Wilsberg: Every year again

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Episode in the Wilsberg series
Original title Every year again
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Warner Bros. ITVP
on behalf of ZDF
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 57 ( List )
German-language
first broadcast		 December 23, 2017 on ZDF
Rod
Director Dominic Müller
script Stefan Rogall
production Sabine de Mardt
Anton Moho
music Boris Salchow
camera Ralf M. Mendle
cut Martin Wolf
occupation

Every year is the 57th episode of the television series Wilsberg . The film is based on the Wilsberg character by Jürgen Kehrer . It was first broadcast on December 23, 2017 on ZDF . Directed by Dominic Müller , the script was written by Stefan Rogall .

action

Georg Wilsberg and his friends are traditionally invited to dinner with Commissioner Anna Springer on Christmas Eve. But Ekkehardt Talkötter and Alex Holtkamp log out because they have been invited elsewhere and Anna is actually not in the mood either. On the pretext of being sick, she calls Wilsberg and apologizes. Disappointed and, as is so often the case, penniless, he wonders how he should spend the evening. The young woman who is ringing his doorbell and asking him for help comes in handy. Her friend Johannes disappeared after calling an Eva Römer. When Wilsberg visits the woman in her costume rental shop, she cannot remember the young man described by Wilsberg. As luck would have it, here he meets Springer's colleague Overbeck, who wants to borrow a shepherd's costume because he is involved in an integration project in the nativity play in the church. During the conversation, Wilsberg does not fail to see a person disguised as Santa Claus sneaking out of the shop, but cannot follow her. Shortly afterwards, three people disguised as Santa Clauses attacked the bank in which, of all people, Commissioner Springer was the customer. Despite her quick message to the police, the perpetrators were able to escape, as the arriving officers did not recognize the Santa Clauses as the perpetrators. So Springer goes to the costume rental shop, where she meets Wilsberg. The latter turns away from Anna, disappointed, because he now sees that she is not sick at all and has obviously lied to him. As soon as he got back to his shop, Ekki and Alex also show up, some of whom also didn't go as planned.

Unexpectedly, the missing Johannes finds himself with his heavily pregnant Marie and Wilsberg is released from the contract. Ekki and Alex, on the other hand, are supposed to look after his alleged kidnapped wife on behalf of Judge Hartmut Rudolph, but as it quickly turns out, the missing wife has left her husband voluntarily. When a kidnapper calls in anyway, Rudolph does not take him seriously. Ekki and Alex see it differently and inform Commissioner Springer. However, she still has to do with the bank robbery and since Mrs. Rudolph has only been gone a few hours, she does not want to take up the case. Wilsberg wants to talk to Johannes Zimmermann again because he is sure that he has something to do with the bank robbery. He's just about to see Marie being harassed by two men in front of her apartment. They too are looking for Johannes, who has since disappeared again. Wilsberg combines that he will have "blown away" with the booty from the bank robbery and that his two buddies are chasing him.

Judge Rudolph manages to reach his wife on her cell phone, who learns that he feared being kidnapped. Without further ado, the disappointed wife takes up this idea and actually plays a kidnapping for her husband. However, her son from her first marriage, Johannes Zimmermann, reports unplanned and asks her to keep a rucksack for him. She chose a chance acquaintance for her kidnapping story. But this is of all people Philipp Stern, Marie's father, who was recently released from prison and who “owes” an unjust verdict to Judge Rudolph.

Wilsberg was able to persuade Johannes to confess when he returned to his apartment. He was in need of money and had carelessly embarked on the bank robbery, which he now regrets. He is also ready to face the police. When, in Wilsberg's company, he tries to get the rucksack with the booty back from his mother, the latter is making a run for it, accompanied by Philipp Stern. The police have also discovered the connections between Judge Rudolph and Stern and believe that he is the kidnapper. In this way they are on the trail of the fugitives who are also being “hunted” by the two bank robbers who have followed their prey to Stern's apartment.

In their need, Ms. Rudolph and Stern flee to the church, where the dress rehearsal for the evening nativity play is taking place. In this confusion, everyone involved comes to a confrontation, in which the bank robbers manage to bring the judge's wife into their power. Anna Springer recognizes the bank robbers as the petty criminals Lutz and Titus Bosch, with whose sister Philipp Stern was together before his conviction. So it is clear to them that the judge had actually made a wrong judgment and that it was not Stern but the brothers who were guilty. Led by Eva Römer, her sister, who now runs the costume rental business in Münster and is now waiting for her brothers in a barn. When Wilsberg secretly follows them, he too falls into the hands of the criminal siblings, but is soon freed by Commissioner Springer, Overbeck, Ekki and Alex. After the guilty party has been arrested, Judge Rudolph also has to acknowledge his mistake with Stern and promises to rehabilitate him, since Stern is now part of the family as the father of his future daughter-in-law.

background

The running gag "Bielefeld" in this episode refers in minute 6 to an announcement at the train station in Münster that the EC to Ischgl is canceled due to a weather-related malfunction in Bielefeld.

reception

Audience rating

When All Years was first broadcast on ZDF on December 23, 2017 , the film was seen by a total of 7.96 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 23.4 percent.

criticism

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv said about this episode: “'Every year again' [...] fails because of its own standards: The Christmas thriller is nowhere near as good as it was ten years ago Oh you deadly . The story is not bad at all, because author Stefan Rogall only gradually reveals that the various participants are all connected with one another. However, the implementation by director Dominic Müller, who has made some really good 'Wilsberg' films, seems convulsively funny for a long time. Even the old hands of the ensemble are not always convincing, and the background music seems to come largely from a 'Christmas Pop' CD. And the end is embarrassing! "

In the Westfälische Nachrichten , Harald Suerland said: “The combination of Christmas and Wilsberg had led to a real crime thriller with comedy elements in the legendary case Oh du tödliche . In the new case 'Every year again' there was no longer any trace of the suspense of a crime thriller, almost all of the crooks and fraudsters looked so loyal that you didn't have to worry about the Christmas peace. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave only a middle rating (thumbs straight): They found “And because it's Christmas, everything is connected with everything. Once the last puzzle has been solved and a child is born in the hay, everyone sits together and cheers to the Wilsberg fan base. Hallelujah! "

Focus online came to the conclusion: “'Every year again' is more a comedy than a thriller. There is no corpse and no artificial thrill. TV fun made for a Saturday evening. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biblical Festival at "Wilsberg" media correspondence , accessed on March 31, 2018.
  2. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Lansink, Korittke, Russek, Vera, Rogall, Müller. Well thought out, made uninspired at tittelbach.tv , accessed on November 4, 2018.
  3. ^ Wilsberg episode Every year again: Freed from tension at wn.de, accessed on November 4, 2018.
  4. ↑ The festival of love threatens to sink into chaos ... at TV Spielfilm , accessed on November 4, 2018.
  5. ↑ Wilsberg: Every year again at Focus online , accessed on November 4, 2018.
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