave one of three possible points for claim and action, two for suspense and said: “A humorous, stringent crime thriller in which the killer is known from the start, but who still has enough twists and turns and secrets to offer.” Conclusion: "The tension rises until the last minute."
The critic Volker Bergmeister rated the film on tittelbach.tv , gave it four out of six possible stars and wrote that it was going "in quick succession in the ZDF crime series 'Stralsund'". The ninth episode brings "tension and action when Katharina Wackernagel as Nina Petersen has to track down a key witness on the run and look for an enemy in her own ranks". “The production by Lars-Gunnar Lotz” offers “good crime entertainment: dark, mysterious, fast-paced”. The prelude to the ninth episode is “brilliant”. Bergmeister asks the question, what can you expect from a good television thriller? “A story that is full of twists and turns and surprises; fast-paced and inspired direction; a team of investigators with rough edges. And when action is the order of the day, a camera that creates atmosphere and draws you into the action with the images. ”The episode“ Defenseless ”“ has to offer ”all of this, it lets“ the viewer cheer for the full 89 minutes ”because the film is “dark, mysterious, pretty fast-paced and cleverly made. And one more thing: after the thriller is before the thriller. Because the end announces that this story is not over yet, even if the commissioners in Stralsund consider the case to be closed ”. The 34-year-old director also shows in this episode that he "has mastered the quiet and the loud moments with confidence". The story is “nested, full of twists and turns and surprises”, “fine” is “the small with the big interwoven, the (brief) dialogs are right” as well as “the timing”. Bergmeister also praised the fact that the series was "told intelligently".
Tilmann P. Gangloff dealt with the crime series for the Frankfurter Rundschau and said that it had "developed over the years into an impressive total work of art and therefore one of the best crime series on ZDF". [...] "Above all, the nine episodes formed a total work of art, because earlier characters would appear again and again". Gangloff also attributed this to the fact that “despite the changing constellations, author Sven S. Poser was involved in all the scripts”, which “played a major role in the overall quality of the series”. Although after the last film ' The Attack ' "an increase in quality and tension hardly seemed possible", "it still works because the script cleverly combines an old story with a new one". The director succeeds "in the feat of keeping the tension at an impressive level until the end, although there are hardly any action scenes apart from the beginning and the end," continues Gangloff.
Axel Weideman rated the film in the Frankfurter Allgemeine and found that 'Stralsund: Schutzlos' was "straightforward in the best sense of the word, despite its initial mystery." The story remains "exciting" because it "leaves open until the last moment who is where". As a result, the roles of Karl Hidde and Kripo director Gregor Meyer remained “interesting”. The “images of the film” were liked “in Stralsund-in-the-fog shots” and then played again “with black silhouettes in the backlight and hand-to-the-gun and flashlight manner”. “It doesn't look bad”. "The whole tragedy of the case only becomes" visible "at the very end anyway.
The film service also found: "Solid (TV series) crime thriller based on a cleverly constructed script."
Web links
- Stralsund: Defenseless in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Stralsund: Defenseless at Fernsehserien.de
- In October, the ZDF shows two new "Stralsund" thrillers see page presseportal.de
- Stralsund: defenseless episode 9 in pictures at diethelm-glaser-net
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Stralsund - defenseless see page networkmovie.de
- ↑ Stralsund: Unprotected at crew united
- ↑ Shooting for “Stralsund 9 - Schutzlos” crime thriller begins, see message from the city of Stralsund on October 30, 2015
- ↑ Stralsund: Defenseless, retaliation, no way back, see the phantom . DVD cover Stralsund, episodes 9-12
- ↑ "Stralsund" -Krmi on ZDF at odds forward. The Germans love their TV thrillers, that was no different this Saturday, see focus.de page. Retrieved August 24, 2019.
- ↑ Martina Rathke: Stralsund - Schutzlos In: Volksstimme , October 15, 2016. Retrieved on August 24, 2019.
- ^ Stralsund: Unprotected see tvspielfilm.de (including 17 film images). Retrieved August 24, 2019.
- ↑ Volker Bergmeister : Series "Stralsund - Schutzlos". Wackernagel, Mues, Gregorowicz, Lotz. For action & a race against time, see tittelbach.tv.Retrieved on August 24, 2019.
- ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Stralsund: Schutzlos, ZDF Killer do not introduce themselves. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , October 15, 2016. Retrieved on August 24, 2019.
- ↑ Axel Weideman: “Stralsund” crime thriller With Kind and Fog In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 15, 2016. Retrieved on August 24, 2019.
- ↑ Stralsund: Defenseless. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .
Murderous Persecution (2009) | Out of Control (2011) | Bloody Scent (2012) | Deadly Promise (2013) | Free Fall (2013) | Crossfire (2015) | It's never over (2015) | The attack (2015) | Defenseless (2016) | Retaliation (2016) | No Going Back (2017) | The Phantom (2018) | Brothers in Arms (2018) | Shadow Lines (2019) | Doppelkopf (2019) | Bloodlines (2020)