Death of a Girl (2015)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Death of a girl |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 180 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Berger |
| script |
Stefan Holtz , Florian Iwersen |
| production |
Jutta Lieck-Klenke , Dietrich Kluge |
| music | Florian Tessloff |
| camera | Frank Küpper |
| cut | Jan Henrik Pusch |
| occupation | |
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Death of a Girl is a two-part German TV film from 2015. Heino Ferch and Barbara Auer can be seen in the leading roles . The first broadcast took place on February 9 and 11, 2015 on ZDF .
action
The body of 14-year-old Jenni washes up on the beach in the fictional Schleswig-Holstein town of Nordholm. Commissioner Hella Christensen, who lives in the neighborhood of the victim's family, is conducting the investigation alongside Chief Commissioner Kessler, who has just been transferred from Frankfurt to Kiel . To clear up the crime, she has to find out from her own circle of friends and acquaintances what increasingly brings her into a conflict of conscience .
Several local men soon found themselves among the suspects, including Jenni's father and Christensen's own son, who had an online chat with the dead woman and who had arranged a meeting with her on the evening of the crime.
Parallels to the disappearance of 15-year-old Anita Bossen 14 years earlier lead the investigators on the trail of hotelier Uwe Hahn, who once had a relationship with Anita and for whom Jenni had worked as a temporary worker on the evening of the crime. Due to a defective rear light, the hunting tenant Lars von Ahnefeld is also the target of the investigation. The latter commits suicide by police officers by shooting at Kessler who has to shoot him in self-defense. It turns out that von Ahnefeld was responsible for the death of Anita.
After Hahn was arrested, Kessler discovers that Jenni had found out about her mother's affair with her husband's brother, and that Jenni was responsible for Jenni's death: she got into an argument with Torben on the cliff and fell with the back of her head in a scuffle on a stone and passed out. Believing that she was dead, Torben brought the lifeless Jenni into the Baltic Sea and let her drift out to sea, causing her to drown.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Death of a Girl (Part 1) on February 9, 2015 on ZDF reached 7.182 million viewers and a market share of 21.1 percent. The first broadcast of Death of a Girl (Part 2) on February 11, 2015 on ZDF reached 8.02 million viewers and a market share of 24.7 percent.
Reviews
TV Spielfilm praised the "consistently strong ensemble" and saw content parallels with the British television series Broadchurch .
The FAZ explained: “As in 'Death of a Girl', the searing sea, the steep cliffs and the sedate small town on the coast play atmospheric main roles in 'Broadchurch', here as there a highly opposing pair of investigators is on duty, right down to individual dialogues Especially in the first part of the ZDF film, the plot, milieu and sequence of scenes appear largely like a copy. [....] 'Death of a girl' is a problematic borderline case of material assimilation. "
The SHZ sees great similarities up to the perpetrator with the series Kommissarin Lund - Das Verbrechen , but still finds the two-parter successful and exciting.
Trivia
The shooting took place in Lütjenburg .
Sequels
At the beginning of January 2019, ZDF broadcast The Disappeared Family and on February 6th and 8th, 2020 with Das Mädchen am Strand also two-part sequels, again with Heino Ferch and Barbara Auer in the leading roles.
Web links
- Death of a girl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Death of a girl ZDF press kit
- Death of a girl - part 1 and part 2 in the ZDF media library
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Death of a Girl . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2015 (PDF; Part 1, test number: 149929V).
- ^ Certificate of Release for Death of a Girl . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, February 2015 (PDF; part 2, test number: 149973V).
- ↑ Death of a girl (Part 1) audience rating at quotenmeter.de, accessed on January 8, 2019.
- ↑ Death of a girl (part 2) audience rating at quotenmeter.de, accessed on January 8, 2019.
- ↑ TV Spielfilm, issue 4/2015, page 61
- ↑ Jochen Hieber: Serial imitation on TV. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from February 13, 2015.
- ↑ Götz Bonsen: "Death of a Girl": crime thriller copy from Kellenhusen in front of Møns Klint in the Plön district. In: shz.de. Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag , February 11, 2015, accessed on August 29, 2016 .