Crime scene: bomb business

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Bomb business
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 1089 ( List )
First broadcast March 31, 2019 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Thomas Stiller based
on an idea by Frank Koopmann and Thomas Stiller
script Thomas Stiller
music Fabian Römer
camera Marc Liesendahl
cut Vessela Martschewski
synchronization

Bomb Shop is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by WDR was broadcast on March 31, 2019 on Das Erste . In this 1089th crime scene episode, the Cologne commissioners Ballauf and Schenk determine their 75th case.

action

An American aircraft bomb from the Second World War is found on the construction site of a newly planned residential area. Although it was properly and successfully defused, the demolition master Peter Krämer dies while transporting the 5 hundredweight bomb when he tries to deliver it to an old bunker that the defusing company uses as a secure depot. This is inexplicable to the head of the company, Maiwald, because this model has no second detonator and could not have exploded. The Cologne commissioners Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk want to classify the whole thing as a regrettable accident after the first results. They are also considering a possible suicide, but they cannot find any serious evidence for this either. After Dr. Roth found a small splinter from a modern hand grenade in the victim's jawbone, an accident is ruled out. Since the defusing company has just such hand grenades in the camp, the commissioners are sure to find the perpetrator there. However, there are also text messages to Krämer in which he was obviously threatened. They come from Sascha Feichdinger, the owner of a gambling hall, which is immediately checked. It turns out that he has a criminal record and has regularly received money from Krämer. The questioning of Feichdinger reveals that Kramer transferred the money to him so that he manipulated one of his slot machines so that Kramer's friend, Alexander Haug, would regularly win there. He worked with him in Bosnia, where Haug was massively injured after an explosion and now has to live on a disability pension. Kramer improved this for him out of friendship and in this somewhat inconvenient way because Haug was too proud to accept the money directly from Kramer. When Haug is questioned, it becomes clear that he is actually unaware of Krämer's financial support to him. Haug, on the other hand, openly admits to being in love with Kramer's wife and to having argued with him because he was cheating on his wife with a colleague at work. In the opinion of the commissioners, Haug would have been able to deposit the hand grenade and detonate it by remote ignition despite his disability.

After a stranger broke into Kramer's house and was obviously looking for something, the investigators assume that the motive for the murder can be found here. After their research, the company that Krämer worked for occasionally also prepares reports for private companies on the quality of the soil. Maiwald senior, however, denies having provided such a service for the newly emerging “flora settlement”, which serves to rule out the possibility of old aircraft bombs being buried underground. Ballauf and Schenk learn, however, that Joachim Maiwald, while his father was away from the company for a long time, had taken on such an expert opinion on his own. He had not worked carefully enough, which Kramer had found out and was expecting a statement from his colleague. Joachim Maiwald had put his work colleagues out of the way so that Krämer could not report him.

background

The film was shot in Cologne from October 24, 2017 to November 24, 2017. The premiere took place on September 15, 2018 at the Oldenburg International Film Festival in the Oldenburg prison .

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Bomb Business on March 31, 2019 was seen by 9.80 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 27.6% for Das Erste .

Reviews

In Spiegel Online depreciated Christian Buss , "writer-director Thomas Stiller shows such a close-knit group of people as maimed; [-]. His Cologne " Tatort " is now a kind of " Hurt Locker " from the German middle class. But unlike in Kathryn Bigelow's war drama about a US bomb clearance squad in Iraq, one often doesn't see how much the pressure is inscribed in the characters. The traumas are often shouted out rather than shown in the characters' eternally alert or eternally nervous demeanor. Too much is explained, too little played. "

Volker Bergmeister from tittelbach.tv said: “Thomas Stiller tells the story as a classic Whodunit crime thriller. There are the usual motives - jealousy, quarrel, greed, revenge - and suspects are 'worked off' in sequence until there is only one left in the end. It's not particularly exciting, there are no major twists and turns or surprises, the characters have little connectivity. The fact that Stiller not only relies on the classic perspective when staging gives the crime thriller a bit of freshness, but it cannot spice up the constructed story enough. "

Heike Huperzt wrote for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : “There is a very promising hint for ambitious fellow riddlers in the 75th case of the Cologne 'Tatort' duo [...] right at the beginning. But it is likely that his labor of love has been given away to all viewers under fifty years of age. Like basically the entire episode […], which at least from a narrative economic point of view does just as sedate work according to ARD regulations as the now no longer new assistant Norbert Jütte (Roland Riebeling), who is particularly concerned about keeping the break times and the bread topping at work are."

Thomas Gehringer from Tagesspiegel commented: “If there is [...] a character in this somewhat overloaded film that is worth watching, it is Alexander Haug (Sascha Alexander Gersak), Krämer's former clearance service colleague who is dependent on a wheelchair since stepping on a mine in Bosnia. Haug is a quick-witted guy who likes to pull out crude and stupid sayings [...], at the same time, thanks to Gersak, appears very powerful and lively. "

Trivia

This time the two chief inspectors use a Buick Riviera Boattail from the early 1970s for their official trips .

The anti-war song at the beginning of the episode is Enola Gay of the OMD group or the Scooter group , it is about the B-29 bomber of the same name .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Crime scene: Bomb deal at crew united
  2. ↑ Bomb business. In: Program 2018. Internationales Filmfest Oldenburg, accessed on March 7, 2019 : "World Premiere"
  3. ↑ Cinema in jail. In: JVA Screenings. Internationales Filmfest Oldenburg, accessed on March 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Veit-Luca Roth: Primetime check: Sunday, March 31, 2019.quotemeter.de , April 1, 2019, accessed on April 1, 2019 .
  5. ^ Christian Buß: Cologne "Tatort" about ordnance clearance service. Men messing with bombs. In: Culture. Spiegel Online , March 29, 2019, accessed on March 29, 2019 : "6 out of 10 points"
  6. ↑ Volker Bergmeister: Behrendt, Bär, Gersak, Lause, Thomas Stiller. Bomb goes off, tension stays down Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on May 27, 2019.
  7. ↑ Nothing can be defused here at faz.net, accessed on May 27, 2019.
  8. ↑ Building and bombing at tagesspiegel.de, accessed on May 27, 2019.
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