Anger - Where there is no light

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Episode in the series Zorn
Original title Where no light
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 ARD Degeto and Filmkombinat Nordost
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 3 ( list )
First broadcast November 5, 2015 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Christoph Snow
script Stephan Ludwig ,
Benjamin Hessler
production Jens Körner
music George Kochbeck
camera Diethard Prengel
cut Dagmar Lichius
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Zorn - About Loving and Dying

Successor  →
Anger - How They Kill

Zorn - Where there is no light is the third film from 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 Christoph Schnee . 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. Tonio Arango , Barnaby Metschurat , Paul Faßnacht , Hans Klima , Monika Lennartz and Christian Grashof took on the main guest roles .

Main storyline

A man is found on the banks of the Saale. It's about the public prosecutor Meinolf Grünbein, who shot himself in the head. The messages on his answering machine suggest that he was completely beside himself and that he was being driven to suicide. "Run quietly, my friend, go, run, run faster ... There is nothing more you can do. No matter where you hide, I'll get you anyway. "

Schröder tells his colleague, Chief Detective Zorn, that the public prosecutor Frieda Borck is with Jan Czernyk, a special investigator at the LKA who almost single-handedly uncovered a human trafficking ring in Berlin. Now he is with the internal audit department. Nobody knows exactly why he is here in Halle. Zorn believes that Czernyk is there for him and should keep an eye on him.

Schröder is hit by a limousine that raced straight towards him. As it turns out later, the driver of the car is the lawyer Kai Wiesnegg. Because of a concussion, Schröder has to take it easy, which Zorn doesn’t really fit into the stuff. His concern for his colleague is obvious, however, but this does not prevent him from lugging along plenty of files to work through. Schröder finds out that there could be a connection between the accident and the suicide. Half a year ago there was a case at the higher regional court in which it was about tax evasion. Grünbein was the prosecutor as the prosecutor. A finance broker named Elias de Koop was charged. Its defender was Kai Wiesnegg, the driver involved in the accident. Zorn seeks out de Koop, who, according to Schröder, is single and wealthy and a respected citizen, as the saying goes. It is strange that two lawyers would go nuts within a very short time, tries to lure Zorn de Koop from the reserve. Schröder later said about anger that someone was missing, the judge. His research shows that the judge Bernhard Laurink has been missing for three days. He has not returned from a walk. When Zorn returns to his office early in the morning, he experiences an unpleasant surprise. The dead Wiesnegg is sitting there on his desk chair. The man died of a fractured skull.

Borck comes across more by chance that Czernyk is no longer on duty. When she confronts him, he admits that he has inoperable glaucoma and will be blind in a few weeks. But first he still has a case to solve. Borck thinks what he is doing is criminal and presumptuous . Czernyk kisses her, tells her he loves her, and turns to go.

Schröder speaks to de Koop to find out his perspective on the tax evasion being negotiated. De Koop thinks that it was primarily about rental properties with an eventful history. Yes, about brothels , of course he had no idea and bought the houses as normal rental properties. A somewhat overzealous civil servant developed delusions about himself and made allegations ranging from kidnapping to murder . Of course, that was all a fantasy. The name of the official, whom he will never forget, is Jan Czernyk.

Only a little later, Czernyk also brought de Koop into his power and locked him up in the brine bath, as did the judge Laurink who was already there. He said to de Koop that he brought him into this situation and made him a different person. De Koop sarcastically replies that it was more his greed. Anger is also caught off guard by Czernyk and brought into the brine bath. He needs his help, he tells the recovering inspector, whom he threatens with his weapon at the same time. He's a lazy cop, but he's not corruptible , he's pretty sure of that, he says, and ties Anger to a pipe with a cable tie. Suddenly the lamp man appears, an old man as strong as a bear with the disposition of a child and a unique specimen who wanders the streets of Halle and has declared Zorn to be his friend. He has a knife and could untie the inspector, but he hesitates, obviously confused. Czernyk appears with the judge and de Koop, opens his laptop and announces that this is a trial that will end with a verdict. To anger, he would testify to what he had heard. He accuses the judge of bribery in office. Laurink thinks he'll admit everything. Elias de Koop is said to plead guilty of bribery of officials and manipulation of evidence, as well as murder in at least twelve cases. Czernyk lists the individual cases in detail. When he entered de Koops villa, he saved the evidence from his home video on a USB stick and forwarded it to the public prosecutor. He made them disappear together with the judge. The situation changes completely surprisingly when the lamp man steps behind Czernyk and, on de Koop's orders, clasps him. At the same time, de Koop pushes a picked up shard deep into the judge's thigh, loosens his fetters and picks up Czernyk's weapon. Now the negotiation will be continued according to his rules, he says smugly . When Zorn points out that the judge will bleed to death, he only says, yes, one should hope so. They would all die, he explains, and explains what he came up with. At de Koog's call, the lamp man begins to choke Czernyk. Anger orders him to stop and tries desperately several times to change the lamp man's mind. When he actually lets go, de Koop shoots Czernyk in the heart.

Borck, who told Schröder about the brine bath and that Czernyk was noticeably interested in it, is on his way there with Schröder, because he thinks it might fit. The moment de Koop raises his gun and aims at Zorn, a shot is fired and kills him. Schröder fired him, saving Zorn's life. Two dead are transported away while de Koop is hospitalized, he is in a coma.

Subplot

Anger finds it difficult in his relationship with Malina, since he believes she has something with Hermann, who lives with her. He later points out that he is not interested in women and that Malina is just an old and very good friend of his.

