Crime scene: Borowski and the lost girl
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Borowski and the lost girl |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 999 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | November 6, 2016 |
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| Director | Raymond Ley |
| script | Charlotte I. Pehlivani |
| production | Johannes Pollmann |
| music | Hans-Peter Ströer |
| camera | Philipp Kirsamer |
| cut | Heike Parplies |
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Borowski and the Lost Girl is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by NDR is the 999th episode of the crime scene and was broadcast on November 6th, 2016 in the first . For the team of investigators in Kiel , who are investigating there as a duo, for Klaus Borowski it is the 27th case and for Sarah Brandt it is the 11th case.
action
The 17-year-old student Julia Heidhäuser excitedly calls the police over her smartphone to the apartment of her classmate Maria and her daughter.
Klaus Borowski and his colleague Sarah Brandt find her there with a crying baby in their arms. She claims that her classmate Maria was murdered - by her brother. She would be sure that it was him because Maria had argued massively with him. Borowski and Brandt don't really know whether they can believe Julia. A body cannot be found in the apartment. But it was found in the harbor basin the next day. At first it is not yet absolutely certain that it is Maria, as the face can hardly be seen after the collision with a ship's propeller. There is an imprint of a car tire on her clothing, and it can be assumed that the body was not thrown into the water here. However, it can be clearly identified by a striking tattoo.
After Nils Heidhäuser can be found and questioned, he denies having anything to do with Maria's death. Since only his sister's accusation and no other evidence speak against him, he remains at large. Sarah Brandt researches Maria's past and finds a note on the file that Maria had testified against a Hasim Mahdi at a trial and that he was sentenced to prison. Hasim has just been released from prison and has returned to the circle of his fellow believers. When Borowski visits him there to question him, the commissioner gets caught between the investigations of the state security, which has been monitoring the mosque for some time. As a result, his superior Schladitz advises him to let the case rest. But Borowski cannot do that, especially since the main witness against Nils Heidhäuser also leads him into the circle of Islamists. Julia is about to convert to Islam. She is dissatisfied with her life and thinks that she will find a God in Allah who will heal her wounds. The Islamist women of the faith group, especially Amina Jaschar, help her on this path. Amina has influenced Julia to the point that she wants to marry an Islamist fighter she only knows through the Internet. Since Borowski did not let up in investigating the murder case and was still involved in the Islamist community, he received a visit from the state security. This offers him to work with Borowski. According to his surveillance recordings, Hasim Mahdi has an alibi for the time of the murder of the young woman. But Borowski doesn't believe him.
Using flow calculations, the approximate location at which the corpse was thrown into the water can be determined. During the autopsy, fine glass splinters were also found, which, together with the tire prints, suggest a car accident. So the area in question is examined and further traces are found in a piece of forest, which suggest that Maria was run over here. Brandt checks car-sharing companies for good luck and finds them. Kathi Pelzer, a classmate of Marie and Julia's, had rented the accident vehicle. She is interrogated and admits to having been so annoyed by Maria's provocations that she drove towards her when she was constantly doing gymnastics in front of the car and mocking her. Then she would have packed the body in the trunk and thrown it into the water on the bank.
During the investigation into Maria's murder, Amina Jaschar is suddenly found stabbed to death. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution immediately intervened and explained to Brandt that the woman had worked for her. Through them they learned the names and whereabouts of young women from Germany who were recruited for Islam. So that Julia cannot travel to the Middle East as planned and join the IS, Borowski takes her into custody for one night under pretense in a private apartment. When Julia overhears a conversation between Borowski and Brandt, she realizes that she has only been used as bait and confronts the leader Imam Abu Abdullah and Hasim Mahdi in the mosque . She threatens them both with a weapon that she found in Hasim's belongings. When Hasim Mahdi admits that she “cut the evil out of the traitor”, she shoots him and then kills herself out of desperation.
background
The crime scene was filmed from April 5, 2016 to May 4, 2016 in Kiel, including on Vinetaplatz in Kiel- Gaarden .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Borowski and the lost girl on November 6, 2016 was seen by 8.43 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 18.2% for Das Erste .
Reviews
The star judges: “The Grimme Prize winner and docu-drama specialist Raymond Ley [...] lets a documentary approach and 'documentary color', as he himself says, be felt in the fictional television thriller. No postcard idyll, but soberly realistic, the venues are filmed. […] This 'crime scene' takes the viewer into the world of the backyard mosque, which is characterized by religious fanaticism, hatred of the West and peer pressure - in which women have nothing to say. "
PRISMA says: “The great strength of this crime scene is that it doesn't look staged. The fact that the camera and editing are so cautious and yet often dare to approach the protagonists very closely that the viewer feels right in the middle of the action. And that he dares to tackle an explosive, current topic without getting lost in clichés and without jeopardizing his credibility. In addition, there are actors like Mala Emde or Sithembile Menck, whom Lay lets play, to whom he gives space to develop. And a script that is cleverly structured, that plays with the inside and outside of the characters, with our sympathies, that contrasts cool Borowski with the fears of Juliet, the methods of investigative work and the methods of Islamist manipulation. He lets all these protagonists play a game that can only end in disaster. "
Neue Zürcher Zeitung : "If this« Tatort »episode shows one thing particularly well, it is this: how great the need can be to close an inner vacuum, how vulnerable it can be and that this longing can lead to life-threatening territory."
“The dialogues with the mother are extremely wooden, the turn towards the protection of the Constitution seems constructed. At the beginning, Commissioner Borowski [...] and colleague Brandt [...] only have to solve the murder of a classmate of the convert, in the end it is about competence wrangling with the constitutional protection. "
“As is so often the case, when the Kiel investigators are not led by the author Sascha Arango, they remain paler than usual and appear lost for their part. Despite the screaming of seagulls, this crime scene in Kiel is reminiscent of the consequences of the inland area of Stuttgart: relevance significant, crime story so mediocre.
Web links
- Borowski and the lost girl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Borowski and the lost girl on the ARD website
- Borowski and the lost girl at the crime scene fund
- Borowski and the lost girl at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Scene of the crime: Borowski and the lost girl at crew united
- ↑ Manuel Weis: Primetime check: Sunday, November 6th, 2016.quotemeter.de , November 7th, 2016, accessed on November 7th, 2016 .
- ^ Tatort: Borowski and the lost girl at stern.de, accessed on November 13, 2016.
- ^ Tatort: Borowski and the lost girl at PRISMA, accessed on November 19, 2018.
- ^ Tatort: Borowski and the lost girl at NZZ, accessed on November 19, 2018.
- ^ Christian Buß: Kiel "Tatort" about Islamist. My headscarf, my weapon. Spiegel Online, November 4, 2016, accessed on November 4, 2016 : "Rating: 5 out of 10 points"
- ↑ Holger Gertz: "Tatort" from Kiel - relevance considerable, action medium good. In: Media. Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 4, 2016, accessed on November 4, 2016 .
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