Wilsberg: Internal affairs
| Episode in the Wilsberg series | |
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| Original title | Internal affairs |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Cologne Film on behalf of ZDF |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 24 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | April 26, 2008 on ZDF |
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| Director | Catharina Deus |
| script | Ulli Stephan |
| production | Anton Moho |
| music | Marius Felix Lange |
| camera | Ralph Netzer |
| cut | Katharina Schmidt |
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Internal affairs is the 24th episode in the Wilsberg television series . It was first broadcast on April 26, 2008 on ZDF . The director was Catharina Deus , the screenplay was written by Ulli Stephan .
action
The two policemen Oliver Scholz and Silke Heilmann indulge in a shepherd's hour in a barn outside the gates of Münster during their joint service . A mission calls them back to the city. Silke made contact by telephone with Commissioner Anna Springer, whom she knew from her training at the police school , and made an appointment with her in a Münster café. However, Silke did not reach this meeting because she had a fatal accident with her car on the drive to the café in the evening. Anna Springer suspects that Silke Heilmann discovered irregularities in her office that she wanted to tell her in confidence. Therefore, Anna Springer wants to start the investigation, which is forbidden to her by Kriminalrat Landau, who fears that the investigation into the death of the 24-year-old colleague Heilmann could be seen in public in a bad light. The colleague Carola Sonntag, who was recently transferred from Bielefeld to Münster, does not help Anna Springer either, so she asks her friend Georg Wilsberg to help her with her private investigations. Georg Wilsberg and Anna Springer visit the accident site together and find Silke's cell phone in the footwell of the car that Anna takes.
Silke Heilmann lived in a granny flat in the basement of the house of her work colleague Heinz Fading. Wilsberg breaks into the deceased's apartment where he finds a photo showing Silke with her colleague and friend Oliver Scholz. Tine Fading, the landlord's young daughter, surprises him in the dead man's room. In response to Wilsberg's questions, she explains to him that she had read in Silke's diaries that the deceased had separated from her friend Oliver in an argument. However, the girl does not give the private investigator the diaries themselves.
The coroners meanwhile determine that Silke Heilmann received a blow after her death. Wilsberg wants to rule out that fading has anything to do with the death of the policewoman and finds out during his investigation that his car was stolen, so that he cannot examine it for signs of an accident. During a visit to the police station where Silke Heilmann worked, Anna Springer came across voyeuristic photos that Heinz Fading took of his tenant without her knowledge and showed around to his colleagues at the station. Anna Springer suspects Heinz Fading to be responsible for the death of his colleague because of her discovery.
Carola Sonntag finds Silke Heilmann's cell phone in Anna Springer's desk and reports this misappropriation of evidence to the Chief Detective Landau, who then suspends Commissioner Springer from duty . Meanwhile, during a visit to the Scholz family's bicycle shop, Wilsberg learns that the family owns a former farm and barn. Wilsberg also determines that Oliver's father, who is in a wheelchair, was beaten up because he had not paid an installment. Meanwhile, Ekki observes Oliver Scholz and witnesses how Oliver hides drugs in the family barn in Entrup , which are delivered to him from the Netherlands . After Oliver and the Dutch have left again, Ekki and the summoned Wilsberg break into the barn and find hemp and magic mushrooms there .
Ekki then sets off for the Netherlands with Alex Holtkamp. You will find the greenhouses where the Dutch grow the drugs. They are invited by a young Dutch man to try the cookies he has baked. Ekki is unaware that he is consuming hash cookies, so he takes it too courageously. When Alex takes photos of a car hidden under a tarpaulin that shows signs of an accident, she is exposed as a snoop and flees back to Germany with Ekki over the border. The Dutch are chasing them, but have to stop their pursuit when Ekki and Alex run into a traffic control on their way to Münster. The two manage to draw the officers' attention to the Dutch so that they can continue their journey.
With the knowledge they have gathered, Wilsberg, Alex and Ekki can prove that the police officers Heinz Fading, Diddi Krabbe, Lothar Dörner and Oliver Scholz had themselves smeared in order to allow the Dutch people safe passage through the Münsterland and the temporary storage of drugs in the barn. When Silke Heilmann came across drugs at a shepherd's hour with Oliver Scholz in the barn, she wanted to report to Anna Springer that her colleagues were involved in the drug trade.
The photos that Alex took of the blue station wagon in the Netherlands are sent to the Dutch and the corrupt police officers. They then meet in the barn, where Wilsberg surprises them. It turns out that the Dutchman Koos van Buuren did not put the car he had been entrusted with for scrapping into the scrap press as promised, but instead parked it on his property for resale, where Alex could find it and take a photo. Lothar Dörner admits that he drove into Silke Heilmann's car in Heinz Fading's car in order to intimidate her and to protect their drug deals. Before anything can happen to Wilsberg, Anna Springer arrives to arrest the corrupt police officers and the Dutch drug traffickers .
background
The title internal affairs is an allusion to the love affair of the two colleagues Oliver Scholz and Silke Heilmann as well as to internal affairs , which is a term for the department for internal affairs, which the police officer Silke Heilmann with Anna Springer's help due to Wanted to turn on irregularities in the work of her colleagues.
