Innocent (film)
Innocent is a German two-part TV film by director Nicolai Rohde from 2018 with Felix Klare in the lead role. At the 2018 Hamburg Film Festival , the film was nominated for the Producer Award for German TV Productions.
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Alex Schwarz was found guilty of killing his wife and sentenced to prison. The main witness now confesses on his deathbed to have lied. Alex is allowed to go back to freedom after seven years in prison, but here he continues to face great rejection. His sister-in-law in particular is convinced of his guilt. In order to withstand the media turmoil, he publicly announces that he will not rest until the real murderer is caught and those who are to blame for not only losing his freedom but also his two children are punished. Lasse and Lena have grown up with their aunt Marion for the last seven years. Marion and Uwe Mosbach did not have any children of their own and took them both naturally. Accordingly, Marion is attached to the children and is afraid of "having to give them back" to her brother-in-law. Of course, Alex doesn't let time pass to regain sole custody . Since the children have a say, Alex tries to get in touch with them again. Lasse was eight and Lena five years old when they lost their mother and to this day Marion incited them against their father to such an extent that they reject him. However, Lasse becomes curious about his father and tries to get in touch with him. Marion wants to prevent this with all her might, but in contrast to Lena she has a bad position with Lasse in his adolescent phase. In the following days he makes himself an image of his father and is therefore also convinced of his innocence, which he is can gradually convey credibly to his sister.
For the police it now means to completely reopen the case for the retrial . Katrin Jahnke heads the working group and goes through all the testimony and evidence again with her two team members . In addition to a missing alibi, Alex is most heavily burdened with his coat, on which his wife's blood was found. In addition, the marriage was allegedly in crisis and the couple may face a separation that the murder did not have to lead to. The police and the public are still convinced of Alex's guilt and, of all people, Jahnke's friend had investigated Alex Schwarz seven years ago. Nevertheless, the commissioner tries to remain objective and actually finds a witness who was ignored by the court. Accordingly, Marion had a massive argument with her sister shortly before her death, it was about a private loan that Marion should repay her sister. After further research, it is clear that the old investigation files are incomplete. Katrin Jahnke is therefore certain that her boyfriend had deliberately manipulated the evidence so that it was enough for a conviction. As a result, the officer Jan Menhart has to answer for his misconduct and is suspended. Marion Mosbach has made herself suspicious by not mentioning the dispute. Alex's best friend, Sven Kolbeck, is also the focus of the investigation, because he could have exonerated Alex at the time if he had truthfully confirmed that he was with him at the time of the crime. But since he had an affair with Alex's wife for a few months and therefore thought he was guilty, he didn't want to help him. Meanwhile, the investigator does not rule out that he may be the real culprit and that Alex Schwarz could therefore have deliberately incriminated. But Marion's husband also has inconsistencies compared to his wife's statement, he was also close to the victim at the time of the crime and, as a shipyard worker, he knows his way around ship and rescue knots and the corpse was tied up with several bowline knots by the perpetrator .
Katrin Jahnke hopes that the analysis of the coat will provide new clues, as the measurement methods have evolved over the past seven years. The results of this investigation are very sobering for the investigators and prove that Alex's wife had worn her husband's coat and therefore traces of blood from an injury from the previous day had gotten to the garment. This means that the last key evidence against Alex is now invalid and Jahnke brings him the good news that there will be no new trial. This paved the way for him to have the Mosbach guardianship lifted for his children. For the investigators, meanwhile, all indications point to Uwe Mosbach as the perpetrator, which is not easy for Alex to endure. He speaks to his children because he is convinced that they cannot stay in his brother-in-law's house. He leaves them up to whether they want to move in with him or stay with Marion. Lasse and Lena decide in favor of their father. Since his release, he has lived with his brother Daniel, who had looked after Alex intensively the whole time and also tried to prove his innocence. Now he was there for him and was looking forward to finally going into the mountains to climb with his brother again. Now that the children are moving into the house, it is said that it is too tight for him and he decides to go on his climbing tour alone. This comes as a surprise to Alex and he notices that Daniel suddenly behaves strangely towards him. The commissioner is now also finding evidence against Daniel Schwarz, whose alibi was not even checked seven years ago. So cornered, he tearfully confesses to the murder of his sister-in-law. He had met her by chance on the night of the crime and really only wanted to confront her for her infidelity. It escalated and he killed her with a hammer. In order to make up for it somehow, he then looked after Alex so intensely and now he actually wanted to go to the mountains to kill himself there.
