Wilsberg: breakwater

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Episode in the Wilsberg series
Original title Breakwater
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Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Warner Bros. ITVP
on behalf of ZDF
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 67 ( List )
First broadcast February 8, 2020 on ZDF
Rod
Director Sven Nagel
script Stefan Rogall
production Melissa Graj ,
Anton Moho
music Stefan Hansen
camera Ralf M. Mendle
cut Anne-Kathrein Thiele ,
Ollie Lanvermann
occupation

Wellenbrecher is the 67th episode in the Wilsberg television series . The film is based on the Wilsberg character by Jürgen Kehrer . Sven Nagel directed the film, and Stefan Rogall wrote the script . The episode was broadcast on the Saturday evening program of ZDF on February 8, 2020 . It had been announced as an anniversary episode for the series' 25th anniversary.

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Criminal case

As an expert in inheritance law, Georg Wilsberg drives at Alex's request with her colleague Dr. Tessa Tilker to Norderney to settle an inheritance matter. The real estate giant Ole Folkerts has died and his two children Nele and Sönke want to inherit, but his secretary Tanja Steinthal presents a will made out a few weeks before his death, which makes her the main heir. This will is of course contested by the children.

While Tilker represents the two children, Wilsberg takes Steinthal's side, especially since she wants him to be close to her as a protector, but is also out for an erotic adventure. Wilsberg finds out that Nele's fiancé Ortwin Paulsen, the undertaker, has considerable gambling debts and is dependent on the inheritance.

A manuscript expert comes to the conclusion that the will submitted by Steinthal, contrary to their assurances, was not written by Ole Folkerts. Then she notices that an accidental smear is missing - her original was exchanged for a copy during a recent break-in.

Using a video from a surveillance camera, it turns out that Ole Folkerts was poisoned by Sönke, while Nele, with Paulsen's help, exchanged the will and tried to kill Steinthal.

Further plot

By chance, a number of characters from previous Wilsberg episodes and the Friesland crossover episode Morderney meet in Norderney and indulge in hostility and jealousy, behind which the actual criminal act takes a back seat :

  • Jan Brockhorst checks in at the same hotel as Wilsberg and Tilker
  • Insa Scherzinger is on vacation, meets Grit Vierboom and tries to avoid Brockhorst
  • Overbeck has called in sick, but is actually on vacation on Norderney
  • Anna Springer comes to the island on the suspicion that Wilsberg is having an affair with Tilker
  • Harald Drechshage tries to hook up with all young women he meets

Jan Brockhorst, who knows and pursues Tanja Steinthal as a fraudster, suspects a relationship between Wilsberg and Tilker and reports this by telephone to Anna, whom he has already courted in "Morderney". Anna arrives incognito, confronts Wilsberg and brushes aside his truthful explanation as excuses. Later she and Brockhorst get closer. Harald Drechshage hopes for Insa Scherzinger, who blows him off very coldly, and then also for Nele Folkerts, whose beach yoga course he attends. When Scherzinger and Overbeck search Brockhorst's hotel room, they have to hide under the bed from Brockhorst and Springer and hear their conversation; Anna Springer notices this the next morning from Overbeck's snoring under the bed, which until then has successfully managed not to be seen by her celebrating sick. All of these personal entanglements dissolve in the end.

Trivia

The Running Gag Bielefeld appears right at the beginning as the place of origin of Tessa Tilker. The license number of your car is "BI MS 69" and thus a combination of the distinguishing features for Bielefeld (BI) and Münster (MS). In addition, Bielefeld is constantly "present" due to the presence of Commissioner Harald Drechshage on Norderney.

The main characters Ekki Talkötter and Alex Holtkamp do not appear in this episode.

The song at the end of the episode is Could You Be Loved by Bob Marley & the Wailers .

reception

Audience rating

When Wellenbrecher was first broadcast on ZDF on February 8, 2020 , the film was seen by a total of 7.94 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.1 percent.

criticism

Tilmann P. Gangloff is disappointed in the Frankfurter Rundschau : “Probably the story could still have turned into a very passable film, the focus of which, as with“ Morderney ”, would primarily have been the comedic level, but not even that worked: a lot too many potentially funny exchanges are written and staged too clearly on the gag; the supporting actors also have some audible difficulties in making their dialogues sound unrecognized. […] The film is basically out of the ordinary only because of the various pairings, all of which seem like old man's dreams: Older men can successfully tackle significantly younger, significantly more handsome and, last but not least, significantly slimmer women. "

Jan Henrik Gerdener from Neue Westfälische comes to the conclusion under the title “Too many investigators spoil the broth”: “The only bright spots are Leonard Lansink and Rita Russek, who bring at least a little life into the 90 minutes and show what the series is about made it a success. […] Russek literally alludes to the script, which reduces her long-standing role of Commissioner Springer to a stalker blinded by jealousy. [...] As an anniversary episode, "Wellenbrecher" simply disappoints, as a thriller it is not exciting enough and as a comedy it is underground. "

Oliver Junge hardly finds a good word in the FAZ either: “The official episode on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the service of the antiquarian Georg Wilsberg, who solves criminal cases as a hobby, brings the fighters together again on the North Sea island without any further ideas. The real scandal, however, is the senile-debilitating level of the script, which combines a tea-thin plot with flattened dialogues and smeary, stupid humor. To put it in crime German: under all cannon. The female roles in particular are poor - the protagonists have to ceaselessly defend themselves against the rapprochement of a libido-plagued old man's ranks - and to round it off, a bit of Fatshaming (as it is called today) is added. Most of it is just boring. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anniversary “Wilsberg” is clearly the winner , accessed on February 9, 2020.
  2. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau , accessed on February 9, 2020
  3. ↑ Neue Westfälische , accessed on February 9, 2020
  4. ^ "Sand in the Gears" , accessed on February 9, 2020
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