Wilsberg: Thick
| Episode in the Wilsberg series | |
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| Original title | Hooligan |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Eyeworks Fiction Cologne on behalf of ZDF |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 36 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | April 7, 2012 on ZDF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans-Günther Bücking |
| script | Martin Eigler |
| production | Anton Moho |
| music | Matthias Weber |
| camera | Hans-Günther Bücking |
| cut | Zaz Montana |
| occupation | |
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Halbstark is the 36th episode of the Wilsberg television series . It was first broadcast on April 7, 2012 on ZDF . Directed by Hans-Günther Bücking , the screenplay was written by Marin Eigler .
action
Georg Wilsberg has to surrender his driver's license for a month due to driving at high speed. In front of the police headquarters he meets Lea Sonnenborn, a former classmate from the Ratsgymnasium, with whom he graduated from high school in 1977. Today she runs a ballet studio, but is worried about her son Marc, who has not returned home for two days. So she asks Wilsberg for his help in finding the boy.
In the meantime, Ekki receives the order from his superior Grabowski to carry out a two-day career counseling at the Goethe Gymnasium in order to familiarize the students with the duties of the tax office. At school he runs into Wilsberg, who asks Marc's classmate about his whereabouts. In doing so, he finds out that Mina Seeberg recently separated from him and is now with Tobias Höcker. This setback is said to have exacerbated Marc's aggressive outbursts of anger, which he has shown since his parents separated and his father committed suicide. The traces that Wilsberg finds in the search for Marc lead him to Münster-Mecklenbeck . On the airfield of the flying school there, he witnesses how the young people engage in an illegal race with their sports cars. He also finds Marc on the premises, who was knocked down by a shotgun charge and wrapped in a tarpaulin. As soon as Wilsberg discovered the body, he was knocked down from behind by Steffen Weber, who had to fear that the alarmed police might discover his drugs, some of which were obtained from Venlo and some of which he had grown himself, in the hangar .
When Wilsberg regained consciousness, Commissioner Anna Springer and her colleague Overbeck arrived at the airfield, but there was no trace of the sports car or the corpse. Only a burned-out car, which was driven by Tobias Höcker, was left behind. The officers find a charred corpse in the trunk, which can later be identified as Marc Sonnenborn based on a comparison of the teeth. It turns out that Marc was dead two days before he was burned.
In his further investigations, Wilsberg finds that Mina Seeberg was publicly defamed in social networks after her separation from Marc . The increasingly violent Marc, whose aggression was directed indiscriminately against his parents, classmates, but also teachers, should, according to his mother, start therapy to get his behavior under control again. His school performance, which had deteriorated due to the aggressive derailments, was used by his stepfather, the lawyer Steiner, as an opportunity to put Marc's teacher under pressure through a targeted legal dispute. Classmates, too, have lately tended to legalize school problems with their teachers. When Ekki tries to mediate a physical abuse between students during his career counseling, he is also threatened with a lawsuit that could mean the end of his career as a civil servant. Ekki succeeds in avoiding this problem by skilfully conveying to the student that there is a possibility of having his father's hotels decree a tax audit.
Ludger Schmitz breaks into Tobias' parents' house in order to steal incriminating material from Tobias' room or at least to delete it. These include videos of violence and photos in which Ludger can be seen. One of these videos also shows the German teacher Bruges, who is pushed, humiliated and sexually harassed by several masked students. Meanwhile, Wilsberg receives the file with suspected violent criminals from Overbeck. He recognizes his attacker who knocked him down at the airfield. Without reporting his discovery to the police, he makes his way to Steffen Weber's farm. There he discovers that Ludger Schmitz is a handyman in Steffen Weber's drug business. Wilsberg surprises the two when they want to make the existing marijuana stocks disappear. He is caught and tied up by Steffen at gunpoint. Only the arriving officers around Overbeck can free Wilsberg and arrest both Steffen and Ludger.
The teacher Manfred Schulzendorf, friend of Mrs. Bruges, is found by Wilsberg in his girlfriend's garden house. He confesses to having shot Marc to make life more bearable for Mrs Bruges, who tried to kill herself with sleeping pills. Since he did not succeed in doing this, he threatens to shoot himself with a rifle. Overbeck manages to surprise Manfred Schulzendorf so that he can overwhelm and disarm the teacher. Schulzendorf is also arrested.
After Overbeck allowed himself verbal derailments several times in the course of the investigation, Commissioner Springer ordered him to give a lecture on the subject of "rhetoric of criminal prosecution" at the Goethe School.
background
The working title of the episode was Death of a Student . The shooting began on May 3, 2011 in Münster and Cologne and ended on July 7, 2011. They took place in parallel with the shooting of the previous episode The Bielefeld Conspiracy . The scenes showing the police station were made in Münster am Bispinghof . On June 20, 2011, the film was shot at the Stadtcafé near the town hall, later on Alter Steinweg. On the same day, filming took place at the Lambertikirche , where Alex Holtkamp's parking maneuvers were recorded and the Prinzipalmarkt was photographed. The following day, photos were taken at the Münster harbor , showing, among other things, the Flechtheim warehouse and the Kreativkai , where Alex Holtkamp's office can be found. Further recordings at the Solder antiquarian bookshop in Frauenstrasse and at the Überwasserkirche were still pending. The film was also shot at the former air force airfield in Hopsten that day . The scenes of the illegal car race were shot on June 27, 2011 at the former Hopsten air base in Dreierwalde . The Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung had specifically called on the car tuning scene to register as extras. This day of filming cost 60,000 euros. The production costs per episode amount to 1.2 to 1.4 million euros.
