Crime scene: black tigers, white lions
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Black tigers, white lions |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 820 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | December 11, 2011 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roland Suso Richter |
| script |
Ulrike Molsen , Eoin Moore |
| music | Matthias Klein |
| camera | Matthias Fleischer |
| cut | Bernd Schlegel |
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Black tigers, white lions is a television film produced by NDR from the crime series Tatort and was first broadcast on December 11, 2011 on Das Erste . It is the 820th episode of the television series and the 19th case of the chief inspector Charlotte Lindholm , who is investigating for the LKA Hannover , played by Maria Furtwängler .
action
At the beginning of the episode you can see the play of light from a lamp with tigers and lions.
Chief Detective Charlotte Lindholm takes her son David by car to a horse farm, where he is supposed to stay for five days. On the way home, Lindholm has to avoid a dog in a settlement on a village passage, causing her to hit a boundary stone next to the road with the car. When a man pulls up next to her in a car and asks her if she needs help, she declines thanks and lets him know that the towing service is already on the way. In the rearview mirror, the superintendent then observes how something explodes in the house that the man had just entered.
When Lindholm reached the scene of the crime the next morning, Sigrid Malchus, the local inspector, explained to her that the dead person was a man named Werner Kästner and that the explosion was caused by two propane gas bottles with torn hoses and a prepared lightbulb be. In the living room, Lindholm finds B. Schulz's annual rent statement for an arbor on a cupboard . When she asks about it in a conversation with Martina Kästner, the wife of the deceased, she claims that she does not know which arbor it is about. Lindholm then meets the landlord in the said arbor, from whom she learns that B. Schulz and Werner Kästner are the same man and that he leased the arbor nine years ago. He also tells her that the arbor had been broken into shortly beforehand and that he had filed a complaint against a girl who often sneaked around the arbor. After a closer examination of the arbor, Lindholm finds several children's drawings and a photo of a girl. She therefore suspects that Kästner led a double life with a second family.
After Lindholm was at Werner Kästner's workplace and learned from his employer that Kästner had only been employed part-time, she drove to Lilli Fichte, the girl who had been reported by the Laube landlord. Lilli, who has a criminal record for drug abuse, lives in a barracks and claims that the window in the arbor was accidentally broken by throwing a stick while playing with her dog. Werner Kästner has never seen her, but recently his wife near the arbor. When Lindholm confronts Martina Kästner, she admits that she knew about the arbor, but asserts that she was never there. While searching through missing persons notices, the commissioner found a photo of Miriam Schröder, which could be seen on the photo in the arbor. Miriam was nine years old when she disappeared in 2003. Lindholm then drives to the arbor again with her colleague Malchus. There she finds a space behind the stove door of the fireplace with a hatch behind which there is a windowless, dungeon-like room. In the stinking dungeon they find a bed, a toilet, children's drawings and a lamp. The play of light in this lamp is the one with tigers and lions that was shown at the beginning of the episode. Commissioner Malchus suspects that another of her cases, the child abduction of six-year-old Emma Martens, may also have something to do with it. Emma had disappeared for over a week, but then turned up again at her parents' house with marks on her wrists. Lindholm and Malchus go to the Martens to compare Emma's fingerprints with those in the dungeon. When it becomes clear that Emma was there, Lindholm suspects the girl's parents of murdering Kästner. However, they claim to have spent the whole day at home.
There is still no trace of the missing Miriam Schröder. As a Martens neighbor testified that Emma's father was driving his white van at the time of the crime, the inspectors drive back to the family. Lindholm talks to Emma and then bluffs in front of her parents. She claims Emma told her everything that happened on the day of the crime. Gregor Martens then admits that he was gone. However, he did not kill Werner Kästner and did not drive a white, but a red van. Malchus then reveals the bluff to the Martens, which then leads to an exchange of words with Lindholm.
The commissioners learn that traces of Lilli Fichte's DNA have been found in the dungeon and therefore now suspect that Lilli freed Emma and possibly also murdered Kästner. A short time later, Miriam Schröder's body is found. She had died weeks ago without any interference and was buried in a coffin in a wooded area. On a cassette from the dungeon, Lindholm finds a recording of a children's story, which has been played over for a few seconds. You can hear an aggressive man and a child. It is neither Emma nor Miriam's voice. So there is a third victim. A social worker tells Lindholm that Lilli Fichte went to Berlin with a friend in the summer of 2003. The commissioners suspect that the friend Christine Klar is who has been missing since 1996. Lilli tells that after six years in a dungeon, her friend Christine was able to escape from Kästner's captivity. Lilli also says she freed Emma and kept her with her for the time being before she brought her to her parents. Finally, new investigation results prove that Lilli Fichte is actually Christine Klar, who used her friend's ID. The real Lilli was in Amsterdam at the time of the crime on Saturday . Christine admits that she murdered Werner Kästner.
background
The shooting took place in Hanover , in Buchholz in the Nordheide , in Lüneburg and in Winsen an der Luhe .
The episode is based on the case of the Austrian Natascha Kampusch . In 1998, the then ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped by communications engineer Wolfgang Přiklopil in Vienna and held captive in his house for more than eight years.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Black Tiger, White Lion on December 11, 2011 was seen in Germany by a total of 9.40 million viewers and achieved a market share of 25.4% for Das Erste ; a market share of 18.8% was achieved in the group of 14 to 49 year old viewers .
Reviews
“The case of“ Black Tigers, White Lions ”takes the Commissioners Charlotte Lindholm and Sigrid Malchus to a cruel place: the underground world of torture of a kidnapper. The parallels to the Natascha Kampusch case succeed. What makes the "crime scene" episode fail, however, is their commissioner. "
“It worked to let the actual thriller run in your head without annoying the viewer with missing plot. We managed to tell the story of a child molester, to interweave bitterness among colleagues and a love story without the mixture ever becoming tasteless. Acting highlight: Emma's parents, Christian Beermann and Hanna Scheibe. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ quotemeter.de : Primetime-Check: Sunday, December 11th, 2011 , accessed on February 10th, 2012.
- ↑ Susanne Baller: Critique of the "crime scene": women in victim roles. stern.de, December 11, 2011, accessed on February 6, 2013 .
- ↑ Susanne Klaiber: Maria Furtwängler and the secret double life. focus.de, December 11, 2011, accessed on February 6, 2013 .
Web links
- Black Tiger, white lions in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Black Tiger, White Lion on the ARD website
- Black tigers, white lions in the crime scene fund
- Black tigers, white lions at Tatort-Fans.de
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