Stralsund: The Phantom

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Episode in the Stralsund series
Original title The Phantom
Stralsund (TV series) .jpg
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 12
First broadcast February 3, 2018 on ZDF
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Director Michael Schneider
script Martin Eigler
production Wolfgang Cimera ,
network movie , film and television production
music Oliver Kranz
camera Andreas Zickgraf
cut Jörg Kroschel
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
No turning back

Successor  →
Brothers in Arms

Das Phantom is a German television film by Michael Schneider from 2018. It is the twelfth film in the ZDF crime film series Stralsund . In addition to Katharina Wackernagel and Alexander Held , Karim Günes and Therese Hämer play the main roles of the investigators . The main guest roles are occupied by Johann von Bülow , Rick Okon and Picco von Groote .

action

In an apartment with the name “Degenhardt” on the door, a young blonde woman sleeps while a hooded man rummages through her laundry, picks up a bra from the floor, the clasp hooks on and hangs over the back of a chair. He approaches the bed and presses an anesthetic previously dripped onto a cloth onto the sleeping woman's face. Petra Degenhardt, a young police officer, confides in the detective inspector Nina Petersen on the other day and tells her that she has the feeling that she is being watched all the time. In addition, she adds that her friend Maren Leiser also has this feeling, and that she too believes she is being watched. She turned to her because her colleagues would tell her that she had already been to psychiatry, which made Petersen frown. Although there is no criminal offense, Petersen is anxious to investigate as a precaution. So she turns to her new boss, Caroline Seibert.

Before a decision has been made, Petersen and her colleague Chief Detective Karl Hidde are called to a corpse that has been found in the Prerower Bodden . The dead person is the student Sonja Richter, who has suffered a traumatic brain injury. There are no traces of any traces in Richter's apartment; on the contrary, the apartment was thoroughly cleaned. So the question arises whether someone has brought the woman into his power. Since a relationship act could also come into question, the officials question the victim's friend, a certain Moritz Fink, who is also studying at the University of Stralsund. He reacts in shock and tells Petersen and Hidde that his girlfriend has felt persecuted for some time. Nina Petersen asks herself whether and what connection exists between the murder of Sonja Richter and the young women who have felt watched by a phantom for some time.

For Degenhardt surprisingly, Oliver Lauder turns up at her place, professor at the University of Stralsund. He seems worried about what happened, especially since he had brief relationships with both Richter and Degenhardt, as well as the missing Maren Leiser. The next day Degenhardt spoke to Nina Petersen again and, when she asked her to give her something specific, told her about the bra that she threw open on the floor in the evening and which hung closed over the back of a chair the next morning .

Just as Petersen and Hidde are looking around Maren Leiser's apartment, it suddenly appears again. She says that she and Richter had had this feeling of being watched for about half a year. At about the same time Moritz Fink storms into a lecture by Prof. Lauder and attacks him with a knife. He is interested in nude photos that Lauder allegedly took of Sonja Richter against her will.

The following evening Petersen overhears a cell phone that was accidentally switched on that Degenhardt is involved in a fight and hurries to their apartment. However, the young policewoman managed to assert herself against her attacker and put him to flight. Although Petersen Leiser then urgently warns on the phone, to which she reacts with mockery, it cannot be prevented that the hooded man snatches Maren Leiser, drugged her and takes photos.

When Petersen and Hidde want to interview Oliver Lauder, they find captivating photos of Sonja Richter on his computer. Regarding these, he said that he did not know how they got onto his computer. He now also admits that he was still with her the day before Sonja's disappearance. The spicy thing is that Lauder is the new friend of the chief police officer Caroline Seibert.

In the meantime, together with Petra Degenhardt, Commissioner Uthman has found out that an app has been installed on the cell phones of the women concerned, with which a stranger, who calls himself a “phantom”, can gain access to all data and also locate where the respective owner is of the cell phone. A little later, Petersen and Hidde find the seriously injured caretaker Philip Wenz in Leiser's apartment. He whispers the name Moritz Fink to them. Fink fled with Maren in the trunk. He tells her that Sonja discovered the photos that he had been taking of her and her friends for a long time. She then threatened him and then suddenly she was dead.

