Wilsberg: Death in the supermarket

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Episode in the Wilsberg series
Original title Death in the supermarket
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 50 ( list )
First broadcast January 2, 2016 on ZDF
Rod
Director Martin Enlen
script Eckehard Ziedrich
production Sabine de Mardt
Anton Moho
music Martin Skalsky
Christian Schlumpf
Michael Duss
camera Philipp Timme
cut Monika Abspacher
occupation

Death in the Supermarket is the 50th episode in the Wilsberg TV series . The film is based on the Wilsberg character by Jürgen Kehrer . It was first broadcast on January 2, 2016 on ZDF . The preview in Münster took place on December 15, 2015. Directed by Martin Enlen , the script was written by Eckehard Ziedrich .

action

Ekki has sued a supermarket he slipped in for compensation for pain and suffering, but the other side uses his discount card to prove an excessive purchase of alcohol . He was drunk, the accident was self-inflicted. In the evening after the trial, Ekki, now really a little drunk, tries to talk to store manager Ridderbusch, but finds him slain in a dumpster. The security guard who arrives alerts the police, and the impulsive Ekki comes under urgent suspicion.

Meanwhile, Overbeck, who has just completed a three-week profiler course, manages to make such an impression on his supervisor with texts he has learned by heart that he appoints him as Anna Springer's successor. The indignant Anna takes her remaining leave, and now Overbeck is investigating Ekki, who evades arrest and is thus being pursued as a fugitive suspect.

Wilsberg investigates undercover as a replenisher in the supermarket. There he met the autistic Dede, the son of the former owner of the supermarket. When the market was sold to the supermarket chain, the condition was that Dede would continue to be employed. Wilsberg notices the potential of the man who not only has all purchase and sales prices, sales figures and stocks in his head, but also films everything and everyone with his mobile phone (“Dede didn't film Jutta Weinhold!”). He can even reveal the safe combination to Wilsberg. In the safe there is, among other things, a second discount card in Ekki's name, which explains the extreme purchases. Store manager Ridderbusch was eager to move up to the Cologne headquarters. A lost lawsuit against Ekki would have hampered his career goals, so he did everything possible to disbelieve the client. He had also spent vacations with several of his female employees.

So there are enough motives for murder, and although Wilsberg initially suspects the hushing up of the destruction of sick chickens from Ridderbusch's sister's organic farm as the motive for the murder, one of Dede's film recordings provides the solution: Dede witnessed a tangible argument between Ridderbusch and his employee Jutta Weinhold, which refused to keep lying for Ridderbusch. Since Dede has a strong sense of justice and is also deeply in love with Jutta Weinhold, he immediately confronted Ridderbusch, which escalated into a scuffle in the course of which Ridderbusch hit his head so hard that he died from it.

Dede's memory also knows the book passage on profiling, with which Overbeck repeatedly makes an impression, and soon Anna is back on duty and normal circumstances are restored.

background

Death in the supermarket focuses on the handling of data and its manipulability, which affect the consumer behavior of the customer.

The song at the end of the episode is Should I Stay Or Should I Go by Jools Holland (piano) and Kylie Minogue (vocals).

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

The running gag "Bielefeld" appears in this episode in minute 52, where Talkötter and Wilsberg browse through the documents of branch manager Ridderbusch, who often refuel in Bielefeld-Sennestadt, so that Wilsberg states: "Actually, he only refuel there!"

reception

Audience rating

When Death in the Supermarket was first broadcast on ZDF on January 2, 2016 , the film was seen by a total of 7.58 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 21.9 percent.

criticism

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv says appreciatively: “'Death in the supermarket' fulfills all the expectations that the friends of the series have of the stories with the private detective from Münster: The ensemble works well as always, the plot has some surprises in store. Martin Enlen staged his sixth 'Wilsberg' inconspicuously, none of which was spectacular - but the 'Wilsberg' fans probably don't want that either. "

The TV Spielfilm editorial team gave the crime thriller a “thumbs up” and praised it: “The mystery purr is remarkably unworldly and inimitably carefree when it comes to dealing with issues such as data protection, autism and murder. Nevertheless, one cannot escape the charm of the ensemble - and who would we be to spit on the cake for the anniversary? ”And the critics state:“ Querkopf Wilsberg is still in shape! ”

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reading with Jürgen Kehrer and Leonard Lansing accessed at wn.de.
  2. ↑ Take care of your data! Retrieved from evangelisch.de.
  3. ^ A b Tilmann P. Gangloff: Lansink, Korittke, Ziedrich, Enlen. Anniversary thriller - solid & loving in detail film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 5, 2017.
  4. ↑ TV Spielfilm : Film review at TV-Spielfilm.de accessed on December 20, 2016.
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