Crime scene: crash

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title crash
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MDR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 758 ( List )
First broadcast March 14, 2010 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Torsten C. Fischer
script André Georgi
production Ulrike Zirzow
music Fabian Römer ,
Steffen Kaltschmid
camera Peter Nix
cut Benjamin Hembus
occupation

Crash is a consequence of the German crime series Tatort from 2010. The film by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk is the seventh case of the Leipzig team of investigators Simone Thomalla and Martin Wuttke as Saalfeld and Keppler . It first aired on Sunday, March 14, 2010 on Das Erste .

action

While Eva Saalfeld is still on the way to a small air show with her nephew Lukas, a small motorized airplane races into the entertainment area when it takes off and tears up the bouncy castle . Among other things, Lukas' classmate Emil is seriously injured. As Saalfeld knew Emil Peintner well, she is emotionally very affected and calls Keppler and Menzel to investigate how the accident could have happened. Despite all efforts, the boy dies. Saalfeld and Keppler officially have to investigate negligent homicide and they find out that the wheel suspension of the aircraft has broken and the pilot could no longer steer it. Keppler asks a fitter what he thinks about how the accident came about. He doubts the skills of the pilot, as this aircraft model is relatively difficult to control. The organizer Roland Conze had also only used the pilot Thomas Arendt as a substitute because he still had another job to do. The radio was also set so quietly that the pilot could not even hear instructions from the air traffic control when the call was made to abort the take-off. To make matters worse, Conze also did not have a valid permit for the air show event.

Eva drives to Emil's father in the hospital and accompanies Christian Peintner home. He blames himself for having previously quarreled with his son. Had he let him spend the night with Lukas, as Emil wanted, none of this would have happened that way. He tries desperately to come to terms with his grief.

Keppler asked Arendt to show him his pilot's license and asked him why he was piloting an aircraft for which he did not have sufficient experience. Arendt asserts, however, that he has not made a mistake, because a broken wheel suspension is not easily recognizable. In addition, the flight operator is responsible for such a fatigue break. During this time, Saalfeld looks at all of the recordings that the visitors have made of the accident. Only one person can be seen on the tower and not two, as actually required. The investigators visit Conze at home, but he has disappeared without a trace. His wife Katharina Conze only knew that her husband received a call late in the evening and drove to the airport. But Keppler does not find him there either, but discovers in the log book of the aircraft involved in the accident that a bolt should have been changed long ago.

In search of Conze, the investigators locate his cell phone and find it on a construction site in the city center, but also find his body next to it. It was almost set in concrete here and no one would have ever found it. The suspicion falls massively on Emil's father, who had a motive with the death of his son. But this denies having a desire for revenge. But Eva Saalfeld finds out that he is an architect and has to do with the construction of the City Tunnel in the city, especially on the construction site where Conzes's body was found. Emil's father must be investigated.

When checking Conze's cell phone calls, the investigators found that Katharina Conze herself called her husband several times during the night. When asked about this, she confesses that Roland blackmailed her brother Frank Lienhard, who works for the aviation authority, in order to obtain a retrospective flight permit. Roland knew that his brother-in-law was corrupt and so he blackmailed him. She also knew that her husband drove to the construction site of the City Tunnel again late in the evening to meet construction manager Schreiber, there was just a party. He now admits that everyone was very drunk and Frank killed his brother-in-law during the argument. He himself then helped throw the body into the excavation. Saalfeld and Keppler arrest Lienhard in his sister's apartment.

background

The crime scene was produced by Saxonia Media for Das Erste on behalf of MDR . The filming locations were Leipzig, including the construction site of the City-Tunnel Leipzig and the Altenburg airfield .

The aircraft accident in the film is similar to an aircraft accident that occurred in 2008 at the Eisenach-Kindel airfield . On April 26, 2008, a Let Z-37A Čmelák came off the side of the runway during the take-off run and raced with the engine running into the spectator area, where it came to a stop in a sales stand. Two people died and 18 were injured.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast on March 14, 2010 was seen by a total of 8.12 million viewers in Germany and thus achieved a market share of 21.40 percent.

criticism

The Berliner Morgenpost attests the film "emotional impact".

The lack of realism in what happened in the film, based on a real aircraft accident, was criticized. Stefan Winterbauer writes about "Pseudo-Realism" on meedia.de: The "outrageously staged accident" at the beginning of the film has "a real model". However, "in the Tatort world" there are "no rescue workers on an airfield at a stunt air show and no fire brigade. In the Tatort world, the children's bouncy castles are pumped up right in front of the runway so that the overloaded aircraft can race in". "If you take real accidents as a role model, you should also take a little care later in realizing the plot." The direction also "consistently circumvents every possibility of dramaturgy and tension generation."

“An airplane that does not take off, a father without a son and a man who falls too low: The“ crime scene ”bears mourning this Sunday. The viewer too. "

- Beate Strobel : Focus Online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Start of shooting for the new Leipzig "Tatort: ​​Crash" ( memento of the original from December 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on saxonia-media.de, accessed on January 21, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saxonia-media.de
  2. ↑ a b Tatort: ​​The sedated viewer , accessed on July 30, 2017
  3. ^ BFU accident report , accessed on August 10, 2015.
  4. ↑ Audience ratings on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 21, 2014.
  5. ↑ Emotional impact , on morgenpost.de, accessed April 9, 2013.
  6. ↑ Beate Strobel: "Tatort: ​​Crash" , Focus Online , accessed on April 9, 2013.
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