Stralsund: Deadly promise

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Episode in the Stralsund series
Original title Deadly promise
Stralsund (TV series) .jpg
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 4
First broadcast February 4, 2013 on ZDF
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Director Martin Eigler
script Martin Eigler,
Sven S. Poser
production Wolfgang Cimera ,
Martin R. Neumann
music Oliver Kranz
camera Christoph Chassée
cut Jörg Kadler
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Bloody Scent

Successor  →
Free Fall

Deadly Promise is a German television film by Martin Eigler from 2013. It is the fourth film in the ZDF crime film series Stralsund . Katharina Wackernagel , Wotan Wilke Möhring , Alexander Held and Michael Rotschopf play the main roles of the investigators . The main guest roles are occupied by Jörg Schüttauf , Heike Trinker and Mateusz Dopieralski .

action

After 18-year-old Vitas Zalgiris left the “Vilnius” ferry, which came from the Lithuanian port city of Klaipėda in Rügen , and made a phone call, he is only a little later among the onlookers who have gathered to watch them Police recover the car of shipyard worker Michael Leschek, who was shot in it. When Detective Inspector Nina Petersen questions the young man she noticed, he pulls out a gun, knocks it down and disappears.

Vitas gains access to a house whose doorbell shows the name Warnke and brings Johanna Warnke, who is coming home, under his control. He asks her to call her husband, whom he gives the ultimatum to come home and leave the police outside, otherwise he would shoot his wife. Johanna Warnke then explains to him that her husband is a police officer. In response, Vitas forces Johanna to get into the car and drive away with him.

The officials now know from videos from the port that Vitas met Leschek there. Both drove away in his car. A report stating that a man forced a woman to get into a car with a gun led Meyer and his team to track down Vitas. Petersen and Lietz talk to their colleague Warnke and ask him about Leschek. He says that he has known him for almost twenty years, that they work together for an aid organization and that they drive medical equipment to the Baltic States two to three times a year . Forensic technician Stein and his people network the Warnke house. Warnke manages to move away from his house without Petersen and Lietz noticing. You decide to pursue Warnke. This has now arrived at the kidnapper and his wife. A little later, Petersen and Lietz only find Johanna Warnke on the beach. No trace of Paul Warnke and Vitas.

Vitas threatens Warnke and wants to know why he sent Leschek to kill him? He had forced him to kill Leschek and now it was his turn. Forensic technician Stein and his team have now been able to determine who Elena is, who was mentioned by both Vitas and Johanna Warnke. It's Elena Zalgiris, the mother of Vitas. She was shot dead four days ago while raiding a supermarket in Klaipėda. The income was particularly high that day. It is believed that the perpetrators were responsible for five attacks on jewelry stores and luxury boutiques with above-average income and then four days ago the attack on the supermarket. When Petersen thinks that maybe Leschek and Warnke were in there, Meyer warns that Warnke is a colleague and has been a volunteer for years.

Little by little, Warnke is able to convince Vitas that Leschek and a friend had committed raids in Lithuania, using the aid supplies as a cover. He kept that to himself because it was about his buddies. In addition, he adds that Leschek recently overheard in Lithuania how he had told Elena about the raids. Vitas bitterly says that the two men then attacked the supermarket to kill his mother so that she could not reveal anything and that is why Leschek wanted to kill him too. He wants to know the other man's name from Warnke. Warnke mentions the name Steffen Klaasen. After Warnke made a mysterious phone call with his wife, Nina Petersen suspects that there is a hidden message behind it. However, Johanna Warnke is silent. Detective Chief Inspector Hidde has now found the owner of the white station wagon that the witnesses saw at the scene, it is Steffen Klaasen. He also supported the aid organization for which Leschek and Warnke worked. After Petersen overhears, Johanna Warnke admits that she should have called Klaasen, he gave her husband a loan. Hidde, who overheard, explains that Klaasen was also on the helper's tour four days ago. It should be the last trip, as the relief supplies are actually no longer needed. The helpers would definitely have wanted to go to Lithuania again.

