Crime scene: The missing child
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | The missing child |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
filmpool Film and television production for NDR |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 1083 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | February 3, 2019 on Das Erste , ORF 2 and SRF 1 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Franziska Buch |
| script | Franziska Buch, Jan Braren and Stefan Dähnert |
| production | Iris Kiefer and Annette Köster |
| music | Johannes Kobilke |
| camera | Konstantin Kröning |
| cut | Andrea Mertens |
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The Missing Child is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk is the 1083rd Tatort episode and was broadcast on February 3, 2019 in the program Das Erste . Chief Inspector Charlotte Lindholm investigates in her 26th case and Chief Inspector Anaïs Schmitz in her 1st case.
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The 15-year-old student Julija Petkow drags herself bleeding and with severe abdominal pain from home to the toilet room of a school sports hall in Göttingen , from where she calls her half-brother Nino Brehmer for help. He discovers her in a bush in front of the hall and, at her request, brings her to his apartment, which is attached to the rooms of a boxing club where he trains.
After a caretaker found traces of blood in the toilet room and therefore called the police, Commissioner Lindholm discovered a placenta with an umbilical cord in a toilet bowl on her first day at work in Göttingen . For Lindholm, who was freshly transferred to Göttingen after the events in The Holdt case, and her partner Anaïs Schmitz there, and because of certain footprints at the scene of the crime, there is some evidence of a birth and a crime, the search for mother and child is set in motion. Questioning students and teachers makes it clear to the investigators that the mother must be Julija.
The relationship between Lindholm and Schmitz is initially characterized by mutual dislike and confrontation, also because both are used to investigating alone. The questioning of Julija's single father shows that he knew nothing about his daughter's pregnancy. The inspectors also focus on her teacher Johannes Grischke, who came to her home the morning before Julija's disappearance because she was absent from class, and the drug-dealing student Tim Bauer, with whom Julija once had a relationship and also had sexual intercourse.
Meanwhile, Nino hides Julija, who doesn't want to go to a hospital, in his apartment, but from where she escapes after someone rings the doorbell. After Nino found her again and found out about a missing baby in the newspaper, it was clear to him that she must be the mother in question. Julija, still bleeding, does not tell him the name of the child's father. When Nino rides her on a bus, she passes out, whereupon he disappears after a tip to the bus driver and she is taken to a hospital.
The police search the apartment, which is the home of Julija, her younger sister Polina and her father. The inspectors only found out late that Nino is not allowed to approach his and Julija's common father because of a past violent crime. During the interrogation of the father by the investigators, Polina paints a picture of people in her apartment. The picture and Polina's explanations make it clear that Julija is obviously intimate with a man. Since this man wears boxing gloves, it becomes clear to Lindholm that the newborn's father must be Ralf Schmölke, Nino's trainer in the boxing club.
The commissioners then go to the boxing club and can prevent Nino Schmölke from stabbing at the last minute. For Nino, Schmölke was established as the child's father and child murderer after the inspectors showed him the conspicuous finger ring that they found at the crime scene and whose wearer they were initially unable to identify.
Meanwhile, the baby's body has been found in a dumpster that has not yet been emptied due to a garbage disposal strike. Forensic examination of the boy reveals that he was breathing after he was born. Lindholm questions Julija in the hospital and learns that she did not know anything about her pregnancy until the onset of labor and that after the birth she held the child close to her until there was no more sound and then put it in a locker Has. Schmölke must then have taken it away.
background
The film was shot from June 6, 2018 to July 8, 2018 in Hamburg and Göttingen .
reception
Reviews
In Spiegel online was Christian penitential words of praise for the establishment of Commissioner Schmitz, she was "stylish and smart" succeeded. In contrast, the drama about abuse and teenage motherhood is "thoughtful and formulaic". The problem is that “a suspect merry-go-round is set in motion at first,” “which then turns so quickly that the actual drama about the young mother, who ignored the pregnancy until the birth, is dealt with in a few dramatic scenes that run empty must become."
Holger Gertz judged in the Süddeutsche Zeitung that the film was suffering from the rivalry between the police officers and the striking use of blood. The meeting of two self-confident investigators is a "nice step forward in the brazen German crime tradition", but both are so "brushed up on riot" that it squeaks. "The narrated case is" relevant and sad "and" not unexciting ", but some minor characters and suspects are clichéd.
In a review that appeared in the FAZ , Michael Hanfeld judged the film as "television from the drawing board, put on, striking (also in the pictures) and implausible in the attempt to turn a crime thriller with an alpha woman into one with two." Both main characters Lindholm and Schmitz said "ridiculous sentences" in which they explained "the factual superstructure" and the plot, and were "completely occupied with themselves". Their behavior tilts "from one extreme to the other" and is "not authenticated by anything, not even by Charlotte Lindholm's background." In contrast, the supporting actors did their job "quite well" within the scope of the possibilities given by the script and direction.
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of The Disappeared Child on February 3, 2019 was seen by 9.77 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.5% for Das Erste .
Web links
- Crime scene: The Lost Child in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of The Disappeared Child on the ARD website
- The missing child in the crime scene fund
- The missing child at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Crime scene: The missing child at crew united
- ↑ Christian Buß : Who plays the first ass violin? In: Spiegel Online . February 1, 2019, accessed February 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Holger Gertz : brushed on riot. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung .de. February 3, 2019, accessed February 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Michael Hanfeld : At what level do we determine here? , in: FAZ.net on Feb. 3, 2019, accessed on Feb. 6, 2019
- ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime check: Sunday, February 3, 2019. In : quotemeter.de . February 4, 2019, accessed February 4, 2019 .
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