The film was shot in Münster and Cologne . The shooting began on October 23, 2007 and ended on November 26, 2007. In Münster, on Frauenstrasse, at the Solder antiquarian bookshop, the Wilsberg antiquarian bookshop can be found in the film. Further recordings were made at the Prinzipalmarkt in which Michael Kessler can be seen in a cameo as a traffic policeman. The scene in which Commissioner Anna Springer waits in vain for her colleague Silke Heilmann was filmed in the market café on Domplatz . The pictures showing the police headquarters were not taken in the Bispinghof , as is usually the case , but on an outbuilding of the palace on Hindenburgplatz , where the Institute for Biology and Biotechnology of Plants is to be found. The Scholz family's bicycle shop was set up for the shooting in Jüdefelderstrasse in Münster.
Before its television premiere, the film was shown in two screenings on April 17, 2008 in the Cineplex Münster . Due to a change in the schedule for the episode The Jubilee in Cologne , the screenings had to take place in the absence of the actors.
On July 14, 2008, the film was released together with the 23rd episode Royal Flush by Polarfilm 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.
The Running Gag Bielefeld refers in this episode to the previous office, in which Carola Sonntag, who is placed alongside Commissioner Anna Springer, worked. The new colleague remarks casually: "Compared to here, all hell was going on in Bielefeld."
The background image of the desktop of Anna Springer's computer shows a small black swan next to a large white swan as an homage to the swan Petra , who attracted worldwide media attention between 2006 and 2008 with his love for a white pedal boat in the form of a swan on Lake Aasee .
Roland Jankowsky , who after the pilot episode And The Dead Are Rested in all previous episodes - apart from the twelfth episode Tödliche Freunds - can be seen as Commissioner Overbeck, the assistant to Commissioner Anna Springer, was not in front of the camera for this episode. According to Anna Springer, he is on paternity leave in this episode .
reception
Audience ratings
5.49 million viewers saw the episode Internal Affairs when it was first broadcast on ZDF .
criticism
The editorial staff of Prisma judged that internal affairs was "a rather average case", for which they gave two out of five possible stars. TV Spielfilm is of the opinion that the result is - based on Ekki, who unknowingly consumes hash biscuits - "serious, but with cheering cookies". She lists the production as “tip of the day” and recommends it to her readers. “Fun and excitement are perfectly balanced,” summarizes the editors of the Ems-Zeitung .
Tilmann P. Gangloff from the editorial team of kino.de not only considers the idea of having a colleague at the side of Commissioner Springer as "extremely invigorating", but also considers Katharina Wackernagel 's performance to be a success. He regrets that Wackernagel was only signed for one “guest appearance”. He praises the “complex script” as well as the “gripping implementation”. The role of Ekki Talkötter played by Oliver Korittke was given too short an appearance in this episode, but after consuming hash biscuits it plays the “most beautiful scene in the film”. According to the editors of the Teleschau media service, however, the scene in which Anna Springer leans her head on Wilsberg's shoulder in the city park after a night of drinking is one of “the most beautiful moments in the film”. Overall, however, the film develops “a little less tension than usual”, judges the Teleschau.
Fabian Riedner from quotenmeter.de is of the opinion that the film “cannot meet its own requirements”. "The storyline babbles in the first ten minutes", complains Riedner, who praises an "authentic sex scene", but in the scenes shown at the beginning that have "no charisma" and their dialogues "very bleak" and "Not played convincingly", the presence of the main actors is missing. Only after these scenes "does the episode start to be fun". From here on, the “dialogues of the ensemble can convince”, as well as “the main actors themselves”. Overall, “this consequence is rather weak”, which is reflected in the point value of 55% given by Riedner. This is "exclusively due to the rather boring crime story", which at least the "depth" of the characters knows how to weaken, so that finally "a moderate crime story was produced".
The editors of the Lexicon of International Films abstained from making any judgmental judgment.
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for Wilsberg: Internal affairs . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 276 V).
- ↑ a b c d e f kino.de: film review , Tilmann P. Gangloff
- ↑ a b Internal affairs at crew united
- ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : Nachrichten Münster: Filmservice presents new Münster crime thriller , Münster, April 9, 2008
- ^ Münstersche Zeitung : Wilsberg premiere without Wilsberg , Münster, April 17, 2008
- ↑ a b c monstersandcritics.de: Friends in need ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , teleschau - the media service, Johann Ritter, May 19, 2012
- ^ Prism : film review
- ↑ TV feature film : film review
- ^ The West : Candidate Crime , Gelsenkirchen, Lars-Oliver Christoph, April 25, 2008
- ↑ Ems-Zeitung : Lots of fun and excitement
- ↑ a b c d e f quotenmeter.de: The critics: "Wilsberg: Internal affairs" , Fabian Riedner, April 25, 2008
- ↑ Internal affairs in the Lexicon of International Films
Web links
- Internal affairs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Internal affairs in the online film database
- Internal affairs at crew united
- Internal affairs at bereehmtedetektiven.de
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