Petersen and Hidde are able to free Maren Leiser and arrest Moritz Fink, who wanted to judge himself. After he was feeling a little better, he denied all the accusations made against him and explained that Lauder had killed Sonja and that he had no idea that Maren was lying in his trunk. He does not want to know anything about the fact that he manipulated evidence that should speak against Prof. Lauder.

production

Production notes, filming

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 .

The phantom was filmed in the period from May 3 to June 6, 2017 in Stralsund and the surrounding area as well as in Hamburg .

Horizontal level : The new chief police officer Caroline Seibert has recently been in a relationship with Prof. Oliver Lauder, who is suspected in this case. When the suspicions against him intensify, however, she behaves impeccably and does not put any obstacles in the way of Petersen and Hidde. You will of course stay out of the investigation, she emphasizes. Unprejudiced interrogations and, if necessary, with the necessary severity are indispensable, because “our profession is not about sensitivities, it is about a much higher good, it is about the truth”.

Nina Petersen is, however, irritated that Seibert knows so well about her, from which one can conclude that internal files are kept about colleagues. Seibert knows that Petersen spent some time on duty in a psychiatric clinic after a gunshot wound and that Petra Degenhardt was classified as unstable. At the end of the film, Seibert opens a password-protected page that contains a medical-psychological expert report on Nina Petersen. The reason for the investigation: Post-traumatic stress disorder after a gunshot wound.

publication

The film premiered on February 3, 2017 in prime time on ZDF .

On March 29, 2018, Studio Hamburg Enterprises released this episode along with episodes 9, 10 and 11 on DVD.

reception

Audience rating

6.61 million viewers tuned in when the film was first broadcast, which corresponds to a market share of 20.5 percent.

criticism

TV Spielfilm pointed the thumbs up, gave one of three possible points for humor and action, two for tension and said: "That pleases: solid tension, oppressive atmosphere and a plot that is not transparent after thirty minutes." Conclusion: "Tightly knitted and with interesting figures."

Rupert Sommer rated the film for the television magazine Prisma and was of the opinion that the twelfth case from Stralsund was "a genre food for all those who watch crime stories". "Routine director Michael Schneider" staged "Michael Eigler's script [...] solidly and without lurid showmanship. The investigation implications "offer" food for those who see a lot of crime novels because the search for the perpetrator is appropriately difficult "-" including the danger of following the wrong track, which is common in the genre, "wrote Sommer. After all, once the case has been resolved, one can "go back to sleep".

Tilmann P. Gangloff dealt with the film in the Frankfurter Rundschau and said that “the twelfth episode” tells “an interesting story, but otherwise” “the series with Katharina Wackernagel has finally arrived in everyday crime”. Gangloff once again regretted that the eleventh episode of this "up to then very special series with Katharina Wackernagel was a thriller like any other", "worth seeing, but deprived of that level that gave the films a certain something" have. "The relationship between Commissioner Nina Petersen and her new superior, Caroline Seibert, which is characterized by subtle hostility, now creates tension." The two women simply don't like each other. "This time," it turns out to be "particularly delicate, as calculated after the murder of a student the boss's new friend in Petersen's sights ”:“ Professor Oliver Lauder (Johann von Bülow) had a brief relationship with the victim, but also with many other young women. ”The film is characterized by“ careful composition ”, whereby "The many camera flights" by Andreas Zickgraf are "to a certain extent a trademark" of the film. The "story" is "interesting", the "implementation exciting, the actors convincing down to the smallest supporting roles".

Sidney Schering was on the side Quotenmeter.de , "the greatest power in this Neunzigminüter" go "from the new police chief Caroline Seibert off". Although she only recently joined the team, she "seems to know very well about Nina Petersen - and not just about professional matters". In addition, the "figure played by Therese Hämer with efficient directness is very icy". In this way, they slow down Petersen, "without sabotaging them directly, which gives the figure a captivating ambivalence", "which could lead to further entanglements in future cases". The “real case” that is at stake here is “, however, 'Stralsund' routine”.

