In other circumstances: Beyond death

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Episode in the series Under Different Circumstances
Original title Beyond death
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Network Movie
on behalf of ZDF
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 16 ( list )
German-language
first broadcast		 March 2, 2020 on ZDF
Rod
Director Judith Kennel
script André Georgi
Judith Kennel
production Jutta Lieck-Klenke
Dietrich Kluge
music Matthias Weber
camera Nicolay Gutscher
cut Friederike von Normann
occupation
chronology

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In the dark valley

Beyond the Death is a German television film by Judith Kennel from 2020. It is the 16th episode of the crime series Unter Otherbedingungen with Natalia Wörner in the lead role.

action

Detective Inspector Matthias Hamm secretly digs up a corpse at night in the cemetery. Then he calls the pathologist Jonas Kitanou and tells him to appear in the dissection room immediately . Against all the rules, Hamm unauthorized unauthorized excavation of the body of his former girlfriend Nicole Seidel because he does not accept her sudden death as an accident, but is convinced that she was murdered. But since he has no evidence and no one else would believe him, he has to rely on the results of the pathological examination. Only then can he officially do something. His supervisor Jana Winter is not enthusiastic about Hamm's arbitrariness, but tolerates his actions. Hamm informs her that Seidel had ensured that the alleged murderer Oliver Plessner could be convicted in a circumstantial trial in which he was conducting the investigation. Now, shortly after he was released, Nicole is dead and it is clear to Hamm that Plessner took revenge on her in this way for her conviction. After Kitanou can clearly demonstrate evidence of outside influences, Winter initiates an official investigation. Alwa Sörensen, the daughter-in-law of criminal inspector Dr. Bernd Fabian. After a car accident in which her husband (Fabian's son) and her child were killed, she suffered a trauma that she has not yet fully overcome. Winter hopes that this doesn't hinder her work.

Winter and Hamm look around the victim's apartment, where she lived with her partner Tobias Gumbrecht. Packed moving boxes indicate that Seidel wanted to leave Gumprecht. An examination of the e-mails reveals numerous messages from Oliver Plessner in which he more or less threatened her. Winter and Hamm now seek out Plessner, who immediately speaks of having spent 12 years innocent in prison, which is why he wanted Seidel to be accountable for their false statements against him. While Hamm still considers him guilty, Winter remains objective and neutral. Plessner accuses Hamm of having been manipulated by Seidel and her testimony. Plessner asserts that he did not kill the girl 12 years ago or Nicole Seidel now. When he wanted to go to Seidel to confront her, she had strictly refused. That's why he followed her, while he was able to watch her meet with Martin Erhardt. Erhardt also testified at the time against Plessner. When Winter asked Erhardt, he said that Seidel wanted to warn him about Plessner and that she was so afraid of him that she even wanted to move away from Flensburg.

Plessner's vehement pleading of innocence and his accusation against Hamm of having been manipulated by Seidel prompt Hamm to reopen the case for himself. After all, the current murder is also related to it. He is surprised when it turns out that the analysis of cell phone data provides evidence of Seidel's visit to the parents of the victim at the time. Winter and Hamm therefore speak to Johan Ohlsen, the father of the girl who was killed 12 years ago. He denies that Seidel was with him three weeks ago and so it turns out that his wife had spoken to Seidel. Seidel also wanted to warn her about Plessner and had asked for some money. In fact, two days before Seidel's death, Martin Erhardt paid money into Seidel's account. Winter suspects that he was blackmailed by Seidel and that her statement at the time was supposed to protect the real perpetrator. Winter and Hamm want to confront Erhardt, but he has disappeared. His car is found in a forest north of Flensburg. A farewell letter indicates that he wants to kill himself and so he is found dead near an illegal grave where it turns out that Ohlsen's daughter is buried here. Winter learns from Simone Erhardt that she is happy that the lies have now come to an end. As suspected by the investigators, Seidel had blackmailed them and demanded money for a fresh start that they could not afford. Her husband had an affair with Claudia Ohlsen 12 years ago. On the day Ohlsen's daughter disappeared, the two were discovered by the girl making love. During an argument, she fell down the stairs and both of them buried the girl in the woods. There they were surprised by Claudia Seidel, who was walking her dog in the forest. Even then, she immediately recognized her opportunity, extorted 20,000 euros for her silence and arranged everything so that an innocent person was mistaken for the perpetrator. Winter and Hamm can now deliver the news that his innocence has been confirmed, with Hamm visibly suffering from being complicit in the man's 12 lost years.

Subplot

Winter's former superior, friend and colleague Arne Brauner is in Croatia on rehab. There he befriends a fellow sufferer who wants to give up smoking here.

background

Beyond Death, it was filmed in Hamburg and the surrounding area from November 14th to December 14th, 2018 under the working title of withdrawal of love and broadcast on ZDF as TV movie of the week on March 2nd, 2020 .

Natalia Wörners played her film son Leo Winter at the time of the first broadcast, 14-year-old biological son Jacob Lee Seeliger .

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Beyond Death on January 21, 2019 on ZDF was followed by 7.20 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 23.3 percent.

Reviews

Tilmann P. Gangloff from Tittelbach.tv wrote: "The above-average episode from the ZDF series with Natalia Wörner, which is always worth seeing anyway, combines a great crime thriller with a fresh start," because "Jana Winter is now the head of the merged commissioners in Schleswig and Flensburg." “In his fourth script for the series, author André Georgi tells an interesting and increasingly complex story about a man who may have been wrongly convicted as a child murderer. The decisive factor for the quality is how director Judith Kennel packaged the plot. "

In Quotenmeter.de Christian Lukas evaluated: "A murder without a body. A perpetrator who apparently has an old bill to settle after his release from prison. And right in the middle of it a policeman on a personal crusade: Jana Winter's first day as head of her new area of ​​operations in Flensburg is anything but smooth. ”Lukas rates the crime thriller as“ consistently successful ”and“ only a few scenes connect this case to earlier films; these remain short flashing lights for fans of the series. "

The Hamburger Abendblatt ruled: What may have moved the filmmakers to the opening sequence remains completely inexplicable. Disturbing the peace of the dead is not only unsavory, it is also a criminal act. And it is committed here by an investigator himself who has not seen the dead woman in the coffin for years. This is just hair-raising nonsense. Fortunately, the further course of the crime thriller is much less unrealistic and brings to light a truth that is indeed buried and that has to be discovered first. "

Evangelisch.de said: "Reduced to its core, the story is interesting, especially since the entanglements are becoming more and more complex, but certainly not extraordinary." The image design, on the other hand, was praised: "The flashbacks are skillfully integrated [...] that deal with their coarse-grained, slightly bluish and therefore significantly cooler images from the present. ”“ The above-average overall quality of the film is also reflected in the music into which Matthias Weber cleverly integrated striking organ sounds, and not without reason. ”

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In Other Circumstances - Beyond Death at united.com, accessed June 14, 2020.
  2. ↑ Under other circumstances: Beyond death at presseportal.de, accessed on June 14, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b Tilmann P. Gangloff : Wörner, Herforth, Werlinder, Brambach, Georgi, Kennel. Twelve lost years on Tittelbach.tv , accessed on June 15, 2020.
  4. ↑ Christian Luke: movie review at Quotenmeter.de , accessed on 15 June 2020th
  5. ↑ Review of the film at abendblatt.de , accessed on June 15, 2020.
  6. ↑ Review at Evangelisch.de , accessed on June 16, 2020.