Anger - How They Kill
| Episode in the series Zorn | |||
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| Original title | How they kill | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
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ARD Degeto and Filmkombinat Nordost | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| classification | Episode 4 ( list ) | ||
| First broadcast | April 14, 2016 on Das Erste | ||
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| Director | Jochen Alexander Freydank | ||
| script | Stephan Ludwig | ||
| production | Jens Körner | ||
| music | Rainer Oleak | ||
| camera | Philipp Timme | ||
| cut | Esther Weinert | ||
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How they kill is the fourth film in the German crime series Zorn . It goes back to a crime novel from the Zorn series by the author Stephan Ludwig . This time it was directed by Jochen Alexander Freydank . Stephan Luca can be seen in the title role as Chief Detective Claudius Zorn, Axel Ranisch as his closest colleague Schröder. Alice Dwyer is again occupied as public prosecutor Frieda Borck and Katharina Nesytowa as Zorn's friend Malina. The main guest roles were taken on by Susanna Simon , Pit Bukowski , Monika Lennartz , Gregor Weber , Charles Brauer and Horst Sachtleben .
action
In Halle a man is hit by an S-Bahn and dies. Chief Detective Claudius Zorn has to determine who it is and whether there is any third-party fault. Zorn is annoyed by the case, but even more so by his new colleague Bert Kanthak, who is now working for him instead of Schröder, who left at his own request. Not only does he miss Schröder a lot, even if he doesn't like to admit it, the new colleague also annoys him with his music from the eighties. During every lunch break, Zorn supposedly only goes to “Chéz Schröder” to eat there.
The identity of the deceased can be determined through a tooth comparison, it is Hector, the adopted son of Gabriel Hasselblad. The old man lives in the same old people's home where Schröder's mother has lived since the death of her husband. Hasselblad sits in a wheelchair and becomes increasingly immobile, his nerve cells die. He tells Zorn that he last saw Hector 15 years ago. After all, he knows that he has suffered from depression since he was 20 years old. Hasselblad wants to know whether Zorn is afraid of death, which the commissioner denies.
Schröder says he has a feeling like that, but something is wrong in the home. Zorn asks the responsible public prosecutor Frieda Borck to have Mr. Seumel, who has just died in the old people's home, autopsied because Schröder has such a feeling and upon her objection: “Yes, logical! Schröder is a cop, no matter what he does now. And he's the best. If you tell him that, I'll kill you. "
Melvin Pryhl, a retarded, easily impressionable young man, appears at Schröder's bistro. Little does Schröder know that Berit Steinherz, who works in the home where Schröder's mother lives, gave him the job of killing him. Steinherz also committed the murder of Hector Hasselblad, whom she pushed in front of the arriving S-Bahn. Melvin hesitates, as Schröder treats him, as is his way, exceptionally friendly. Two attempts fail without Schröder noticing. The young man then enters the opposite shop of Gitty, an acquaintance of Schröder, and kills the woman. When Schröder wants to check on Gitty because the curtains are drawn during the day, Melvin knocks him down from behind. When he comes to, his hand is tied to a pipe with a cable tie.
The prosecutor told Zorn that 19 people had died of heart attacks in the said old people's home in the past four years . That could be a coincidence, but it is 20 percent above the average. Seumel's detailed autopsy report reveals that he was poisoned with conotoxin , a cone snail venom that paralyzes nerve cells, and the symptoms are the same as those of a heart attack. Zorn learns from the doorman of the home that Sister Berit has worked there for four years. When Zorn returns to his apartment, his gaze falls on Malina, who has a rope around her neck and is standing on a table. As he rushes towards her, Berit Steinherz comes into his field of vision and says that when he gets closer, Malina will be dead. Actually, she wanted to be gone, but if he was already there, he could also watch "his Bitch “die. In an act of desperation, Zorn succeeds in overpowering the woman and severing Malina's rope. He races to the hospital with her. It's not just about them, but also about their child. She recently became pregnant. Before Berit runs away, Zorn makes it clear by means of a cell phone recording that Schröder is in her power.
