Wolfsland: Forever yours
| Episode in the series Wolfsland | |
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| Original title | Forever Yours |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Molina Film on behalf of Degeto Film |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 1 ( list ) |
| German-language first broadcast |
December 8, 2016 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | André Erkau |
| script |
Sönke Lars Neuwöhner , Sven S. Poser |
| production | Jutta Müller |
| music |
René Dohmen , Joachim Dürbeck |
| camera | Gunnar Fuss |
| cut | Anke Berthold |
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Ewig Dein is a German television film by André Erkau from 2016. It is the first film in the ARD crime series Wolfsland with Yvonne Catterfeld and Götz Schubert in the leading roles. Emma Drogunova , Julius Nitschkoff , Andreas Schmidt , Jan Dose , Sebastian Nakajew and Johannes Zirner play leading roles .
action
Main storyline
"When at night the fires from the Lusatian mountains shine like gloomy, glowing devil's eyes into the darkness, then they have broken out, the spirits of the cursed people."
The criminalist Viola Delbrück has been transferred to Görlitz by the LKA Hamburg in order to leave her past behind in a new environment and start all over again. Her new partner is the lonely detective chief inspector Burkhard Schulz, who everyone just calls "Butsch". He is not very enthusiastic about being put on the side as a “guardian”, as he thinks, and behaves accordingly dismissive.
In their first case together, Delbrück and Schulz have to solve the murder of a lawyer. John Staffler's body was found on the site of a disused conveyor system. It quickly becomes clear that the man was not killed here, but only discarded. According to his wife, Staffler was last in Dresden on business, but the GPS data from his cell phone lead the investigators to an estate. When Delbrück and Schulz look around there, they find a secret brothel in which Staffler had obviously kept his lover hidden until recently. The property is managed by the real estate agent Marvin Liebchen, who was friends with Staffler and supposedly does not know anything about this use of the premises. When the DNA traces found at the crime scene are checked, they lead to the Polish prostitute Jenni Czellinski on record. The suspicion is that their old pimps might have turned up to get back the girl Staffler had unhooked them. But Czellinski could also have become the perpetrator.
A lead from a gas station robbery last night suggests that Czellinski was involved. By evaluating the surveillance recordings from the camera installed in the gas station, the drug addict Marek Palme can be identified as the second perpetrator. However, he escapes arrest and flees with his girlfriend, who is actually the wanted Jenni Czellinski. Delbrück and Schulz found items of clothing with blood adhering to them in their shelter, but they did not come from Staffler, as it later turns out.
While the police are looking for Staffler's killer, Jenni looks for her baby. She knows that Isabel Fröbe, a trained midwife who also works as a cleaning lady for Marvin Liebchen, has taken the child with her, but she cannot find her. Marek Palme wants to help her and breaks into Liebchen's villa in order to force him to reveal the child's hiding place, but he kills the man in an argument. When the police found the body, things were cleared up for Delbrück and Schulz too. But it was not Jenni Czellinski who killed Staffler because she wanted to force him to bring the child back to her, but Czellinski's father Wadim. He wanted to get his daughter back to Poland at all costs and had found her on the farm.
In the dilapidated house in which Marek Palme once lived with his grandfather, his grandfather is now completely out of control. He threatens the matted Schulz as well as Jenni's father. Viola Delbrück arrives just in time to put Marek out of action and also to arrest Wadim Czellinski.
Parallel plot
Viola Delbrück is haunted again and again by memories of the day on which she spoke against her husband, the forensic psychiatrist Dr. Björn Delbrück, had to fight for her life. Often she wakes up drenched in sweat, as nightmares are her companion. Delbrück has deep cuts on both palms.
Inspector Schulz tells Delbrück during a shadowing session they spend together in the car that he has lost his second wife. Schulz had previously spun something for her, whereupon she wanted to know whether he had actually always been like that, when he asked "how", she said: "Such a misanthropic, misogynistic, hostile asshole."
At the end of the fall, Delbrück and Schulz stand just outside the city in front of an old, unrepaired house. Two lives were destroyed here in one fell swoop. He wanted to renovate the house, but then the ceiling collapsed and buried everything in two seconds - including Nadja, his second wife. He had an appointment with her here to spend the first night together. Since he still had to work, he came too late, and the accident had already happened. To Delbrück's surprise, a wolf approaches them, runs up to Schulz and lets him stroke him.
When both are back in town, Björn Delbrück is standing on the corner smoking a cigarette.
production
Production notes
Ewig Dein was shot from July 14th to August 12th, 2015 in Görlitz and the surrounding area. The film was produced by Molina Film in collaboration with MDR for Degeto Film . The editing for MDR was with Jana Brandt and Stephanie Bogon, for ARD Degeto with Katja Kirchen.
background
André Erkau said in an interview that Viola and Butsch are “two damaged people who, despite their injuries, know how to assert themselves powerfully in the present”. However, both find it difficult to “allow closeness or even build trust”. So "a rapprochement" between the two seems "almost unthinkable". That was precisely what attracted him to the story. He wanted to tell about the fact that "closeness and trust can be possible even in the darkest moments". The challenge in this pilot episode was "to give the main characters more space than in conventional episodes, but not to lose sight of the crime plot". That was "quite a balancing act". For him, the encounters with the wolf stand for the encounters with the own dark side, the wildness, quasi the wolf in ourselves. Even if most people did not want to admit it, this side exists in us humans.
