Miss Merkel on Rai 2: first episode, Angela Merkel, book
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CHe dared to do it Angela Merkel After retiring from politics? Simple, She started solving crimes. Or at least that’s what happens in the first television film of the German series Miss Merkel Retransmitted this evening at 9.20 pm on Rai 2by title Death in the castle.
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Taken from the entertaining novels of David Safier, it also provides a second chapterwhich will be broadcast next Friday on Rai 2 and is titled Murder in the cemetery. While work is already underway in Germany for the third day, let’s enjoy this fun detective version of the former chancellor, performed by very good, and very similar, Catherine Thalbach.
Miss MerkelWhat is the series on Rai 2 about?
Adaptation of the German writer’s books published in Italy by SEM Editor – Miss Merkel part of a rather funny assumption: Angela Merkel (Katharina Thalbach), the former chancellor who made the history of modern Germany, He retired to live in the countryside in the small town of Freudenstadt in the north of the country.
Together with her her husband Joachim (Thorsten Merten)his bodyguard Mike (Kim Kalkhof) and the pug Putin. Her relatively quiet life takes an unexpected turn when Angela transforms into a new Miss Marple.investigating, like in Agatha Christie’s novels, the murders that occur in the area, instead of enjoying retirement.
Death in the castlethe plot of tonight’s movie
Former Chancellor Angela Merkel, accustomed to a very active life, is terribly bored in the small town of Freudenstadt. For a woman who played a role of great power Indeed, Cooking and hiking are not the best parts of life.Not only that, as the days go by, Angela discovers that in that idyllic rural town, people are as unpleasant as in the world of politics.
One nightAngela is invited to a party. on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of the knight Balduin von Baugenwitz, and thus discovers that one of his descendants, The knight Philipp von Baugenwitz (Thomas Heinze) was found poisoned in a dungeon. from his castle. Commissioner Hannemann (Sascha Nathan) does not seem very interested in the case and Angela decides to deal with the dark crime.
Supported by her loving husband and bodyguard, Angela follows the trail of the murdererfacing multiple dangers. Who poisoned the Baron? Perhaps his two wives? Or one of the many disappointed lovers? The case is more complicated than it seems and The former foreign minister will receive unexpected help not by the police but of his little dog Putin.
Katharina Thalbach in a scene from “Miss Merkel” (RTL).
the cast of Miss Merkel: the protagonist Catherine Thalbach
German actress and theatre director, Katharina Thalbach was born in East Berlin in 1954, the daughter of a theatre director and an actress..The theatre is his great passion. In the early seventies he made his film debut with The Second Awakening by Christa Klages By Margarethe Von Trotta.
The daring Katharina Thalbach (Getty Images).
In the 1980s he also acted in international co-productions. – is in the cast of Sofia’s choice with Meryl Streep – but he spends most of his time on stage. With the writer, poet and director Thomas Brasch she had a daughter, Anna Thalbach.She was born in 1973 and also became an actress.
Katharina previously played Merkel in the 2013 political satire film. The Minister by Karl-Theodor zu Gutenberg, but this time it was different, as she herself told the German weekly RDN: «The film based on David Safier’s novel is almost a fairy tale”.
“There is something fascinating about the idea that Mrs Merkel does not accept a representative position,” Katharina continued, “but, like a slightly eccentric pensioner, goes to investigate murder cases. I found this transformation of Angela Merkel into an amateur detective so brilliantalready while reading the novels, that I said, “I have to do this!”».
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