Crime scene: abysses
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Abysses |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
ORF |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 902 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | March 2, 2014 on Das Erste , ORF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harald Sicherheitsitz |
| script | Uli Brée |
| production | Burkhard WR Ernst Konstantin Seitz |
| music | Lothar Scherpe |
| camera | Thomas Short |
| cut | Ingrid Koller |
| occupation | |
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Abysses is a television film from the crime series Tatort , which first aired on March 2, 2014 in the First . It is the 902nd episode in the series, the 32nd case of the Austrian investigator Moritz Eisner and the eighth case of the Eisner / Fellner investigative team.
action
During demolition work, a body is found in the basement of a house. Eisner and Fellner are called to the site and are shocked to discover that it is the colleague and investigator Franziska Kohl. She was the former head of "Soko Melanie" and has obviously died of thirst in the basement room from which she could not escape. When the investigators wanted to ask the forensic doctor about the first results, they found that their superior Rauter had classified the death as an accident and no autopsy was ordered. Allegedly, the case that Franziska was working on is closed. Thus Eisner and Fellner investigate against the resistance of their superior. They get an unexpected tip from Fritz Kohl, Franziska's ex-husband. He hands them her notebook that she had given him before she died.
The investigators ask for the investigation files of the case on which Franziska Kohl had worked. It was Melanie Pölzl, a girl who was imprisoned for five years in the basement where Franziska died. Since the main suspect Podowsky died at the time, the case was considered closed. When looking through the documents, you must find that the files are incorrect and incomplete. Nevertheless, they repeatedly come across clues about the investigator Markus Frey. Fellner tries to find out more details about the case from him. This indicates that Franziska was convinced that the kidnapping case was not a single perpetrator, but that an entire child porno ring was behind it. In Frey's opinion, however, there was no evidence of this. However, the questioning of Melanie's mother encourages the investigators to believe that there were people behind the kidnapping. For them it is certain that both Frey and the building contractor Werner Nussbacher are involved in the case.
To find evidence of this, the two investigators look around Franziska's house. Eisner found an envelope there, but couldn't take care of the contents straight away, because he received a call stating that his daughter Claudia was involved in a car accident and is now in the hospital. Eisner drives to her immediately and meets Section Head Rauter in the clinic, who admits that he, too, now considers Frey to be suspicious. It is clear to Eisner that the accident was an attack on him because Claudia had used his car. He immediately drives to Frey and threatens him, whereupon Rauter suspends him from duty. In solidarity, Fellner then also surrenders his ID card and the weapon and leaves the Presidium with her colleague. Undeterred, both follow the trail of a project for socially disadvantaged children, in which Frey is involved. One of the main sponsors is the von Fichtenberg family. For Fellner it is clear that the landlord Paul von Fichtenberg, a retired authoritarian officer . D. , is involved in the matter.
In order to track down the place for the criminal business with children, Eisner and Fellner examine the property, which was extensively renovated by Nussbacher and Podowsky. They quickly find what they are looking for and come to a house that apparently only recently housed a child, but has since been taken away by the kidnappers. Eisner discovered a surveillance system that Nussbacher had obviously used to take pictures and thus blackmailed the guilty so that he would not be prosecuted.
To lure Nussbacher out of the reserve, Eisner secretly shoots him. Nussbacher assumes that Paul von Fichtenberg wants to get him out of the way and unintentionally reveals the hiding place of the children to the investigators. When they get there, they first find Frey shot. Nussbacher hides in the house, burns evidence and later escapes. Fellner can track down and rescue a trapped girl. Nussbacher is still on the run, but is the victim of a car accident shortly afterwards. Somebody ran him head-on. For Eisner it is clear that Paul von Fichtenberg is the culprit here. He drives to his villa and confronts him with a video tape that he allegedly found at Nussbacher's home. He offers him to show the cassette to his wife and the public prosecutor or to settle the matter like a real officer, whereupon the latter picks up his pistol and withdraws.
reception
Reviews
“The plot - which, admittedly, has little hangovers - is revealed almost exclusively through different forms of conversation. Or what is called a conversation in Vienna. Aggressive attacks on colleagues, cynical comments, contemptuous accusations that lure the attacked counterpart from their reserves - this 'crime scene' is great theater. Or better: perfectly formed verbal action. "
“The outstanding thing about the Vienna crime scene are the investigators. Their togetherness is presented intensively and completely free of kitsch. It doesn't matter that the story isn't so special. "
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Abfalls on March 2, 2014 was seen by 9.15 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.5% for Das Erste .
background
The film was shot on 23 days from January 16, 2013 to February 13, 2013 in deeply snow-covered Vienna and Lower Austria .
The case of Melanie Pölzl is based on the kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch , which ended in 2006. Both were kidnapped in a car on the street. Two kidnappers are described by a child witness, in the end it is said to have been only one. They are held captive in a specially built cellar dungeon, but can ultimately escape themselves. The perpetrator flees and spends the last time with an acquaintance. In the end, he commits suicide on a railway line. But there are doubts about this version because the injuries don't quite match it.
Debt collection Heinzi's Pontiac Firebird , with which Bibi Fellner is on the road, plays a major role because he keeps failing.
Web links
- Chasms in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of abysses on the ARD website
- Abysses in the crime scene fund
- Abysses at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Buß: Vienna "Tatort" about abuse of power. In the dark heart of the Alpine republic. Spiegel Online, February 28, 2014, accessed on August 5, 2017 : “Austria, your dungeons: In the Viennese" Tatort ", Eisner and Fellner investigate an act that evokes associations with the crime committed against Natascha Kampusch and the Amstetten case - the trail leads into highest circles. "
- ↑ Holger Gertz: Where cars become 'sluts'. In: Media. Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 2, 2014, accessed on August 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime Check: Sunday, March 2, 2014.quotemeter.de , March 3, 2014, accessed on August 5, 2017 .
- ^ Tatort: Abysses at crew united
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