Wilsberg: The anniversary
| Episode in the Wilsberg series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The anniversary |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Cologne Film on behalf of ZDF |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 25 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | December 27, 2008 on ZDF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Reinhard Munster |
| script | Stefan Rogall |
| production | Anton Moho |
| music | Carsten Rocker |
| camera | Robert Berghoff |
| cut | Bernhard Wießner |
| occupation | |
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The anniversary is the 25th episode of the Wilsberg television series . It was first broadcast on December 27, 2008 on ZDF . Directed by Reinhard Münster , the screenplay was written by Stefan Rogall .
action
Georg Wilsberg was invited to a class reunion 30 years after graduating from high school . Because he doesn't own a car, he asks his friend Ekki to take him to the class reunion at the Schlosshotel Solder, 40 kilometers from Münster. On the way there, the two of them broke down their car, but luckily they were picked up by Hannelore Uhlmann, a former classmate of Georg Wilsberg, and taken to the castle hotel. There they will be received by host Thomas Achtermann, also a former classmate of Wilsberg. Thomas bought the moated castle shortly before and the renovation work continues. However, a few rooms are already available for its guests. Since the spare parts for Ekki's car cannot be delivered until after the weekend, he settles in Wilsberg's hotel room.
Meanwhile, the other classmates have arrived, including Franziska, Mario and Bernhard. The last two do not look back on a completely unencumbered shared past. Bernhard was employed by Mario as an accountant in his garbage disposal company. He had to improve the bookkeeping for him, went to prison for it and was released by Mario. Today he is in dire financial straits, is threatened by debt collectors and is pumping his school friends, including the always damp Wilsberg, for 3,000 euros. When he is drunk, Bernhard threatens to finish Mario. After the badly drunk Bernhard fell into the buffet in the course of the dispute , Wilsberg took him to his hotel room. After this incident, some classmates left the meeting. Hannelore, Franziska, Mario, Thomas, Georg Wilsberg and Bernhard stay overnight.
When Wilsberg enters his room, he finds Ekki in his bed. Under these circumstances Wilsberg cannot think of sleep, wants to get something to drink and hears a scream. He finds Bernhard floating in the swimming pool in the hotel's basement. After discovering the death of his school friend, he calls his girlfriend, Commissioner Anna Springer, who is traveling from Münster. When Anna arrives, however, the body can no longer be found. In order to be able to investigate undercover, Anna pretends to be Georg Wilsberg's wife to Thomas. This gives the rumors new impetus, because up until now Ekki was mistaken for Georg Wilsberg's homosexual friend.
After Thomas had spent the night with Hannelore, with whom he was having an affair, he sexually harassed his employee Ines the next day. She told Ekki that she was dissatisfied with her employer, who was broke, still owed her the salaries of the past few months and hairdos his books.
Meanwhile, Wilsberg asks his goddaughter Alex by phone to go to the apartment of the deceased Bernhard in order to find clues there for possible blackmail against Mario. When Alex enters the apartment, she discovers that she has already been ransacked. The two debt collectors who previously threatened Bernhard at the port of Münster are now cornering Alex. However, she manages to escape and drives to Wilsberg's castle hotel. There she pretends to be his daughter to Wilsberg's school friends. In addition, she brings along some motives for Bernhard's murder. Hannelore, who works as a surgeon , recently committed a malpractice with Bernhard's wife that ultimately led to her death. After almost everyone present has a motive for the murder of Bernhard, the classmates begin to suspect one another.
By chance, Wilsberg finds Bernhard's body in a freezer in the basement of the castle hotel. But when he wanted to show Anna the body, she disappeared again. Only when Ines and Ekki want to swim in the hotel pool at night is a body found in the pool. However, it is not Bernhard, but the host Thomas, who is floating in the water. Ekki suspects Ines of stealing money from Thomas' office and does not give up until she has brought it back there.
Overbeck, Commissioner Springer's assistant, arrives in the meantime to check the alibis of those present. Although he may not succeed in doing this, he accidentally unmasked his superiors, whereupon Anna Springer officially takes over the investigation. Upon further questioning, Mario collapses with anaphylactic shock . Hannelore starts to cut the trachea , but can be stopped by Franziska, who in the meantime has fetched the required syringe from Mario's hotel room. The two police officers Anna Springer and Overbeck have to let those present go for lack of concrete evidence.
