Death on the island

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Movie
Original title Death on the island
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2015
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Nicolai Rohde
script Nikola Bock
production Karsten Willutzki ,
Heike Wiehle-Timm
music Johannes Kobilke
camera Hannes Hubach
cut Andreas Althoff ,
Melanie Schütze
occupation

Death on the Island is a German TV film from 2015 based on the novel Inselblut by Bent Ohle . The crime drama produced for ZDF was directed by Nicolai Rohde , with Lisa Martinek in the lead role .

action

Georg Bohn travels to the North Sea island of Föhr with his wife and daughter on their summer vacation . The operator of the Inselhotel immediately notices that the relationship between the two is very tense. Her daughter, Katharina Venner, who also lives on the island, immediately finds contact and a kind of familiarity with Annika Bohn. Both of them show a certain sadness and Katharina can easily empathize with Annika, since their marriage is currently in a deep crisis. Her husband Nils recently left her and her almost adult son also moved in with a friend because he could no longer endure the family situation. Katharina therefore best distracts herself with work and, although she is actually free, takes on a special shift on the rescue ship, which is supposed to look for a missing holidaymaker. Annika of all people has disappeared and is now being fished out of the sea dead. It quickly becomes clear that she was murdered. Therefore, Finn Hartung is sent to the island by the responsible police station in Husum to take over the case. He soon finds out that there was tension between the Bohns, but also that Annika was very sociable. On the previous evening, when she and her husband had been in the Inselgaststätte, she had flirted with many men, including Nils Venner, who was the last to leave the restaurant quite drunk. There is evidence that Nils had amused herself with her on the beach two hours before Annika's death. However, he cannot remember anything himself.

When the police question Nils as the main suspect, Katharina becomes increasingly thoughtful, because she cannot imagine that the man with whom she has spent the last few years should be a murderer. She is convinced of his innocence and begins to investigate on her own. She suspects Annika's husband, whom she has come to know as quite brusque and jealous. But Georg Bohn is now leaving the island and traveling back to Hamburg with his daughter. Katharina follows him because she hopes he will lead to a solution to the case. So she should be right, because the deeply sad Georg Bohn has only now understood what he has lost in his wife, whom he so often treated badly. This is how he tells Katharina about Annika. As an infant, she was anonymously deposited on the steps of a Catholic children's home. She would have been there again just a few months ago. He would have found out about this from a sister at the funeral who would have taken special care of Annika at the time. She even kept the tote bag it was found in. It bears the imprint "Föhr", which was the reason for Annika to go there on vacation. She hoped maybe to find whoever had given her up.

Katharina turns to the inspector in Husum to ask if he doesn't want to investigate this story, but Hartung doesn't show too much interest. Supposedly Bohn would have told him about it, but his research in this direction would not have shown anything. Back on Föhr, Katharina asks her mother whether she could not remember that someone from the island had given up his child in Hamburg. Instead of answering this question directly, she suddenly confesses that her husband is not her father, but that she had a brief affair with his best friend Karl Hansen. A short time later she would have been pregnant again, but the child would have died in childbirth. Katharina suspects that this is not true and asks her biological father. Karl explains that Hauke ​​Petersen did not want the child. During a groin operation it was revealed that Hauke ​​was unable to reproduce, and that is why he brought the child to him and lied to his wife. This came as such a surprise to Karl that he had no other advice than to give the baby away. When Annika and her family came to him in the pub, he would have known immediately who she was, because her daughter had just such a small plush giraffe that he would have put in his pocket at the time. He would have talked about this with Hauke, who did not want to hear about the whole matter.

Katharina suspects that her father Hauke ​​must have something to do with Annika's disappearance, because she knows that he was on the beach that night. She informs Commissioner Hartung and asks him to go to the island. He asks Katharina's father about the events and the latter admits that he had an argument with Annika after telling her that he knew who she was. She fell on a stone and because he said that nobody would believe him, he would have taken her into the sea.

Through these dramatic events, Katharina and Nils find each other again and their son also comes back home. The example of Georg and Annika showed everyone how fragile life is.

background

Death on the island was filmed under the working title Inselblut - Die Tote am Strand from September 17, 2014 to October 22, 2014. Relevant-Film GmbH was responsible for the film.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Tod auf der Insel on September 21, 2015 was seen by 5.55 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 18.1 percent for ZDF .

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv wrote: “Although the pattern, heroine fights for a loved one, is not exactly new, Martinek's character is able to take the viewer on this tragic island tour. The heavily played, somewhat over-constructed crime drama is captivating with its effective mix of exciting, emotional plot and precise staging. "" The first pictures [...] already make it clear. Something is brewing here. Image designer Hannes Hubach also takes it literally - and from the first minute creates an atmosphere that makes this ZDF television film stand out well above the [...] typical puzzle game (film) e [...]. "

For the critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm , death on the island was “more ebb than flow, more shallow than deep”. They gave the film a medium rating by pointing to the side with their thumbs.

Heike Hupertz from the FAZ said: “The story is about the silence in the wrong place and at the wrong time, about a fraud that has destroyed families and about life lies that are fatal even after decades. Lisa Martinek's privately researching figure is increasingly gaining in presence as a counterpart to the pale inspector. The film (directed by Nicolai Rohde) focuses on gazes and builds its statements on the exquisite camera work by Hannes Hubach. "

Tilmann P. Gangloff rated Kino.de : “It's just a shame that Katharina's parents (Ruth Reinecke, Rüdiger Vogler) of all people seem like typical television characters, whose appearances are always somewhat theatrical. They have just as much a share in the whole truth that their daughter finally unearths thanks to her persistent inquiries, as her father's friend, the bar owner Karl (Jürgen Heinrich). Despite the well-known cast, Föhr is the star of the film anyway. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See crewunited.de
  2. ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Lisa Martinek, Nicolai Rohde, Hubach. When the drama wins over the crime thriller, accessed on Tittelbach.tv on March 8th. January 2020.
  3. ↑ tvspielfilm.de
  4. ↑ Heike Hupertz: "You struck the blue hour" at faz.net , accessed on March 8, 2020.
  5. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Filmkritik bei Kino.de , accessed on March 8, 2020.