Wolfsland: Visitation

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Episode in the series Wolfsland
Original title visitation
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Molina Film
on behalf of Degeto
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 6 ( list )
German-language
first broadcast		 December 5, 2019 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Francis Meletzky
script Sönke Lars Neuwöhner ,
Sven S. Poser
production Jutta Müller
music Andreas Weidinger
camera Eeva Fleig ,
Carlo Jelavic
cut Andrea Mertens
occupation
chronology

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The holy grave

Visitation is a German television film by Francis Meletzky from 2019. It is the sixth film in the ARD crime film series Wolfsland with Götz Schubert and Yvonne Catterfeld in the leading roles.

action

This time the commissioners Viola Delbrück and Burkhard 'Butsch' Schulz from Görlitz are called to an old, disused capacitor factory, in the inner courtyard of which there is an abandoned car. Bodo Tauchert misses his wife and believes she was murdered. While Butsch is of the opinion that Heike Tauchert left her husband behind, his colleague Viola Delbrück assumes that Tauchert himself has his wife on the conscience and that the missing person report was staged.

Bodo Tauchert worked as an escape helper from 1987 to 1989 and now runs a small grocery store, while his wife works as an insurance agent on weekdays. It is therefore not uncommon for her to not sleep at home a lot. Her boss hadn't seen Heike Tauchert for a week either, which didn't seem suspicious to him because she supposedly planned to go to Berlin privately for a few days. For Delbrück, however, that doesn't really fit into the picture she's trying to get of Heike Tauchert, because she obviously had an appointment with her psychotherapist in Görlitz three days ago, but she didn't cancel it. Butsch went to the therapist and learned from her that Bodo Tauchert had apologized for his wife over the phone because she was supposedly ill. Another point that makes the husband suspicious for Delbrück.

After Heike Tauchert's body is found in the forest, Butsch has to admit that he was wrong. Bodo Tauchert is interrogated and denies having done anything to his wife, but after evaluating the cell phone data, it is clear that he had sent his wife a threat via SMS shortly before her death. However, that alone is not enough to arrest him.

The investigation shows that Heike Tauchert actually intended to leave her husband. The reason for this had to do with his work as an escape helper. As part of her therapy, Heike had also asked her husband to face his problems. He did that and confessed his guilt for the death of Hannes Kuballa, whom he was supposed to bring to the West in 1989, but who had then killed in a dispute. Heike talked about it with her therapist without realizing that she is the daughter of Hannes Kuballa, who had to watch the crime as a little girl and then confusedly claimed that her father had been eaten by a wolf. Now that she found out who had destroyed her childhood, her trauma broke out again and she began a revenge trip. First Tauchert's wife fell victim to this and now she has obviously also done something to Bodo Tauchert himself, because he has disappeared. But Kuballa's daughter only took him to the forest, where in her opinion he "belongs as a wolf" and tied him to a tree. After he is released, Kuballa's daughter is taken to a mental hospital.

Subplot

Months later, Viola Delbrück has to face her ex-husband again, who has to answer in a court hearing for the kidnapping and attempted murder of her. Although he declares himself guilty on all charges, he also accuses his wife of being complicit in order to continue to put her under psychological pressure. That doesn't miss its target and she continues to feel mentally pursued by Björn. This affects her work in such a way that she dedicates herself even more doggedly than usual to solving the current case.

Production notes

The shooting for Wolfsland: Visitation lasted from January 23 to February 21, 2019 and took place in Görlitz and the surrounding area. It was first broadcast on December 5, 2019 on Das Erste .

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Visitation on December 5, 2019 was seen by 4.62 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 15.6 percent for Das Erste .

Reviews

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv judged: "Visitation" "doesn't really convince", although the film tells a very "complex story". Unfortunately, it's just “an average TV thriller, even if Weidinger's music really tries to create a mystery atmosphere. The conveyed knowledge that 'shrinkers' themselves have 'something to do with the gossip' is pretty trite anyway. "

The Hamburger Abendblatt wrote: “Papa was eaten by the wolf - says the little girl with the red cap. What starts out like a fairy tale turns into a tricky case for the Görlitz inspectors Schulz and Delbrück in the sixth part of the 'Wolfsland' series. And at first even that is in question. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfsland - Das Heilige Grab (AT) at crew united
  2. ↑ "Wolfsland - Heimsuchung" (AT): New case for Viola Delbrück and "Butsch" Schulz Yvonne Catterfeld and Götz Schubert are investigating for the sixth time in Görlitz and the surrounding area on the presseportal.de page, accessed on September 20, 2019.
  3. ^ "Wolfsland": Yvonne-Catterfeld-Krimi returns. Retrieved October 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Audience rating at quotenmeter.de, accessed on May 18, 2020.
  5. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Götz Schubert, Catterfeld, Neuwöhner / Poser, Meletzky. Fairytale & mysterious at tittelbach.tv , accessed on May 18, 2020.
  6. ↑ Film review at abendblatt.de , accessed on May 18, 2020.