Crime scene: No pity, no mercy

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title No pity, no mercy
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 1117 ( List )
First broadcast January 12, 2020 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Felix Herzogenrath
script Johannes Rotter
production Sonja Goslicki
music Sven Rossenbach ,
Florian van Volxem
camera Gunnar Fuss
cut Vincent Assmann
occupation

No pity, no mercy is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by WDR was broadcast on January 12th, 2020 on Das Erste . In this 1117th crime scene episode, the Cologne commissioners Ballauf and Schenk determine their 77th case.

action

The body of the 17-year-old student Jan Sattler is found naked on a lake shore near an abandoned villa. The cause of death is an injury to the spleen from a blow in the abdomen. The inspectors Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk investigate in his school environment. Jan's friend Paul is particularly bullied by Robin, Lennart and Nadine because he is gay. The three of them had initially worked with Paul and Jan on a school bio project to observe crows. During an initial questioning, Nadine lured Chief Inspector Schenk behind a wall and then accused him of sexual assault on social networks. Schenk therefore has to face disciplinary proceedings .
Robin, Lennart and Nadine have an alibi for the night of the crime: They were all at Robin's home. Ballauf found out that the murdered man was using a dating app popular among gays . Farid Slimani, who with his THW colleague and friend Meike is conducting a first aid course for high school graduates, is obviously also active in this app. He claims to have been in Holland on the weekend of the crime. Meike first confirms this alibi. However, the data and photos found during a search of his apartment prove that he had a relationship with Jan Sattler. He had faked a relationship with his colleague Meike because his parents would not accept a gay son. In the course of the questioning in the Presidium, a DNA profile proves Farid's innocence. His father picks him up from the police, hugs him and steers the car with full force against a wall, so that father and son perish.
Paul finds out that Lennart must have observed Jan at a secret meeting in the abandoned villa as part of the project work. Full of anger, he beats Robin, whom he now suspects of Jan's murder, at school. Ballauf and Schenk find a camera case in Lennart's room with traces of blood from Jan Sattler. When Lennart hears about it, he panics. Nadine persuades him to flee to Italy together. However, Nadine accuses him to the police of having killed Jan with his camera. She withdraws her accusation against Schenk in writing. During the logging, Ballauf drives a patrol to Lennart to arrest him. Since he describes the course of events completely differently, the commissioners place the two in the villa opposite one another. Lennart reports that he had sex with Jan. Nadine came along and knocked Jan down with Lennart's lens. When he was on the floor, he let himself be persuaded to kick defenseless Jan with her in the stomach. Nadine initially denies having ever been to the villa. But when the commissioners ask her about the tire tracks on her bike, she confesses that she killed Jan together with Lennart because she didn't want to lose Lennart.

background

The film was shot in Cologne from November 14, 2018 to December 14, 2018. The factory owner's villa of the former Ernst Ehlis file factory near Remscheid was used as the filming location for the fictional “Bellmann Villa” in Cologne, where the murder victim was found . The location for the high school was the forum in Leverkusen .

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of No Pity, No Mercy on January 12, 2020 was seen by 10.59 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 29.9% for Das Erste .

Reviews

Tilmann P. Gangloff from Tittelbach.tv wrote appreciatively: "'No pity, no mercy' (WDR / Bavaria) is a well-behaved, well-played and excellently photographed“ crime scene ”from Cologne, in which Schenk is a victim of cyberbullying." " The 'Tatort' from Cologne is known for regularly taking up topics of current social relevance. ”“ After the fascinating start, the crime thriller level [itself] proceeds in the usual ways. ”But the entire episode is“ an excellent example of how a concern can be integrated harmoniously into a captivating crime story. "

Positive criticism also came from Stefanie Thyssen at Merkur.de : “The crime scene 'No pity, no mercy' is in the end a simple crime thriller. A jealous drama. But it tells a lot and impressively of the wickedness and evil, of envy and wickedness, which are paving the way in our society. It is to cry for. More pity, please! "

On the other hand, Matthias Dell rates Zeit-online quite negatively: "The episode 'No pity, no mercy' [...] turns out to be a pretty nasty part on closer inspection that, who is surprised, doesn't even have a clue about its nausea." In the story “it regresses immediately into hot sexual fantasies, like those that can be filmed tingly on Sunday evening.” “The misery of this 'crime scene' becomes even clearer with the main motif of homophobic bullying.” And Dell is amazed at how “dull infectious [ ...] 'No pity, no mercy' in the 21st century [imagines] homosexuality. "

Michael Setzer from the Stuttgarter Nachrichten also saw few positive moments and criticized the often strange dialogues, such as “'Do I know when the plastering is coming?'": "Dramaturgical intent or bungling?" In addition, Max Ballauf "slowly shoots his way out of the operative business" and "just walks through the action like a sedate cue-maker".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Crime scene: No pity, no mercy on crew united
  2. ↑ Ernst Ehlis file factory with factory owner's villa . In: KuLaDig, Kultur.Landschaft.Digital. (accessed January 13, 2019)
  3. ↑ Fabian Riedner: Prime Time check: Sunday, January 12 2020 Quotenmeter.de , January 13, 2020 accessed on 13 January 2020 .
  4. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Behrendt, Bär, Prenn, Drogunova, Rotter, Herzogenrath. The impotence of the victims at Tittelbach.tv , accessed on January 14, 2020.
  5. ↑ Stefanie Thyssen: So bad! TV review of the "crime scene" from Cologne at merkur.de, accessed on January 14, 2020.
  6. ↑ Matthias Dell: The latest craze in body painting at zeit.de, accessed on January 14, 2020.
  7. ↑ Michael Setzer: A lot given away and little offered at stuttgarter-nachrichten.de, accessed on January 13, 2020.
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