Crime scene: Black Advent
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Black Advent |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Bavarian radio |
| length | 85 minutes |
| classification | Episode 400 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | November 8, 1998 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jobst Oetzmann |
| script | Christian Limmer |
| production | Silvia Koller |
| music | Dieter Schleip |
| camera | Peter Döttling |
| cut | Helga Kriller |
| occupation | |
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Schwarzer Advent is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution, produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk and directed by Jobst Oetzmann , was first broadcast on November 8, 1998 in the first program of ARD . It is the 400th crime scene episode and the twenty-first case of the Munich commissioners Batic and Leitmayr .
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The mentally unstable insurance agent Rainer Wenisch wants to play an intact family for his father, who is traveling from Chile, for Christmas. So he asks his divorced wife to move in with him for just a weekend. But she immediately gets angry and wants to push Wenisch away. He pushes her into the apartment, where her back hits the wall, ramming a hook into her spine in the process. She is dead instantly, and Wenisch fled. Not entirely dissatisfied with this situation, he picks up his son Leo from school and his daughter Natascha from kindergarten. He explains to the children that their mother has to travel at short notice and that they should stay with him for the weekend. Leo is skeptical and questions the whole thing, but he always adds to the situation.
Commissioners Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr arrive at the crime scene. Her colleague Carlo Menzinger has already researched the address of the victim's mother and the inspectors are looking for her. Ilona Gruber immediately suspects her ex-son-in-law, who had already become violent in the marriage. She immediately thinks of the children, but they are already in the power of their father. Batic and Leitmayr immediately check Wenisch's apartment, but they don't find him. It looks like he tried to kill himself, though.
Wenisch stays with the children in the house of his boss, who he knows will be away for the holidays. To make the family idyll perfect, he hires a prostitute to play his wife for his father. Yvette agrees, although it all seems rather bizarre to her.
Batic and Leitmayr are desperately looking for any clues as to where they can find Wenisch with the children and do not rule out an extended suicide . After they have clues that he wants to go to an ice hockey game with his son, they try to find him in the stadium. With all the hustle and bustle and the fancy make-up faces, this is very difficult. Nevertheless, they are hot on his heels, and in his fear, Wenisch strangles his own son when he behaves conspicuously and threatens to blow his camouflage. The commissioners make great reproaches about the outcome of their action, which they did not get any further.
Leitmayr got the idea to get in touch with Wenisch's parents. He learns that Rudolf Wenisch is on his way to Germany because he wants to bury his recently deceased wife there. His son allegedly wants to pick him up from the airport. Hoping to finally catch Rainer Wenisch, the inspectors contact his father when he arrives at the airport. Rudolf Wenisch received the message at the information desk to take a taxi and come to his son. Since Batic and Leitmayr finally have the address where Rainer Wenisch is staying, the SEK is informed and a storming of the apartment is planned. But that doesn't go as smoothly as expected, because Rudolf Wenisch is immediately threatened with a weapon by his son. Since the police must not be discovered in order to protect the uninvolved people who may still be in the house, they cannot access it that easily.
Little did his father come to just to get revenge for all the harassment he had to endure in his childhood. His dominant father had never given him a real chance and had always seen him as a coward. Now he wants to prove him wrong. He forces everyone to sit down at the table, but his father doesn't really “play” along. Rainer Wenisch first threatens his father with a gun and then puts it on his own neck. Before the situation can escalate, Batic and Leitmayr, who have sought access to the apartment via the basement, storm into the room separately and overwhelm Rainer Wenisch.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Schwarzer Advent on November 8, 1998 was seen by 7.93 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22.03 percent for Das Erste .
Reviews
"Berkel's sad expression sticks in the memory, which can be seen under the fan mask that he put on his face for the sake of his son, an ice hockey fan."
“The 'Tatort' typical accessory of bizarre side strands and small marginal gags is reduced to a minimum in this episode, in keeping with the tragedy of the story, so that the focus is on the family drama. The rather stereotyped father-son conflict gains depth through the actor Berkel: He lets look into the innermost part of a person who, despite all good intentions, only leaves destruction behind. "
Awards
- 1998: Golden gong for Christian Berkel
Web links
- Crime scene: Black Advent in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Schwarzer Advent on the ARD website
- Black Advent at the crime scene fund
- Black Advent at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Black Advent. Crime scene fund, accessed on November 16, 2015 .
- ^ Television - Sunday November 8th . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1998, pp. 324 ( online ).
- ↑ Jörg Thomann: We'll wake up one day. “Tatort” episode 400: “Black Advent” (1998). In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . November 7, 1998, accessed November 17, 2015 .
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