Stubbe - Case by case: death on the island
| Episode of the series Stubbe - Case by case | |
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| Original title | Death on the island |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Polyphonic film and television company |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 51 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | December 22, 2018 on ZDF |
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| Director | Oliver Schmitz |
| script |
Scarlett Kleint , Alfred Roesler-Kleint , Michael Vershinin |
| production | Christoph Bicker |
| music | Mario Lauer |
| camera | Leah Striker |
| cut | Achim Seidel |
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Death on the Island is a German television film by Oliver Schmitz from 2018. It is the series special of the ZDF crime film series Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall with Wolfgang Stumph in the title role.
action
Wilfried Stubbe has been retired for four years now . A vacation together with his partner Marlene Berger is supposed to distract from his dreary household routine. Marlene welcomes him happily on the small North Sea island of Wittsund, where she has been waiting for him for three days. In the guesthouse one is a little surprised that the two have booked separate rooms. It quickly becomes clear that the two are in a crisis. Marlene had "sent the boring old sack into the desert three months ago," as Stubbe sums it up. Nevertheless, Marlene doesn't want to give up her relationship right away, but rather work on it. That is why she invited her stump here to the lonely island. Stubbe doubts that this would be the right way to go. He has noticed himself that he doesn't know what to do with his life anymore, but has not yet found a way out. Even if Marlene now expects him to go into himself a little and the optimistic, curious guy from the past reappears, he still has no plan how to do it. Marlene cheers him up with a smile, just to find out as a former homicide investigator who would have killed her old stub. But the way Marlene imagines it doesn't work with Stubbe. Especially since Stubbe not only has a relationship crisis, but also health problems. Shortly after Marlene withdrew, he suffered a heart attack and had to undergo a stent operation, which he has never told her to this day. After a sleepless night, he packs his suitcase and wants to leave. He ignores Marlene's call without further ado, but she does not want to stop him for private reasons, she has just found a body in the water. A good reason to keep stumps on the island so that the police don't think he's escaping because he has something to do with the dead woman who has a bullet point in her forehead. It is Petra Brodersen, who recently came to the island for her father's funeral. A few years ago her son was spilled by a dune while playing on the island and died. Petra blamed her father for not paying attention. He had then given her his house, which she had sold immediately. In retrospect, however, the new owners are not satisfied with their purchase because the house is so in need of renovation that it is beyond their financial framework. They even sued Petra Brodersen for maliciously concealed defects.
While Marlene gets involved in the investigation, Stubbe goes back to the pension and researches in his own way. He tries to work out the possible crime scene based on wind strength and flow behavior of the water. He can also trace the victim's path and thus actually find bullet casings and a projectile, so that comparisons can be made with the weapons that are available on the island. For the official investigation, a commissioner was flown in from the mainland, whom Stubbe does not particularly like. In stark contrast to the two island police officers. Stubbe gets along particularly well with Niklas Laab. From him he learns that his colleague Jördis and the victim were actually friends, but that they had fallen in love with the same man. Jördis seems accordingly disturbed and Niklas calls Stubbe for help when his colleague arrests Peter Sievers, her friend's husband, on her own initiative and for no good reason.
Since the Ritter family had an argument with the victim and a weapon was actually found at Engelbert Ritter, he was arrested. In his high spirits, he had also boasted to his wife that he had committed the murder. With that the mainland commissioner seems satisfied. Niklas, however, who actually loves his colleague, has to realize that he was only an episode in Jördi's life. She is still in love with Sievers, which is why she had prevented him from leaving with all her might. Niklas remembers that Jördis cleaned her service weapon very thoroughly on the evening of the crime. He talks to Stubbe about his terrible suspicions, but is reassured by him that he cannot imagine that. So Stubbe goes through the possible suspects again and comes to the conclusion that Brodersen's funeral was probably the trigger for the murder of his daughter. Since Stubbe had also met Hermine Heinks on his forays across the island, he knows from her that she was friends with Brodersen. This friendship was possibly deeper than he could have guessed during their conversation. To clarify that, he drives to her and can just keep her from killing herself. She tells Stubbe that Petra was to blame for her misfortune because her father left the island because of her. Hermione stayed behind and wasn't even allowed to come to the funeral now because Petra had forbidden her. Hermione knew that an old pistol had died in the old Brodersen house (which Ritter found a few days later during his renovation work). This she got and shot at Petra.
