Who sows the wind - a Taunus thriller

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Episode of the series Der Taunuskrimi
Original title Who sows the wind
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 all-in-production GmbH
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 5 ( list )
First broadcast May 4, 2015 on ZDF
Rod
Director Marcus O. Rosenmüller
script Anna Tebbe
production Annette Reeker
music Dominik Giesriegl
camera Tomas Erhart
cut Raimund Vienken
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Deep Wounds - A Taunus Crime

Successor  →
Bad Wolf - A Taunus thriller

Wer sät Wind - Ein Taunuskrimi is a German television film from 2015. The literary film adaptation is based on the novel of the same name by Nele Neuhaus and is the fifth episode of the crime series Der Taunuskrimi .

In this episode, detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein get caught in the crossfire between a wind turbine company and its opponents.

action

Detective officers Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are supposed to clear up the death of the night watchman of a wind turbine company. The man was found dead after falling down stairs. Since he had a drinking problem, it is entirely possible that it was an accident. However, the man had a pacemaker and, according to the autopsy, it is responsible for the actual cause of death. The device had stopped working due to a battery failure, which resulted in the fall. The investigators believe it is possible that a burglar triggered such a failure via a jammer. Traces of an intruder are found in the office where an environmental activist dumped a dead hamster to draw attention to the destructive effects of the current environmental sins, for which the wind turbine company is also held responsible.

The next day, another fatality occurred that the investigators had to deal with: Ludwig Hirtreiter, spokesman for an activist group that opposed the construction of more wind turbines, was brutally shot on his property. Apparently, the murderer had used Hirtreiter's own hunting rifle, which leads suspicion to Frauke Hirtreiter, who is an excellent marksman and hates her father. Ludwig Hirtreiter was generally known as a difficult character and on the eve of his death had a massive argument with Jannis Theodorakis, the second chairman of the environmental activists, which also puts him in the group of suspects. Stefan Theissen, the operator of the wind turbine, who has tried in vain to acquire a piece of forest from Hirtreiter to expand his systems, would also have a motive.

The investigators are certain that the deaths are related to the conflict between the wind turbine company and its opponents.

In the end it turns out that Ricky Franzen, the girlfriend of Jannis Theodorakis, wanted to blackmail the wind farm operator because she found out that he had "tricked" the location of his wind farm with falsified weather data. To gain access to these documents, she had broken into Theissen's company at night and tried to incapacitate the night watchman with an electric shock device. That he fell fatally was not wanted. Hirtreiter, on the other hand, had deliberately executed her because she had already suffered from him in her childhood and he had done just as much harm to his daughter, who is a good friend of hers. When he said that he would rather sell his land to Theissen's company than that his daughter would inherit it, she shot him in anger.

background

The fifth book in the Bodenstein & Kirchhoff series was filmed with Wer Wind sät - Ein Taunuskrimi .

reception

Audience rating

Whoever sows the wind - A Taunus crime thriller was broadcast during prime time on ZDF on May 4, 2015 , and achieved a rate of 5.77 million viewers and 18.8 percent market share.

criticism

Harald Keller from tittelbach.tv said: "Too much was packed in" for only 90 minutes. “On the one hand beautiful, even if minor characters are carefully designed, given their own realities of life, individual characteristics and interests. But then it is not good if this is at the expense of other characters and damages understanding. [...] In the end, the hopelessly entangled tangle of action is not neatly unraveled, but rather broken up with an act of violence. "Conclusion:" The result cannot convince, even in the face of blatant violations of logic. "

At the FAZ Heike Hupertz also wrote little appreciatively: “The ZDF mercilessly pulls through Nele Neuhaus's nonsense stories from the Vordertaunus. One novel after the other is being filmed. Now it's up to 'whoever sows the wind': A clear case of energy waste. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm wrote: "A case that only with difficulty leads all the traces laid out to the plausible goal." Conclusion: "Dramaturgically, unfortunately, only a mild breeze."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harald Keller: Felicitas Woll, Bergmann, Brennicke, Neuhaus, Rosenmüller. Film criticism made too much at tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 14, 2017.
  2. ↑ Heike Hupertz: From Limbo you can see Frankfurt on faz.net, accessed on May 14, 2017.
  3. ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on May 14, 2017.