Stralsund: Brothers in Arms

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Episode in the Stralsund series
Original title Brothers in Arms
Stralsund (TV series) .jpg
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 13
German-language
first broadcast		 November 10, 2018 on ZDF
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Director Kaspar Heidelbach
script Daniel Schwarz ,
Thomas Schwebel
production Wolfgang Cimera
music Oliver Kranz
camera Daniel Koppelkamm
cut Jörg Kroschel
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chronology

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Brothers in Arms is a German TV film by Kaspar Heidelbach from 2018. It is the 13th 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 Johannes Zirner , Florian Bartholomäi and Alina Levshin as well as Karl Kranzkowski , Marita Breuer and Peter Kremer .

action

A little boy runs through the wintry landscape to catch the daycare bus, which, however, whizzes by. Seconds later, a huge bang shakes the area and the bus goes up in flames. The commissioners called Nina Petersen, Karl Hidde and Karim Uthmann assume that the driver of the bus who died was 38-year-old Sascha Müller, who, according to the daycare center, had just started his tour. The commissioners wonder why someone is carrying out an explosives attack on a daycare bus. Monika Beckmann, the head of the day care center, tells Petersen and Hidde that Sascha Müller comes from the West and is the friend of their daughter Jeannette.

First results of the KTU by Thomas Jung show that sophisticated but outdated technology was used in the attack, similar to a terrorist attack by the RAF in 1991. The explosives most likely come from old NVA stocks. In addition, a Makarow weapon was discovered in the burned-out vehicle , which was used to rob a bank in Wolgast, not far from the Polish border. The commissioners discover that Sascha Müller has a credit balance of € 37,000 on his account while Petersen is talking to Müller's girlfriend. She tells her that Sascha was a lonely wolf and had no one left.

When Jeannette Beckmann is on the bus with her little son Luca, he discovers Sascha on the street. Jeannette has the bus stop, only to ask her boyfriend, stunned, why he is not dead. It turns out that Sascha had asked his friend and triathlon colleague Holger Meese to take over his shift so that he could train with his bike. Petersen and Hidde learned from Wolfram Winkelmann, the coach of the two, that Meese should not have driven the bus because his driver's license had been taken away. Sascha knew that too, but he probably didn't care, he was just a Wessi.

Because Uthman can follow Sascha on his bike, as he is also a passionate cyclist, Petersen and Hidde encounter Sascha Müller's mother, from whom they learn that her husband was downright executed by the RAF in 1983 in the attack on West Bank boss Walter Büttner has been. Her husband Kurt was its driver. You can never finish with something like that. Through Inga, the wife of the dead Meese, the investigators came across a cellar room that Meese had given to Müller, and there they found numerous documents relating to the murder of the bank boss Dr. Buttner. Nina Petersen is certain that Müller is looking for the terrorist who has his father on his conscience.

Many of the RAF terrorists went into hiding in the GDR with the support of the Stasi, they carried out their attacks in the West and then went back to hiding in the GDR, explains Nina Petersen. Even after the fall of the Wall, many of these terrorists were not arrested thanks to the help of Stasi officers. We believe, says Petersen, that Müller found these Stasi officers and now wants to get to the terrorists through them. The demolition of Sascha Müller's car is an indication of this assumption.

It turns out that Wolfram Winkelmann, alias Borowski, was once a colonel in the Stasi. He delivered the explosives that killed Holger Meese. The trail leads to Rainer Oehler, who is in an almost uninhabited hotel complex. Winkelmann's body is found in his room, stabbed to death with Sascha Müller's fishing knife, whose name is on the shaft. The bomb that blew up the daycare bus was also built there. A noise made the investigators aware of Rainer Oehler in an adjoining room, gagged and tied to a chair with a sign on his chest saying "Kommando Müller". Thomas Jung notes that Oehler is Martin Koppenberger, the former RAF bomb maker. Sascha Müller escaped on a motorcycle. He is being searched for in connection with the Winkelmann murder. Koppenberger succeeds in getting a weapon and shooting himself during his interrogation. Although he previously confessed to having been involved in the murder of Kurt Müller, otherwise denied all allegations. Kurt Müller was shot dead from a motorcycle on which two figures were sitting. Koppenberger had particularly vehemently denied that. The second man was a woman, namely Monika Beckmann, the mother of Jeannette, Sascha Müller's friend. She was active at the highest level in the GDR. To Müller's question: "Why my father?", Was her cold-blooded answer: "He was in the way, he had to go." It was also she who passed on Müller's fishing knife to Koppenberger, who stabbed the unpleasant witness Winkelmann / Borowski. Everything should point to Sascha Müller as the perpetrator.

production

Production notes

The film was produced by Network Movie , Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH & Co. KG, Cologne, production management: Andreas Breyer, production management: Ralph Retzlaff. The responsible ZDF editor is Martin R. Neumann . Soundtrack: U2 - Beautiful Day .

Filming, publication

Brothers in Arms was filmed from February 20, 2018 to March 23, 2018 in Stralsund and the surrounding area and premiered on ZDF on November 10, 2018 in prime time . From October 19, 2018, the film was available in advance in the ZDFmediathek .

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast on ZDF on November 10, the film was watched by 6.58 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 21.9 percent.

criticism

Tilmann P. Gangloff awarded 3 ½ of 6 possible stars on the tittelbach.tv website and said, “The last 'Stralsund' episodes already looked as if the series had arrived in everyday crime: After all the mutual suspicions and intrigues, the investigators are from the Baltic Sea city meanwhile a team like many others ”. In the case it was said that the story might need “a little try”, but then it would become “interesting”. Kaspar Heidelbach staged the 13th film in the series, however, "over long stretches much too well-behaved", "to really provide a thrill", and the "optics" were also "average". The fact that 'brothers in arms' was “worth seeing” despite the shortcomings he cited had “to do with two key terms: the Stasi and the RAF”. The writer duo Schwarz & Schwebel [...] "is only gradually revealing the actual theme of this film" as "clever".

"TV crime veteran Kaspar Heidelbach [...] steers his team of investigators through a still explosive topic of German-German history" wrote the TV magazine TV Today . “The case was initially a bit diffuse in the Mecklenburg fog, but then [picked up] the pace and told a gray winter story that made you shiver”.

Rupert Sommer from Prisma couldn't get too much out of the film and said that the 13th case turned out to be “a badly constructed mess”. It is true that "the interpersonal confusion in the area takes a backseat this time, but the bumpy handling of the case does not make it more believable".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZDF is shooting 13th “Stralsund” thriller with Katharina Wackernagel sS presseportal.de
  2. ^ Stralsund: Brothers in Arms at crew united
  3. ^ A b Tilmann P. Gangloff : Series "Stralsund - Brothers in Arms". Katharina Wackernagel, Alexander Held, Bartholomäi. Smart plot, lame look. sS tittelbach.tv . Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  4. ^ Stralsund: Brothers in Arms. “These brothers are extremely dangerous!” SS tvtoday.de. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  5. ^ Rupert Sommer: Stralsund - Brothers in Arms. Powder vapor from the past see prisma.de. Retrieved November 8, 2018.