While Schröder succeeds in outsmarting Melvin and freeing himself from the bondage, Zorn, who is in the nursing home because of another death, is turned over by Sister Berit, who makes it clear to him that she can see his every step, on the property of the home located chapel conducts. When anger reached the threshold, there was a huge explosion in the nursing home and Berit wanted to know how he liked it. Then he gets a blow on the head. When he comes to, both hands are handcuffed. Berit says he gets what he deserves, him and his slut. Anger is the fear for his pregnant girlfriend written on his face. Schröder and Melvin enter the chapel, in which Hasselblad is also present with a pistol in hand. Berit is the first to shoot Melvin with the gun. Then she asks Hasselblad for a code, which he gives her. Hasselblad is afraid of death and wants someone to go ahead, in this case it should be Zorn and Schröder. Again Schröder succeeds with a trick to change the situation and to get the pistol. However, Berit escaped in the chaos . Schröder gets Hasselblad to tell him where Berit is probably. Anger races to the hospital and finds Malina's room empty. Borck arrives and tells him that Malina is fine. Steinherz tried to manipulate the drip, but she had such a feeling and everything went well. Schröder is now on the heels of Berit, who has fetched an envelope with money from a locker. When Schröder makes it clear to her that she has no chance, she steps out onto the street and lets herself be run over.
Anger awaits a big surprise when he enters his office the next day. Schröder is back. The public prosecutor arrives and wants to know from Schröder whether Zorn already knows. She emphasizes that it is important that he know that it was her idea and not Schröder's. He was against it, she really had to persuade him. And addressed directly to Zorn, he needed someone to look after him, someone to do the work ... Colleague Schröder was his superior with immediate effect. A little later, Zorn tells Schröder that you have to face the facts, that he is not only the better cook, but also the better cop!
production
Production notes, filming
The film How They Kill , produced by the Filmkombinat Nordost GmbH & Co. KG, was filmed from September 8 to October 8, 2015 at locations in Halle (Saale) and the surrounding area. In the fourth case, Oscar winner Jochen Alexander Freydank took over the direction. In 2009 he was awarded the trophy for his short film Toy Land. The recording management was with Christian Nachbar and Tim Carstensen, the production management with Christian Scheerer and the production management with Dietmar Fischer and for the ARD Degeto with Kirsten Frehse.
background
In a conversation with the German Press Agency , Axel Ranisch explained that the development of his character Schröder had "already become very emancipated" over time in the face of anger. Although he was initially “very well-behaved and adjusted and downright diligent”, he is now gaining more and more freedom. With the personal losses comes “just more inner freedom for him”. Schröder, who is very "stuck in his structures between his parents and work", unfortunately simply forgot to "take care of himself". Obviously, he doesn't have a private life of his own, which doesn't appear in the novels either. Since he was raped as a very young person, he has had difficulties with sexuality ever since, but is by no means asexual. If he falls in love, "then you could someday tell it casually".
Benjamin Horbelt wanted to know from Stephan Luca what characterizes the crime series "Zorn", since there are so many crime novels on German television. Luca replied that Zorn was "a very exciting, but for German productions also unusually hard and dark thriller". Even if one cannot adapt everything from Stephan Ludwig's books in its severity, remains "a very attractive network of two unusual investigators and their cases or crimes, who look very deep into human abysses". In addition, Ludwig had invented two inspectors, Zorn and Schröder, "who couldn't be more different". On the one hand “a very lazy, grim and curious Chief Inspector Claudius Zorn and on the other side of the investigators' table his partner Inspector Schröder, smart, hardworking, bright and personable”. Sometimes the two could "not with each other, but above all and consistently not without each other". Axel Ranisch is “not only the best colleague one could wish for”, he “also fascinates him and is a wonderful person”. He "bows to his talent as an actor, filmmaker, theater and opera director". They would have “grown in love” and would laugh a lot together. Anger is "a wonderful figure, an anti-hero and for that reason alone high" in his "personal wish list".
reception
Publication, audience rating
The film, which was broadcast for the first time on March 14, 2016 on ARD Das Erste , was watched by 3.89 million viewers. The market share was 12 percent.
criticism
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave the film one of three possible points for humor and action, two for suspense, and they pointed their thumbs up and said: “A genre mix that works on every level: as a thriller exciting and versatile, as Buddy film amusing, sometimes touching. And pretty Luca is allowed to let off steam as anger. ”Conclusion:“ Strong: psycho thriller meets buddy film ”.
