Stralsund: No way back

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Episode in the Stralsund series
Original title No way back
Stralsund (TV series) .jpg
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 11
First broadcast November 4, 2017 on ZDF
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Director Florian Froschmayer
script Martin Eigler ,
Sven S. Poser
production Wolfgang Cimera ,
network movie , film and television production
music Oliver Kranz
camera Christoph Chassée
cut Claudia Klook
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No way back is a German television film by Florian Froschmayer from 2017. It is the eleventh film contribution in the ZDF crime film series Stralsund . Katharina Wackernagel , Alexander Held , Karim Günes and Therese Hämer as well as Andreas Schröders play the main roles of the investigators . The main guest roles include Ulrike Krumbiegel , Thomas Lawinky , Sylta Fee Wegmann and Vladimir Korneev .

action

After colleague Max Morolf was arrested and commissioner Gregor Meyer was suspended, detective commissioner Nina Petersen was appointed the new interim head of the Stralsund homicide squad. The new case to be worked on immediately puzzles Petersen's team. An employee is killed in an attack on a supermarket, another, the cashier Monika Lüders, who was also attacked, behaves strangely. She tells Petersen that the perpetrator was masked and did not speak German. The attack lasted a maximum of 3 to 4 minutes. However, this does not coincide with the further investigations. The investigators target Yussuf Obbadi, who works in a nursery. Yussuf cannot be found in the nursery, but crushed plants and traces of blood indicate a fight. According to the devastation, something must have happened in Obbadi's apartment as well.

Petersen hears Monika Lüders again and confronts her with the fact that the process she described could not be correct. A quarter of an hour is missing from her statement. Lüders tearfully tells that the masked man raped her. Her colleague Sibylle wanted to help her and was shot by him. When Lüder's friend Mirko Subotic later found out about the rape, it threw him off track, also because he felt the act was defamatory for himself.

Jakob Merser and Uwe Riebnitz, who are part of the self-proclaimed vigilante group and proud to always have an eye on their residential area, have kidnapped Yussuf Obbadi and his brother Djadi Najeeb into an old, empty building, where they mistreat the men and close them want to bring a confession, although Yussuf Obbadi assures them that his brother had nothing to do with the case and that he only drove the van. The woman was shot dead by a German named Robert, who also raped the second woman present. Only a little later the hung body of Yussuf Obbadi was found in the port area, with a sign that read: "If you don't protect us, we will protect ourselves!" When he was hung up, he was already dead and had previously been tortured, as determined by forensic examinations.

Chief Detective Hidde receives a video in which Yussuf Obbadi and Djadi Najeeb confess the crime. Petersen says that the two of them were tortured until they stopped knowing what to do and confessed. The officers receive the address of a Prof. Liebrecht from a Kevin Beinhold, who also belongs to the so-called neighborhood help. This is supposed to hold lectures in which the deportation of foreigners is advocated and they are criminalized across the board. When Petersen and Hidde visit Liebrecht, they meet a woman. As soon as the officers are gone, Liebrecht calls Jakob Merser, who cannot be found, and briefly explains to him that the police are looking for him and that they do not want to have anything to do with the matter and hangs up before Merser can reply. He appears shortly afterwards with Riebnitz and Djadi Najeeb and requests entry. However, Liebrecht wants to get rid of the men as soon as possible. Petersen and Hidde, who are clear about what is going on, take up the chase of the delivery truck they saw parked on Liebrecht's property. However, they get stuck in the forest floor and are confronted with gunfire. At the last moment they join in to save Djadi Najeeb from the insane actions of the two men. In addition to Jakob Merser, Anke Liebrecht is arrested, who reveals that Merser mentioned the name Robert in connection with the attack. So you come across Robert Buch, who denies the act, but is established as the perpetrator and is brought before the judge.

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 .

No way back was filmed between March 7 and April 7, 2017 in Stralsund and the surrounding area as well as in Hamburg.

Horizontal level : Chief Detective Caroline Seibert from the Rostock Police Headquarters, an internal investigator who arrives to check the department, offers Nina Petersen the head of the Stralsund criminal investigation department, but follows a two-pronged approach, as she had also asked Karl Hidde beforehand. During the ongoing investigation, she says that Nina Petersen is hopelessly overwhelmed with the case. Petersen does not have a good feeling about this woman who is not sympathetic to her, especially since her appearance triggers skepticism in the young inspector, but it indicates a change, although it is not yet clear what Gregor Meyer is being charged with and whether he will be back as head of the department becomes.

Wackernagel told the PR consultant Ellen Wirth that the shooting from the beginning of March to the beginning of June was very welcome to the team, as the climate on the coast is a lot harder in winter than in Hamburg, so the night scenes in the forest are just that or on the beach in the second film were much easier than in the first. She likes Stralsund both in winter and in the warmer months, but she has no objection to a real summer Stralsund.

publication

The film premiered on November 4, 2017 in prime time on ZDF .

