Wilsberg: Royal flush

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Episode in the Wilsberg series
Original title Royal flush
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Cologne Film on behalf of ZDF
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 23 ( list )
First broadcast March 8, 2008 on ZDF
Rod
Director Reinhard Munster
script Timo Berndt
production Anton Moho
music Marius Felix Lange
camera Robert Berghoff
cut Bernhard Wießner
occupation

Royal Flush is the 23rd episode in the Wilsberg TV series . It was first broadcast on March 8, 2008 on ZDF . The director was Reinhard Münster , the script was written by Timo Berndt .

action

Ekki is supposed to conduct an on-site inspection of a car repair shop at Hawerkamp as part of a tax audit . Ultimately, however, he finds himself playing poker in a back room of the workshop and not only loses everything that he has in his pockets, but also his car.

Meanwhile, Commissioner Anna Springer and her assistant Overbeck are called to the Winter family home. Sabine Stetten, Winters' neighbor, has informed the investigators that she wants to have seen a burglar. Charlotte Winter, strangled with a rope, is found in the bedroom. No fingerprints can be found at the crime scene because the perpetrator was wearing gloves. Because Thomas Winter, the dead man's husband, was alone in the house when the police arrived, he is under strong suspicion of killing his wife.

None of the experienced lawyers at Hoppenheit & Partner can take over Thomas Winter's case, so the murder suspect is represented by Alex Holtkamp. The prospective lawyer believes her client, who assures her that he was beaten down by the perpetrator and therefore cannot describe him. Since she thinks Winter is innocent, she helps him escape from the police, risking her recently obtained license to practice law. She hides her fugitive client in the attic of Georg Wilsberg's house, where she lived as a student. To help his goddaughter out of this difficult situation, detective Wilsberg begins to look for the murderer of Charlotte Winter on his own. Ekki is amazed when he meets Thomas Winter at Wilsberg's, because he knows him from the elementary school they attended together.

Winter admits to buying both the rope and gloves that were used in the murder. However, he bought these to tie up and fertilize his roses and were in the garden house, which would never be locked. Wilsberg learns from Sabine Stetten that Winter had an affair with her. In addition, a police-recorded statement from Charlotte Winter that she only had an alcoholic accident in her car shortly before her death because she had to flee from her husband after an argument. Wilsberg also learns that Winter got violent against a truck driver from the large bakery that his wife owned and broke the man's jaw. Due to a marriage contract, Winter is denied access to his wife's assets in the event of a divorce. These investigation results make Winter's testimony appear less credible and point to a planned murder of his wife. When Winter is confronted with the allegations he has learned, he has an explanation for each individual. In particular, he denies the allegations of cheating on his wife. Instead, he had "let Sabine Stetten flash off", which is why she now wanted to take revenge on him.

During the investigation, a stranger breaks into the Winters' villa and steals the rope hidden there with which Charlotte Winter was strangled. By chance, Wilsberg meets this unknown burglar, who has already caught his eye, and confronts him. However, this knocks him over and runs away. Wilsberg not only scrutinizes the fugitive's car, but also takes possession of it. With Ekki's help, the phone number of the cell phone found in the car is linked to its owner Maik Greber. Ekki takes over the observation of Maik Greber and follows him into the apartment building, but gets stuck in the elevator when someone deliberately switched off the power supply. Wilsberg rushes to help Ekki with Commissioner Springer and Overbeck. They free Ekki from the elevator and find Maik Greber untied on his balcony. However, Wilsberg does not believe in a suicide or that Greber is the murderer of Charlotte Winter.

In the meantime, Alex has found a previous victim of the burglar in Johanna Maler. She claims that she was already in the hands of the perpetrator, who was then surprised and had to flee. Out of fear, however, she never filed a complaint and did not want to make a statement to the police. When Ekki and Wilsberg visit Johanna Maler, Ekki discovers that he also knows Johanna from elementary school, so Thomas and Johanna also know each other. Under pressure from Wilsberg, Maler can be persuaded to confess: The burglar Maik Greber would have surprised you and Winter, whereby he witnessed the murder and would have blackmailed Winter. They then made up the story of the attack on Johanna and hoped to not only direct the suspicion of murder on Greber, but also that Wilsberg and Ekki would find their blackmailer for them. As a result, Greber could be killed by Winter.