Rainer Tittelbach gave the film 4.5 out of 6 possible stars on his website tittelbach.tv and summarized: “Like its predecessors, the film adaptation of Stephan Ludwig's fourth novel about the Halle buddy couple modified the relationship between the two anti-heroes. Schröder is no longer a cop - and anger doesn't do much without him. But the two are friends more than ever, and they are two sides of the same coin - one is unthinkable without the other. The unequal actors complement each other just as well. 'Zorn - How they kill' is a witty, exciting and aesthetically mediating crime thriller that mediates between realism and style. The case of a murderous nurse is open from the start, the tension is high for ARD Thursday crime conditions, there are cool looks and real emotions. ” … “ Even without the final thrill, ”Freydank's film is“ quite exciting ”. The "cast" is "as always convincing". [...] “Susanna Simon” plays the murderess “not only with the pale complexion of the 'Snow Queen' - her inner life is also ice cold”.
Tilmann P. Gangloff , who rated the film for the Frankfurter Rundschau , said: “The fourth 'Zorn' crime thriller is a film full of surprises; some are funny, others are fatal. ”[…]“ The script ”is“ a very successful combination of tension and relaxation, even if the thriller in the second half turns more and more into a thriller ”. Although the film "runs out of air, of all things, for the finale", the film is "so worth seeing that the bottom line is that nothing changes".
The film service praised: “Exciting (TV series) crime thriller as an original buddy movie. The fourth film adaptation of Ludwig's novel laconically explores the depths of a male friendship. - From 14. "
In the Volksstimme it was read that there were some "unexpected twists" in the film, but the "logic" "unfortunately too often falls by the wayside", for example with the point why both investigators have to fall into the hands of the murdering sister ? Your motives are then "terrifyingly banal". The story was "somehow exciting", but the "end could be foreseen, and you could not guess correctly as a viewer either". Nevertheless, the crime thriller "puts you in a good mood". [...] "The chemistry between the two colleagues, who are actually more friends", "is just right, which you can also see from the good-humored actors". Stephan Luca is "not quite as cynical" as Mišel Maticevic, who played Zorn in the first film, his office and he is no longer quite as filthy. Axel Ranisch as a cozy Schröder is "fairly present" despite his departure from the service
Frederic Servatius dealt with the film for the websitequotemeter.de and stated: “What is already striking here: the overarching horizontal storyline is not neglected, is not neglected like in many other films or depicted in an unnecessarily uncomfortable and human manner . No, it moves on a personal but not kitschy level and, above all, does not dominate too much. "For example," the public service production "choose" a completely different approach than the very demanding RTL II format 'Godless' " . But there is no doubt that the approach is characterized by a “drastic dramaturgical intensity”. Susanna Simon brings "hypothermia" to the "already absolutely strange sister with a coldness that the vanilla ice cream for dessert" is freezing, which is " reinforced by her apprentice Melvin", "who as a full-time psychopath could hardly be conveyed more credibly ". In addition to Schröder and Zorn, “a second brilliant duo was found”.
Web links
- Zorn - How they kill in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Anger - How they kill at crew united
- Anger - How they kill at Fernsehserien.de
- Summary of the plot of How they kill on the ARD website
- Zorn - How they kill full film in the ARD media library (available until August 15, 2020, 4:00 p.m.)
Individual evidence
- ^ Zorn - How they kill, TV film (series), ARD, Degeto, MDR, Krimi, Germany | Crew United. Retrieved May 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Zorn - How they kill see page daserste.de
- ↑ a b Klaus Braeuer: Zorn - How they kill In: Volksstimme , April 14, 2016. Retrieved on May 20, 2020.
- ↑ Benjamin Horbelt: Stephan Luca: “I did not show myself to stay in a comfort zone all the time” see page quotenmeter.de, April 13, 2016. Accessed on May 20, 2020.
- ^ A b Rainer Tittelbach : Series “Zorn - How they kill”. Luca, Ranisch, Stephan Ludwig, Freydank. Thrill, irony & the fear of death see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- ↑ Zorn - How they kill short review on the page tvspielfilm.de (including 26 film images). Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Shadow of Death In: Frankfurter Rundschau , April 14, 2016. Accessed on May 20, 2020.
- ↑ Anger - How They Kill. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Frederic Servatius: "Anger" is not always a good advisor see page quotenmeter.de, April 12, 2016. Accessed on May 20, 2020.