Stralsund: bloody trail

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Episode in the Stralsund series
Original title Bloody trail
Stralsund (TV series) .jpg
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 3
First broadcast January 30, 2012 on ZDF
Rod
Director Martin Eigler
script Martin Eigler,
Sven S. Poser
production Wolfgang Cimera
music Oliver Kranz
camera Christoph Chassée
cut Jörg Kadler
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Out of Control

Successor  →
Deadly Promise

Bloody Track is a German television film by Martin Eigler from 2012. It is the third 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 with Manuel Rubey , Sandra Borgmann , Isabell Gerschke and Dietmar Mues .

action

A man and a woman are being watched by someone. When they park on the beach and want to get closer, they are disturbed by a car. After a while, the driver of the car gets out and watches the lovemaking of the two people who do not notice him with a sad look.

An incident occurs when a special task force is deployed in an old factory hall where a dealer's apartment is stormed. When a man fled from another apartment and was shooting around, Detective Inspector Benjamin Lietz opened fire in this threatening situation by shooting through a closed door. Behind it is a man tied to a chair who is dead. Lietz has to answer for his shots through a closed door. However, it turns out that the fatal shot at victim Alex Berger, managing director of a dating agency, did not come from his gun. In the man's apartment there are photos of the agency's customers, including a photo of Lietz, who frankly admits to having met a Britta Kamps, who is run in the agency as Sina Müller. When Lietz and his colleague Karl Hidde, who is severely handicapped due to his leg amputation, go to Britta Kamps' apartment, they find her murdered on their bed.

Since Lietz saw the fleeing man briefly, a phantom drawing was made, which the officers did not get any further at first. A flower seller from the wholesale market made Chief Detective Gregor Meyer and his people one step further. The alleged perpetrator has bought four identical bouquets of flowers, one was left with Britta Kamps.

When the perpetrator, who was injured by a gunshot, wants to buy painkillers in a pharmacy, he meets Maria Dahlke. It is the woman he saw in the car with another man. Before he can retire, Maria, who recognized him by his voice, speaks to him about their numerous phone calls together in the past.

The technical employee Stein uses the data from the agency to find out that a Peter Gerg has made repeated calls to four different lines. However, the man died two years ago. However, a Boris Gerg is also reported at the address. Stein explains to colleagues Petersen and Hidde that one participant, probably Boris Gerg, called certain participants for four months, not in parallel, but one after the other. He was always loyal to a certain connection for a while, and the girls earned a golden nose. The four women in question can be identified using the tax number. When the officers go to Heike Bauermeister's apartment, they can only find out that he is dead.

The third woman, Annette Hahn, tells Petersen that Boris was eager to hear her voice. He literally climbed up in conversations, so that she broke off the whole thing at some point. Petersen explains to the married woman that she is receiving police protection.

Maria Dahlke, the fourth woman, has disappeared for the time being. Using an answering machine, Hidde finds out that Maria is currently working in a friend's pharmacy on Rathausplatz and probably also lives there. When Petersen and Lietz appear there and enlighten Maria, she is stunned and wants to know why Boris killed Alex Berger. The commissioners explain to her that it was probably a matter of getting her address and that of the other women.

Since Petersen has to pick up her father, who is suffering from dementia, from a pub during an assignment, she notifies her colleagues and is followed by Boris Gerg without her noticing on her way there. At the inn he then makes it unmistakably clear to her that her father is in danger if she does not obey his orders. He asks her to bring him to Maria. When Petersen says that is not in her power, he plays a cruel game with her and her father. Since Petersen can switch on her cell phone unnoticed and let his colleagues overhear, they appear at exactly the right moment to overwhelm Boris Gerg. Nina Petersen takes her father in her arms with relief.

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 .

Bloody tracks were shot in Stralsund as well as in Hamburg and the surrounding area.

background

Author Sven Poser explained the motives that drove the perpetrator in the following words: “We tell of a perpetrator who feels the feeling of loneliness and social exclusion particularly strongly. All around him seem satisfied and integrated into their environment. Only for him does not society's promise of happiness count. He feels betrayed and betrays his feelings. From this he develops the hatred and the energy to set himself in motion and strike. "

The end credits of the film read: “In memory of Dietmar Mues.” It was his last film. The actor and his wife Sibylle died on March 12, 2011 in a traffic accident in Hamburg when they were hit by a car on a sidewalk.

Commissioners Nina Petersen and Benjamin Lietz, who have already been a couple in the past, come together again in this episode.

publication

The film premiered on January 30, 2012 in prime time on ZDF .

Edel Germany GmbH released the film on June 14, 2013 together with the first two episodes of the series and the fourth episode on DVD.

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast, the film was watched by 6.2 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 18%

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm pointed their thumbs to the side, gave two out of three possible points for action and suspense, and noted: “Knitted with a hot needle; the tried and tested actors keep us going. ”The overall conclusion was then:“ Passable crime fodder without after-effects ”.

Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv gave four out of six possible stars and was of the opinion that "with the third 'Stralsund' crime thriller", "Author Sven S. Poser and author-director Martin Eigler succeeded in creating an aesthetically sophisticated crime thriller", whose “dramaturgy” lives from “the time pressure of the action” and “the film from its faces”.

Kino.de awarded four out of five possible stars and praised: "A thriller through and through: This third thriller from Stralsund is about virtual love and very real death." That the series is "without a fuss, but all the more successful." established on ZDF Monday "had" two main reasons: unusual stories and interesting characters ". Eigler stages "the race against death, also thanks to an almost too dynamic camera that jerks the characters in the face again and again", as a "captivating police thriller with repeatedly surprising twists".

The Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung headlined: “ZDF continues the Stralsund thrillers in an exciting way.” It goes on to say that the “heavily cast thriller with thriller elements” is “consistently exciting, even if the scriptwriters at the finale might have managed better with one less twist ".

In Quotenmeter.de , wrote that one over here meet "the nail of time exactly" "the approach". However, that does not make “a really sophisticated and exciting crime thriller”. The case itself begins “appealing and exciting” and is also “presented in a very clear way”. But in the course of the plot "the tension flattens out" and takes on the "normal and almost everyday crime level on German TV". In terms of acting, however, the film has "a high level of entertainment and quality". It was praised that Katharina Wackernagel and Wotan Wilke Möhring play their roles "believably and emotionally" and that the rest of the actors have been "carefully and appropriately selected".

The online portal Filmdienst found that the third part of the crime series was staged as a "largely exciting race against time"; however, "the alleged motivation of the perpetrator as well as the increasing number of inconsistencies towards the end" had "slackened interest in what was happening".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Stralsund - Bloody trail see page networkmovie.de
  2. ↑ a b series "Stralsund - Bloody Track". Katharina Wackernagel, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Martin Eigler & the deadly hotline
    see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  3. ↑ Stralsund Fig. DVD case (in the picture: Katharina Wackernagel, Wotan Wilke Möhring)
  4. ↑ Stralsund: Bloody track - you flirt against payment - and now live dangerously ... In: TV feature film (including 29 film images).
  5. ↑ Stralsund: Bloody track see page kino.de (including photo series). Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  6. ↑ Stralsund: Bloody Track In: Hannoversche Allgemeine, January 29, 2012. Retrieved on June 23, 2019.
  7. ↑ Stralsund - Bloody Track see page quotenmeter.de, January 29, 2012. Accessed on June 23, 2019.
  8. ^ Stralsund: Bloody track. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used