Schröder's 73-year-old father suffers from dementia, which is getting worse. He thinks Zorn is his dead son Rüdiger and Zorn plays this game for Schröder's sake and even lets himself be slapped. While Schröder is in the brine bath, his father caused a gas explosion and is now in the hospital, his condition is critical. Schröder tells anger that if he had come just a few minutes later, the whole house would have blown up. And then he announces anger that he must leave him alone, there is no other way. The news weighs heavily on anger. When he picks up the wooden cross that the lamp man gave him and breaks off a grand piano, he comes across the USB stick.

Hermann is found with his throat cut, Zorn had told the lamp man that Hermann was his adversary. When he was taken away in the police car, he made a cut hand movement over his throat in the direction of Zorns.

production

Filming, production notes

Where no light was filmed from February 24 to March 26, 2015 at locations in Halle (Saale) (including the Genzmer Bridge and In Forsterstrasse) and the surrounding area. The reaction of the film for MDR was with Jana Brandt and Stephanie Dörner, for ARD Degeto with Katja Kirchen.

reception

Publication, audience ratings

The film was presented on September 10, 2015 in Luisenstrasse in Berlin-Mitte. On November 5, 2015, it was broadcast for the first time on ARD Das Erste and was tuned into by 3.81 million viewers with a market share of 12 percent. When it was repeated in 2017, it was able to book 2.79 million viewers, the market share was 11.6 percent.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the film one of three possible points for humor, action and tension and said that “a lazy guy than this anger” had “never seen the world of television crime - nice and unique”. The conclusion was then: "The inspectors cheer hard work and laziness."

Rainer Tittelbach gave the film 4.5 out of 6 possible stars on his website tittelbach.tv and said that “Stephan Luca” had “arrived in his role and that Axel Ranisch” seemed “so firmly anchored in her that there was a great closeness between him and take on his role ”. The critic went on to write: “It will be dark in the second half; it goes into the black hole of the human soul. That corresponds to the hermetic look of this series, which manages to create its own crime color aside from TV realism. "The case develops" slowly, but by no means uninteresting ". This crime thriller manages to bring into play "despite the supposed coolness and the speechless distance between anger and his women [...] a feeling that is not wrongly human". "Responsible for this very special pitch of the series" is "the character Schröder and his actor Axel Ranisch". “No joke, no caricature, but a guy who is atypical for prime time TV” “with his disarmingly direct friendliness and commitment, also because here one assumes a closeness between actor and role that is also atypical”. The 15-minute high point at the end of the film was "intense and extremely exciting". A “hermetic space” - that fits “with Zorn, this crime series that does not look for everyday life, full life, reality on the streets” in its pictures, but rather the fate of individual people who live in houses or empty rooms suitable projection surfaces for their ailing souls ”. The third film is "still unusual enough to want to find out more about the 'uncomfortable' bull and the lovable problematic Schröder".

Tilmann P. Gangloff rated the film for evangelisch.de and stated that “the dark ARD crime series named after the main character with the work-shy inspector Claudius Zorn from Halle an der Saale” had “survived the change of the main actor just as well as the cast the director's chair ”. [...] Apart from that, "the story is even more cruel, but what series author Stephan Ludwig, who again adapted his novel himself", "hides for a long time, perfidiously". [...] Regarding the participation of Barnaby Metschurat, the critic wrote that he was “a worthy opponent for Luca, especially since the taciturn Czernyk is the greatest possible contrast to Zorn”. "Even if the action at the beginning is by no means as spectacular" "as the other two stories: Exciting" is "'Where there is no light' nevertheless, even if not superficial at first". That changes, however, "to the exciting finale that literally ends with the breath of death". Up to the finale, the film lived “not least from the interaction of the two main characters”: Zorn was “still one of the most unusual detectors on German television, and Schröder, who was introduced to the service as a funny fat man in the first film,” had “a significantly larger character to get"; and that means “not only the fact that he was apparently a hot sweeper fifty kilos earlier”. "The role for Paul Fassnacht as a homeless 'lamp man'" is also "attractive". [...] “For an aesthetic experience”, cameraman Diethard Prengel also provides, who in the finale “bathed the rooms of a disused salt bath in a fascinating, almost otherworldly light”.

The film service certified the film: “Solid content, formally quite ambitious (TV series) crime thriller based on the 'Zorn' series by Stephan Ludwig. The third part of the series is also more convincing than the earlier films. - From 14. "

Sidney Schering dealt for Quotenmeter.de with the film and felt that "only the 15-minute final straight" bring "what is happening to the boil." The director and cameraman wrapped the “grippingly structured finale in yellowish-dark images that had nothing to do with the throttled smirking crime thriller” that “anger depicted before”. Conclusion: “'Zorn - Where there is no light' takes a very, very long time to pick up speed. Until then, the chemistry between the main actors is good, but the gags are still as weak as in the first two parts of the series. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zorn - Where no light, TV film (series), ARD, Degeto, MDR, Krimi, Germany | Crew United. Retrieved May 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Impressions from the shooting of "Zorn - Where No Light" In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , February 2015. Accessed on May 19, 2020.
  3. ^ Andreas Montag: Stephan Ludwig's crime thriller "Zorn 3" celebrates its film premiere in Berlin. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , September 10, 2015. Accessed on May 19, 2020.
  4. ↑ Zorn - Where No Light Short review on tvspielfilm.de (including 22 film images). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
  5. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Series "Zorn - Where No Light". Luca, Ranisch, Dwyer, Metschurat, Schnee. The good first, the bad at the end see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
  6. ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff : TV tip of the day: "Zorn: Where no light" (ARD) see page evangelisch.de, November 5, 2015. Accessed on May 19, 2020.
  7. ↑ Anger - Where there is no light. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 19, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  8. ↑ Sidney Schering: Zorn - Where no light on quotenmeter.de, November 4, 2015. Retrieved May 19, 2020.