Crime scene: the last scream

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The last scream
Country of production Germany
original language German
classification Episode 1134 ( List )
First broadcast June 1, 2020 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Mira Thiel
script Marble Clausen
music Dürbeck & Dohmen
camera Birgit Dierken
cut Andreas Baltschun
occupation

The Last Schrey is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The paper produced by the MDR was on June 1, 2020 First aired. In this 1134th crime scene episode, the Weimar Commissioners Lessing and Dorn investigate their tenth case.

action

Freya and Robert, called “Zecke”, break into the house of the Schrey couple, wealthy textile entrepreneurs. They kill the dog and beat Gerd Schrey down. Shortly afterwards, Marlies Schrey is found slain in a field not far from a tourist restaurant. Lessing and Dorn, who are currently having problems with their French babysitter, take over the investigation. At the scene of the crime, Lessing concludes that the tied Marlies Schrey escaped from a vehicle, fell onto the street and fled into the field, where she was followed and finally killed. The survey of the guests of the nearby restaurant confirms this thesis.

While Lessing and Dorn were talking to Maik Schrey, Gerd Schrey's son, he received a call from the kidnappers and a ransom demand for two million euros. Dorn finds an insurance policy that covers a kidnapping of the Schreys with a ransom of up to one million euros per kidnapped person. In another phone call, Maik Schrey explains, unmoved by the death of his stepmother Marlies, that he only has one million euros available and that he no longer pays because Marlies is dead. The kidnapper couple, who are hiding on a farm in Ulla , agree to the reduction in the ransom. Out of anger about the lost second million and the repeated clumsy behavior of his accomplice, the two kidnappers get into an argument. Tick ​​kills Freya and hides her in the farm's manure pit . Zecke agreed with Maik Schrey that the ransom should be dropped from Gerd Schrey's private plane outside of Weimar.

The dropping of the money succeeds, but the bag with the ransom gets caught in a high-voltage pylon. Tick ​​climbs the pole. After he has cut the bag free and dropped it on the floor, however, he dies of recklessness. Gerd Schrey flees with the money and hides it in the ruins of the Sophienheilstätte in Munich, a district of Bad Berka . Then he has a truck driver bring him back to Weimar and goes to the police, where his son Maik is being questioned, as Dorn and Lessing suspect that the kidnapping could have been initiated by Maik or Gerd. Only here does Gerd, who had been knocked unconscious at the beginning of the kidnapping, learn of his wife's death and collapse.

After the interrogation, Dorn and Lessing meet their babysitter Adrienne again at the police station, who wants to report her boyfriend missing. It turns out that this is Robert the kidnapper. Through a tip from their colleague Lupo, Dorn and Lessing also learn that he is the brother of Maik Schrey's friend Doreen. As a result, she comes into question as the mastermind behind the kidnapping and is advertised for a search.

After Gerd Schrey returned home, Doreen went to see him there and forced her at gunpoint to lead her to the ransom. She reveals to Gerd that she wants revenge on him. Marlies was her mother and had left her family because of Gerd. After the father's suicide, Doreen came to live with adoptive parents and Robert was placed in a home. Gerd assures Doreen that he never knew that Marlies already had a family when he met her. He himself was widowed after his first wife died giving birth to Maik. This had always burdened the relationship between father and son. Gerd and Doreen go to the Sophienheilstätte, where Doreen can finally be arrested.

background

The film was shot from May 21, 2019 to June 20, 2019 in Weimar and the surrounding area, including the Sophienheilstätte in the Bad Berka district of Munich .

As usual for the crime scene from Weimar, a literary classic is also used in this episode. Lessing quotes a sentence from Schiller's Räuber, alluding to the tense relationship between Gerd Schrey and his son Maik : "Not flesh and blood, the heart makes us fathers and sons."

The drum intro from the series jerks almost always plays as background music in this episode . , in which lead actor Christian Ulmen also plays.

reception

Reviews

“Thuringia should largely return to normal next week after the corona restrictions. But this "crime scene", in which the blood and cocoa flow freely, plunges the state into insanity despite all the summer impressions and holiday dreams. "

- Christian Buß : The mirror

“With“ The Last Schrey ”, author Murmel Clausen and director Mira Thiel succeed in an entertaining mixture of bloody meanness and sarcastic joke, in which the original and unused characters stand out in particular. More of that. "

- Marek Bang : Kino.de

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of The Last Schrey on June 1, 2020 was seen by 7.61 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.2% for Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Crime scene: The last scream at crew united
  2. ↑ Dorn and Lessing also investigate the Sophienheilstätte. In: Thüringer Allgemeine , June 6, 2019, accessed on June 1, 2020.
  3. ^ Christian Buß: "Tatort" grotesque from Weimar. Where blood and cocoa flow freely. In: Culture. Der Spiegel , May 29, 2020, accessed on May 30, 2020 : "7 out of 10 points"
  4. ↑ Marek Bang: "Tatort: ​​The Last Schrey" (Episode 1134): Criticism. In: Culture. Kino.de , June 3, 2020, accessed on June 3, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Fabian Riedner: Whit Monday, 1 June 2020. Quotenmeter.de , June 2, 2020 accessed on 2 June 2020 .
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