Stubbe - Case by case: Solstice
| Episode of the series Stubbe - Case by case | |||
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| Original title | Solstice | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| classification | Episode 36 ( List ) | ||
| First broadcast | November 21, 2009 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Peter Kahane | ||
| script | Peter Kahane | ||
| production | Johannes Pollmann | ||
| music | Tamás Kahane | ||
| camera | Constantin Kesting | ||
| cut | Birgit Bahr | ||
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Solstice is a German television film by Peter Kahane from 2009. It is the thirty-sixth film in the ZDF crime film series Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall with Wolfgang Stumph in the title role.
action
The body of a Vietnamese is recovered in the port of Hamburg . Inspector Stubbe and his colleague Zimmermann must assume murder because the body has a hole in its skull. The victim can be identified as Tinh, who lived in the small town of Elbermünde and has been missing here for ten weeks. Stubbe immediately sets off and meets with Inspector Sven Schröder, who had dealt with the missing person case. By chance he meets his old Dresden colleague Karsten May here, who informs him that the right-wing local politician Thorben Brennecke and his supporters are behind the murder of Tinh . There would be a witness for Tinh's murder, but Schröder would not have summoned him to this day. Stubbe doesn't know whether he can believe May, who is now alcoholic. At least he wants to talk to the witness. This interview convinced Stubbe to stay on site and continue investigating. He confronts the local commissioner Schöder as to why he had not taken the witnesses and the previous arson attacks on the Thins' pub seriously. Stubbe has to consider that the officer is secretly one of the neo-Nazi sympathizers of the place. So he remains on his own and tries to find evidence against the accused Ulf Gerlach, known as 'Stahl', and Thorben Brennecke. Allegedly, at the time of Thin's disappearance, they were at their annual solstice celebration . Since all of these like-minded people stick together and seem to have the whole place under control, Stubbe tries to "turn around" one of them in order to get a reliable testimony, because May's witness does not want to repeat his statements , presumably for fear of reprisals .
In the meantime there is a demonstration by anti-Nazis in Elbermünde, which, however, is quickly crushed by the right-wing extremists. They were joined by Christiane Stubbe, who happens to be in town and actually only wanted to visit her father. As a result, there were also tangible disputes and an arson attack on Christiane's pickup truck. But that's not all, the man who Stubbe had chosen because he thought he was sensible enough to distance himself from his friends is suddenly found dead on the banks of the Elbe. Matthias Lehmann was executed with three aimed shots. Stubbe first had all known neo-Nazies in the place examined for traces of smoke, but this was unsuccessful. In contrast, footprints close to the crime scene can be assigned to the shoes of a Nazi opponent.
Stubbe's colleague Zimmermann and his assistant Rosinsky analyze the movement patterns of Brennecke and Gerlach for Stubbe. This gives them proof that both of them were not always at the solstice celebration, but for a short time on the harbor bank - where Thin was thrown into the Elbe. Stubbe also learns from Lehmann's widow that her husband was involved in what happened to Thin. While he is looking for all the evidence against Brennecke in detail, Karsten May takes too long and he resorts to vigilante justice. He kidnaps Brennecke and presses a confession from him. Ulf Gerlach can be convicted for the murder of Lehmann.
Subplot
Christiane Stubbe has finished her journalism studies and is looking for a job. Applications were still unsuccessful and so she got the idea to travel alone to Bosnia to do research there and publish it on a blog. When she only wants to say goodbye to her father briefly and therefore shows up in Elbermünde, she decides to stay there and watch the activities of the neo-Nazies. In doing so, she unintentionally gets caught up in the turbulent events.
background
The film was shot from October 14 to November 13, 2008 in Hamburg and Boizenburg and premiered on November 21, 2009 at 8:15 pm on ZDF .
reception
Audience rating
When it was broadcast on ZDF on November 21, 2009 , Sonnenwende was seen by 6.06 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 19.6 percent at prime time. In the target group of 14 to 49 year olds, 1.06 million viewers ensured a good 9.0 percent market share.
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv first lets the director have his say: “'We wanted to do justice to the problem and at the same time not undermine the audience,' says Peter Kahane. Just making a 'decent film against right-wing radicalism' 'that is stuck with good intentions' would have been too little for him. 'Solstice' succeeds in redefining the 'Whodunit' thriller, which Stubbe always looks a bit old-fashioned. ”“ The insights into the right milieu, into a microcosm that not only rages on the streets, but also the dissatisfied population among theirs Problems are drawn largely free of clichés. Nevertheless, the director Kahane still trumps the screenwriter Kahane by wonderfully staging the contrast between visual idyll and latent violence. And Wolfgang Stumph was seldom seen as serious as Stubbe. And this seriousness suits him well. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm summarized briefly: "From the dark side of the German province" and gave the film the best possible rating (thumbs up).
Tilmann P. Gangloff rated for Kino.de : “'Sonnenwende' is a film against the right that does not stay with good intentions, but rather openly calls for moral courage and resistance in the crime pack. And, of course, Kahane also offers a grim comment on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall: History suggests that the reunification was right, in their alliance with the neo-Nazis in East and West. "
Web links
- Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall: Solstice in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Stubbe - From case to case: Solstice at Fernsehserien.de
- Stubbe - case by case: midsummer at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filming dates at crew-united.com, accessed on February 25, 2020.
- ↑ Location at filmland-mv.de accessed on February 25, 2020.
- ↑ Audience rating at quotenmeter.de, accessed on February 25, 2020.
- ↑ Rainer Tittelbach : Stubbe's most political case: Does an entire village cover the murder of a Vietnamese? at Tittelbach.tv , accessed on February 25, 2020.
- ↑ Stubbe - Case by case: Solstice at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on February 25, 2020.
- ↑ Review of the film at Kino.de , accessed on February 25, 2020.
