In other circumstances: play with fire

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Episode in the series Under Different Circumstances
Original title play with the fire
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Network Movie
on behalf of ZDF
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 7 ( list )
First broadcast March 7, 2012 on ZDF
Rod
Director Judith Kennel
script Sören Hüper
Christian Prettin
production Jutta Lieck-Klenke
Dietrich Kluge
music Sven Rossenbach
Florian van Volxem
camera Nathalie Wiedemann
cut Barbara Hennings
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Murder in the Watt

Successor  →
The murderer among us

Spiel mit dem Feuer is a German television film by Judith Kennel from 2012. It is the seventh episode of the crime series Under Other Circumstances with Natalia Wörner in the lead role.

action

This time Commissioner Jana Winter is dealing with an unusual murder. Henner Ullmann, employee of the Schleswig youth welfare office, is found dead in a smokehouse. Susanne Ullmann reports threatening letters that her husband had received. A first suspicion falls on Achim Kaminski, an alcohol-dependent father whose son was placed in a home on Ullmann's initiative. Kaminski denies having anything to do with the threatening letters. The head of the youth welfare office confirms, however, that Ullmann felt threatened by Kaminski. Commissioner Winter finds another mother who was in conflict with Ullmann and had problems with him. Since separating from her husband, Kathrin Teding has been involved in a custody dispute, in which the youth welfare office is also involved.

During the first investigation of the crime scene, the investigators found out that Ullmann had set up an SM room on his property . After fingerprints of at least eight different people were found there, his wife was also included in the group of suspects. When asked, she said that their relationship had cooled down and that she had come to terms with his "hobby".

A note leads back to the victim's professional environment. Ullmann should be transferred to Flensburg, which draws the investigators' attention. They find out that Frauke Jespersen, the wife of the youth welfare office head, had an affair with Ullmann and was one of his private SM friends until recently. Because of his increasingly extreme inclination, she had ended the relationship with him and her husband applied for a transfer.

Jana Winter discovered the real culprit by chance when she discovered the same font on a delivery note that was used to write the threatening letters to Ullmann. That leads to Kathrin Teding, who admits to the commissioner that she was blackmailed by Ullmann. Since she suffers from an anxiety disorder and is often under the influence of pills, he threatened her with withdrawing the children if she did not take part in his SM games. She agreed to it until she could no longer bear it and on the evening of the crime had fought against her tormentor with a baton. Assuming he was dead, she hid him in his own smokehouse.

background

Spiel mit dem Feuer was broadcast on ZDF on March 7, 2012 as TV film of the week .

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Spiel mit dem Feuer on March 7, 2012 on ZDF was watched by 4.92 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 17.7 percent.

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv wrote: “The script does not sound out this topic [of S / M practices] more deeply, but places the gender struggle subplots -“ randomly ”- next to one another. This dramaturgy, which may fit a conceptual drama, works in a TV crime thriller that suggests everyday life and psychologically remains on the surface, artificial and constructed. "Conclusion:" Staging remains flat & no scene is remembered. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm rated it positively and wrote: "Very confidently staged network of sexual obsessions and (emotional) addictions." "Abyssal, bizarre and deeply human."

Tilmann P. Gangloff wrote for Kino.de : “Even the last Schleswig thriller with Natalia Wörner as detective superintendent Jana Winter ('Mord im Watt') was strongly Scandinavian in all its gloom and depth. 'Playing with Fire' also dares to venture into lowlands, which are unusual for the main evening. […] The film, like the entire series by Judith Kennel, does not play the subject of sadomasochism speculatively in the foreground with a noticeable effort to create its own signature. But naturally it keeps cropping up. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Audience rating at quotenmeter.de, accessed on March 20, 2017.
  2. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Wörner, Herforth, Brambach, Judith Kennel & a commissioner who doesn't look the other way , from Tittelbach.tv , accessed on March 20, 2017.
  3. ↑ Short review on the TVSpielfilm website, accessed on March 20, 2017.
  4. ^ Film review at Kino.de , accessed on May 12, 2017.