Stubbe - Case by case: fateful friendship
| Episode of the series Stubbe - Case by case | |||
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| Original title | Fateful friendship | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 91 minutes | ||
| classification | Episode 30 ( List ) | ||
| First broadcast | December 23, 2006 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Maris Pfeiffer | ||
| script | Astrid Ströher | ||
| production | Johannes Pollmann | ||
| music | Jürgen Corner | ||
| camera | Eckhard Jansen | ||
| cut | Ann-Sophie Schweizer | ||
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Fatal Friendship is a German television film by Maris Pfeiffer from 2006. It is the thirtieth film in the ZDF crime film series Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall with Wolfgang Stumph in the title role.
action
Inspector Stubbe is called to the port of Hamburg , where the businesswoman Magdalena Ewers was found dead next to her delivery truck. She used to be a police officer herself, but for some time she had run a small cafe with Anne Weingärtner, who was affected by the death of her business partner. From her, Commissioner Stubbe and his colleague Zimmermann found out that Ewers had sung in a gospel choir and was friends with the choir director Uwe Diepenbrock. When Stubbe asked the man, he was very dismissive and not very cooperative. His friend Ingo Mertens, who also sings in the choir and therefore also knew the victim well, explained his behavior to Inspector Diepenbrock because he had not had a good experience with the police in the past. Stubbe is therefore researching the old case in which Diepenbrock's little son had disappeared and the police have not yet found him. Diepenbrock would not have got over this to this day and no longer had confidence in the police.
Meanwhile, the musician Karsten Schmidt behaves very conspicuously. He is a childhood friend of the victim and supposedly still owed Ewers money. When the police want to question him, he escapes by fleeing and is caught a short time later trying to help himself in Ewer's cafe counter. During the interrogation it turns out that at the time of the murder of Magdalena Ewers he had an alibi because he had robbed a gas station during this period, which is also proven by a surveillance video.
So Stubbe focuses again on the Diepenbrock case because he still has the feeling that the key to Ewers' murder can also be found here. As so often, he should be right, because as a former police officer, Magdalena Ewers had recently dealt with the boy's disappearance and even got hold of the old investigation files. In doing so, she was probably too close to the solution to Tobias Diepenbrock's disappearance. Stubbe also follows this trail and inevitably comes across Diepenbrock's best friend Ingo Mertens. As a doctor he had to pay attention to his good reputation and when Ewers wanted to hold him responsible for the death of Diepenbrock's son, he had silenced her. Mertens had accidentally run over the son of his best friend and did not want to admit it to himself or to put up with his friend. So he made the body disappear, which is now being searched for with detection dogs. Diepenbrock can hardly bear the truth, but is nevertheless reassured that the uncertainty has an end.
Subplot
Wilfried Stubbe has had a girlfriend for the first time since the death of his wife Caroline. At first he does not talk about his relationship with the psychologist Claudia, but in the end he shares his family.
Christiane Stubbe happens to meet her old friend Alex, who makes a worrying impression on her. She tries to talk to him and offer her help, but he is so dismissive that it is difficult for her to get to him. But her persistence is successful and he talks to her about his problems.
background
The film was shot in and around Hamburg and premiered on ZDF on December 23, 2006 at 8:15 pm .
criticism
Alexandra Pezely of Quotenmeter.de evaluated: "Too bad that the producers do not put the emphasis on the investigation," but on exaggerated much "Gefühlsdusselei" and ". Private Stories" "Overall, it's not really a thriller or crime creates this episode [...] to convince. If a cozy TV evening with good acting, nice family comedy and little tension is enough, you should definitely get an idea of the new ZDF Saturday thriller. "
At Kino.de , Tilmann P. Gangloff judged : “Even if the author Astrid Ströher does everything to keep the motive of the murder in the dark: There is only one prominent guest actor in this film ( Hans Werner Meyer ). He plays an alleged secondary role, but it goes without saying that this character is much more involved in the case than it initially appears. "
For the critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm , Vergednisvolle Freude “a highly emotional, quite brisk case, which Stubbe clarifies as usual with sympathy and the necessary sensitivity” and summarized briefly: “How nice: Stubbe's 30th case is something for the heart”. They gave the film the best possible rating (thumbs up).
Web links
- Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall: Fatal Friendship in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Stubbe - Case by case: Fateful friendship at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexandra Pezely: movie review at Quotenmeter.de , accessed on February 26 2020th
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Review of the film at Kino.de , accessed on February 26, 2020.
- ^ Stubbe - Case by case: Fatal friendship at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on February 26, 2020.
