Wilsberg: MünsterLeaks

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Episode in the Wilsberg series
Original title MünsterLeaks
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Cologne film production
on behalf of ZDF
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 56 ( List )
First broadcast December 2, 2017 on ZDF
Rod
Director Thomas Kronthaler
script Markus B. Altmeyer
Britta Burneleit
production Sabine de Mardt
Anton Moho
music Andreas Weidinger
camera Christof Oefelein
cut Melanie Landa
occupation

MünsterLeaks is the 56th episode in the Wilsberg TV series . The film is based on the Wilsberg character by Jürgen Kehrer . It was first broadcast on December 2, 2017 on ZDF . The director was Thomas Kronthaler , the script was written by Markus B. Altmeyer and Britta Burneleit .

action

Ekkehardt Talkötter receives the order from his superior Grabowski to sound out the purchase of a tax evaders CD , which has been anonymously offered to the Münster tax office. After the first contact with the provider, who pretends to be Laura Glüsenkamp and is allegedly an employee of an investment consultancy, a deal seems to be imminent. Ekki expresses himself ambitiously in a television interview about the upcoming tax audits, whereupon an entrepreneur comes forward to file a voluntary disclosure. Ekki makes an appointment with the man, but when he arrives at Gustav Ehrenberg's, he finds him hanged in his villa. Commissioner Anna Springer initially considers it to be a classic suicide, but based on Ekki's information, a closer examination is carried out and foreign DNA is actually found on the corpse.

Overbeck, who wants to take care of this murder case, therefore asks private detective Georg Wilsberg to take over his current "problem". A concerned fellow citizen said she found a human finger in her minced beef package, which her dog accidentally ate and she no longer has any proof of it. That changes when you actually find human DNA in the dog's feces during a check, but Wilsberg does not want to return the order. He is looking for the “unknown with only 4 fingers” in the local slaughterhouse Bestfleisch . There he meets a large number of cheap Romanian workers, one of whom appears to have an injured hand. Wilsberg follows the men to their accommodation and finds out that it was rented to them by the recently murdered Ehrenberg. The detective confronts Bestfleisch entrepreneur Jan Lindemann, why he lets his employees stay under such unworthy conditions. He simply referred to his legal department. Wilsberg is surprised when he meets his former college friend Elisabeth Böhnisch there. From her he learns that the subcontractor Joachim Maywald is responsible for providing the workers.

This now also crosses Ekki's path, who, after first contacting Laura Glüsenkamp, ​​received a USB stick with samples of her explosive material to prove her credibility . The data burden Maywald and show that he has transferred black money abroad. Immediately a massive tax audit of his company takes place, in which Ekki finds further incriminating material. After Ekki received the actual tax evaders CD from the informant in return for the fee of millions, he had to find out that the CD was completely empty. Tax office boss Grobowski is horrified and blames Ekki for the fraud and asks him to get the money back. Ekki has a search for Laura Glüsenkamp and learns that his informant used a false name and is now on the run with the money.

During his research in the environment of the Romanian cheap workers, Wilsberg comes across the exploitation of Bestfleisch and the attempt to denounce the conditions there via the Internet. In particular, published videos are found by a Gabriela. The woman quit a week earlier after Kalin Abulata, one of her compatriots, threatened her massively. In the meantime, her body has been found at the Aasee : a finger on one hand was previously cut off. The police can clearly identify Abulata as the murderer of Gustav Ehrenberg based on the DNA traces. But Abulata is fleeting and so Commissioner Springer wants to stick to his employer Maywald, whom she believes to be the commissioner of the murders. However, according to his wife, he is also on the run with his lover, who now turns out to be the alleged whistleblower and only snuck into Maywald's trust in order to get his company data. After she achieves this goal, she breaks up with him and runs away with the money. Now that her true identity is also known, it becomes clear that she really only wanted to take revenge on the tax office because she had to go bankrupt after paying back sales tax. In her apartment, the police meet Maywald, whom she has abandoned, and arrest him.

Bestfleisch entrepreneur Lindemann explains in front of media representatives that he has already withdrawn from the Maywald company and that he wants to employ his own workforce again in the future. However, he also quits his legal advisor because he now wants to outsource this area. In revenge, Elisabeth Böhnisch gives Wilsberg the information that Maywald was just a straw man and that the actual owner of his company is also Jan Lindemann. Ehrenberg's company was also part of Lindemann's empire, which would have been in danger with Ehrenberg's statement at the tax office. The tax evaders CD is still a threat to Lindemann and he brings Ekki's informant into his power. He lets her call the tax office to lure Ekki to him with the promise that she will return the money out of remorse. He succeeds and he wants to force Ekki by force of arms to destroy the data that he believes actually exists. But the police are on his heels and put him under pressure. Apparently his henchman Kalin Abulata comes to his aid, but since he realizes the hopelessness, he shoots Lindemann, who had destroyed his life and forced him to kill Gabriela, although she was actually a friend. He was then arrested by the police without resistance.

Ekki can proudly return the money to his boss. Unexpectedly, the real Laura Glüsenkamp contacts Ekki to hand him a 3 terabyte hard drive that contains data from offshore companies belonging to business leaders, politicians and war criminals, the sole purpose of which is to avoid taxes. The current media hype opened her eyes. When asked what she wanted for it, she said naturally: "Nothing." To which Ekki replies: "That sounds fair."

background

The episode was originally produced under the name Dirty Laundry .

MünsterLeaks had its cinema preview on November 22nd at 7 p.m. in the Cineplex Münster .

The running gag "Bielefeld" takes place in this episode in minute 73, when Wilsberg gave the stressed Ekki a city trip for example. For example, to "Bielefeld" recommends. In minute 81 Ekki reads a book with “Bielefeld” on the cover.

The song at the end of the episode is Like A Feather by Oli Brown .

MünsterLeaks was released on DVD along with the episode Straße der Tänen von Polarfilm .

reception

Audience rating

When MünsterLeaks was first broadcast on ZDF on December 2, 2017 , the film was seen by a total of 6.42 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 20.7 percent.

criticism

Ulrich Feld wrote in the Frankfurter Neue Presse that this Wilsberg episode offered “A lot of material [...] for a single crime thriller, and sometimes 'MünsterLeaks' is in danger of being lifted by this wealth of material. [...] Although the script links the individual threads together quite convincingly, various individual characters are given too little presence. This is especially true of the victim whose finger was cut off. "

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv said: “After the thriller 'Straße der Tänen', the 56th 'Wilsberg' episode 'MünsterLeaks' [...] almost looks like a reminiscence of the image of the popular Saturday crime series: The script is thanks to the amusing dialogues, a family-friendly mixture of crime and comedy; Thomas Kronthaler found exactly the right balance in his implementation of the thematically rich and yet not overloaded story. An extra star goes to the enormously talented young actress Janina Fautz, who after her 'Wilsberg' debut 'Der Betreuer' once again brings a breath of fresh air. "

The editorial team at Focus came to the conclusion: “The prerequisites [...] would have been there to turn the new 'Wilsberg' into a highlight of the popular crime series. But in the end it is not like that: The story […] is so complex that the viewer has problems following it in between. [...] In order to tie the loose ends together, a lot of things turn out to be woodcut-like and clichéd. […] As always, it's fun to watch Wilsberg, Ekki and policeman Overbeck (Roland Jankowsky) at work. And with the bright goddaughter Merle, the series definitely has a new highlight. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tax evaders CD charged Münsteraner at wn.de, accessed on December 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Tilmann P. Gangloff : Lansink, Korittke, Russek, Fautz, Luca, Weißbach, Kronthaler. Dicht & moody film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on December 5, 2017.
  3. ↑ MünsterLeaks: Wilsberg is also allowed to love at fnp.de, accessed on December 6, 2017.
  4. ↑ film review at focus.de, accessed on December 6, 2017.
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