Wilsberg: Guardian Angel

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Episode in the Wilsberg series
Original title Guardian Angel
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 65 ( List )
First broadcast November 30, 2019 on ZDF
Rod
Director Martin Enlen
script Eckehard Ziedrich
music Stefan Schulzki
camera Philipp Timme
cut Monika Abspacher
occupation

Guardian Angel is the 65th episode in the Wilsberg television series . The film is based on the Wilsberg character by Jürgen Kehrer . Directed by Martin Enlen , Eckehard Ziedrich wrote the script . It was first broadcast on ZDF on November 30, 2019.

content

Wilsberg put almost 2000 euros in cash to give Anna a Mediterranean cruise for her birthday. Unfortunately, his money is stolen in a break-in. When he surprises the burglar, he flees. But Wilsberg can remember his face because he illuminated the thief with a flashlight.

Overbeck witnesses a robbery, but misunderstanding the situation wrongly arrests the shop owner because he threatens the thief with a weapon. In the scuffle that follows, the real perpetrator can escape with Overbeck's service weapon. After this faux pas, Overbeck got serious business difficulties, with the staff councilor Havenstein putting him under pressure, who had trouble with him some time ago. Looking for legal counsel, Overbeck turned to Alex, who recently started her own law firm. She reluctantly accepts the case.

Overbeck happened to meet his former colleague "Ugly Joe" Sundermann, who is now the owner of a security company and offers him the opportunity to quit his police career and buy into his security business as a partner. At Overbeck's request, Alex lets Ekki check the finances of Sundermann's company, and it turns out that the share demanded by Overbeck bears no relation to the company's fiscal appearance. Ekki is prevented from taking further measures against Sundermann by his boss Grabowski - as it later turns out, Grabowski was bribed by Sundermann.

Havenstein makes a private meeting with Overbeck, but is found shot dead - with Overbeck's service weapon, so that Overbeck is suspected of murder. His amateurish attempt to steal the evidence in the evidence room only makes the situation worse for him.

Anna is hit by a black SUV like the one Sundermann drives and seriously injured. While she spends the rest of the episode in an artificial coma in the intensive care unit, she is visited regularly by Wilsberg, Overbeck and Alex. In a daydream scene by her bed, Wilsberg looks back on the development of their friendship in an imaginary conversation. Many incidents from earlier Wilsberg episodes are shown.

Since Wilsberg recognizes his burglar in Sundermann's combat trainer Boris, Alex and Ekki register for training there and overhear an argument in which Boris is confronted by Sundermann for storing stolen property in the security company. The break-ins were carried out on behalf of the Dillinger company, which offers security technology and has worked with Havenstein. There is a voice message on Havenstein's cell phone stating that she had announced to Boris that everything would be exposed. Boris is suspect, but at an agreed meeting, Wilsberg finds him murdered.

Alex, Ekki and Wilsberg found the solution to the case by chance on a ballpoint pen with a mini camera, which was initially given to Havenstein by Dillinger and then innocently plugged in by different people and always left in different places, whereby the automatically operating camera recorded revealing scenes in each case. The recording of the murder of Havenstein breaks off before the act, so the ballpoint pen was specifically deactivated, which only Dillinger could have known - he committed the murders.

Overbeck, who has meanwhile been put out for a search, has gone into hiding with Wilsberg and is now driving with Wilsberg and Alex to Dillinger, who is currently having an argument with Sundermann. When Dillinger tries to threaten the combat-trained Sundermann with a weapon, he is overwhelmed by Sundermann. In this situation, Overbeck arrives and almost repeats his mistake from the beginning. Dillinger tries to flee, but his house is already surrounded by police - a patrol had recognized the car of the fugitive suspect Overbeck and triggered the alarm. In Dillinger's rubbish, Wilsberg finds the empty envelope in which he had collected the money for the cruise.

After Anna von Overbeck was awakened from her coma by an awkwardness, the final scene shows Wilsberg rowing her across the Aasee as a substitute for the Mediterranean cruise.

particularities

The running gag Bielefeld appears in the 76th minute. Anna's supervisor complains about the shortage of personnel and announces that he will request reinforcements from Bielefeld.

The rowing game at the end is highlighted with the song Leuchtturm von Nena , while Wilsberg expresses an unreserved affection for Anna for the first time in the last dialogue. Anna: “Somehow I imagined the Mediterranean to be different!” - “You have to complain about everything.” - “Admit it, you missed that.” - “No. I missed you."

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast on November 30, 2019, the film was seen by a total of 6.13 million viewers and achieved a market share of 20.8 percent.

criticism

Tilmann P. Gangloff sums up in the Frankfurter Rundschau : 'Thanks to Enlen's staging and clever montage, the complicated story, which takes various other detours and detours, is astonishingly fluid "Wilsberg" contributions, "God's work and Satan's coal" and "Minus 196 degrees" (both 2019), a certain whistle; the film consists mostly of conversation scenes. Although this is not unusual for series crime novels, it is particularly noticeable here, especially since not all questions are clarified. “Guardian Angel” is still fun because the ensemble works well and many of the dialogues are cleverly joked. '

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daniel Sallhoff: Primetime check: Saturday, November 30, 2019. In : quotemeter.de. December 1, 2019, accessed December 1, 2019 .
  2. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff: The coolie knows the murderer. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. November 30, 2019, accessed December 2, 2019 .
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