For Wilsberg, however, the case is not closed. He takes another look at Bernhard's apartment himself, where he finds a photo album with numerous photos of Franziska, in which there is a letter that leads him to Franziska. When he visits Franziska and confronts her with his discoveries, she meekly admits that she was raped by Bernhard on the evening of her graduation party . At that time she was pregnant by her then boyfriend Georg Wilsberg , but lost her child due to Bernhard's physical assault. This overwhelmed her, which is why she separated from Wilsberg. Wilsberg also learns from Franziska that she spoke to Bernhard at the pool at her class reunion. When he wanted to hug her, the two fell into the water. She took the opportunity and kept the drunk classmate under the water until he died. She was watched by Thomas as she dragged the dead Bernhard to her car. She revealed to Thomas her motives for the murder. He could understand her motive and helped her to bury Bernhard in the forest. Since Thomas, however, then blackmailed her to help him out of his financial needs, she killed him.
After her confession , Franziska surrenders to the police. According to Franziska's description, Bernhard's body is found by the police in the forest near the castle hotel.
background
Around 75 out of 90 minutes of the episode The Jubilee were filmed in and around Bergerhausen Castle , a moated castle in the Rhein-Erft district , on around 18 days with a team of around 40 people until April 16, 2008. Then there was shooting in Münster until May 30, 2008 and finally in Cologne . They took place parallel to the subsequently broadcast episode Der Mann am Fenster .
On May 5, 2008, the film was filmed at the Lauheide forest cemetery , where Alex Holtkamp can be seen at a funeral. On May 6, 2008, scenes were recorded at the Solder antiquarian bookshop on Frauenstrasse. The film was also shot in Nottuln in the Münsterland region , where the scene was recorded showing Ekki and Wilsberg's car broke down on the dirt road. Bergerhausen Castle can be seen in the film as the Schlosshotel Solder, where the class reunion takes place, and the naming of which can be understood as a homage to the Solder antiquarian bookshop. In addition, recordings of the cathedral and the Lambertikirche were used, which can be seen in the first scenes of the film. Alex Holtkamp can also be seen at the Prinzipalmarkt . Finally, the scenes that take place at the police headquarters, as in the previous episode Internal affairs , were filmed again in an outbuilding of the castle on Hindenburgplatz , where the Institute for Biology and Biotechnology of Plants is located. Exceptionally little was shot in Münster for this episode, as the film mostly takes place at the class reunion in the Schlosshotel Solder.
On September 21, 2008, more than a quarter before the television premiere, the film was shown in Münster at Kreativkai , where a scene was recorded for the film in which Bernhard Zeller is threatened by two debt collectors.
On August 24, 2009, the episode was released together with the 26th episode Der Mann am Fenster by polar film on DVD with FSK-12 approval. In addition to the two main films, the DVD contains a making-of and a portrait of the city of Münster as bonus material.
On the occasion of the 25th episode, The Jubilee , Leonard Lansink received the silver town hall medal from Münster's Lord Mayor Berthold Tillmann on April 29, 2008 .
The Running Gag Bielefeld refers in this episode to the pretext under which Georg Wilsberg pretends to be the cousin of the Bielefeld branch of the family of the dead Bernhard Zeller in order to receive the key to the dead man's apartment from his neighbor. The castle hotel is called Solder , after the actual name of Wilsberg's second-hand bookshop.
Henry Mancini's theme song from the American television series Peter Gunn can be heard in the two scenes in which Overbeck enters the reception of the palace hotel .
reception
Audience ratings
5.97 million viewers saw the episode Das Jubiläum when it was first broadcast on ZDF , which corresponded to a market share of 18.9%.
criticism
The lexicon of international films judges that The Jubilee is a "film from the (television) crime series located in cozy Münster, which spices up its unspectacular cases with a dose of humor". According to the verdict of the Prisma editorial team, it is the "smartest case of the popular series so far", in which "many funny details ensure the best entertainment". The editors awarded three out of five possible points. The editors of TV Spielfilm judged that the episode was “sometimes poor and poorly played, but the murderous hunt à la Agatha Christie remains exciting until the end” and offers “neat entertainment despite some weaknesses”. Andrea Niederfriniger from filmreporter.de also compares the production with a work by Agatha Christie - " Ten Little Niggers " - with which a "mixture of the familiar and the new" was staged.
