Stubbe - Case by case: Dirty business
| Episode of the series Stubbe - Case by case | |||
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| Original title | Dirty business | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| classification | Episode 31 ( List ) | ||
| First broadcast | January 6, 2007 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Thomas Jacob | ||
| script | Markus Stromiedel | ||
| production | Johannes Pollmann | ||
| music | Jürgen Corner | ||
| camera | Sebastian Richter | ||
| cut | Barbara Hiltmann | ||
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Dirty Shops is a German television film by Thomas Jacob from 2007. It is the thirty-first film in the ZDF crime film series Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall with Wolfgang Stumph in the title role.
action
Commissioner Stubbe is investigating the murdered chairman of the board of “Lufatec” joint stock company, which produces parts for aircraft construction. The father of five, Dirk Schumacher, is a suspect and is on remand . Stubbe assumes Schumacher's innocence and tries to conduct his investigations in his favor in order to exonerate him. Since there is no concrete investigation approach, Stubbe focuses on the victim's professional environment. He quickly notices that the share values of "Lufatec" have fallen sharply lately. The company's security system was also manipulated so that it is impossible to trace who was otherwise in the building at the time of the crime and who could possibly leave it unnoticed.
During their investigations, Stubbe and Zimmermann come across strange business practices by the Hamburg company, which has been consistently run down in recent months in order to initiate the takeover from a French partner. Stubbe is certain that the murdered Weihrich wanted to damage the company and initially suspects a contract killer whom board member Dr. Bernd Langwald may have hired. The deleted surveillance data can be explained in a very human way, because Weihrich's secretary is having an affair with her colleague Matthias Grote and did not want this to be known. But through their testimony, Stubbe becomes clear that Schumacher is actually Weihrich's murderer. After he finds the murder weapon - a letter opener - that only Schumacher could hide in the elevator, he confronts him. Schumacher claims to have lost his nerve when Weihrich informed him that the company had been sold and his job would be lost. Schumacher had just developed a new, groundbreaking technology, but Weihrich now wanted to publish it under his name and get the money for it. He could not bear this humiliation, especially since his wife is expecting the sixth child, the house construction is not financed and his income is therefore vital for his family.
Subplot
Wilfried Stubbe is visibly more tolerant of his daughter. So he patiently accepts a noisy party to keep it indoors. Christiane continues to concentrate on her journalism studies, which also gives her a new impetus with a new professor.
background
The film was shot in and around Hamburg and premiered on January 6, 2007 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF .
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv commented: “Stubbe makes a bit of a Columbo and is once again the kind-hearted investigator who takes care of the family of the main suspect who is incarcerated. About that he jokes more than usual with his colleague, the bald head from the Besserwessi department. ”“ 'Dirty business' is a mixture of sentimental drama, unexcited Whodunit and socially sanctioned ' economic crime '. A good, socially critical topic, a commissioner to cuddle, another to shoot at the moon and a very unimaginative, conventional direction. "
At Kino.de , Tilmann P. Gangloff judged : “A strong, gripping story, to which Stubbe's new love (Joana Schümer) is a nice addition, as was the case last in 'Vergernisvolle Freude' (Fatal Friendship), while the narrative with daughter Chrissie (Stubbe daughter Stephanie ) looks like it's glued again; the journalism student's mess with a new lecturer is a foreign body. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm summarized briefly: "Nice: Stubbe as child guardian and moral apostle" and gave the film the best possible rating (thumbs up).
Web links
- Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall: Dirty business in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Stubbe - Case by case: Dirty business at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Wolfgang Stumph and Stephan Kampwirth as father of five under suspicion of murder on Tittelbach.tv , accessed on February 26, 2020.
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Review of the film at Kino.de , accessed on February 26, 2020.
- ↑ Stubbe - Case by case: Dirty business at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on February 26, 2020.