Alex, who previously believed in her client's innocence, sees through his double game. So convicted, he confesses that his wife is divorcing him because of his affair, but that he did not want to be left penniless. Winter picks up a knife and attacks Alex. Wilsberg and Ekki are able to free Alex from the violence of Winter and hand him over to the police.

In the end, Ekki returns to Hawerkamp with Wilsberg to win back his car in a new round of poker. This succeeds with Wilsberg's help, who wins by cheating .

background

The film was shot in Münster and Cologne . The shooting began on April 17, 2007 and ended on June 26, 2007. In Münster, the second hand shop Solder was shot on Frauenstrasse, where the second hand bookshop Wilsberg can be found in the film. The photos showing Charlotte Winter's large bakery were taken on the premises of Aschendorff Verlag on Hamburger Strasse. In addition, the film was shot in the immediate vicinity at Bremer Platz. The scene in which Wilsberg is stopped by the police with Maik Greber's stolen vehicle was recorded on Dahlweg.

On July 14, 2008, the episode was released along with the 24th episode Interne Affären von 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.

The Running Gag Bielefeld refers in this episode to the destination of a truck from Charlotte Winter's large bakery, which the driver named Norbert Hillmann when asked by Wilsberg.

reception

Audience ratings

5.1 million viewers saw the episode Royal Flush when it was first broadcast on ZDF . The rerun on June 30, 2011 on ZDF switched 2.8 million viewers, with a market share of 8.9%.

criticism

Although the episode Royal Flush "shows weaknesses at times", it can "convince again" because the plot is "very well constructed" and has "numerous twists and turns", judges Fabian Riedner from quotenmeter.de. The actors show "many different faces" instead of being clichéd. The dialogues between the two main actors turn out to be "sarcastic" as usual. In addition to Lansink and Korittke, Riedner particularly praises Rita Russek, all three "play their roles perfectly". Olga Brügmann and Tobias Oertel are convincing in the supporting roles, although the latter is unable to build on his performance from Up to the Top . For Ina Paule Klink, Royal Flush is not one of the better consequences because it sounds "very wooden" at times. Riedner judges that the result is "a good production" that is fun, "consistently exciting" and that it can come up with a good resolution. Riedner attests a “good overall impression” to the episode, which promises “good and sophisticated entertainment” and was rated with a point value of 83%.

The lexicon of international films judges that the result is a "rather contemplative (TV series) crime thriller based in Münster, in which the participants are once again in a very close private and professional relationship". The editorial team of TV Spielfilm complained that the plot was "initially flat", but developed with increasing duration "thanks to the ensemble's usual strengths". So she is "casual to funny in good moments". Kai-Oliver Derks from Mediendienst Teleschau shares this opinion, who initially assesses the pace as "leisurely", but can see a development into a "solid crime thriller" in the course of the plot, although tension may only arise shortly before the dissolution. This is indeed an "entertaining criminal case", but compared to other episodes of the television series it is a rather "mediocre contribution".

Brian Melican of The West is of the opinion that the "evocative title" Royal Flush ultimately offers a plot comparable to "card tricks" that are "transparent", "like the story itself". Tilmann P. Gangloff from the editorial team of kino.de contradicts this assessment , who compares Royal Flush with a “sitcom” in which the “brisk dialogues” meet the “leisurely but never slow Wilsberg tempo”. It is precisely this that "always provides the best entertainment". Despite this “comedy level”, the story is a thriller. The “intelligently constructed story with sometimes wonderfully comical dialogues” ensures that Wilsberg “remains an evergreen even after ten years of service”. Der Spiegel assesses Royal Flush as "the usual cheerful and pleasantly casual" film production.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.spio.de/fskonline/PDF/1004/122289V.pdf (link not available)
  2. ↑ a b Royal Flush at crew united
  3. ↑ a b c monstersandcritics.de: It was 90 percent ( memento from December 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), teleschau - der mediendienst, Kai-Oliver Derks, June 30, 2011
  4. ↑ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung : Quota record for German soccer women ( memento from September 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), dpa , Berlin, July 1, 2011
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h quotenmeter.de: The critics: "Wilsberg: Royal Flush" , Fabian Riedner, March 6, 2008
  6. ^ Royal Flush in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  7. ↑ a b TV feature film : film review
  8. ↑ The West : Television: Wilsberg's foster daughter is playing poker - too high? , Brian Melican, March 7, 2008
  9. ↑ a b c d kino.de: film review , Tilmann P. Gangloff
  10. ↑ Der Spiegel : TV preview , March 3, 2008, 10/2008

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