In the Hamburger Abendblatt it was said that the crime thriller had been staged by the “accomplished director Michael Schneider” with “good timing and a few twists”. The viewer is "lured on the wrong track several times and is confronted with people who - to put it mildly - do not have their emotions under control". In addition, there are "exciting insights into the system of the police apparatus, in which police officers who at some point had mental problems or are still fighting with them have an even harder time than they already have". Finally it was said: "And the moral of the story ': Watch your cell phone and do not go through the dark stairwell alone."

Petra Koruhn dealt with the film in the Neue Ruhr Zeitung and criticized that the film was “a bit lengthy” and was also bothered by the fact that “the sidelines are quite annoying” and “the dialogues are too banal”. She also saw as a weakness that the police chief Caroline Seibert then also has "an affair with the professor", "who was also intimate with all the victims", that was "applied so thick that it was on a previous evening soap" remember. Inferring from this, Koruhn said that this episode was "really not one of the best of the 'Stralsund' series". On the positive side, she noted that the episode was captivating because of the “good cast”. Alexander Held, as a colleague of Wackernagels, is “always worth switching on”. “A lot of space” is given to “Johann von Bülow”, who is currently “running on TV” “thanks to his bandwidth”. Rick Okon was praised for playing the friend of one of the victims "as devious as he was magnanimous" and "subtly changing his character". In scenes with him, all boredom was gone. Conclusion: “Too lengthy, too routine, too much inconsequential dialogues. The actors, who are strong right down to the supporting roles, can save the film. "

On the website tittelbach.tv the media historian and television critic Dr. Harald Keller on the case. He gave the film 4.5 out of six possible stars and wrote that in the twelfth film in the crime series “the events at the level of the main characters were developed further in terms of content and psychology”. The “plot” of the film was “tight”, with a “somewhat tortured-looking participation of the new department head. An unfathomable figure from whom a lot can still be expected ”. "Martin Eigler, sole author of the episode in question, was involved in the scripts throughout with one exception" and continues to tell "what has been the exception in German crime series for a long time" "and often still is, consecutively and in a certain sense also cumulative: at least with the main characters ”he said“ experiences from the previous films flow into each other ”. The actress Therese Hämer, the actress who played Caroline Seibert, “only just indicated that this self-confident, professionally successful woman, contrary to her claims, was touched by the confessions, and possibly hurt”. That is “another point”, the care that is taken of the “continuous description of the supporting roles”. “Part of the continuity of the series” is also that “this time [...] social relationships and group dynamics have been carefully observed, scenically convincingly captured and theatrically precise, according to the professional situation of the investigators rather subliminally instead of cocky-theatrical”. "An exception" is Rick Okon, "who provides his pain man Moritz Fink with too much old school storm and stress".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Stralsund - The Phantom see page networkmovie.de
  2. ↑ a b Stralsund: The Phantom at crew united
  3. ↑ Stralsund: Defenseless, retaliation, no way back, see the phantom . DVD cover Stralsund, episodes 9-12
  4. ↑ Timo Nöthling: Primetime check: Saturday, February 3, 2018.quotemeter.de, February 4, 2018, accessed on November 13, 2018 .
  5. ↑ "Stralsund: The Phantom". One student is dead, several women feel persecuted ...
    see page tvspielfilm.de (including 11 film images). Retrieved November 23, 2019.
  6. ↑ Rupert Sommer: "Stralsund - The Phantom": For horror in the dormitory see page prisma.de.
    Retrieved November 23, 2019.
  7. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff: "Stralsund: The Phantom", ZDF. As a Gespens t In: Frankfurter Rundschau, February 3, 2018. Accessed November 23 of 2019.
  8. ↑ Sidney Schering: Stralsund - The Phantom see page quotenmeter.de. Retrieved November 23, 2019.
  9. ↑ Stralsund: Das Phantom In: Hamburger Abendblatt, February 3, 2018. Retrieved November 23, 2019.
  10. ↑ Petra Koruhn: Strong actors save the new "Stralsund" crime story In: Neue Ruhr Zeitung, February 3, 2018. Accessed
    on November 23, 2019.
  11. ↑ Harald Keller: Series "Stralsund - The Phantom". Wackernagel, Held, Günes, von Groote, Eigler, Schneider. Consecutive & cumulative see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved November 23, 2019.