Stubbe - Case by case: death of the model
| Episode of the series Stubbe - Case by case | |||
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| Original title | Death of the model | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 89 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Episode 17 ( List ) | ||
| First broadcast | November 25, 2000 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Thomas Jacob | ||
| script |
Peter Kahane , Markus Stromiedel |
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| production |
Alfried Nehring (producer) |
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| music | Jürgen Corner | ||
| camera | Martin Schlesinger | ||
| cut | Elke Carmincke | ||
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Tod des Models is a German television film by Thomas Jacob from the year 2000. It is the seventeenth film contribution in the ZDF crime film series Stubbe - From Case to Case with Wolfgang Stumph in the title role.
action
The police receive a missing person report from concerned parents. However, you do not want to accept the advertisement there due to the short absence. Inspector Stubbe takes pity on the mother and takes care of the couple. Anja Marquardt is currently working quite successfully as a photo model at "Agency 21" and, according to her parents, she "burst" a very important photo shoot, which is why they are convinced that something must have happened to their daughter. This fear comes true, because the next day Anja is found dead in a cemetery. Strangely enough, someone seems to have dug it up there so that the body could be found. In addition, the person put a fresh rose blossom in her hand.
Wilfried's daughter Christiane is also interested in modeling and dreams of the catwalk after a summer mannequin course . Without her knowing it, she is in acute danger, because an obvious psychopath is targeting young models and after he found Christiane's photo on her homepage, she selected her as his next victim. As an IT specialist, it is not difficult for him to hack into the computer systems in Stubbes and to disrupt them. Before that, he had passed Wilfried Stubbe a visiting card from himself. His diabolical plan works and the inspector calls for help from the computer specialist, who appears unexpectedly quickly and can thus gain the family's trust.
In the meantime, a second, much older woman's body has been found in the immediate vicinity of where the body was found. With the help of an anklet, she can also be identified as a model who worked for "Agency 21". When Stubbe sees a photo of her, he notices that both models looked very similar and that his daughter Christiane should also correspond to this prey scheme. Worried, he wants to contact her, but due to a recent dispute, Christiane avoids him. Unfortunately, he cannot warn her in time and she immediately runs into the perpetrator. Since she had already met Michael Kranz as a serious IT man, she does not suspect anything when he picks her up from her first model appearance and pretends to have stood in as a substitute. Her father, however, is extremely worried when he no longer meets Christiane at the event. One of the models can remember a man who just picked Christiane up. Desperate, her father initiates a large manhunt, but has very little clue. However, he is certain that the perpetrator must be mentally ill and, by kidnapping the daughter of a police officer, he hopes to finally be caught so that his personal ordeal comes to an end. Therefore, Stubbe hopes that the perpetrator will give him signs. The re-excavation of his last victim must have been such a sign. With the help of the cemetery attendant, Stubbe finds out that the grave of Erika Kranz, a former beauty queen, was located in the cemetery where Kranz had buried his victims, which was leveled six years ago. Now Stubbe finally knows who to ask for. Kranz's mother was broken by her fame and turned into an alcoholic, so that her son was put in a home. Therefore, today, Kranz keeps bringing the young models into connection with his mother and, so to speak, offers the girls to her as sacrifices, or rather does not want them to end up like his mother.
To Christiane, Kranz says that she has to protect her. So he drugged her and kept her prisoner in his basement. Stubbe is already in Kranz's house and cannot find his daughter at first, the perpetrator camouflaged the hiding place too well. Christiane manages to send him a smoke signal so that he can discover the space behind the basement shelves and overwhelm Kranz.
background
The film was shot in Hamburg and the surrounding area and premiered on November 25, 2000 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF . In October 2004, the viewers of PREMIERE Krimi voted the model's death out of 31 crime films as the 2004 crime fiction .
criticism
For the critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm , the Stubbe case was the death of the model “ready-made goods instead of crime fiction haute couture” and gave the film a medium rating (thumbs to the side).
Web links
- Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall: Death of the models in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Stubbe - case by case: death of the model at Fernsehserien.de
- Stubbe - case by case: death of the model at crew-united
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for stumps - Case-by-case: death of the model . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 107707-a / V).
- ↑ Stubbe - Case-by-Case: Death of the Model