Fabian Riedner from quotenmeter.de is pleased that “the makers really let it go” in the 25th episode of the television series. With the script, Stefan Rogall "attached great importance to a funny, but not particularly exciting episode". The screenplay could be “entertained by the fun factor”, but the “crime story is not based on a textbook”, which results in avoidable lengths, especially in the first few minutes. Apart from that, “the episode can be quite convincing”, even if the resolution, in particular the motive of the murder, seems “completely out of thin air” and lacks the reference to the previous plot. Since Leonard Lansink is playing “his character a bit too cool”, the supporting roles get more attention, with Saskia Vester, Oliver Korittke, Rita Russek and Roland Jankowsky in particular “acting great”. Riedner gives the result an overall rating of 79%.
Tilmann P. Gangloff from the editorial team of kino.de praises Stefan Rogall for his script, which is a “wonderful mixture of crime and comedy”. The dialogues were also successful, which "sometimes border on the quality of the classics" by Ernst Lubitsch or Billy Wilder . The "wickedness" that Commissioner Anna Springer and Georg Wilsberg exchange, "are sometimes almost bold ambiguity". In addition to the “quirky” private investigator Wilsberg, Ekki and Alex again form the “excellent ensemble” which, in addition to the “balance of tension and humor”, is the “secret of success of the series” and is rounded off by the “family suitability”. In the meantime Oliver Korittke has stepped out of the shadow of his predecessor Heinrich Schafmeister , which Gangloff had doubted ten episodes before.
The episode is a “boulevard-esque crime piece” that has “lots of humorous moments” and a “melancholy ending”, writes Kai-Oliver Derks from monstersandcritics.de. It could bear the title " Edgar Wallace light", because it played "almost the entire time in the walls of the castle hotel" and offered motifs for the murder for everyone present. The "balance between crime film and comedy" was successful. The script by Stefan Rogall is "undoubtedly a special one" because it "reveals some new things about the main characters".
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for Wilsberg: The anniversary . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 286 V).
- ^ A b Rhein-Erft Rundschau : "Wilsberg" in the castle , Kerpen, Gregor Ritter, April 8, 2008
- ↑ a b The anniversary at crew united
- ↑ presseportal.de: Ten years of »Wilsberg«: Start of shooting of two new ZDF Saturday thrillers with Leonard Lansink and Oliver Korittke , ZDF , March 25, 2008
- ↑ a b derbildverbindist.de: The story of the portrait photo with Heidrun Schulze and Leonard Lansink
- ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : Nottuln: For a mini-scene: Wilsberg in Nottuln , Nottuln, Dieter Klein, May 7, 2008
- ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : Nachrichten Münster: Three questions to: Leonard Lansink , November 24, 2008
- ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Nachrichten Münster: Only autographs are free , Münster, Klaus Baumeister, September 22, 2008
- ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Nachrichten Münster: Established Phlegmatic - Shooting of Wilsberg “Jubiläum” started , Münster, April 30, 2008
- ↑ Film starts : TV ratings: Good debut for Frank Plasberg as quiz master ( Memento from December 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Hamburg, dpa , December 28, 2008
- ^ The anniversary in the dictionary of international films
- ↑ a b prism : film review
- ↑ TV feature film : film review
- ^ Filmreporter.de: Wilsberg - The Jubilee: Criticism ( Memento from May 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d e f quotenmeter.de: The critics: "Wilsberg: Jubiläum" , Fabian Riedner, December 26, 2008
- ↑ a b c d e kino.de: film review , Tilmann P. Gangloff
- ^ Kino.de: Film review: "Wilsberg - Ausgegraben" , Tilmann P. Gangloff
- ↑ a b c d Wallace light ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), monstersandcritics.de, Kai-Oliver Derks, December 27, 2008
Web links
- The Jubilee in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The anniversary in the online film database
- The anniversary at crew united
- The anniversary at Beruehmtedetektiven.de
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