Two sisters (SOKO Leipzig)

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Episode of the series SOKO Leipzig
Original title Two sisters
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 86 minutes
classification Season 14, episode 1
261st episode overall ( list )
German-language
first broadcast
September 19, 2014 on ZDF
Rod
Director Buddy Giovinazzo
script Jeanet Pfitzer,
Frank Koopmann ,
Roland Heep
production Henriette Lippold ,
Jörg Winger ,
Matthias Pfeifer
music Andreas Hoge
camera Uli Kudicke
cut Marion Rettig
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Zwei Schwestern is a 90-minute feature film episode of the SOKO Leipzig crime series . The first broadcast took place on September 19, 2014 on ZDF .

The episode ties in with the plot and events of the Police Call 110 episode Two Sisters from 1987 and continues them. Excerpts from the episode at that time are shown in which Andreas Schmidt-Schaller , who embodies Chief Detective Hans-Joachim “Hajo” Trautzschke in SOKO Leipzig , participated as Lieutenant Thomas Grawe.

During the production of the episode, it was cut into two 45-minute parts, which were broadcast together when it was first broadcast.

action

A robbery takes place in a Leipzig auction house during an auction. The customer Ludwig Cromme is shot and the masked robbers flee with several porcelain figures.

During the investigation of the crime scene, Chief Detective Hajo Trautzschke found that he knew Angelika and Beate Bernert, the owners of the auction house, from a case 27 years ago. The older sister Angelika tried in 1987 to kill her younger sister Beate, her fiancé Jochen and herself in an extended suicide attempt. Jochen died, but the sisters survived; however, Beate Bernert has been paraplegic since then . Trautzschke was unable to prove the crime to Angelika Bernert at the time, as Beate Bernert testified in court that her fiancé Jochen Henning had caused the accident. But the investigator is sure that it was a false statement.

The SOKO team succeeds in identifying the getaway car, and they come across two suspects who give each other an alibi, but when they compare them, Beate and Angelika Bernert cannot identify the perpetrators. Once again, Trautzschke does not believe the sisters and is determined to solve the case then and now. It turns out that one of the suspected Vösskamp brothers had a one-night stand with Ulrike Bernert, Angelika Bernert's daughter, but based on the evidence, the investigators cannot help but let the alleged robbers go.

When the murder victim's widow was attacked and robbed one day later, Trautzschke's team was sure that the perpetrators were targeting a red file from GDR times and that the sisters must be involved. A little later there is a money handover, at which Angelika Bernert receives the red file from one of the perpetrators, but since she does not have the required money, she and the pregnant friend of her adoptive son, Julia Wilting, are shot at. When investigators Hajo Trautzschke and Ina Zimmermann arrive at the place of delivery, the chief detective shoots the perpetrator out of self-defense. The investigators cannot find the mysterious file because Julia Wilting has pocketed it.

Shortly afterwards, Julia Wilting's body is found. While Tom Kowalski and Jan Maybach want to search the dead man's apartment, they meet their Polish fiancé Micha Lewandowicz. It becomes clear that the studied art historian led a double life. Besides her studies, she had worked as a VIP escort lady and she had faked her pregnancy. During the renewed questioning of the sisters, they claim to have been blackmailed by their dead customer because of a land register file, the same person who disappeared. But Trautzschke and his team run into inconsistencies again, as red files were only used by the adoption office during the GDR era.

During their research, the investigators end up on the trail of a family secret. It turns out that Philip Bernert is actually the son of Angelika Bernert, who had to give this to her sister as hush money after the extended suicide attempt . To prevent him and his biological sister Ulrike Bernert from entering into a mutual relationship, the Bernert sisters hired Julia Wilting to distract Philip from Ulrike, and Ulrike was supposed to go to Paris. When Philip Bernert receives a letter from his birth mother in which she confesses everything to him, he kidnaps his adoptive mother and drives her to the bridge where the accident between the sisters and Beate Bernert's fiancée occurred 27 years ago, and steers up the bridge pillar to. However, shortly before the impact, he stops the car.

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main actor

actor Role name Rank
Andreas Schmidt-Schaller Hans-Joachim "Hajo" Trautzschke Chief detective
Marco Girnth Jan Maybach Chief Detective
Melanie Marschke Ina Zimmermann Chief Detective Officer
Steffen Schroeder Tom Kowalski Chief Detective

supporting cast

actor Role name role
Caroline Scholze Leni Maybach Daughter of Hajo Trautzschke; Wife of Jan Maybach
Nilam Farooq Olivia Fareedi assistant
Anna Stieblich Prof. Dr. Sabine Rossi Forensic doctor
Daniel Steiner Lorenz Rettig Laboratory technician

Episode cast

actor Role name
Therese Hämer Beate Bernert
Eleonore Weisgerber Angelika Bernert
René Döring Ludwig Cromme
Sebastian Achilles Gregor Vösskamp
Anton Spieker Dennis Vösskamp
Oliver Konietzny Philip Bernert
Heike Warmuth Ulrike Bernert
Lore Richter Julia Wilting
Charlotte Crome Birgit Cromme
Kristof Gerega Micha Lewandowicz

reception

Reviews

“The crime thriller itself has big plans. Action-emphasized inserts emphasize the physical qualities of Trautzke's son-in-law Jan Maybach (Marco Girnth). The auction house story tells of the fact that there is also a good middle-class milieu in the east. The look into the past serves a historically interested audience. The focus, however, is on a women's household, which is fatefully dominated by wheelchair driver Beate. She seems to be manipulating her family - the psychological aspect of the crime thriller - at will. But why?
Even for 90 minutes these are many aspects. Too many aspects. The crime thriller gets lost. In the end he can only partially keep what he promised at the beginning. "

"If you don't pay attention, you can quickly lose track of the sprawling network of people in a somewhat confused story, which ultimately finds its way back to itself."

Audience ratings

The first broadcast on September 19, 2014 was followed by a total of 5.09 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 19.3 percent. Among the younger viewers between 14 and 49 years of age, 0.87 million (8.6 percent market share) tuned in.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jürgen Overkott: "Soko Leipzig" - the shadow of the GDR past . Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved September 21, 2014.
  2. “Soko Leipzig” in feature length: Shadows of the Past . New Osnabrück newspaper. Retrieved September 21, 2014.
  3. ^ David Grzeschik: Later slot: "heute-show" in the ratings sky. Quotemeter.de , September 20, 2014, accessed on September 21, 2014 .
  4. Jens Schröder: “SOKO Leipzig” starts its 14th season with a win of the day. Meedia , September 20, 2014, accessed September 25, 2014 .