Wilsberg: Deadly friendship

Episode in the Wilsberg series
Original title	Deadly friendship
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Cologne film production on behalf of ZDF
length	88 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
classification	Episode 12 ( list )
First broadcast	November 6, 2004 on ZDF
Rod
Director	Thorsten Näter
script	Thorsten Näter
production	Micha Terjung
music	Nicholas Glowna
camera	Joachim Hasse
cut	Julia von Frihling
occupation
Leonard Lansink : Wilsberg Heinrich Schafmeister : Manni Höch Rita Russek : Commissioner Anna Springer Ina Paule Klink : Alex Holtkamp Monica Bleibtreu : Waltraud Rehmer Walter Kreye : Walter Grahnke Kathrin Kühnel : Sylvia Maximilian von Pufendorf : Sigbert Grahnke Christina Große : Inga Welting Matthias Redlhammer : Hannes Arved Birnbaum : Hendryk Katrin Pollitt : bakery employee Hans-Joachim Heist : security guard Hans-Georg Gregor : journalist Georg Adler : Joachim Rehmer Horst Vogelsang : Policeman Ralf Grawe : patrol officer

Deadly Friendship is the twelfth episode in the Wilsberg television series . The film is based on the Wilsberg figure by Jürgen Kehrer . It was first broadcast on November 6, 2004 on ZDF . Directed by Thorsten Näter , who also wrote the screenplay.

action

Waltraud Rehmer hires the private detective Georg Wilsberg to solve the death of her husband, who was judged by the police to be a suicide. She firmly believes that her husband did not throw himself in front of a train, but was killed. He was the site manager in the building authority and lately he seemed to be depressed by something that had to do with his work in the building authority, possibly bribery of a colleague he did not want to reveal. But a jealous colleague who wanted his post is also conceivable. But since Wilsberg's friend Manni was offered this position on a provisional basis, this reason is actually ruled out.

After Wilsberg is made quite drastically clear by two men that he should stop his "snooping", he is convinced that Waltraud Rehmer is right and that her husband was murdered. In Rehmer's office, the detective finds a newspaper article referring to Rehmer's old school friend Walter Grahnke. When he takes a closer look at the photo for this article, he recognizes a very attractive young woman whom Manni has just introduced to him as his new girlfriend. Wilsberg fears that she only wants to use Manni for her own purposes. He asks Anna Springer to find out for him who this Sylvia is and so she can be identified as a call girl. Wilsberg fears that she will break Manni's heart, which he would like to prevent.

First, Wilsberg goes on the offensive against Walter Grahnke after he learned that he had applied for a major order for the new project that the victim last looked after and that is now being worked on by Manni. Sylvia is urging him to do him a small favor. Although it is against his correctness, he agrees for her sake. Allegedly, Sylvia only wants to make a correction in an application that she had submitted to the building authority. In truth, she secretly manipulates the tender application so that Grahnke's offer is the cheaper and he would get the bid. So that Wilsberg cannot thwart his plan, Grahnke's son kidnaps the victim's niece and puts pressure on Waltraud Rehmer to cancel her assignment to Wilsberg. She does so, but the detective notices that this dismissal is not entirely voluntary and thus learns of the kidnapping. Still at a loss as to how to proceed, his friend Manni appears and complains about his suffering, because he has noticed that Sylvia was at the folder for the tenders and is extremely disappointed. Wilsberg is convinced that they should reverse the exchange of the documents and since Sylvia had deposited the old papers in her car, Wilsberg can steal them there and together with Manni ultimately prevent the manipulation. They also manage to free Rehmer's niece. In doing so, Wilsberg learns that Walter Grahnke, together with his son, had thrown Rehmers in front of the train after an argument.

background

Fatal Friendship appeared on DVD along with the episode Death of a Hostess from Polar Film .

The running gag "Bielefeld" in this episode is that Anna tells Georg that Sylvia is being used as a call girl by the police.

criticism

The TV Spielfilm editorial team gave the crime thriller a "thumbs up" and said with praise: "Amusing and cleverly solved."

Web links

• Wilsberg: Fatal Friendship in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Deadly friendship at Fernsehserien.de
• Deadly friendship at crew-united.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Certificate of release for Wilsberg: Deadly friendship . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
2. ↑ TV Spielfilm : Film review at TV-Spielfilm.de accessed on December 13, 2016.

previous episode May 1, 2004: Death of a hostess

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next episode March 5, 2005: Guilt and Sin