Stubbe - Case by case: the king is dead
| Episode of the series Stubbe - Case by case | |||
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| Original title | The king is dead | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 89 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Episode 49 ( List ) | ||
| First broadcast | January 4, 2014 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Bernd Böhlich | ||
| script | Astrid Ströher | ||
| production | Johannes Pollmann | ||
| music | Rainer Oleak | ||
| camera | Gero Steffen | ||
| cut | Gudrun Steinbrück | ||
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The King is Dead is a German television film by Bernd Böhlich from 2014. It is the forty-ninth and penultimate film in the ZDF crime film series Stubbe - From Case to Case with Wolfgang Stumph in the title role.
action
The inspector Stubbe and his colleague Zimmermann have to solve the death of the real estate agent Tim König, who was slain in front of his apartment. Stubbe and Zimmermann investigate in all directions and take a close look at the brokerage office and its employees. He was known to his supervisor, Peter Fährmann, to be very reliable and supposedly always had the right tone with customers. In older press releases, however, Stubbe also finds reports of dissatisfied tenants who did not speak well of König and the brokerage office. With extreme rent increases, renovation costs were passed on to their rents, or even apartments were given notice. In the context of gentrification , tenants were “lured” away with severance payments from their long-term rental contracts, and the very stubborn had to find out one day that they could expect arson. Businesses report that the brokerage office planned to triple their commercial rents, which they could only avert with massive protests or obtain a delay. So many have a motive for the crime, but the investigators have not yet been able to find out who König met last. A restaurant receipt suggests that he was there a few days ago. The conversation with the landlady is quite informative for Stubbe because, according to the woman, King would have been deadly unhappy. On the one hand because his girlfriend didn't want to know anything more about him and on the other hand because, in his opinion, he had made a “ pact with the devil ”. The landlady says that he could only have meant his job and how he earned a lot of money.
Tina Rosinsky happens to meet her old friend Susanne Lorenz again near the crime scene, whom she has not seen for six years. She tries to revive their friendship and learns that Susanne has been shipwrecked both professionally and privately. Rosinsky talks to Stubbe about how she has the feeling that something is wrong. A few days later, Lorenz appears at the presidium and states that she had observed a quarrel between the king and another man. The description of this man fits Karl Beck, who owns a bicycle shop and who had been offered a severance payment by König so that he would give up his shop. Beck is interrogated, but denies having quarreled with König on the day of the crime.
A vague trail leads Stubbe to Dirk Darmstädter, Rosinsky's girlfriend's current partner. It is true that the Commissioner is not quite clear in what constellation Darmstädter was in relation to the murdered man, but the evidence is clear. Darmstädter admits that he knew König very well and that he had spoken to him more often because König had been looking for someone to talk to recently. So he entrusted Darmstädter, on behalf of his boss, to have set fire in the houses where the tenants did not want to move out. And now he has received a new assignment to get Karl Beck down. He is now being interrogated again and admits to having approached König in front of his apartment to tell him that he wanted to accept the severance payment. But now the king suddenly wanted to give him much less, whereupon he got angry and reached for the nearest stone and slammed it.
Subplot
While Wilfried Stubbe is investigating landlords, his daughter Christiane is in the same milieu because she is looking for an apartment for her small family. Stubbe is not enthusiastic and when Marlen informs him casually that she has applied to the Dresden police and received an acceptance, he feels ignored by everyone.
background
The film was shot from April 18 to May 23, 2013 under the working title Crash in Hamburg and premiered on January 18, 2014 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF .
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Der König ist tot on January 4, 2014 on ZDF reached 7.92 million viewers and a market share of 23.5 percent.
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said: “'The king is dead' is a strong 'stub'. Astrid Ströher's script is cleverly built, designed as a flashback and - as far as the plot is concerned - perfectly condensed in terms of tension. For the last half hour, three suspects have emerged - and no matter how you twist and turn the murder case, there are good arguments for anyone as a perpetrator. When the starting point of the flashback is reached, there is a formal tension-increasing moment. The way social criticism is woven into the story is also largely successful. The Schanzenviertel in the stranglehold of speculators. "
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and summed up: "Kiezkrimi with a dash of social criticism."
Web links
- Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall: The King is dead in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Stubbe - Case by case: The king is dead on Fernsehserien.de
- Stubbe - case by case: the king is dead at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for Stubbe - Case by case: The king is dead . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 142934-a / V).
- ↑ Stubbe - case by case: The king is dead at crew united . Retrieved September 18, 2019.
- ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Stumph, Rosmair, Becker, Peschel, Böhlich. Strong template for Stubbe's exit film review at tittelbach.tv , accessed on November 25, 2019.
- ↑ Stubbe - Case by case: The king is dead. In: tvspielfilm.de . Retrieved September 18, 2019 . retrieved from TV Spielfilm .
