Doomed closeness
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Doomed closeness |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thorsten Näter |
| script | Thorsten Näter |
| music | Axel Donner |
| camera | Joachim Hasse |
| cut | Julia von Frihling |
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Doomed closeness is a German psychological thriller from 2014. Directed by Thorsten Näter , who also wrote the screenplay. The premiere of this ZDF in-house production on September 22, 2014 was followed by 6.33 million viewers. The film thus achieved an audience share of 20.3%.
action
A young prostitute is murdered in Hamburg , and because it is the second murder of a prostitute in a short time, the ambitious LKA officer Karin Meister suspects that it is the act of a serial killer. Kriminaloberrat Liebert, Karin Meister's boss, does not want any unrest in the population for political reasons and has the crimes processed as routine cases.
As so often, Karin Meister takes the files of the case home with her. Late in the evening, her husband, the frustrated German teacher Paul Meister, gave her decisive clues about a factual series based on the crime scene photos. And not only that, the cases are strikingly similar to another series of murders that had occurred in Hamburg a few years earlier.
In the middle of the night Karin turns to the drunkard former investigator and profiler Hans Denning, who had worked on the old cases. Denning never believed the confessed perpetrator, who later judged himself. Denning was desperate about the murders that remained unsolved for him and became a drinker as a result. Meanwhile he ekes out his professional life as a lecturer at the police school.
Of course, Denning immediately pricks up the ears, and when Karin appears on duty the following day, much to the displeasure of her boss Liebert, she is a member of a special commission led by the reactivated Hans Denning to clarify the old and new cases.
The killing in Hamburg continues and little by little Paul Meister comes into the focus of his investigating wife as a suspect. It corresponds exactly to the profile that Profiler Denning draws of the potential perpetrator: inconspicuous, harmless, professionally under-challenged. On his computer there are photos and reports of the crimes, as Karin secretly finds out, and to make matters worse, Paul also has a boat on which he spends a lot of time. The victims were each transported to the sites by boat.
Karin confides in her friend and colleague Mike Böckler. Together they search Paul's boat and find more suspicious things in his diaries.
Then Mike Böckler's wife Dina also disappears and Karin and Paul meet on an abandoned commercial property in the harbor.
criticism
“And the acoustic accompaniment to the action is not exactly bubbling over with innovation. The crime thriller is well crafted, well played and easy to look away. But somehow you never leave the feeling that you have seen all of this before or something like that. "
“As a viewer, in Thorsten Näter's“ Fateful Proximity ”you are usually one step ahead of the investigators - but never so far that you can be sure that you know the real culprit. This ensures a well-dosed tension over long stretches, especially since Näter spices the case with a special constellation. "
"A nifty thriller in which only the otherwise rather cleverly designed finale falls a little out of the ordinary, because the perpetrator babbles so long until rescue is finally near."
“This cleverly constructed psychological thriller makes for a very exciting TV evening. ... As a director, Näter pulls out all the stops and makes particularly good use of Hamburg's harbor and the old warehouse district. The result is a flawlessly played and powerfully narrated psychological thriller that makes you want to take a closer look at the work of this filmmaker. "
Web links
- Fatal close in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Fateful proximity in the online film database
- Fateful proximity Information about the film on the ZDF website
- Fateful proximity Film criticism on Kino.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ New ARD “Monday Check” “Who is right?” Starts extremely weak , at Meedia.de, accessed on September 23, 2014.
- ↑ Tom Heise: Monday Thriller on ZDF: “ Verländnisvolle Nahe ” , noz.de , September 22, 2014, accessed on October 4, 2014
- ↑ Thomas Gehringer: TV film “Verländnisvolle Nahe” , Tittelbach.tv , accessed on October 4, 2014
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff: The enemy in his own bed ( memento from October 4, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ), Frankfurter Rundschau (online edition) , accessed on October 4, 2014
- ↑ TV review: "Doomed proximity": Is your own husband a murderer? , Frankfurter Neue Presse (online edition) , accessed on October 4, 2014