Target investigators - escape to the Carpathian Mountains

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TV movie
Original title Target investigators - escape to the Carpathian Mountains
Country of production Germany
original language German ,
Romanian
Publishing year 2016
length 115 minutes
Rod
Director Dominik Graf
script Rolf Basedow
production Quirin Berg ,
Max Wiedemann
music Sven Rossenbach ,
Florian van Volxem
camera Alexander Fischerkoesen
cut Claudia Wolscht
occupation
chronology

Successor  →
Target Investigators - Bloody Tango

Target Investigators - Escape to the Carpathian Mountains is a German TV film from 2016 . Directed by Dominik Graf , the script was written by Rolf Basedow . Ulrike C. Tscharre and Ronald Zehrfeld play the leading roles as target investigators who are chasing a Romanian gangster. In 2019 the film was continued with Bloody Tango .

action

Liviu Caramitru, a member of a pan-European Romanian criminal gang, is able to break out of a Düsseldorf prison together with an accomplice . The trail of the two leads to Berlin , where special police units are on the heels of an assistant Caramitrus. She drives the escapes towards the Polish border, where the accomplice is caught, but Caramitru manages to escape across the Oder to Poland .

When Caramitru is located in Bucharest through a bugged cell phone call, Hanna Landauer and Sven Schröder, target investigators of the North Rhine-Westphalian LKA , set off for Romania. Landauer had already dealt with Caramitru in the past, when he tried to arrest her colleague at the time. She herself was so nervous that she could not shoot and only survived because Caramitru, according to his own statement, forbids his honor to shoot women.

In Romania, Landauer and Schröder are sidelined by the local police. Investigations of the two on their own in the Bucharest nightlife ended in a wild brawl, but led to the husband of Caramitrus's lover, who gave the tip that he was going to his sister's wedding in his hometown in the Carpathians .

Landauer and Schröder are on site on the day of the wedding with a large police force. When the alleged Caramitru is seen and arrested, however, it is not the wanted person, but his brother Ion. The police assume that Liviu Caramitru knew of her presence, and since the tipster also fell to his death from his high-rise apartment, it is likely that the results of the investigation will be revealed to Caramitru. In fact, Karl Vieth, the head of the targeted investigation unit, found out that Susanne Lorenz, the secretary of the North Rhine-Westphalian Minister of Justice, is the leak. Her brother had gambling debts with Romanian gangsters, with which she was blackmailed. After being exposed, she commits suicide.

After their arrest, Landauer and Schröder are invited by the villagers to the wedding celebration. The next day, Caramitrus' wife Landauer reveals that her husband and his lover are staying with a shepherd in the mountains. Together with Florin, the only one of the Bucharest police still on site, and mounted mountain police officers, they want to arrest Caramitru there. He shoots the police and tries to escape on foot after running out of ammunition. Landauer pursues him and can catch him. During the fight, she almost falls into a ravine, can barely hold on to a bush and is pulled back up by Caramitru, who is shot by one of the policemen who rushes over. As he dies he says: “In the end you caught me” and kisses Landauer.

background

Target investigators - Escape to the Carpathians was filmed in Cologne , Düsseldorf and Bergheim as well as in Romania in Bucharest, Cârțișoara and in the Bucegi Mountains . The premiere of the film was on June 27, 2016 as part of the Munich Film Festival . It was first broadcast on television on November 19, 2016 on Das Erste, and saw 5.03 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 16.3%.

reception

criticism

Christian Buß calls the film on Spiegel Online an “act of violence from film, an adventure of unleashing!” In his opinion, it differs positively from the “hideous Euro thrillers, in which German actors Breton and Italian in front of waves, mountains and lakes or give Swiss investigators. "

The film service praises Dominik Graf's production as an "exciting, shimmering, ecstatically told mixture of crime thriller and road movie , which, with its main characters, embarks on the exploration of a [sic] strange world beyond the paths of functional investigative logic."

For Rainer Tittelbach it is "[e] in a highly dynamic, sensual, and at the same time physically realistic piece of television."

Claudia Wolscht with the award from the German Academy for Television 2017

Awards

The film editor Claudia Wolscht received the German Television Award in 2017 as well as an award from the German Academy for Television in the category Best Editing .

At the Golden Camera 2017 and the Jupiter Award 2017 , the film was nominated in the category Best German TV Film. Ulrike C. Tscharre was the Jupiter Award 2017 in the category actress starring Best nominated and with the German TV crime rate as best actress award.

Dominik Graf received a nomination for Best Director from the German Academy for Television .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach: Series Target Investigators - Escape to the Carpathian Mountains. In: tittelbach.tv . Retrieved January 11, 2018 .
  2. ^ Christian Buß : Romania thriller by Dominik Graf. Balkans brutal. In: Spiegel Online . November 19, 2016, accessed January 11, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Target investigators - Escape to the Carpathian Mountains. In: Filmdienst . Retrieved January 11, 2018 .