Warnke now admits to Vitas that he was there in the raids on the jewelry stores, but denies involvement in the raid on the supermarket. He tries to explain his motives to Vitas and even offers him his help. Vitas thinks, however, that he killed Leschek and one day he will be found. In the meantime the men have reached Klaasen, who says that Leschek shot Elena. As Vitas and Warnke are about to leave, Vitas sees from the corner of his eye that Klaasen is aiming at him and shoots back. Already bleeding on the floor, Klaasen reveals that Warnke was behind everything, that he had suggested the supermarket to solve the "Elena problem" since he had known that she wanted to come to Germany.

After reporting a shootout at the shipyard, Petersen and Lietz go there. You can just see how the car with Warnke and Vitas is leaving and you take up the chase. Meyer chases the car from the air, which instructs his employees to break off the chase and see what happened in the shipyard. The dying Klaasen whispers to Petersen that he did not shoot Elena. It is now clear that Warnke, Leschek and Klaasen were in Lithuania every time attacks were committed. Nina Petersen contacts Vitas and Warnke, who are holed up in the building of a gas station, and asks Vitas whether he came to Germany to avenge his mother's death. Vitas replies that he shot both Leschek and Klaasen because they wanted to kill him. Just as Petersen Vitas seems to have gotten to the point that he wants to give up, the connection is abruptly interrupted by Warnke. He cleverly manipulates Vitas, suggesting that he is his father. When Vitas gives him the gun, he shoots the young man while he is still hugging him, in cold blood.

Warnke says he shot Vitas in self-defense. There is currently no way to prove him wrong. When Warnke comes home, his house is searched, Johanna is gone. Nina Petersen says that his wife had calculated and now knows that Vitas was his son, which was a shock to her at first, but that he shot him to keep up his lies, she will never forgive him. In the end, Warnke makes the mistake of trying to get hold of the bag hidden on the “Vilnius” with the booty and the weapon with which Elena was killed, and he is found by Petersen and Lietz.

production

Production notes, filming

The film was produced by Network Movie , Film- und Fernsehproduktion Wolfgang Cimera GmbH & Co. KG, Cologne, production management: Annette Oswald, production management: Ralph Retzlaff, responsible ZDF editor Martin R. Neumann .

Deadly Promise was filmed in Stralsund and the surrounding area between May 4th and June 7th, 2012.

Private matters of the commissioners

When Detective Inspector Lietz's superior asked him why a police officer allowed himself to be harassed by two dubious figures without arresting them, because a local resident recognized him, he remained silent. It is implied that Lietz has problems that result from gambling. The film suggests that Nina Petersen von Lietz could be pregnant, which she denies in one scene. Nina Petersen can be seen briefly at her father's grave during her jog. The role of Niklas Petersen played by Dietmar Mues had to expire because the actor was one of the victims in a traffic accident in March 2011.

publication

The film was broadcast on February 4, 2013 in prime time on ZDF as "TV film of the week" after it had already been shown the day before on TV station ZDFneo .

Edel Germany GmbH released the film on June 14, 2013 together with the first three episodes of the series on DVD.

reception

Audience rating

The film was viewed by 5.97 million viewers when it was first broadcast, which corresponds to a market share of 17.6%.

criticism

TV Spielfilm gave a thumbs up, gave one for action and two out of three possible points for excitement and wrote: “The twelve hours of everyday investigators' life keep going because of the intense moments between Schüttauf and Vitas actor Mateusz Dopieralski - the rest is a crime routine with private banter. ”Conclusion: Well beaten with sand in the gears.

The critic Thomas Gehringer praised at tittelbach.tv : “The thriller by Martin Eigler and Sven S. Poser offers tension and a psychologically sophisticated duel between hostage and hostage taker. Modern communication technology accelerates the pace in a well-functioning ensemble crime thriller. ”It goes on to say that with the“ ensemble crime thriller ”,“ none of the roles is just staffage ”. The end was staged rather “classically”, “in which the good still wins”. It was also noted that the “well-filled ZDF series” “suffers” from the fact that “only one episode per year” is broadcast. So "the personal relationships in the four-member investigator ensemble are certainly no longer present to many viewers".

