Death of a policewoman
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Death of a policewoman |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Matti Geschonneck |
| script |
Bernd Lange , Magnus Vattrodt |
| production | Wolfgang Cimera |
| music |
Ludwig Eckmann , Nikolaus Glowna |
| camera | Theo Bierkens |
| cut | Ursula Höf |
| occupation | |
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Death of a Policewoman is a German TV film by director Matti Geschonneck from 2012 . Götz George , Jürgen Vogel , Rosalie Thomass and Uwe Kockisch can be seen in the leading roles .
action
After 15 years in prison hoping Frank Keller that his request for suspension of subsequent preventive detention is upheld. When the public prosecutor's office refuses, Keller takes his lawyer Nina Klingen hostage and flees. Nina Klingen, who suffers from diabetes, is tied up in a car in a workshop, the manager of which later finds the lawyer passed out and, contrary to Keller's orders, takes her to a hospital. Keller beats the man up for it.
At the time, Keller was sentenced to imprisonment for allegedly shooting young police officer Dagmar Reuter 15 years ago as a small drug dealer. At that time she worked with Bruno Theweleit and Günther Lehmann; Theweleit's testimony in court led to Keller's imprisonment. While Chief Inspector Theweleit is now a legend in police circles and is retired, but continues to work as a lecturer at the Police Academy, Lehmann is still on duty and takes over the investigation in the Keller case. Due to the extraordinary situation, police officers, including the police officer Lena Frey, are also used in the case. She rescues Theweleit when he is attacked by Keller in his own house and is finally turned off with a colleague to ensure Theweleit's personal protection. Other people from Keller's past also receive visitors, such as Eden Nasrallah, the sister of Keller's then partner Samir. Samir went into hiding immediately after hearing the news that Keller had escaped, but does not want to face the police under any circumstances. Theweleit, in turn, does not want to remain inactive under any circumstances, even if he is not officially investigating the case. He visits Keller's daughter on his own, and is accompanied by Lena Frey. She learns from her daughter that Keller was with her and that he had received a call from a certain Gadaffi. With Theweleit, she seeks out Gadaffi and meets Keller in an outbuilding, who succeeds in stealing her weapon. Before he escapes, he implores Lena that he did not shoot the policewoman back then. He suspects that Samir is the culprit.
Lena Frey has doubts about Keller's perpetration. She begins to investigate and finds more and more inconsistencies in the statements of the investigators from that time, but also in the course of the court hearing, in which Keller finally admitted the act on the advice of his lawyer, because he hoped to get away with 15 years in prison. Nevertheless, he was sentenced to subsequent preventive detention - a sentence that he would have received even if the perpetrator had been denied. Lena Frey's research has met with criticism from her superiors. Since Frey accuses Theweleit of wanting to see Keller as the perpetrator, regardless of whether it was him or not, she is transferred to the office at Theweleit's request.
Meanwhile, Keller finds Eden, who had hidden from him in vain. He threatens to pour boiling water over her child if she does not tell him Samir's whereabouts. She lies to him. A short time later the police arrive and she confesses to the investigators where Samir is. Meanwhile, he speaks a statement on his smartphone and shortly afterwards flees from the arriving police officers. Lehmann sees Samir flee and follows him. He learns from him that Keller is in the Gleisdreieck underground station. After this information, Lehmann stabs Samir to death. He goes to Theweleit, to whom he reveals the current whereabouts of Keller. Lena Frey finds Samir's body and also his smartphone. In his recording, Samir reports how Theweleit shot Reuter back then in a surprise reflex. Since Keller was passed out at this time, Theweleit put his weapon in Keller's hand and swore Samir to secrecy. Lehmann is arrested. The police learn from him that Theweleit is on his way to Keller. You drive to the specified whereabouts of Keller. There is currently a confrontation between Keller and Theweleit, during which Theweleit admits to having shot the colleague at the time. He says that sooner or later Keller would have shot someone anyway and shows his contempt for "inferior" people like Keller. When he points his gun at Keller, the latter shoots him. Keller is arrested by the approaching police officers. It turns out that Theweleit's gun was not loaded, so he accepted to be shot by Keller in order to make him a murderer after all.
production
Death of a Policewoman was filmed from March 20 to April 25, 2012 under the working title Endspiel in Berlin and the surrounding area. The film premiered on October 3, 2012 at the Hamburg Film Festival in Cinemaxx 3. The TV premiere took place on January 14, 2013 on ZDF . The film was seen by 6.87 million viewers (market share 20.3 percent).
In July 2013, Death of a Policewoman was released on DVD.
criticism
For the film service , Death of a Policewoman was an “exciting, excellently played and densely staged (television) crime film that dispenses with glaring visual effects and concentrates entirely on exploring the characters.” The Hamburger Abendblatt called the film “coolly illuminated ... "and found that the film" remains exciting until the end (in contrast to the laconic tone and the elegance of the rest of the film, a bit jerky). "
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung criticized the fact that the director Geschonneck “hardly wants to come up with anything beyond a very common tension dramaturgy à la ' Tatort ' or ' Polizeiruf ' - and when something occurs to him, it sometimes seems involuntarily funny." TV Spielfilm felt the film was "a bit stenciled, but well played". For Focus , on the other hand , the death of a policewoman was “the better 'crime scene'”, “free from the series compulsion to mediocrity for the masses”.
Web links
- Death of a police officer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Death of a policewoman at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death of a policewoman on crew-united.com.
- ^ Death of a policewoman on filmfesthamburg.de.
- ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime Check: Monday, January 14, 2013. quotenmeter.de, January 15, 2013.
- ↑ Death of a policewoman. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Götz George on TV: When lies come to light at Abendblatt.de, accessed on January 14, 2013.
- ↑ Jochen Hieber: At most a few white stubble . faz.net, January 14, 2013.
- ↑ tvspielfilm.de
- ↑ Josef Seitz: "Death of a Policewoman" - The better "crime scene" . focus.de, January 14, 2013.