Wilsberg: And the dead are left to rest

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Episode in the Wilsberg series
Original title And the dead are left to rest
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 1 ( list )
First broadcast February 20, 1995 on ZDF
Rod
Director Dorothea Neukirchen
script Heidi Stroh and Dorothea Neukirchen ; based on a novel by Jürgen Kehrer
production Anton Moho
music Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock
camera Werner Kubny , Henning Jessel
cut Katharina Schmidt , Beate Classen
occupation

And the dead are left to rest is the first episode of the Wilsberg television series . It was first broadcast on February 20, 1995 on ZDF . The film is based on the book of the same name by Jürgen Kehrer from 1990. Dorothea Neukirchen directed the book, and Heidi Stroh and Dorothea Neukirchen wrote the book.

In the first episode, the main role of Georg Wilsberg was played by Joachim Król . From the second episode onwards, Leonard Lansink took over the role .

action

Failed as a lawyer, Wilsberg runs a coin and postage stamp business in Münster . Wilsberg earns money as a private detective and receives from Hermann Pobradt the task of investigating the 16-year-old murder of his brother Karl, which the public prosecutor and the police had quickly put aside as a suicide. Hermann Pobradt suspects Wilma Pobradt, Karl's wife. Wilsberg initially rejects the case until Pobradt puts a generous fee on the table. The notoriously clammy Wilsberg accepts the case. Wilsberg asks his friend, the municipal employee Mani Höch, about the Pobradt family, while Mani carries out floor checks in a kindergarten sandpit. According to Mani, the Pobradts belong to the Münster nobility, they own the construction company "Pobradt Hoch- und Tiefbau". Wilsberg contacts his friend, the police officer Hans Bebber, to ask him for information until his boss, Inspector Merschmann, discovers Wilsberg and throws him out. Wilsberg goes to the Pobradt family and looks for Wilma, but only meets their daughter Katharina. Wilsberg learns that his client has been an inmate of a mental hospital for years. Katharina's brother Uwe Pobradt, a failed musician with an alcohol problem, plays music in the background. Wilsberg wants to give up the case again when Hermann Pobradt drops the name Merschmann. Wilsberg and Merschmann are enemies since Wilsberg Commissioner Merschmann wg. Had reported bodily harm to a demonstrator, whereupon Merschmann caused Wilsberg to lose his lawyer license. Hermann Pobradt takes advantage of this hostility; for this reason he hires Wilsberg. At the time, Merschmann was conducting the investigation into the murder of Karl Pobradt and, in Hermann Pobradt's opinion, withheld facts. Wilsberg's interest in the case has been reawakened.

Wilsberg asks his friend Mani, who at the time drove ambulance services as a community service provider, to find out who transported Karl Pobradt back then, because Karl Pobradt was not dead immediately, but only died half an hour after the shot that was supposed to have killed himself the way to the hospital. Due to an injury, Wilsberg drives to the hospital and accidentally sees Merschmann visiting an old friend and asking for help so that the ground controls are stopped and the test results are not published. Wilsberg finds out that it is Kurt Hillerich, who has colon cancer. Mani found out that the area on which the children's playground is located is contaminated and the whole settlement of Pobradt was built. Wilsberg learns from Mani that Kurt Hillerich is a former building officer. In the meantime Mani has found out who had transported Karl Pobradt back then. One of the two drivers is dead, the other now lives in Bielefeld . Wilsberg goes to see him and learns that when Karl Pobradt died, his wife and a young man were there and that the driver was not even questioned by the police at the time.

Wilsberg speaks to Wilma Pobradt about Merschmann and looks at the room where the suspected murder happened. Lt. Wilma Pobradt gave a concert in London for Uwe Pobradt on the anniversary of his death. Wilma Pobradt informs Merschmann that Wilsberg is snooping around in the matter. Wilma Pobradt is also friends with Kurt Hillerich. Mani visits Wilsberg and shows him a press report about laying the foundation stone one week before Karl Pobradt's death. Karl and Wilma Pobradt, Kurt Hillerich and one other person can be seen on the accompanying photo. Wilsberg drives to the construction company and finds out that the unknown person in the photo is Bruno Steyn. Wilsberg gets Steyn's personal files at night and is discovered by a security guard, but is able to escape. Merschmann learns that Wilsberg has been sniffing around there.