Alex can hardly believe all of this and leaves his brother's house with the children. He plans to go to Münsterland with them, where he grew up and was very happy. The more he thinks about it while driving, however, he comes to the decision not to destroy his life and that of the children any more. He turns around and drives them back to Marion and Uwe.
background
Innocent was commissioned by ARD Degeto from the Filmpool Fiction produces and from 26 February to 28 April 2018 Eckernförde and Hamburg rotated.
The crime drama is a German adaptation of the English miniseries Innocent from 2018.
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Audience rating
The first broadcast of both parts of Innschuldig took place on December 7, 2019, was seen by 5.04 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 18.5 percent for Das Erste .
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv said: “Author Florian Oeller lets drama prevail over crime novels. The tension in no way diminishes this. Because the dramaturgical drive of the film is the dynamic that is drawn from the character constellations, which are constantly changing. But not only the balance between drama and crime, between psychology and tension dramaturgy is right in this ARD premium movie - the interactions of the characters and the cinematic narrative flow including the staging in detail are also perfectly coordinated. The great actors also contribute significantly to this. "
The SWR summarized: “The film, which is based on a British series [ Innocent ], was initially intended to be a two-part and is now running in one piece in the first, first makes the audience an accomplice to the father, then leads them a little the nose around, and in the meantime even collects a few kitsch points. "
Sidney Schering from Oddsmeter.de judged partially negative and wrote: “'Innocent' is really not reinventing the crime wheel - which is not a shame. It is regrettable that the three-hour vehicle is ultimately only the extended version of a story often told in the normal television crime scene. 'Innocent' does what countless thrillers have done before - only half as fast. Florian Oeller's script doesn’t wrest anything new from the normal crime thriller structure and the character drawing does not automatically become more demanding and profound due to the longer duration. ”He sees the“ wide and varied array of suspects […] who are positive here are gradually rummaged around, questioned and pushed into argumentative corners. In addition, Oeller succeeds in throwing doubts over and over again. [...] This way, the desire to play with the knobs remains great for a long time - and the solution in the end is still coherent, instead of presenting a surprise that is conjured up by the hair. "
At the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Hans Hoff said: “You can forget the beginning of this film. The actors can be seen turning their heads into the camera and looking concerned. You actually want to switch off, embarrassed. Especially since a cello pulls sulky tones out of the pathos swamp and visual flash shots give a preliminary impression of what is coming. Immediately you think: it won't be good. But then, "the film develops into a" great work [s] that still reverberates when the credits are long through. "
Tilmann P. Gangloff wrote for the Stuttgarter Nachrichten : "If the ARD casts the actor of a 'Tatort' detective as a murder suspect in a crime thriller outside the series, it always has a special charm." ...] one reason why the otherwise consistently captivating two-parter, which the ARD shows in one piece, runs out of breath in the last third. "
Web links
- Innocent in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Innocent at Fernsehserien.de
- Innocent to crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ Innocent to crew united . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
- ↑ Felix Klare, Britta Hammelstein and Anna Loos are currently in front of the camera for the two-parter. at goldenekamera.de, accessed on April 10, 2020.
- ↑ a b Klare, Hammelstein, Oeller, Rohde. Drama and crime thrill each other at tittelbach.tv , accessed on April 6, 2020.
- ↑ Innocent at swr.de , accessed on April 6, 2020.
- ↑ Sidney Schering: movie review at Quotenmeter.de , accessed on 6 April 2020th
- ↑ Hans Hoff: Düstere Freiheit at sueddeutsche.de, accessed on April 6, 2020.
- ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Was it him - or wasn't he? Retrieved from Kino.de on April 6, 2020. 2020.