Crime scene: Almighty

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Almighty
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 890 ( list )
First broadcast December 22, 2013 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Jochen Alexander Freydank
script Gerlinde Wolf
Harald Göckeritz
Edward Berger
production Kirsten Hager
music Sebastian pill
camera Peter Joachim Krause
cut Vera van Appeldorn
occupation

Almighty is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk is the 890th episode of the crime scene and was first broadcast on December 22, 2013 in the first program of ARD . Directed by the Oscar winner , Jochen Alexander Frey thanks . The Munich investigator duo Batic and Leitmayr are investigating their 66th case in the context of an unscrupulous entertainment industry.

action

The television journalist and entertainer Albert A. Anast does not appear to his own party - he disappeared three days ago under unknown circumstances. He had already received anonymous death threats for his controversial online reality show that ruthlessly exposed people. Ines Lohmiller, a partner in the TV station, calls the police for help, who first try to get an idea of ​​Anast and those around him. Batic and Leitmayr talk to his girlfriend Sarah Möltner, who is currently parting with Anast. She only sees his disappearance as a bit of publicity before his show.

Anast had an appointment with the former tax officer Maria Kohlbeck. Batic and Leitmayr want to visit the woman who has messie syndrome . When they get there, they find her dead in their apartment with a knife in her body. The pastor in charge knows about the background to the decline of the woman who has lost her job due to the negative media coverage. The investigators suspect that Anast may have been with her and the conversation got so out of hand that he stabbed her and is now in hiding.

Shortly afterwards, Anast's car is found abandoned on a small mountain road. Massive traces of blood indicate that he must be seriously injured. They request a search team with dogs, which Anast finds dead under a bridge. He has various cuts and ankle marks and was then killed with a hammer.

The investigators are looking for other TV victims who have fallen into disrepute due to Anast's reports. There they come across Mario Schröder, who has a criminal record and from whose IP address some of the e-mails with death threats were sent. He is questioned, but can provide an alibi for the period of the crime. Schröder mentions that Pastor Fruhmann was also at the mercy of Anast's reenactments. Batic and Leitmayer question him, and he also claims to have weak points. He would have contacted other Anast victims to assist them. In a kind of self-help group he was able to give them strength.

The forensics department cannot prove any blood from Anast in Maria Kohlbeck's house, but they can prove traces of blood from a stranger. Investigators conclude that he was not there alone and that there may be footage of it as well. They look around Anast's apartment and catch the cameraman Fritz Kreininger, who is about to make the memory card with the recordings disappear. The events in the Kohlbeck house are recorded on it, and you can see Maria Kohlbeck threatening Anast with a large kitchen knife, injuring the cameraman and ultimately falling into the knife herself.

Traces of olive oil and cinnamon, which the forensics have shown in the hand of the dead Anast, indicate a religious ritual . So the investigators take another look at Pastor Fruhmann. They discover books on exorcism in Father Rufus' room . The young Father himself is not there; after an argument with Pastor Fruhmann, he may have gone to a hut in the mountains. There, Batic and Leitmayr discover clear traces of an exorcistic ceremony that explain Anast's cuts and ankle injuries. But Father Rufus is not there, but continues to fight the evil in the world. So he went to Anast's company that evening, tied up two of the employees and set fire to the building. He himself has locked himself in the recording room and wants to die in the flames. But Batic can save him. Rufus states that he just wanted to help Anast and get rid of evil. Here in the studio is the root of the evil that must be destroyed as well.

background

The film was shot in Munich from July 2, 2013 to August 1, 2013. At the end of August 2013, Bayerischer Rundfunk posted a making-of as a five-minute video on YouTube . Gregor Weber, who played the Saarbrücken crime scene investigator Stefan Deininger for years, appears here in a guest role.

reception

Reviews

The ratings for this crime scene episode are mostly positive.

This is how Torben Richter judges the Berliner Zeitung : “A great crime scene with many different facets and an exciting showdown in the former factory hall. The only thing that remains somewhat incomprehensible is why a crime scene, which takes place in midsummer, is broadcast shortly before Christmas. "

At Stern , Annette Berger rates this crime scene as “an excitingly told story that plays out different types of voyeurism. The viewer is also lured into the trap of enjoying the misery of failed existences. Actually, you shouldn't watch such nasty clips - but still enjoy doing it. The case is headed for a showdown in which the guilty are stewed in a kind of hellfire. [...] Just before Christmas Eve, this case is devilishly good crime thriller. "

Christian Buß at Spiegel Online says: “You could easily dismiss the Munich 'Tatort' episode 'Almighty' as a cheap billing with the low levels of private and Internet television. The public broadcasters as guardians of the grail of good and fair television? No, despite all the bold embellishments, this garish crime grotesque also resonates with the knowledge of how indissolubly the interdependencies between the different spheres of German television are today. "

Martin Geiger at Berliner-kurier.de writes: “Another kind of intellectual social porn? Not at all! Difficult topic packed in the usual Bavarian ease. Leitmayr and Batic (Udo Wachtveitl, Miroslav Nemec) back to the greatest joy in playing. "

At the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Holger Gertz said: “The reporter's unscrupulousness is as fake as the helplessness of his victims, the criticism of the brutalization of morals in commercial media and cheap TV is as expected as crude. And the resolution is senselessly pathetic. Most of Munich's crime scenes are compulsory, you can save yourself this. "

Ernst Corinth at the Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung said: “Although the viewer quickly suspects the background to the case, the film is never boring. It is simply too well told for that and staged by Jochen Alexander Freydank [...] too visually convincingly. "

Hans Hoff at dwdl judges similarly and writes: “With all its ramifications, this is a really good thriller again. Someone who knows how to vary his pace, who is calm and doesn't shy away from a bit of skillful action. Someone who knows how to classify explicit images of maggots on the skin and rat bites. One, after which you get up and say "I wouldn't have thought." Great cinema on ARD. "

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm judge as follows: "Cynical broadcasting formats that go over dead bodies for their success: Director Freydank (short film Oscar winner 2009) is targeting these excesses in the industry in his biting and exciting" Tatort ". "

And the Schweriner Volkszeitung : “a mystical, visually stunning and ultimately blazing“ crime scene ”which, despite its religious exaggeration, was domesticated by Nemec and Wachtveitl at all times. Class!"

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Almighty on December 22, 2013 was seen by 8.30 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22.9% for Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tatort: ​​Almighty at crew united
  2. ↑ Torben Richter: The possessed and the hero , on: Berliner Zeitung , accessed on February 16, 2014.
  3. ↑ Annette Berger The new "Tatort" - hellishly good on stern.de, accessed on February 16, 2014.
  4. ↑ Christian Buß : Munich "Tatort" on Trash TV: Axt raus zur Medienschelte on spiegel.de, accessed on February 16, 2014.
  5. ↑ Martin Geiger Assi-TV in the Munich Tatort , on berliner-kurier.de, accessed February 16, 2014.
  6. ↑ Holger Gertz Satan is shooting a little film on sueddeutsche.de, accessed February 16, 2014.
  7. ↑ Ernst Corinth "The 'Satan' from the net" , on waz-online.de, accessed February 16, 2014.
  8. ↑ Hans Hoff Great Cinema with Everything Inside , on dwdl.de, accessed February 16, 2014.
  9. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 16, 2014.
  10. ↑ Battle of the Worlds on svz.de, accessed on December 23, 2014.
  11. ↑ Manuel Weis: Primetime check: Sunday, December 22, 2013.quotemeter.de , December 23, 2013, accessed on September 20, 2017 .
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