Crime scene: blood ties
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Blood ties |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR , Maran Film |
| length | 87 minutes |
| classification | Episode 672 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | September 9, 2007 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jürgen Bretzinger |
| script | Susanne Schneider |
| production | Uwe Franke |
| music |
Marco Meister , Robert Meister |
| camera | Georg Steinweh |
| cut | Roswitha gracious |
| occupation | |
as well as Wolfgang Boos , Alexander Opitz , Jochen Stern , Jutta Klawuhn , Karin Iversen and Maximilian von Maydell | |
Blood ties is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film with Eva Mattes as chief detective Klara Blum was produced by SWR and Maran Film and first broadcast in Germany on April 9, 2007. This 672nd episode in the crime scene series is the 12th case of Klara Blum and the 8th case of Kai Perlmann . Both have to solve the death of a schoolgirl and have to realize that the real victim is her cousin.
action
In the forest you can find the body of the missing student Nicole Ulmer, who apparently fell down a slope. However, since it was carefully covered with leaves, external influences are likely. Her school bag and cell phone cannot be found either.
Blum informs the father and the family, who are shaken by death. Klaus Ulmer is a single parent and has two brothers: Peter and Herbert, with whom he maintains close family contact. He is a fisherman himself and supplies his brother Peter's restaurant with his fresh fish from Lake Constance. Herbert Ulmer also supplies the restaurant with his self-pressed fruit juices as well as wine and schnapps from his own production.
Blum first asked Jessica Ulmer, the dead woman's cousin, who were close friends. Jessica is closed and so the conversation is not very productive. Blum and Perlmann look around Nicole's room, but initially can't find anything informative apart from a large photo wall. The photos and a diary entry show that the girl was in love with the real estate agent Holger Bucheck and also had an appointment with him in the forest. At the Buchecks she was often employed as a babysitter. Because of her passion for photography, she discovered that Holger Bucheck is secretly having a relationship with Corinna Ulmer, the wife of her uncle Peter. Blum confronts Bucheck with these facts. However, he denies doing anything to Nicole.
Peter Ulmer and his brothers offered a reward for catching the perpetrator and published an advertisement in the daily newspaper. They also suspect Holger Bucheck, as he is known as a playboy. This in turn informs Peter Ulmer that Nicole called him shortly before she disappeared to ask for help. He implies that the matter has to do with him (Peter).
A witness reports to the police that he saw a silver-colored Porsche in the forest at the likely time of the crime, which again incriminates Holger Bucheck. His wife has now reported him missing. Blum starts a search for him and asks Corinna Ulmer, who admits her relationship with Bucheck. There are certain indications that Peter Ulmer has something to do with Bucheck's disappearance. While he is being interrogated, Blum receives a meaningful text message from Jessica that sounds a lot like goodbye. Concerned, Blum goes in search of the teenager who is nowhere to be found. Through the text message with the treasure at the Sultan's, she goes to the paddock and finally finds Nicole's cell phone. There is a video on it that shows how Peter Ulmer sexually abuses his niece Jessica.
In search of Jessica, the highway near which the girl was seen is blocked off to be on the safe side. Nevertheless, she manages to stand in front of an approaching truck with the intention of killing herself. Blum can prevent an impact with a courageous jump. The girl tearfully confesses that she is to blame for the accident with Nicole. She argued with her about the video and her cousin fell down the hill in the process.
In search of Holger Bucheck, the “Ulmerhof” distillery is searched with forensic technology and detection dogs. Blum shows Jessica's parents the video and explains the connections behind Nicole's death. In his anger over the behavior of his brother Peter, Herbert admits that they both tortured Bucheck to make him confess to the murder. He died in the process and Ulmer chopped up the corpse with the muser and distilled it into schnapps together with the raspberry mash . Peter then distributed the leftovers in the fields.
background
This crime scene crime thriller, produced by Südwestrundfunk in cooperation with Maran Film, was shot in Konstanz , Hagnau am Bodensee , Baden-Baden and the area around Konstanz under the working title Unter Freunde .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of the Tatort Blutsbande on September 9, 2007 was seen by 7.74 million viewers in Germany. This achieved a market share of 23.1 percent.
Reviews
The crime scene blood bond is described by Franz Solms-Laubach on Welt.de as “a film for a second look”. He feels “The story […] is simply too wooden in some places. Roughly carved and provided with angular contours where fine-tuning would have been necessary. More sensitivity and psychological intuition would have done the sensitive topic really good. ”He also comes to the conclusion:“ That the […] crime scene does not always manage to convincingly link the various elements of its story, [which] does not necessarily make it one bad film. But it takes the ride away and leaves the viewer with more questions than the film can answer with its very drastic ending. "
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv describes this film with the following words: “With this thematically interesting, dramaturgically but all too routinely tinkered and fairly mediocre crime thriller [...] Eva Mattes had a difficult time - down to earth and without atmosphere. Janina Stopper alone provides the highlights in the dark family tragedy with intense play. "
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm judge: "Dark, tragic, with macabre punchlines."
Web links
- Blood ties in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of blood ties on the ARD website
- Blood ties in the crime scene fundus
- Blood ties at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Production at Internet Movie Database , accessed on January 13, 2014.
- ↑ a b Working title and audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 13, 2014.
- ^ Franz Solms-Laubach The silent revenge of the little girl on welt.de, accessed on January 13, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach crime scene - blood ties on tittelbach.tv, accessed on January 13, 2014.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 13, 2014.
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