The island vacation actually did the relationship between Stubbe and Marlene good. While she leaves with a good feeling, he wants to stay on the island for a few more days.
background
The film was shot from November 7, 2017 to December 8, 2017 in North Friesland on Amrum , Husum and Eiderstedt and produced by Polyphon Film & Fernseh GmbH. The Tetenbüller parish hall served as a police station.
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Tod auf der Insel on December 22, 2018 on ZDF reached 6.81 million viewers and a market share of 21.7 percent. In the target group of 14 to 49 year olds, 1.07 million viewers saw the film, which corresponds to 11.5 percent of the market share.
criticism
Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv said: “Depending on your taste, the film is a sympathetically old-fashioned or conventionally staged crime thriller, but it cleverly combines the murder search with the relationship level; and seeing Stubbe again is a pleasure anyway. ”The critic considers the Ritter couple to be annoying and overly constructed. "The two seem so thought out that they seem almost grotesque compared to the other realistic figures."
The evangelisch.de wrote: “The large [...] ensemble consists not only of suspects, but of people with their own stories. Various details add to the complexity of the plot, such as a cemetery door squeaking in the wind or a toy excavator that Stubbe finds on the beach when he searches for a cartridge case with a metal detector. The joke comes from a cut: Very close by […] is [the] same excavator, but in a large size. The nicest incidental matter is a paper penis that Stubbe deposited in front of the hotel room door of the arrogant inspector from the mainland; the man had recommended origami as a retirement hobby. "
Sidney Schering at quotenmeter.de stated: This film also remains “true to the old 'Stubbe' scheme that the ninety-minute film is more about the people that Stubbe gets to know during the investigation - and less about himself. That means, in In other words, that there is once again little to see from Stubbe in this comeback - and he does not behave very stubby for long stretches. ”He also said:“ This means that the secondary line around the ex-police officer, who is struggling with aging, does not develop the intense one , emotional impact that would be expected in view of the emphatically sad film music and the grayish-melancholy staging. In addition, the central criminal case is generic, so that neither Stubbe is particularly challenged, nor the loyal crime audience. Stumph's charm, the atmospheric composition and the scenes that deal more intensively with Stubbe's worries make the case, at least for fans, a switch-on tip. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and summarized: "Stubbe is more human than [sic!] Other TV investigators".
"In the end, two cases are resolved: the relationship between the two main characters and a murder case."
Web links
- Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall: death on the island in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Stubbe - Case by case: Death on the island at Fernsehserien.de
- Stubbe - case by case: death on the island at crew united
- Stubbe - death on the island at zdf.de
- Stubbe - death on the island ZDF press portal
- Video ( Memento from March 24, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stubbe - Case by case: Death on the island at crew-united.com
- ↑ Shooting on Amrum at amrum-news.de, accessed on November 26, 2019.
- ↑ Death on the island - Stubbe determined in North Friesland on shz.de, accessed on November 26, 2019.
- ↑ Audience rating at quotenmeter.de , accessed on November 26, 2019.
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Wolfgang Stumph, Trinker, Schmitz. Successful, calm family crime drama film review at tittelbach.tv , accessed on November 26, 2019.
- ↑ Review of the film at evangelisch.de , accessed on November 26, 2019.
- ↑ Sidney Schering: Review of the film at quotenmeter.de , accessed on November 26, 2019.
- ↑ Stubbe - Case-by-case: Death on the Island accessed from TV Spielfilm .
