Wilsberg: death on prescription
| Episode in the Wilsberg series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Death by prescription |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Cologne Film on behalf of ZDF |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 18 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | December 2, 2006 on ZDF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marc Hertel |
| script | Thorsten Näter |
| production | Anton Moho |
| music | Stefan Ziethen |
| camera | Stephan Schuh |
| cut | Claudia Wolscht |
| occupation | |
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Death by Prescription is the 18th episode of the Wilsberg television series . It was first broadcast on December 2, 2006 on ZDF . Directed by Marc Hertel , the screenplay was written by Thorsten Näter .
action
Wilsberg is in the hospital because of a broken leg, where he is generously supplied with painkillers . His responsible nurse, Maike Söderbaum, discovered irregularities in the poison book and BTM cabinet. At night, Wilsberg observes an argument between Maike and Wilsberg's surgeon Dr. Suhlke. He kills the nurse in the disused wing of the hospital with an IV pole, which Wilsberg sees through the window of his patient's room. Since the hospital security service, informed by Wilsberg, did not find a body and Maike applied for leave, which is why no one is missing her at the moment, the hospital staff and Wilsberg's friends assume that Georg Wilsberg only imagined the incident under the influence of the medication. Wilsberg is released from the hospital, but initially can only move around with the help of a wheelchair. Wilsberg initially turned down the offer made by her friend, Commissioner Anna Springer, to help him.
Shortly afterwards, a corpse was found in the port of Münster, which initially could not be identified because its face was badly mistreated and disfigured. To Dr. To be able to observe Suhlke, who is the neighbor of Inspector Springer in the Corder Straße, Wilsberg quartered himself with his acquaintance under the pretext of wanting to let her help him as long as he is dependent on a wheelchair. When Commissioner Springer leaves her apartment, Wilsberg takes the opportunity to talk to Dr. Breaking in Suhlke's apartment in the hope of being able to prove the murder of Maike. Ekki and Alex arrive just in time to warn him that Dr. Suhlke is on the way to his apartment. On the run from Dr. Suhlke's apartment, Wilsberg tries to avoid the apartment owner by trying to escape using the stairs with his wheelchair. He falls, injures himself and has to be taken to the hospital again.
In the hospital, Wilsberg is met by Dr. Suhlke takes care of, but ultimately not his recovery, but his death in mind. Wilsberg can successfully defend himself against a fatal sedative overdose. Then Dr. Suhlke and the nurse Lena Schwab from Ekki and Alex asked why they were not allowed to visit Wilsberg. Wilsberg uses the opportunity and flees the hospital.
He learns that Dr. Suhlke and Maike Söderbaum were a couple who had recently split up in an argument. Maike had found out that the painkiller was systematically diluted in the hospital so that sedatives could be taken from the BTM cabinet without this being noticed in the entries in the poison book. The mostly wealthy patients were deliberately provoked to become dependent on painkillers in order to later supply them privately with the painkillers that were withheld in the hospital on their own account. It turns out that Dr. Suhlke exchanged the corpse of the homeless Ida Gronau, who died of natural causes, with the corpse of Maike Söderbaum in order to store it in forensic medicine under a false name until it was to be cremated.
With another break-in in Dr. In Suhlke's apartment, Wilsberg discovers painkiller ampoules and large amounts of cash stolen from the hospital . Dr. Suhlke surprises the intruder in his apartment and threatens him with a scalpel . Wilsberg was able to defend himself against the attack by ramming the doctor's thigh with an anesthetic that he had taken from the hospital. Hardly is Dr. Suhlke incapacitated, the nurse Lena Schwab enters the apartment with a pistol drawn. Because Commissioner Springer bugged Georg Wilsberg's wheelchair , after the nurse made a confession in Wilsberg's presence, she can intervene at the right moment and both Lena Schwab and Dr. Arrest Suhlke.
Alex Holtkamp has meanwhile finished her law studies so that she can toast with Ekki and Georg Wilsberg.
background
The film was shot in Münster and Cologne . Filming began on April 24, 2006 and ended on May 25, 2006. The cathedral and the Überwasserkirche are shown in an aerial photo at the beginning of the film. The Überwasserkirche can also be seen in the scenes at the Solder antiquarian bookshop in Frauenstrasse, where the scenes showing the Wilsberg antiquarian bookshop were filmed. Further photos were taken on the south side of the port of Münster , opposite the Kreativkai , where the body was found. Ekki observes Brombach on his property on Annette-Allee, directly on the Aasee . On his way to Commissioner Springer's apartment, Wilsberg passes the Überwasserkirche in a wheelchair and crosses the Prinzipalmarkt , where the Lambertikirche can be seen in the background . The recordings at the scrap yard, which Ekki followed during his observation of Brombach, were taken on the south bank of the port, with the steeple of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in the background next to a brick chimney on the north bank . Wilsberg meets with the journalist Hannes in the Café Bunter Vogel near the Erbdrostenhof , where Wilsberg later visits the event “Münster shows a heart for people with disabilities”. The food distribution was filmed at the cathedral. The last scene was taken at the Juridicum of the Westphalian Wilhelms University .
On February 15, 2007, the episode was released along with the 17th episode False Play 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.
The Running Gag Bielefeld refers in this episode to a saying by Alex Holtkamp, who, while breaking into the hospital with Ekki, says: "I feel like at CSI Bielefeld."
reception
Audience ratings
5.8 million viewers saw the episode Death on Prescription when it was first broadcast on ZDF .
criticism
According to the judgment of TV Spielfilm, it is a "smart variation on the window to the courtyard ". The lexicon of international films drew the same comparison and judged that the film was "a (television) series thriller set in Münster, with tongue-in-cheek borrowings from Hitchcock's Das Fenster zum Hof". Tilmann P. Gangloff from the editorial team of kino.de thinks the film is "exciting" , although he too draws a comparison with Hitchcock's work. "Marc Hertel's inconspicuous, but always captivatingly staged crime thriller skilfully balances the fine line between thriller and comedy," is Gangloff's verdict.
According to Manuel Weis from quotenmeter.de, death on prescription is a “wonderful film” that contains “exciting elements” as well as the “appropriate humor”. In addition to the music, Weis particularly praises the drama. Only the "narrative speed" cannot keep up with the US formats.
Web links
- Death by prescription in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Death by prescription in the online film database
- Death on prescription from crew united
- Death on prescription from Beruehmtedetektiven.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for Wilsberg: death on prescription . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ a b Death on prescription from crew united
- ↑ Audience rating at tittelbach.tv , accessed on February 7, 2017.
- ↑ TV feature film : film review
- ^ Death by Prescription in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ a b kino.de: film review , Tilmann P. Gangloff
- ↑ a b c quotenmeter.de: The Critics: "Wilsberg: Death on Prescription" , Manuel Weis, December 1, 2006
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