Wilsberg: The supervisor

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Episode in the Wilsberg series
Original title The supervisor
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 53 ( List )
First broadcast January 14, 2017 on ZDF
Rod
Director Marc Rensing
script Sönke Lars Neuwöhner
Natalia Born
production Sabine de Mardt
Anton Moho
music Stefan Schulzki
camera Lars Liebold
cut Florian Drechsler
occupation

The supervisor is the 53rd episode in the Wilsberg TV series . The film is based on the Wilsberg character by Jürgen Kehrer . It was first broadcast on January 14, 2017 on ZDF . Directed by Marc Rensing , the screenplay is by Sönke Lars Neuwöhner and Natalia Geb .

action

Private detective Georg Wilsberg unexpectedly comes across a corpse when he brings a confused old woman home. He is shocked to find that he knows the dead man and that he was also a detective. The old lady has now been reported missing to the police by her supervisor, Gregor Cassell. In their apartment, Commissioner Springer and Overbeck not only find the pensioner safe in their armchair, but also the dead person and initially assume an accident. But the autopsy shows without a doubt that the man was killed.

While Commissioner Springer and Overbeck have to determine the identity of the dead person, Wilsberg is one step ahead of them. He looks around his fellow detective's apartment and can listen to a message on the answering machine that leads him to Vanessa Balders, the old lady's great niece. Vanessa Balders runs a designer furniture business with her husband and Wilsberg quickly finds out that there are currently financial problems here. Vanessa Balders accuses her great-aunt's supervisor of inheritance stealth and is concerned that the old lady might change her will and she would end up empty-handed. To allegedly find out, she had hired detective Erwin Zylla. But not only she is worried about the expected inheritance, her unloved father, Guido Haffner, also feels betrayed. This even goes so far and sued Cassell. Since there were some inconsistencies in his past, Haffner wins the lawsuit and his aunt has to move in with him. The very next day, Guido Haffner is found shot dead in his apartment and Cassell is accused of murder.

A letter that Wilsberg finds in an old book ultimately leads him to the solution of the case. In it, Vanessa Balders confesses to her great-aunt that her child didn't die of sudden infant death, but that she pressed a pillow on the baby's face because it would have screamed for hours. To her relief, she wrote everything down in one letter to her great-aunt, who was always like a mother's substitute for her. With the Balders in dire financial straits, Vanessa feared that their marriage would be utterly destroyed if her husband found out that she was to blame for her baby's death.

While searching for this letter, the detective Zylla came across Vanessa's father, who killed him in his anger. Since Vanessa thought that her father had taken the letter from the detective and that she saw her great aunt defenseless against her father, she shot her own father in an argument.

background

The supervisor addresses the situation of people in need of care and the nursing emergency in Germany. The film also takes up the problem of data retrieval on the Internet and possible misuse and thus ties in with the warning about the dangers, as they were also dealt with in Wilsberg: Death in the supermarket .

In this episode, the running gag "Bielefeld" refers to a manufacturer of designer furniture in minute 26 and to the name of a lamp in minute 75.

The song at the end of the film is Sail Away by David Gray .

The supervisor appeared on DVD along with the episode The Fifth Violence from Polar Film .

reception

Audience rating

When Der Betreuer was first broadcast on ZDF on January 14, 2017 , the film was seen by a total of 6.52 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 19.7 percent.

criticism

Wilfried Geldner is enthusiastic about the Weserkurier : “You have timing, or you don't have it. The mix of tension, wit and lightness is right here. 'Wilsberg', walking in the footsteps of Agatha Christie, seems to be undergoing an amazing makeover at the moment. With the increasing age of its main actors, their liveliness increases. So we are looking forward to many more episodes. "

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv said: “After a few above-average thrillers, the 'Wilsberg' series is currently experiencing a little slack." Gangloff rates the crime scene as "quite powerless" and "below average: the story is at best mediocre and will be not saved by the staging either. [Merely] There are some notable scenes and characters. "

The editorial staff of TV Spielfilm judged the crime thriller with the “thumbs straight” and said: “Wrong tracks, a surprising resolution, but it dragged on and the fun was neglected!” Overall, it was a “more serious concept [and] that fits not at all!"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Audience rating at wn.de, accessed on February 5, 2017.
  2. ↑ With tension, humor and ease. (No longer available online.) In: www.weser-kurier.de. Archived from the original on December 23, 2016 ; accessed on December 23, 2016 .
  3. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Lansink, Korittke, Gundelach, Tarrach, Rensing. The story of film review babbles relaxed on tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 5, 2017.
  4. ↑ TV Spielfilm : Film review at TV-Spielfilm.de accessed on December 22, 2016.
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