Wolfsland: The stone guest

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Episode in the series Wolfsland
Original title The stone guest
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Molina Film
on behalf of Degeto
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 3 ( list )
German-language
first broadcast		 May 24, 2018 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Max count
script Sönke Lars Neuwöhner
Sven S. Poser
production Jutta Müller
music Andreas Weidinger
camera Frank Küpper
cut Ingo Ehrlich
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Deep in the forest

Successor  → will-
o'-the-wisps

The stone guest is a German television film by Max Zähle from 2018. It is the third film in the ARD crime film series Wolfsland with Götz Schubert and Yvonne Catterfeld in the leading roles.

action

Construction workers find a man's body while renovating an old house. The inspectors Viola Delbrück (Yvonne Catterfeld) and Butsch Schulz (Götz Schubert) are called. The forensic scientist estimates the age of the corpse at 400 years and baptizes the victim “Götzi”, based on Ötzi and the city of Görlitz, the location of the series. When Delbrück takes a closer look, she finds a second, much younger body. Based on a fuel receipt found on June 8, 2012, she suspects that the man may have been shot six years ago. When Butsch heard the date, he was startled, and Delbrück learned that there was an unsolved robbery a few years ago. Since the attack was assigned to a gang of Russian robbers, the case was closed. The attacked jeweler shot one of the masked perpetrators before he was killed himself; the projectile on the now found corpse is proven to have come from the jeweler's weapon.

So the old case is reopened, and Butsch has to admit that he did not investigate thoroughly enough at the time. Delbrück also has an investigative approach right away, because according to Vera Holzner, the jeweler’s widow, they had just decided at the time to have a monitoring system installed in the shop, which was only in the planning stage at the time of the attack. This trail leads to Maik Pilnjak, a former employee of the security company commissioned at the time. But before the investigators can find him, he is stabbed by Timo Klein, his accomplice at the time. Because of the body found, Klein now fears that he will be exposed after more than five years. Not only does he want to secure the booty himself, he also wants to remain undetected at all costs, because he is the jeweler's son-in-law. His wife has no inkling of his past, and he is determined to keep it. But Pilnjak is not dead immediately; after Klein has fled, he dragged himself with the last of his strength to the jewelry store. There he can whisper something to Vera Holzner before he sinks dead to the floor. Timo Klein has to act again. He hides the pistol from the attack and the knife he used against Pilnjak from his roommate Kevin Aulich. He asserts that he doesn't know anything and that he didn't care what Pilnjak was up to. Delbrück and Butsch have justified doubts that Aulich is the third accomplice, because the description of the perpetrator does not fit the corpulent man at all.

Timo Klein feels compelled to get his mother-in-law out of the way because he has noticed that she knows something. He tries to poison them by preparing the spaghetti he has cooked and the champagne that has been poured out. Vera Holzner notices this in good time and, together with her daughter Susanne, mixes the poison cocktail consisting of botox , heart drops and thimble with his food. Due to Butsch's timely appearance, Klein was brought to the clinic for the time being, but forensic doctor Böhme did not give him a great chance of survival. Since Butsch also drank some of the poisoned champagne, he too needs medical treatment. Vera Holzner and her daughter are arrested for attempted homicide of Klein.

In the subplot, Viola Delbrück discovers that her husband is still in Görlitz and is obviously secretly watching her. She constantly feels persecuted and in turn goes over to “counterattack” by looking for him. Her colleague Butsch did not miss this either, and he tries to protect her from him. He senses that Björn Delbrück is a danger. But unfortunately he is not careful enough, because one evening Delbrück kidnaps his wife and stages a “farewell performance”. He says he can't let her go and tries to kill her with a knife. Fortunately, she was able to defend herself and ram a knife into his stomach.

Production notes

The stone guest was filmed in Görlitz and the surrounding area and premiered on May 24, 2018 at 8.15 p.m. on Das Erste .

criticism

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv said: With this third episode, the Wolfsland series “finally established itself as a serious addition to the foreign crime series in the first.” “This time everything fits together: the visual language of the story, the two opposing main characters. the horizontal action on the specific case "and" the tension is significantly higher than in most of the other Thursday series. "

In Quotenmeter.de Sidney Schering evaluated: "Generic in this television crime only a handful of basic ingredients. In view of the fact that the program of the First offers such everyday thrillers in abundance, this is a welcome development per se, as it addresses parts of the audience that have long since eaten their fill of whole milk thrillers. "

Harald Keller from the Frankfurter Rundschau said: “The crime story is completely present and is in no small part carried by strong characters. New residents and posers can even allow themselves to reveal the perpetrator relatively early. They create tension from the race between the investigators and the criminal who, in complete panic, tries to remove all clues about his person, without shrinking from murder. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and wrote: "Here, what belongs together grows together."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff: Wolfsland - The stone guest / Irrlichter - review of the film - Tittelbach.tv. In: tittelbach.tv. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Sidney Schering: The Critics: "Wolfsland - The Stone Guest" --quotemeter.de. In: quotenmeter.de. May 22, 2018, accessed November 2, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Harald Keller: Götzi does not mold alone. In: fr.de. May 24, 2018, accessed November 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Wolfsland: The Stone Guest - Film Review - Film - TV SPIELFILM. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .