Wolfsland: deep in the forest

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Episode in the series Wolfsland
Original title Deep in the forest
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Molina Film
on behalf of Degeto
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 2 ( list )
German-language
first broadcast		 December 15, 2016 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Tim Trageser
script Sönke Lars Neuwöhner
Sven S. Poser
production Jutta Müller
music Andreas Weidinger
camera Eckhard Jansen
cut Claudia Wolscht
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Tief im Wald is a German TV film by Tim Trageser from 2016. It is the second film in the ARD crime series Wolfsland with Götz Schubert and Yvonne Catterfeld in the leading roles. Johannes Zirner , Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen , Andreas Schmidt , Jan Dose , Lucas Prisor and Holger Bülow play leading roles .

action

Main storyline

The detective inspectors Viola Delbrück and Butsch Schulz are investigating their second joint case and still have to do with getting together as a team. A jogger is found strangled. At first, suicide cannot be ruled out any more than external influence. While Delbrück and Schulz are still securing the traces, an apparently confused man makes a statement at the local police station. He is a hobby photographer and saw a werewolf attacking a victim and dragging him into the bushes. The officers Frenzel and Raaben don't take Emmerich seriously and send him home. That same evening he was found dead in his apartment. Delbrück is certain that he saw and photographed the jogger's murderer and was therefore killed.

Unexpectedly, the investigators received support from Delbrück's "Noch-Husband", who is a forensic psychiatrist and who spontaneously contacted the head of the department, Georg Ebertin, to help. Butsch's colleague is horrified to face the man she left Hamburg because of. She not only feels stalked, but also sees Delbrück's appearance in Görlitz as a threat, but keeps her thoughts to herself. As so often in the past, she puts private matters aside and agrees with Ebertin's question as to whether she agrees with the help of the well-known psychiatrist, who is regarded as an expert in the field of forensic psychology . Björn Delbrück impresses his colleagues with his specialist knowledge and is sure that a series of murders will develop. He's supposed to be right, because the next day a student was found strangled. She was also hung up with an elastic band so that her agony would last longer. A witness claims to have seen a white van at the time of the crime.

“Butsch” Schulz and Delbrück try to find out how the murderer knew about Emmerich's testimony. The officer Patrick Frenzel admits to have reported about it in his diving club that evening. Based on the people present there, the investigators come across the caretaker Fabian Nickritz, who lives with his mother and many cats in a lonely farmhouse. But Björn Delbrück excludes him as a perpetrator because he considers it impossible that the wanted perpetrator can live with cats. On the other hand, he is certain that the wanted murderer may have tried to act out his sexuality with prostitutes before his murders. An investigation in this direction leads to Fabian Nickritz again. When “Butsch” Schulz secretly looks around in his house, he actually finds Emmerich's digital camera with the photos as evidence. As a result, the entire house is searched by forensics and Nickritz is found hanged in the attic and his mother in the freezer. The old lady has been dead for at least four weeks and has succumbed to a heart attack, as the later autopsy shows.

District manager Ebertin sees the death of his mother as the triggering factor that could have driven Nickritz to the deeds and considers the case to be solved. Viola Delbrück, however, has doubts because Nickritz's farewell letter says nothing about an admission of guilt, only that he could not go on without his mother. Someone could have pushed the camera on him. Her husband confirms this assumption. Through a conversation with Björn, Viola Delbrück came to the conclusion that the police officer Patrick Frenzel, who was supposed to record Emmerich's complaint, was the wanted serial killer. Since the perpetrator wore a diving suit during his murders, no DNA traces were found at the respective crime scene. This also explains why Emmerich wants to have seen a werewolf.

Since "Butsch" Schulz once again had a clash with the bar owner Goran Tonka, who had one of his buddies beat him up, he did not answer the cell phone when Viola Delbrück informed him that she knew that Frenzel was the culprit and will now catch him . He should come to the swimming pool as soon as possible. There the policeman pulls the inspector under water as she stands at the edge of the pool and it looks as if she cannot win the fight to the life and death. However, “Butsch” Schulz is there just in time to save her. Although Frenzel flees and does not even stop to forcibly take his wife Maja with him, the commissioners manage to find him and arrest him before he can carry out his plan to force his wife to strangle him.

