Stubbe - Case by case: That night
| Episode of the series Stubbe - Case by case | |||
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| Original title | In this night | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 89 minutes | ||
| classification | Episode 44 ( List ) | ||
| First broadcast | January 14, 2012 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Oren Schmuckler | ||
| script | Martina Mouchot | ||
| production | Johannes Pollmann | ||
| music | Jürgen Corner | ||
| camera | Constantin Kesting | ||
| cut | Gudrun Steinbrück | ||
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This night is a German television film by Oren Schmuckler from 2012. It is the forty-fourth film in the ZDF crime film series Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall with Wolfgang Stumph in the title role.
action
The lawyers Molin, Borg and Tietz celebrate late into the night in a forest hotel. Extremely drunk, they have no more inhibitions and harass the service staff Tanja Kessler. The next morning, Georg Tietz is found dead next to the garbage cans with his pants down. The police are notified and Commissioners Stubbe and Zimmermann are investigated. Due to rain at night, many of the tracks are unusable, but a security camera in the parking lot gives a glimmer of hope. Suddenly Tanja appears with torn clothes and completely disturbed in front of the Waldhotel. In the hospital, the doctor found a "dissociative amnesia" so that Stubbe will not get any answers to his questions from her for the time being. A severe hematoma and various extensive skin abrasions suggest that she must have defended herself against an attacker. However, direct sexual abuse cannot be determined with certainty.
Inspector Stubbe asks the colleagues with whom Tietze celebrated. Molin and Borg do not report anything extraordinary, however. According to her, nothing special happened, she celebrated normally. Stubbe tries to find out more about the forensic results. Stubbe's new colleague Marlene Berger has recently started working here, with whom he gets along well. She can prove that a flashlight found at the crime scene was the object with which Tietze was killed. The forensic medical examination of the victim reveals that Tietze could not be sexually active at the moment due to an inflamed prostate. From this the investigators conclude that Tietze only witnessed the attack on Tanja and therefore had to die. According to Tanja's colleague Gerti, the three lawyers had already celebrated in the hotel a few weeks ago and very clearly demanded sexual acts from her. This means that there are discrepancies with the statements made by Molin and Borg, which makes it necessary to interview the lawyers again. Unfortunately, the statements do not provide any new knowledge. Only the arrogant demeanor of Borg makes him suspicious for Stubbe, which does not directly help him in solving the case.
Stubbe hopes that Tanja Kessler will get out of her memory loss, but Tanja still hovers over things as if aghast and cannot relate to current reality. In the hospital, the inspector meets Tanja's stepbrother, from whom he learns that there are currently family disagreements that he is trying to resolve. The commissioner does not have the impression that Andreas Kessler could have done violence to his sister as a result. During the questioning, however, Stubbe found out that Tanja was allegedly close friends with the cook from the hotel. This brings Klaus Bettmer into the focus of the investigation. So that all the pieces of the puzzle can be put together correctly, Stubbe and Zimmermann meet with the hotel staff to reconstruct the processes on the evening of the crime. Stubbe is the first to interview Klaus Bettmer, whose information repeatedly appears contradictory. What Bettmer does not know, Tanja was also brought from the hospital to the appointment, as the investigators hope that she will remember. So cornered, Bettmer admits to having hit Tietze down with the flashlight because he had molested Tanja. But Stubbe tells Bettmer that out of frustration because Tanja didn't want to know anything about him, he had resorted to violence and wanted to take what he thought was due to him.
Subplot
After years without his wife Caroline, Wilfried Stubbe manages to develop feelings for a woman again, which are also reciprocated. He gets along better and better with his new colleague Marlene Berger - even without a lot of words.
background
The film was shot from September 12 to October 11, 2011 in Hamburg and the surrounding area.
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of In this Night on January 14, 2012 on ZDF reached 8.85 million viewers and a market share of 27.9 percent.
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said: "The occasional [end] [...] family fuss is the better thing about [the] episode in 'In this night'." Stubbe-Privat "is more interesting than this banal Whodunit with that eternal clever-cop-stupid-cop pattern and with colleague Zimmermann's incredibly penetrating style of investigation with this constant subordinate undertone. "" Morally, the anger at the lawyers' cynicism is justifiable, dramaturgically it is extremely cheap. The discrepancy between the quality of the private stories and the quality of the case also has something to do with the quality of the play [the actors]. "
Prisma.de stated: “Since 1995, Wolfgang Stumph has been investigating his successful role as detective chief inspector Wilfried Stubbe, with the case 'Stubbe - From case to case - In this night' he wrote television history, the crime fetched 8.91 million Viewers (27.9 percent market share) the absolute best value of all previously broadcast Saturday thrillers of the ZDF. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm said: "Stubbe does not disappoint its many fans" and gave the film the best possible rating (thumbs up).
Web links
- Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall: That night in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Stubbe - Case by case: That night at Fernsehserien.de
- Stubbe - case by case: That night at crew united
- Stubbe case by case at the ZDF press portal
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Wolfgang & Stephanie Stumph and the understandable desire for the ideal world, film review at tittelbach.tv , accessed on November 24, 2019.
- ↑ Critique of the film at evangelisch.de , accessed on November 24, 2019.
- ↑ Stubbe - Case-by-case: Retrieved that night from TV Spielfilm .
