Donna Leon - Animal Profits

Episode of the Donna Leon series
Original title	Animal profits
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
length	90 minutes
classification	Episode 21 ( List )
First broadcast	April 23, 2015 on Das Erste
Rod
Director	Sigi Rothemund
script	Stefan Holtz , Florian Iwersen
production	Benjamin Benedict , Marc Lepetit (Producer)
music	Stefan Schulzki
camera	Dragan Rogulj
cut	Claudia Klook
occupation
Uwe Kockisch : Commissario Brunetti Julia Jäger : Paola Brunetti Michael Degen : Vice Questore Patta Karl Fischer : Sergeant Lorenzo Vianello Patrick Diemling : Raffi Brunetti Annett Renneberg : Signorina Elettra Zorzi Walter Kreye : Maurizio de Rivera Alice Dwyer : Giulia Borelli Max Hopp : Lino Papetti Florian Bartholomäi : Francesco Botta Laura-Charlotte Syniawa : Chiara Brunetti Robert Gallinowski : Leonardo Bianchi

Tierische Profite is a German television film by Sigi Rothemund from 2015. It is the 21st film in the Donna Leon film series . Leons' novel of the same name, published in 2012, served as a template.

action

Commissario Brunetti has to leave the Vice-Questore medal ceremony because a corpse was found floating in a canal. It's Andrea Nava, a committed vet and animal rights activist who, strangely enough, worked in a slaughterhouse. On site in the slaughterhouse, Brunetti and Vianello learn that there was a recent break-in in which Francesco Botta, a young supporter of the animal welfare organization Angelo Animale, shot a video.

The investigation is made more difficult by the fact that the Vice-Questore gets on well with Maurizio de Rivera, the owner of the slaughterhouse, and Brunetti's daughter Chiara is also an activist at Angelo Animale. Rivera's son-in-law Lino Papetti runs the slaughterhouse. When Francesco Botta is brutally beaten during the baptism of de Rivera's granddaughter and the association's premises are devastated, Brunetti pulls out all the stops to find out what can be seen on the video. The cell phone was only stolen and can be found in de Rivera's son-in-law's house.

Brunetti finally discovers that the slaughterhouse was also processing cattle that, based on Nava's diagnosis, were actually too sick to be slaughtered. Nava didn't know that, but when he confronted his boss about it, the argument must have gotten out of hand and stabbed Papetti. This is the result of the investigation when Papetti's colleague Giulia Borelli shows up and takes on the murder. Even though it is clear to them that she is sacrificing herself for Papetti, with whom she is having an affair, Brunetti and Vianello cannot prove that it was not her. To this end - as a ray of hope for Angelo Animale - all de Riveras slaughterhouses will be closed.

Production notes

Animal Profits was filmed in Venice and premiered on April 23, 2015 at 8:15 p.m. on Das Erste .

Donna Leon - Animal Profits was released on DVD alongside Donna Leon - The Golden Egg .

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave it a medium rating (thumbs to the side) and wrote: "Knightly, the Brunetti, also protects the pulse".

Web links

• Animal profits in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Start dates for Donna Leon - Animal Profits . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved January 10, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Donna Leon - Animal Profits TV Feature Film ; January 10, 2017.