Parallel plot

“Butsch” tells Viola that his daughter Emilie, who is with him now, has lived with her grandparents, his in-laws, in Berlin since her mother's death. During the holidays she sometimes comes to see him in Görlitz. If he's lucky, she'll live with him. If not, she lives with her uncle, Nadja's brother, his brother-in-law, so to speak. She likes her uncle. To Viola's great surprise, he says that this uncle's name is Georg Ebertin.

Björn Delbrück wants his wife back at all costs. Because of his pathological jealousy, violent clashes between the former couple continued, which ended in a fight with an almost fatal outcome. During a conversation, he said that he wasn't shooting at her, that she suddenly turned a game into deadly seriousness and declared him her mortal enemy. At the end of the episode there is another encounter between Björn and Viola Delbrück when he suddenly stands in front of their rented room and steers them in with the words "There are only two of us". When Butsch, who wants to bring Viola something, hears suspicious noises from the room and violently enters, the inspector kneels on her husband and holds a knife to his throat. She only responds to Butsch with repeated shouts. Björn Delbrück says, standing up: "You are the killer, not me."

Production notes

The film was shot from March 31 to April 28, 2016 in Görlitz and the surrounding area. The editing for MDR was with Jana Brandt and Stephanie Bogon, for ARD Degeto with Katja Kirchen. Production manager Gabriele "Gabi" Goiczyk spontaneously made herself available as the corpse of Fabian Nickritz's mother and got into the freezer, suitably prepared. Originally, a look at the corpse in the freezer was not intended.

reception

Publication, audience rating

The film premiered on December 15, 2016 in prime time on ARD Das Erste . When it first aired, 5.01 million viewers tuned into the thriller. The market share was 16 percent.

criticism

Tilmann P. Gangloff gave the film 3½ out of a possible 6 on the tittelbach.tv site and said: “'Deep in the forest', the second film from the new ARD series 'Wolfsland', is overall more coherent than the first. The script continues to emphasize the contrasts between the unequal investigator couple Butsch and Viola, but this time the author duo Poser & Neuwöhner tells a far more captivating crime story. "[...]" Multiple perpetrators "are" a grateful subject for crime novels because the tension of self ”. [...] Götz Schubert clearly “enjoyed” his role, the critic continued, for Yvonne Catterfeld “the policewoman with a killer instinct is just as unusual a figure as the psychologist with pathological traits is for Zirner”.

At the Frankfurter Rundschau , Harald Keller said: “With the second film in the series”, “the authors found their tone and rhythm”. The result is "a sly, entertaining crime thriller". [...] With "the three-way relationship", "the authors would have created a level of tension that works through ambiguity, a second level next to the current criminal case." [...] In the second episode, the authors would now find "a pleasantly compact style". Your book [...] has “line and rhythm”. In essence, "an appealing concept that enables thrills as well as humorous interludes" and allows "a lot to be expected in the future".

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best rating (thumbs up) and wrote: “It is very good for the case that the characters are already established. This creates more dynamism than at the beginning of the series. The staging by crime routineer Tim Trageser (' Tatort: ​​Höllenfahrt ') does not always strike the right balance between seriousness and comedy, but the squabbling of the unequal investigative duo is quite amusing. ”Later:“ The unequal duo is now fun: more exciting and amusing than Part 1. "Conclusion:" Tension and dialogue joke leave part one behind. "Later:" With tension and fresh dialogue joke ".

The Westfälische Nachrichten recommended the film with the words: “'Wolfsland' is a dark, thoroughly humorous thriller with a strong team of investigators and a mediocre plot. Should become a series from the two-part - there is potential. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Peters: "Wolfsland - Deep in the Forest" Crazy photo! Here the crime thriller corpse climbs out of the chest
    In: Hamburger Morgenpost . December 15, 2016. Accessed July 8, 2020.
  2. ↑ Wolfsland Ewig Dein / Tief im Wald Fig. Film poster Das Erste on the crew-united.com page
  3. ^ A b Tilmann P. Gangloff : Series "Wolfsland - Deep in the Forest". Catterfeld, Schubert, Zirner, Neuwöhner / Poser, Trageser. The serial killer from Görlitz film review on the page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  4. ↑ Harald Keller: "Wolfsland - Deep in the Forest". Enigmatic three-way relationship
    In: Frankfurter Rundschau . December 15, 2026. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  5. ↑ Deep in the forest, see page TV feature film (including 14 film images). Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  6. ^ "Wolfsland - Deep in the Forest" Film review In: Westfälische Nachrichten . December 15, 2016. Accessed July 8, 2020.