CRIME after Ferdinand von Schirach
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | CRIME after Ferdinand von Schirach |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| year | 2013 |
| Production company |
Moovie - the art of entertainment |
| length | 45 minutes |
| Episodes | 6 in 1 season |
| genre | Detective film |
| Theme music | Red from Nanuchka |
| production |
Oliver Berben , Jan Ehlert |
| music | Solo Avital |
| camera | Hanno Lentz |
| First broadcast | April 7, 2013 on ZDF |
| occupation | |
The other cast varies for each episode and can be found in the episode list . | |
VERBRECHEN after Ferdinand von Schirach is the title of a German crime series based on the short story volume Verbrechen by the defense attorney and writer Ferdinand von Schirach . Josef Bierbichler plays the main role of defense attorney Friedrich Leonhardt, who deals with special criminal cases. The series was produced by Oliver Berben for ZDF and consists of six episodes that were broadcast in April 2013.
action
The main character is the lawyer Friedrich Leonhardt. As a criminal defense lawyer, he tries to defend his respective client as best he can in order to keep the sentence as low as possible, or even to achieve an acquittal. Often there are very special cases that he researches carefully in order to be able to reconstruct the course of events in detail.
Episodes
| episode | title | Screenwriter | Director | occupation | action |
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| 1 | Fähner | André Georgi | Hannu Salonen |
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The client Fähner had lived in a marriage hell for decades. His wife humiliated, despised and insulted him until he took up an ax and hacked it to pieces in an act of affect. The defense attorney recapitulates the causes of the act. |
| 2 | Tanata's tea bowl | Jobs Christian Oetzmann | Jobs Christian Oetzmann |
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Berlin petty criminals with a migration background steal from a Japanese businessman from their neighborhood. The latter incites a merciless killer to bring back a rare family heirloom. Some of those involved lose their lives. |
| 3 | green | Nina Grosse | Hannu Salonen |
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| 4th | The Hedgehog | Jobs Christian Oetzmann | Jobs Christian Oetzmann |
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Karim is of Arab origin from Berlin who leads a double life. Within his criminal family, he plays the naive idiot from the ghetto. He endures the teasing and beatings of his brutal brothers. In his private life he is intelligent, sensitive and integrated. When it comes to keeping his criminal brothers out of jail, he invents a clever plan and fools the court. |
| 5 | Summertime | Nina Grosse | Hannu Salonen |
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A young woman secretly prostitutes herself to earn money for her boyfriend. When she is murdered in the hotel, her suitor is suspected of murder. With the help of a surveillance video and the principle in dubio pro reo, the defender manages to "knock out" his client. Whether he murdered the woman or the boyfriend out of jealousy can never be determined. |
| 6th | Self-defense | Jobs Christian Oetzmann | Jobs Christian Oetzmann |
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An unknown man is attacked by drunk neo-Nazis. The man, apparently an expert in martial arts , kills both men through the use of martial arts. The police arrest him and ask him to reveal his identity. The defense attorney, who was hired by an anonymous company , argues that, according to the constitution, no one can be forced to testify and that the surveillance videos clearly show a self-defense situation. The police have no choice but to let him go again. Who is the mysterious man? Days later, the defense attorney reads about a professionally carried out contract murder. |
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of the first two episodes VERBRECHEN after Ferdinand von Schirach on April 7, 2013 saw 3.44 and 2.61 million viewers in Germany; Episodes 3 and 4 in the following week 3.17 and 2.52 million and the last two episodes 2.81 and 2.73 million viewers. The ZDF television game director Reinhold Elschot said: “We are happy and proud that our program venture 'Crimes' was received very positively in the press and the public. And we are very happy that our audience followed this path. The best evidence of this is that the conclusion of our series, the episode 'Self Defense', had the highest engagement and demographics. That gives us courage for our next plans. "
Reviews
“Whereby it is not so much the tricky gimmicks, which are well worth seeing and very finely tuned to the respective scripts, that make these petty thrillers a pleasure. It is almost revolutionary how, perhaps for the first time, crime is consistently negotiated differently here on German television. It's not about convicting a perpetrator - it's about understanding him. "
“On the next three Sunday evenings [...] the audience can look forward to aesthetic pleasure in a class of its own, which, due to the consistently tough plot and some highly violent individual scenes, also requires solid mental stability. In any case, a large group of actors did a lot very right in this production. "
“Perhaps it would have been wiser to only take the stories of the original, which are reduced to the plot, only as a distant approach for your own new stories. Then one could have found images for inner development. Then you could have shown any development at all. Then one could have achieved tension from the way people struggle to find the best way out of their dilemma. But as?"
“You can't praise“ Verbrechen ”without criticizing the other excesses of the genre, because“ Verbrechen ”shows what is possible: a psychologically so complex and aesthetically so demanding and mature series like hardly any other German television production in this millennium. The avant-garde is at home here not only in the quiet, filigree narrative style, but also in the extraordinarily artful staging with its complex symbols and clever camera work. «Verbrechen» could be the long-awaited creative breakthrough for the German series. "
Awards
VERBRECHEN was nominated for the 50th Grimme Prize in the category “Fiction / Series & Multi-Part”.
See also
literature
- Ferdinand von Schirach: Crime . Piper Verlag , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-05362-4 .
Web links
- CRIME by Ferdinand von Schirach in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page for the series ( Memento from March 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ ZDF press kit (PDF; 518 kB)
- ↑ Manuel Weis: Primetime check: Sunday, April 7th, 2013.quotemeter.de , April 8th, 2013, accessed on April 8th, 2013 : “It was also going well for the second big crime event on Sunday - the one shown by the second Film «Crimes» based on Ferdinand von Schirach. "
- ↑ Sidney Schering: Primetime-Check: Sunday, April 14, 2013.quotemeter.de , April 15, 2013, accessed on April 15, 2013 .
- ↑ Manuel Weis: Primetime check: Sunday, April 21, 2013.quotemeter.de , April 22, 2013, accessed on April 22, 2013 : “Further episodes of the critics' favorite“ crime ”then picked up 10.2 and 10 from 10 p.m. 14.5 percent market share with 2.81 and 2.73 million people who watched. "
- ^ ZDF press: ZDF draws a positive balance of "Crimes after Ferdinand von Schirach". ZDF , April 22, 2013, accessed on April 22, 2013 .
- ^ Arno Frank: Noble crime series 'Verbrechen' on ZDF. But that's a nice killer. In: Culture. Spiegel Online, April 4, 2013, accessed on April 22, 2013 : "Who can be angry with an ax murderer?"
- ↑ Jochen Hieber: This defense lawyer is a stunner. Big film of Schirach on ZDF. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 6, 2013, accessed on April 6, 2013 .
- ↑ Achim Zons: Men without qualities. Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 6, 2013, accessed on April 6, 2013 .
- ↑ Julian Miller: «Verbrechen» could be the long-awaited qualitative breakthrough for the German series. Quota meter, April 5, 2013, accessed April 8, 2013 .
- ↑ Grimme Prize 2014: Nominations Fiction ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 26, 2014
