Stubbe - Case by case: Maria murder case
| Episode of the series Stubbe - Case by case | |
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| Original title | Maria murder case |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| classification | Episode 50 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | January 18, 2014 on ZDF |
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| Director | Peter Kahane |
| script | Peter Kahane |
| music | Tamás Kahane |
| camera | Andreas Köfer |
| cut | Birgit Bahr |
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Mordfall Maria is a German television film by Peter Kahane from 2014. It is the 50th and, at the same time, last film contribution in the ZDF crime film series Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall with Wolfgang Stumph in the title role. In 2018 there was a Christmas special Stubbe - Death on the Island .
action
Commissioner Wilfried Stubbe is pretty depressed. Since his daughter Christiane has decided to move into her own apartment with her husband and their child, he is now completely alone in her house. The sudden calm and the farewell make him sad and he doesn't hear his cell phone ring. His colleague Rosinsky therefore has to visit him personally to bring him to her new case: The wheelchair user Maria Kirsch suddenly collapsed dead during a basketball training session. Initial examinations show toxic substances in the blood, which means that the young handicapped woman was poisoned. Her trainer Niklas Mohn had already said in the first questioning that it would be a murder because he knew Maria very well and she was not prone to any circulatory problems.
Despite her disability, Maria was a very fun-loving woman and had her own blog on the Internet in which she reported about herself and her surroundings. After Maria's room was broken into and the laptop and camera disappeared, it seems likely that her death was related to her online reports. However, a classic motive for murder could also be considered, because Maria was three months pregnant, which the autopsy had shown.
Stubbe, however, has problems concentrating fully on the case, because not only has his daughter "left" him, his girlfriend Marlene also wants to move away. In Dresden, of all places, his old hometown, she accepted a new job offer. She was sure that Stubbe would be happy and that he would move to Dresden with her after his upcoming retirement. But he wants to stay in Hamburg, which could mean the separation from Marlene. He behaves accordingly disgruntled. He evades her offers, which she makes again and again, and strictly rejects any new change in his life. So caught up in his own problems, he hesitates to follow up on a vague lead directed to Maria's doctor, Dr. Riedel, leads. However, Stubbe's colleague Rosinsky feels compelled to monitor the man and catches him in the act when he apparently wants to destroy evidence. Riedel is interrogated and admits to having had a relationship with Maria. Fearing suspicion, he broke into her to get treacherous videos. He realizes that this was a mistake, but he would have loved Maria and never could have harmed her.
Shortly after Maria's death, her teammate David suffers from tablet poisoning. It is initially unclear whether he wanted to kill himself or whether someone wanted to silence him. Stubbe fears the latter, because David probably saw the poison attack on Maria. More and more references to his teammate Judith are gathering. Stubbe confronts her and learns that she too is in Dr. Riedel is in love. She is of the opinion that Maria would not have been the right person for "her Jörg" and that she would only have made him unhappy. Stubbe then arrests them.
background
The film was shot from June 25, 2013 to August 2, 2013 in Hamburg and premiered on January 18, 2014 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF .
criticism
Tilmann P. Gangloff at Tittelbach.tv commented: “In the 50th and final Stubbe episode, 'The Maria Murder Case', saying goodbye is more important than looking for a murderer. Author-director Peter Kahane, who co-founded and shaped the series, ends the successful Saturday night thriller about the philanthropic Dresden inspector in Hamburg after almost 20 years. In terms of criminology and film aesthetics, the well-cast film with Uwe Bohm, Jule Böwe & Nina Petri remains average. "
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm , on the other hand, gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and summed up: “Rolling home for Stubbe - a quiet last case”.
Web links
- Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall: murder Mary in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Stubbe - Case by case: Maria murder case on Fernsehserien.de
- Stubbe - case by case: Maria's murder at crew-united
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for Stubbe - Case by case: Maria murder case . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 142930-a / V).
- ↑ Stubbe - Case by case: Maria murder case at crew-united.com
- ↑ Stumph, Mackensy, Trinker, Bohm, Böwe, Kahane. Many, many farewell moments at tittelbach.tv , accessed on August 14, 2019.
- ↑ Stubbe - Case-by-case: Maria murder case retrieved from tvspielfilm.de .