On March 29, 2018, Studio Hamburg Enterprises released this episode along with episodes 9, 10 and 12 on DVD.

reception

Audience rating

With 7.01 million viewers when it was first broadcast, the film achieved a market share of 22.9 percent, the best market share the crime series had up to that point.

criticism

TV Spielfilm pointed with the thumbs up, gave one of three possible points for claim and action, two for suspense stated: "The gloomy eleventh part of the 'Stralsund' series lives from how people play with a look at the characters, and leads to a strong final act. The music is a bit too thick, and the topics of resentment, vigilante groups and vigilante justice may be topical, but could have been worked out much more intensely. "Conclusion:" Exciting characters in the familiar environment. "

Tilmann P. Gangloff , who gave the film four out of six possible stars, commented on the film on the tittelbach.tv website and regretted that the ensemble was now “much clearer with the departure of Michael Rotschopf as Gregor Meyer and Wanja Mues as Max Morolf "Was," but "because of the renouncement of the power games" at least in this episode "lost some of its appeal" because the crime series "differed from other crime novels precisely because of the enormous tension within the team". Michael Rotschopf in particular left “a big gap”, since Gregor Meyer, played by him, was “an extremely polarizing figure” as the boss. The case, however, is “all the more explosive. Good game, cool imagery ”. The plot reminds "at least in its basic features of a crime scene from Cologne, Wacht am Rhein ". The fact that “the honest man is a woman this time” creates “an additional attraction”. Sylta Fee Wegmann “impresses as a victim”, especially “because the traumatized supermarket employee doesn't use a lot of words”, the actress works “very expressively with her eyes”. Cinematographer Christoph Chassèe ensures “fascinating images; the otherwise good electronic music ”thundered, however,“ sometimes a little too much for this film ”.

Rupert Summer said in the TV program guide prism , it was "a very dark, depressed forming the eleventh case with which criminal Commissioner Nina Petersen [...] in the new ZDF Saturday night movie ... deal" must. "Martin Eigler and Sven Poster, the inventors of the ZDF series with the cases from the Hanseatic city" are "close to the pulse". As scriptwriters, you would have “woven a dense network of nasty xenophobia regulars, arrogant private justice and merciless severity. No viewing pleasure, but a strong and explosive crime thriller. "

In the Ostsee-Zeitung it is said that “gloom and an almost ubiquitous sadness” would dominate this “a painful and lengthy staged crime novel”. This “sad case”, which “revolves around xenophobia and vigilante justice”, “and has some current allusions to the shift to the right in Germany”, could take place anywhere in Germany. However, the scriptwriters do not quite succeed in "connecting the political explosiveness of the subject with the nested murder case". It is not enough “to present a right university lecturer as a spiritual arsonist”. A "big plus of 'Stralsund'" are the actors again this time, "above all the sovereign Katharina Wackernagel". Together with Inspector Karl Hidde, embodied by Alexander Held, “a brittle, often meticulous file eater, but always loyal to his colleague”, they are both “an interesting team, even if their dry sense of humor is limited “Flash.

On the side of the film service it was read: “Exciting (TV series) crime thriller with explosive topics, but also with a number of dramaturgical weaknesses in terms of the staging. - From 16. "

Sven's Sakowitz came to the conclusion in the Westfälische Rundschau that the film contained “some drastic and sometimes shocking scenes”, but could not really “convince”. This is mainly due to the fact that the scriptwriters and the director obviously could not "decide" "whether they wanted to shoot a more conventional crime novel", "or whether they have a socio-political claim and the attitudes of right-wing extremists should be examined more closely". The professor, who appears very late on the scene and “stirs up hatred of refugees with her theses”, is “played wonderfully” by Ulrike Krumbiegel, but “too short” are “her appearances to correct this perfidious figure to illuminate ". Sakowitz also disliked the “rather half-hearted” personnel situation, as “the innovations were not properly worked through”. The corresponding scenes looked “more like foreign bodies”. In addition, “it's a shame that two interesting characters, Morolf and Meyer, are no longer there”. Conclusion: "Drastic, but too much on the surface."

Tom Heise dealt with the film in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung and said that after "some overarching episodes", the authors Martin Eigler and Sven Poser should now have been able to "write a self-contained case" in which "the internal team disputes less weight" have had. Although they “went far back in some cases” “in order to focus on the topics of xenophobia and vigilante justice”, the result was “a largely successful hunt for criminals on the Baltic Sea in gloomy images with sociopolitical claims”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Stralsund - No way back see page networkmovie.de
  2. ↑ a b Stralsund: No going back to crew united
  3. ↑ a b "The days of skepticism seem over - Katharina Wackernagel on her role" see page presseportal.zdf.de
  4. ↑ Stralsund: Defenseless, retaliation, no way back, see the phantom . DVD cover Stralsund, episodes 9-12
  5. ↑ Manuel Nunez Sanchez: Primetime check: Saturday, November 4, 2017.quotemeter.de, November 5, 2017, accessed on November 13, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Stralsund: No way back see page tvspielfilm.de (including trailers and 14 film images). Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  7. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Series "Stralsund - No way back". Wackernagel, Held, Wegmann, Poser / Eigler, Forschmayer: Vigilante justice in Stralsund see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  8. ↑ Rupert Sommer: “No way back”. "Stralsund" crime: vigilante justice in the wild east see page prisma.de. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  9. ↑ “No way back”: The new “Stralsund” crime story is so gloomy. In: Ostsee-Zeitung, November 5, 2017. Accessed on November 22, 2019.
  10. ↑ Stralsund: No way back. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  11. ↑ Sven Sakowitz: “Stralsund” crime thriller: Mysterious case for Petersen and Hidde In: Westfälische Rundschau, November 4, 2017. Accessed November 22, 2019.
  12. ↑ Tom Heise: “Stralsund” crime on ZDF: Vigilante justice and xenophobia In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, November 4, 2017. Accessed November 22, 2019.