On Friday November 1 at 8:55 p.m., Arte broadcasts Ingo Thiel: Presumed missing. An original detective fiction, eyeing the codes of the thriller…
Let it be said, Arte knows how to do it when it comes to delivering European fiction and other great cinema classics. When it comes to detective series and collections, the Franco-German channel is not left out… It proves it to us again this evening with Presumed missingthe very last unit in the Ingo Thiel collection! A commissioner with a strong character, who never stops dealing with complex cases. Notice to fans, his adventures are most often taken from real events.
Presumed missing : Ingo Thiel throws himself headlong into a nebulous affair
A real race against time, the evening unit will surprise you… Here, it all begins with the disappearance of a tax inspector in Mönchengladbach, Yvonne Gaspers. After ten days without any news, his case will worry his sister, who will contact the authorities. Commander Lee Soo-young will take charge of the case and discover at the missing woman’s house the card of one of her colleagues, Commissioner Ingo Thiel. Having only met Yvonne Gaspers once, he will quickly understand that something fishy is hiding behind her disappearance. Indeed, his apartment was cleaned from top to bottom, which suggests a bloody crime from which traces have been erased. Despite this, faced with a glaring lack of evidence, no real investigation will be carried out by the police, to the great dismay of Thiel. Against the advice of his colleagues, the commissioner nevertheless threw himself headlong into this affair, motivated by the idea that Yvonne Gaspers was still alive. His quest will take him far from Germany, to Greece.
Ingo Thiel : already the sixth unit in the collection
To put together this TV film, director and screenwriter Niki Stein was inspired by a real news story, but still distanced himself from reality to deliver to viewers a gripping fiction. A process that has been running since 2027 for the Ingo Thiel collection, with numerous units (A child disappears, The Killers’ Footprint, A young girl disappears, My sister is missing, Letters from beyond). Presumed missingproduced in 2024, is the latest addition to the franchise, still worn by the impeccable Heino Ferch in Thiel’s costume.