On November 22, 2012, the episode was released together with the 35th episode The Bielefeld Conspiracy by Polarfilm 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.
Stephan Grossmann was already seen in the 23rd episode Royal Flush , but took on a different role there. Jürgen Kehrer can be seen in the criminal record that Wilsberg and Overbeck go through together on the computer.
The song at the end of the episode is Biggest Mistake by the Rolling Stones .
The running gag "Bielefeld" refers in this episode to a building contractor from Bielefeld, whom Ekki recently prosecuted for tax evasion, as he reported to a school class.
reception
Audience ratings
5.96 million viewers saw the episode Halbstark when it was first broadcast on ZDF , which corresponded to a market share of 19.8%. At the same time, the episode won the day at prime time . Among the 14 to 49 year olds, 1.14 million viewers tuned in, which made up a market share of a good 10.4 percent.
criticism
According to the verdict of the Lexicon of International Films , Halbstark is a “humorous (TV series) crime thriller with likeable characters”.
The German Press Agency writes that Halbstark is “tried and tested food”. "A great many threads of action" are to be brought together, "some humorous elements" are included. The plot seems “a bit overloaded”, as it deals with “cyberbullying, drug deals, illegal car races, SMS addiction, cell phone movies of excesses of violence” and “leaves no youth cliché out”. “Still, fans will love it,” she concluded.
Rainer Tittelbach says, “'Halbstark' is a 'Wilsberg' episode that has it all: crime thriller, comedy, a little drama, a little social reality. The swing between the different pitches works extremely well. Well built, thematically complex. ”Among the actors, Tittelbach praised both the regular cast in the series and the young actors in the episode. The "well-played film impresses with its tightly constructed, closely-knit narrative structure, in which (almost) everything ultimately relates to one another and in which the coincidences that are common in comedy thrillers hardly have to be taken into account." Screenwriter Martin Eigner also received praise for the “dramaturgical craft”, as his story “also impresses with the way in which social references and 'anti-social' trends are integrated”. The film received 4 out of 6 stars from Tittelbach.
The editorial team of TV Spielfilm is of the opinion that the tough is “typical Wilsberg's Kalauerkost”, which is only interrupted by “annoying appearances by the police jester Overbeck”. As a consequence, the young actors have "unfortunately all the less opportunity to show their talent"
Prisma sees in Halbstark "a critical thriller on a largely hushed-up topic: teachers who have lost their function as a person of authority." Another problem area of young people is addressed with "cyber bullying via social networks". Prisma awarded 3 out of 5 possible points.
The teleschau media service is pleased that Halbstark is dealing with a “hot topic” that is being ignored by politics. The thriller becomes really “interesting” “in its secondary scenes”. The media service sums up, the "socially critical crime thriller is rich in moments that are worth discussing, even if it makes it a bit very easy in some places".
Web links
- Halbstark in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Thunk in the online film database
- Strong at crew united
- Halbstark at beruehmtedetektive.de
- Press photos at muensterview.de
- Press photos at espendiller-gnegel.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for Wilsberg: Halbstark . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2012 (PDF; test number: 135 163 V).
- ↑ a b Strong at crew united
- ↑ filmecho.de: New cases for "Wilsberg" in Münster ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , tv & medien, May 2, 2011
- ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : Shooting in Münster: "Wilsberg" is investigating again , Münster, May 2, 2011
- ^ Münstersche Zeitung : Interview: Leo Lansink is nicer than Wilsberg , Münster, Stefan Bergmann, June 10, 2011
- ^ Münstersche Zeitung : Wilsberg: Too much Cologne in the Münster-Krimi , Münster, June 14, 2011
- ↑ a b c Tageblatt: Wilsberg-Dreh: Film struggle for parking lot , Münster, Günter Benning, June 20, 2011
- ↑ a b Münstersche Zeitung : Münster-Krimi: First day of Wilsberg shooting begins without relaxation ( memento from August 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Münster, Ralf Heimann, June 20, 2011
- ↑ a b c Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung : In spite of the scorching sun, the Wilsberg shoot runs like clockwork ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Dreierwalde, June 27, 2011
- ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Homepage Topic 5: Wilsberg shoot: Vamp robs Ekki's mind , Bösensell, May 24, 2010
- ↑ a b c d e f tittelbach.tv: "Wilsberg - Halbstark" series
- ↑ a b Münstersche Zeitung : Strong TV quota: Wilsberg doesn't give Dieter Bohlen a chance ( memento of October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), April 10, 2012
- ↑ Halbstark in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ a b c d Münstersche Zeitung : Wilsberg: Halbstark ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Münster, dpa , Christof Bock, April 7, 2012
- ↑ a b TV feature film : film review
- ↑ a b c prism : film review
- ↑ monstersandcritics.de: From the disempowerment of teachers ( memento from April 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), teleschau - der mediendienst, Kai-Oliver Derks, April 7, 2012
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