Wilsberg calls Steyn and tells him that he has discovered him as a lover of Wilma Pobradt and that he was at the scene of the murder on the night of the murder. Wilsberg visits Hillerich and learns that Karl Pobradt is said to have suffered from depression. Then Wilsberg meets with Steyn and is observed by Merschmann. Wilsberg receives negatives from Steyn on which Wilma Pobradt can be seen with wounds. Steyn was supposed to take the photos for Wilma in the event of a later divorce from Karl Pobradt. Bebber finds out that a page is missing from the murder file on Karl Pobradt. Wilsberg finds out from a postage stamp customer in the land registry that the poisonous site had been sold to Pobradt under her maiden name by Mrs. Hillerich, who had since died. She had owned the site for only two weeks and allegedly the site had been checked for contaminated sites without any results. Kurt Hillerich cheated Karl Pobradt. Wilsberg and Mani go to Merschmann's to break in and find out what Merschmann has in hand against Hillerich. Wilsberg breaks in at Merschmann's, Mani stands Schmiere, but cannot warn Wilsberg when Merschmann appears. Merschmann discovers Wilsberg when he leaves the house with documents, but Wilsberg escapes with Mani. Merschmann takes up the chase, but loses sight of the two. Merschmann puts two colleagues on Wilsberg, not realizing that Bebber is supporting Wilsberg. Wilsberg calls Hillerich to tell him that he thinks he is the murderer, since Karl Pobradt found out that Hillerich had ripped him off. Both arrange a meeting at Hillerich's. Wilsberg tells Bebber what he found out and that Merschmann blackmailed Hillerich instead of exposing the matter. However, he wants to arrest Wilsberg unexpectedly. Wilsberg escapes and shows up at Hillerich's. However, Hillerich shot himself beforehand. Merschmann has found Hillerich and manipulates the crime scene in such a way that one should take Wilsberg for the murderer, and wants to shoot Wilsberg. Bebber arrives just in time and prevents the worst. He informs Wilsberg that he only wanted to arrest Wilsberg in order to prevent him from showing up at Hillerich's, as he himself had in the meantime found further incriminating material against Merschmann.

The case seems to be over, but Wilsberg discovers that Uwe Pobradt was not in London at the time of the crime. He speaks to Wilma Pobradt again. She tells him the rest of the truth: Uwe shot his father when he hit his wife Wilma again. She also tells that Merschmann was a childhood sweetheart of Wilma Pobradt. Wilsberg finally sees the case as closed, without passing it on to the police.

background

On September 26, 2007 the episode was released together with the second episode In old friendship 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.

During the recording of a chase on Schlossplatz , Heinrich Schafmeister said he stopped filming a scene for the first time in his career. For the recordings, he was put in a car that was being chased downhill. The brakes of this vehicle were defective, however, so that the car drove a few meters further than originally planned with each turn. This was an unreasonable risk for the numerous onlookers standing on the roadside, including many children, which gave Schafmeister the reason to stop filming.

reception

The lexicon of international film judges Wilsberg: And the dead are left to rest is a “first TV crime thriller about the lovable and shy private detective Wilsberg, who finds his ideal embodiment in Joachim Król” .

The editors of TV Spielfilm are of the opinion: "Filmmaker Dorothea Neukirchen managed an entertaining crime thriller in which tension and humor are balanced."

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for Wilsberg: And the dead are left to rest . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 370 V).
  2. ↑ a b c d Münstersche Zeitung : Celebrity waiters at Aasee: Heinrich Schafmeister tells about church and cheese , Münster, Edda Klepp, September 1, 2013
  3. ↑ And the dead are left to rest in the lexicon of international filmTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  4. ↑ TV feature film : film review

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