Die Tote im Weiher
A woman is recovered dead from a small lake in the Spreewald. Seemingly a suicide. She had lost her nine-month-old daughter in an apparently self-inflicted car accident five years ago and has suffered from severe school psychosis since then, causing her marriage to break up. But the autopsy reveals the use of toxic mushrooms. Commissioner Krüger researches with the psychotherapist of the dead. Has she been a victim of banned psycho-experiments? The insecure behavior and statements made by the therapist encourage Commissioner Krüger to investigate the exact circumstances of the car accident. He comes across another patient of the psychologist, a local politician with a promising career.
But what was the connection between the dead from the pond and the politician? The key to the truth seems to be the psychotherapist, whose medical ethics prevent clarification. Commissioner Krüger increases the pressure on the suspects – until a dramatic revelation occurs. The ZDF „ Spreewaldkrimi " series, produced by Wolfgang Esser, is available in German after six successfully broadcast films Crime landscape for sophisticated, mysterious-predicted films in which past and present penetrate dramatically. After „ Murderous Heat " about the failure of a male outsider, the internationally successful cinema director Sherry Hormann „ staged the dead in the pond ", a rather quiet tragedy of a traumatized woman.
In a psychologically exciting story, ( province- ) political mechanisms of power in the Spreewald microcosm destroy several lives. And that centuries ago. The melancholy-paint-like environment is not a guarantee of idyll. In addition to Christian Redl's stoic, mysterious Commissioner Krüger, Birge Schade's sensitive psychotherapist and Thomas Loibl's career-oriented local politician shapes Anna Maria's oppressive, dense game of this drama – about which the author of all seven Spreewald thrillers, Thomas Kirchner, says: „ There has never been so little Spreewald to see, but never felt so much Spreewald – in the figures. " The seventh Spreewald thriller „ The dead in the pond " is invited to the Hamburg Film Festival and the Biberacher Film Festival.
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