Klaudia Wick from the Berliner Zeitung, on the other hand, said, “You don't want to complain”, but that much “has to be said”: “The crime series“ Stralsund ”was better: more exciting, more complex, more exciting, unheard of. The first Stralsund film 'Murderous Persecution' was still an extraordinary one-off in 2009. "It was also said that in the fourth year Stralsund had" now - unfortunately - fully arrived in the crime province ". Behind the title 'Deadly Promise' hides “a harmless standardized criminal case, told straight away and only moderately equipped with surprises or even terrifying shallows”.

The criticism of the television magazine rtv went in the same direction. There it is said that although the crime story about Vitas and a policeman played by Jörg Schüttauf “hits a few hooks”, it remains “all too predictable until the end”. It was “not badly played and staged”, but “everything has already been seen”.

The television magazine Prisma, on the other hand, spoke of an "exciting fourth case from Stralsund", which the scriptwriter Sven Poser realized once more, as in the three previous cases, together with director Martin Engler.

Jürgen Overkott from Der Westen chose the heading "Wackernagel and Möhring shine in ZDF crime series 'Stralsund'", but criticized the fourth case as offering "little more than kitchen psychology". The episode 'Deadly Promise' reveals “the splendor and misery of the Northeast crime novels”. The team shines, "the story" is "miserable". He says to Wackernagel that she gives "the police officer Nina Petersen with heart and empathy". But “as a social worker in uniform, she lacks the intensity that has rightly earned her so many awards in Contergan ”. Her colleagues convinced “far more, such as her professional and life partner Benjamin Lietz”. Wotan Wilke Möhring appears “very present as a strong man with a weak side”. Department head Gregor Meyer (Michael Rotschopf) is "unapproachable". The disabled employee Paul Hidde (Alexander Held) knows "that praise from the boss is as rare as the blue Mauritius ". Then there is the computer expert Stein (Alexander Schröders), "who shows only a few facets", "but is indispensable as a character for a modern crime novel". “Nice” is “that a crime thriller uses the widespread rogue scheme of 'good Germans, bad Eastern Europeans'”. "It is unpleasant that the former Tatort inspector Schüttauf is selling himself far below value as a mumbling Götz-George copy".

Michael Hanfeld rated the film for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and summed it up: "The good cast makes for an entertaining evening on TV, even if the end is all too foreseeable." In detail, he praised the beginning of the film and, like Thomas Gehringer, said that the “figure constellations” Petersen, Lietz, Hidde have to be “kept in mind” if one wants to “notice their subtleties”. "Fourth in the league" is "Michael Rotschopf, who plays the commissariat manager Gregor Meyer very nicely as slightly arrogant, but not at all in the cliché of the narrow-minded and incompetent boss". Alexander Held received special praise "as a tormented man of pain who did not want to sit in a wheelchair at all". He was "a stunner anyway". The performance of Mateusz Dopieralski in the role of the Lithuanian Vitas was also praised.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Stralsund - Deadly promise see page networkmovie.de
  2. ↑ Stralsund IV - Deadly Promise see page filmland-mv.de
  3. ↑ New "Stralsund" -Krimi in ZDF and ZDFneo. Fourth case for Katharina Wackernagel see page presseportal.de
  4. ↑ Stralsund Fig. DVD case (in the picture: Katharina Wackernagel, Wotan Wilke Möhring)
  5. ↑ Stralsund: Deadly promise see page tvspielfilm.de (including photo series (26)). Retrieved June 24, 2019.
  6. ↑ Thomas Gehringer: Series "Stralsund - Deadly Promise". Wackernagel, Möhring, Eigler, Poser. Hostage-taking with psycho-thrill & button in the ear see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved June 24, 2019.
  7. ↑ Klaudia Wick : Crime "Stralsund: Deadly Promise". Who is Paul? And how many? In: Berliner Zeitung , February 4, 2013.
    Accessed June 24, 2019.
  8. ↑ Sebastian Hagner: Review: Stralsund - Deadly Promise In: rtv.de. Retrieved June 24, 2019.
  9. ^ Criminal film Stralsund In: Prisma. Retrieved June 24, 2019.
  10. ↑ Jürgen Overkott: Wackernagel and Möhring shine in the ZDF crime series "Stralsund" In: Der Westen, February 3, 2013.
    Accessed June 24, 2019.
  11. ↑ Michael Hanfeld : crime series "Stralsund". More beautiful swearing at work In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 4, 2013.
    Retrieved on June 24, 2019.