Stubbe - Case by case: Stubbe and the child

Episode of the series Stubbe - Case by case
Original title	Stubbe and the child
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
length	90 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
classification	Episode 7 ( list )
First broadcast	December 21, 1996 on ZDF
Rod
Director	Christa Mühl
script	Peter Kahane
production	Alfried Nehring
music	Jürgen Corner
camera	Franz Xaver Lederle
cut	Birgit Bahr
occupation
Wolfgang Stumph : Wilfried Stubbe Marie Gruber : Caroline Stubbe Stephanie Stumph : Christiane Stubbe Dirk Meier : Fabian Stubbe Margret Homeyer : Charlotte Hoyn Lutz Mackensy : Bernd Zimmermann Ulrich von Dobschütz : Martin Gessler Martin May : Kay Klowe, detective assistant Eleonore Weisgerber : Johanna Borchert Lena Sabine Berg : Kerstin Döring Thomas Rühmann : Harald Döring Jacqueline Westermann : Maja Döring Manon Straché : Gerda Korn Horst Drinda : Gieselher Jost Alvaro Solar : Juan Fernandez, Commissioner Rolf Zacher : Olaf Braun Günter Bothur : bank clerk Maria Ketikidou : Claudia Rotraut Cupbearer : Witness Viktoria Meienburg : Margit Kolb, secretary
chronology
←  Predecessor Stubbe and the other woman Successor  → Stubbe dives

Stubbe und das Kind is a German television film by Christa Mühl from 1996. It is the seventh film in the ZDF crime film series Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall with Wolfgang Stumph in the title role.

action

Inspector Wilfried Stubbe is visited by his superior Martin Gessler at home on a Sunday because he has to give him an explosive order that cannot be postponed. The little granddaughter of a Hamburg entrepreneur and former senator is missing. Since no ransom demand has been received, the divorced Kerstin Döring suspects the child's father of kidnapping. Harald Döring has currently disappeared and is described by the family as unpredictable. Stubbe immediately does everything possible to find a trace of the child. This now leads him to Spain , where Döring has been staying for some time and working for an investment office. Stubbe is now working with a Spanish colleague Juan Fernandez, who helps him follow Döring's footsteps.

Meanwhile, a car is being rescued from the water in the port of Hamburg, which was very likely used for Maja's kidnapping. Zimmermann sees this as an indication that the child is in Germany and Döring is not responsible for it. He is now summoned by the Spanish police and informed that his daughter has disappeared. Döring then travels to Hamburg immediately and contacts his ex-wife. She is now showing real despair because she has to reckon with the worst as her husband apparently did not kidnap her.

Fingerprints in the found car lead Zimmermann to Olaf Braun, a car dealer who is also known to the police as a car thief. Since child pornography is found in his workshop, he is arrested. He denies having anything to do with child abduction and Stubbe also has doubts about Braun's guilt. Therefore, he makes inquiries in his environment, but this does not relieve Braun. In his defense, he claims that he stole the car, but that it was broken into that same night and that it was precisely this car that was stolen. Stubbe checks this and can actually find traces of burglary in Braun's workshop. He is sure that Döring laid these false tracks in order to distract from himself. As is so often the case, Zimmermann disagrees and therefore argues with Stubbe, whereupon the latter drops the case and asks for leave. He travels to Andalusia again and also takes his Caroline with him. Through the investment office, Stubbe met Döring's colleague Johanna Borchert, who the couple invited over. It quickly becomes clear to both of them that they have come into the circles of a sect and that Johanna Borchert seems very scary to them. The children living there are to be trained to become an intellectual elite under her leadership. Stubbe actually discovers little Maja in this “children's paradise”. With the help of his Spanish colleagues, he frees her and brings her back to Hamburg.

background

The film was shot in Hamburg and the surrounding area and first broadcast on ZDF on December 21, 1996 at 8:15 p.m. It appeared under the title Stubbe - From Case to Case / Episode 1-10 with nine other cases on DVD.

criticism

For the critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm , Stubbe und das Kind was "one of the more sophisticated 'Stubbe' cases"; they gave the seventh stump case their best possible rating by pointing their thumbs up.

Web links

• Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall: Stubbe and the child in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Stubbe - Case by case: Stubbe and the child at Fernsehserien.de
• Stubbe - case by case: Stubbe and the child at crew united

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for stumps - on a case-by-case basis: Stubbe and the child . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 138644-a / V).
2. ↑ Stubbe - Case by case: Stubbe and the child retrieved from tvspielfilm.de.