Wilsberg: Bitter pills

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Episode in the Wilsberg series
Original title Bitter pills
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 49 ( List )
First broadcast November 28, 2015 on ZDF
Rod
Director Martin Enlen
script Arne Nolting
Jan Martin Scharf
production Sabine de Mardt
Anton Moho
music Matthias Weber
camera Philipp Timme
cut Monika Abspacher
occupation

Bitter Pills is the 49th episode in the Wilsberg television series . The film is based on the Wilsberg character by Jürgen Kehrer . It was first broadcast on November 28, 2015 on ZDF . Directed by Martin Enlen , the script was written by Arne Nolting and Jan Martin Scharf .

action

Ekkehardt Talkötter raises the alarm when he discovers an apparently abandoned backpack in the hallway. A demolition squad approaches and has to discover that it is only a harmless utensil belonging to the cleaning man Hasim Hemidi. While Ekki now has to justify himself to his boss, the natural healer Christopher Seekatz appears at the private detective Georg Wilsberg's and instructs him to monitor his presumably unfaithful wife. The next day, Seekatz is found dead strangely laid out, giving the appearance of a ritual murder. Seekatz 'wife is convinced that only the pharmaceutical industry can be behind the murder, because her husband has been fighting a bitter fight against local pharmaceutical companies such as Cleril Pharma AG by Dr. Stegner led.

Since Wilsberg is now involved in the case, he is investigating on his own. His first research leads him to Gerd Möbius, who was in dispute with the victim. Möbius has suffered massive sales losses since Seekatz started producing its own globules . Wilsberg, however, does not appear to be sufficient to kill the competitor. Wilsberg receives a tip from Möbius about Robin Galinski, who recently offered him and Seekatz information about internals of the pharmaceutical industry. This leads Wilsberg to the pharmaceutical laboratory "Natrix Care" under the direction of Dr. Vermellen, who is currently testing a new drug with volunteers and almost exclusively uses poorer citizens who can thus improve their household money. So that Wilsberg does not attract attention, he mixes with the test subjects and also takes an untested drug. On the same day he suddenly bleeds from his ear, collapses and is taken to the clinic for a short time. Ekki reports on a similar incident that he experienced with Hasim Hemidi, which he has been looking after recently because he lost his cleaning job at the tax office because of him.

In the end, it turns out that Robin Galinski, who has since been found dead, had fallen into his hands with documents, which led him to suspect the illegal drug trials by Dr. Vermellen became aware of asylum seekers. He had sold these documents to the homeopath Christopher Seekatz because he knew that he was fighting against the pharmaceutical companies. As a result, both were taken out of the way by Vermellen, who wanted to avoid everything becoming publicly known.

background

Bitter Pills conveys two messages: It is not only about the irreconcilability between alternative healing methods and conventional medicine, but also about the unworthy accommodation of refugees.

Bitter Pills appeared on DVD along with the episode Death in the Supermarket from Polar Film .

The running gag "Bielefeld" refers in the 40th minute of this episode to the transfer location, for which Ekki should prepare himself.

Wilsberg enters the place of birth under a pseudonym Ubbedissen in a form. Two of the pharmaceutical probands are called Lammers, Hagen and Stieg, Horst. Ubbedissen, Lämershagen and Stieghorst are districts of Bielefeld.

Alex Holtkamp uses the alleged participation in a Senne Open Air tennis tournament to get in touch with an MP . Senne is a district of Bielefeld.

The song at the end of the episode is Conquest Of Paradise by Vangelis .

reception

Audience rating

When Bittere Pillen was first broadcast on ZDF on November 28, 2015 , the film was seen by a total of 6.57 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 21.4 percent.

criticism

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv said appreciatively: This time too, “Script and direction […] are an exemplary balancing act; the balance between crime thriller & comedy "and" The dialogues provide gentle irony without snubbering the followers of homeopathy. "

For Wilsberg, the critics have only words of praise and find: “With the two initially independent stories, Nolting and Scharf simultaneously show how much time actually remains within 90 minutes to build a gripping story. Many public law crime novels don't even manage to do this with just one subject. "

The editorial team of TV Spielfilm gave the crime thriller a “thumbs up” and said with praise: “The plot about the practices of the pharmaceutical lobby and tormented asylum seekers is a bit excessive, but equipped with snappy dialogues.” And the critics state: “No. 49 of the cult series: Anniversary is coming soon! "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Tilmann P. Gangloff : Lansink, Korittke, Russek, Stefan Kurt, Enlen. Successful double tightrope walk! Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 5, 2017.
  2. ↑ Wilsberg - Bitter Pillen at quotenmeter.de, accessed on February 5, 2017.
  3. ↑ TV Spielfilm : Film review at TV-Spielfilm.de accessed on December 20, 2016.
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