When asked, Yvonne Catterfeld said that she was attracted by the “really seldom good scripts, the constellation with Götz Schubert”, whom she “only knew from television” up until then, and “above all an exciting female role with great development potential”. And she liked the character Butsch, who also plays a decisive role for her as Viola: "his uncompromisingness, his directness and his honesty, even and maybe especially when he sometimes behaves like a defiant child". Götz Schubert explained that “the whole package is exciting: the production, the script, the venue, the characters”. The characters are "told with an incredible amount of love and sensitivity". Butsch immediately met him “so naturally”, so unthinkable, with many facets, with an exciting biography, with charm and wit, with anger and emotions, “credible and profound”. He “absolutely wanted to play” it, “or better said: explore it, go on a journey with it, accompany it”. Both actors praised the shooting in and around Görlitz. Catterfeld said she and Götz Schubert liked each other straight away. That made everything easier. He immediately accepted her as a colleague at his side. Schubert said that Catterfeld could not only sing but also play and that she was incredibly personable. That is almost the most important thing when you spend so much time together.
reception
Publication, audience rating
On December 8, 2016, the film was first broadcast in prime time on ARD Das Erste . 4.14 million viewers wanted to see the first episode of the series. The market share was 13.1 percent.
criticism
Tilmann P. Gangloff gave the film three out of six possible stars on the tittelbach.tv website and said: “'Ewig Dein', the prelude to a new Thursday crime series by ARD from Görlitz in Saxony, introduces an attractive investigative duo, but otherwise tells one Almost uninteresting story: A young couple embodied with far too much zeal plays a bit of Bonnie & Clyde. The friction-rich level with Götz Schubert as a misanthropic local and Yvonne Catterfeld as a cool hamburger who carries around with an unprocessed nightmarish experience creates a lot more sparks. The couple has potential, but the crime thriller cases of 'Wolfsland' have to get a lot better. "It is" above all the second levels that make the characters [the investigators] interesting ".
Ulrich Feld said in the Frankfurter Neue Presse : The film “makes an effort to live up to its title with a few scenes with wolves. […] However, it is not enough for a solid crime thriller, although there are sometimes even real jokes and the score is quite good. The rest of it seems pretty listless. "
Oliver Junge from the FAZ was of the opinion: “Three wolfs, you want to put up with that, as it is, if not brutally cryptic, the mascot of the new 'Wolfsland' crime series taking place in Görlitz. Three red knickers, that may also work, the trail has to be followed since Rüpelkommissar Burkhard Schulz (Götz Schubert), known as Butsch, pulled the first of these scraps out of the dead man's mouth. However, when the black crow hops through the picture in close-up for the fourth time [...] all confidence disappears that something else will come of this prelude in the direction of André Erkau. You rarely find so little inspiration, even with the assembly-line crime scene. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave it a medium rating (thumbs straight) and wrote: “The start of the crime series doesn't make you want more. The case looks like something out of the nineties, and the symbolism laden with meaning is often involuntarily funny. " Conclusion: "Thick, but unfortunately cliché."
Viola Schenz rated the film for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and said it had "entertainment value - if you take it with humor". The “constellation of half-empty houses and streets” makes Görlitz, which has a “historic old town” with many “Renaissance, Baroque and Wilhelminian style buildings”, “the ideal film set”. And “if you take it with humor”, Schenz concluded, “this mixture of confused plot, artificially complicated relationships and endeavored quick-witted dialogues definitely has its entertainment value”.
Award
Yvonne Catterfeld was nominated for the Jupiter Award 2017 in the category "Best German TV Actress" for her performance in this film .
Web links
- Wolf Country: Ewig Dein in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wolfsland: Forever yours at Fernsehserien.de
- Wolfsland: Forever yours with crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ For an interview with director André Erkau, see page daserste.de
- ↑ I nterview with Götz Schubert and Yvonne Elliman daserste.de see page
- ↑ Wolfsland: Ewig Dein Fig. Film poster Das Erste (in the picture: Götz Schubert, Yvonne Catterfeld)
- ^ A b Tilmann P. Gangloff : Series "Wolfsland - Ewig Dein". Catterfeld, Schubert, Neuwöhner, Poser, Erkau. Kommissare gut, Krimifall mau Film criticism at tittelbach.tv, November 16, 2016, accessed on November 12, 2018.
- ↑ Ulrich Feld: Wolfsland? Forever yours: Reichlich listless In: fnp.de , accessed on November 12, 2018.
- ↑ Oliver Junge: Wildwechsel im Osten In: faz.net , accessed on November 12, 2018.
- ↑ Always yours at TV Spielfilm , accessed on October 22, 2018.
- ↑ Highly intelligent commissioner meets rough loner In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. December 8, 2016. Accessed July 3, 2020.
