Crime scene: The ballad of Cenk and Valerie

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	The ballad by Cenk and Valerie
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production ; company	NDR
length	89 minutes
classification	Episode 837 ( list )
First broadcast	May 6, 2012 on Das Erste , ORF , Swiss TV
Rod
Director	Matthias Glasner
script	Matthias Glasner
production	Lisa Blumenberg
music	Christoph M. Kaiser , ; Julian Maas
camera	Jakub Bejnarowicz
cut	Heike Gnida
occupation
	Mehmet Kurtuluş : Chief Inspector Cenk Batu; Peter Jordan : Uwe Kohnau, LKA; Corinna Harfouch : Valerie; Kai Wiesinger : Federal Chancellor Grasshoff; Anna Bederke : Gloria; Christoph Letkowski : Andreas Dobler; Jonas Nay : Kilian; Christoph Bantzer : Prof. Schüttler; Oliver Sauer : Head of Security; Maike Bollow : Regina Krieger, LKA; Noah Matheis : Matti; Frank Auerbach : Doctor who examines Gloria; Nora Marie von Harpe : Sister Karina; Jane McKenzie : journalist; Stefan Schießleder : SEK head of operations; Henning Sembritzki : SEK official; Sören Wunderlich : LKA official;

The ballad by Cenk and Valerie is the 837th episode in the crime series crime scene . It was produced by NDR and premiered on May 6, 2012 on Erste . Directed by Matthias Glasner , who also wrote the script. The film is the sixth and last case of the undercover agent from the LKA Cenk Batu ( Mehmet Kurtuluş ).

action

Under the new Federal Chancellor Grasshoff, several undercover agents , including Chief Inspector Batu, are smuggled into banks to collect evidence of illegal financial transactions. In Hamburg, the investigations soon focus on the trader Andreas Dobler, who has put the professional killer Valerie on the chancellor.

Valerie has an autism-like disorder that makes her an “ice cold angel” with no empathy but an unusually analytical mind. She is suspected of carrying out 19 homicide assignments in the 1980s until she went into hiding. Now she has returned terminally ill with her son Kilian, whom she raised largely isolated from other people. She has been following Cenk Batu for months and thus knows about his previous assignments as an undercover agent. Since she cannot carry out the murder of the Chancellor herself due to her poor health, she kidnaps Batu's pregnant friend Gloria. Valerie threatens to kill Gloria if Batu does not kill the Chancellor in front of the television cameras. In order to punish Batu, who does not stick to his agreements with Valerie, and to underline that she is a serious opponent, she kicks Gloria in the stomach and triggers a miscarriage.

Batu, who overhears this on the phone, then meets the Federal Chancellor, who is in town for meetings at the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce . However, he fails to persuade the Chancellor to carry out a fictitious shooting. So he quickly seizes the gun of a bodyguard and sets off to free his girlfriend. In a doctor's office, Batu can find Valerie, Kilian and Gloria, but he does not manage to free the latter.

In the meantime, Batus boss Uwe Kohnau finds out that the planned assassination attempt is not, as previously suspected, a conspiracy against the Chancellor's policy of increased control of the banks. It is “just” an unscrupulous bet: Dobler and his colleagues had bet on falling prices after the death of the Chancellor and promised themselves horrific profits from it.

To save his girlfriend's life, Batu returns to the Chamber of Commerce and takes the Chancellor hostage. Meanwhile, Gloria is able to free herself after Valerie stabbed her own son without hesitation, who turned against her, instead of cutting off a finger to punish Gloria again. Gloria now rushes to the Chamber of Commerce building, where Batu and the Chancellor take the stairs in the direction of the waiting media. Valerie follows Batu's actions on a television screen in an electronics store, but succumbs to her illness and does not see the further events. The trader Dobler and his colleagues are also watching the TV broadcast from the Chamber of Commerce, cheering with anticipation of the prospective profits from the death of the Chancellor, but ultimately the power is cut off. When Batu discovers that Gloria is free, he takes down the weapon he is pointing at the Chancellor and is gunned down by the SEK. Badly injured, Batu is transported to a clinic, where he ultimately dies in the operating room.

background

The ballad by Cenk and Valerie was produced by Studio Hamburg for NDR. The shooting took place from November 22, 2011 to December 22, 2011 in Hamburg.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Die Ballade von Cenk and Valerie on May 6, 2012 was seen by a total of 7.08 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 19.9% for Das Erste ; In the group of 14- to 49-year-old viewers , 2.59 million viewers and a market share of 17.0% were achieved.

criticism

“At the beginning almost everyone is alone. In the end, almost all of them are dead. And those who are not dead are alone again. A great crime scene. "

- Süddeutsche Zeitung

“Cenk Batu aka Mehmet Kurtulus resigns with a television bang. A “crime scene” as a death-yearning ballad, composed like a song, atmospheric, pulsating, physically and thematically spectacular: The Chancellor should be killed - and Cenk Batu should take over. And the financial market (surreal!) Is also getting a lot! Camera by a master hand, gigantic editing, impressive sound design, terrific game. Harfouch as an autistic killer who comes from a vacuum, without psychology and yet deeply coherent. Batu also mutates into a human machine. That is “bigger than life”. Smart, wild TV! This "crime scene" offers plenty of material for hot discussions! "

- Rainer Tittelbach : tittelbach.tv

“Unworthy departure for Mehmet Kurtulus: In his last episode as Cenk Batu, he is supposed to kill the Chancellor for punters. Because an insane script with an undeniable tendency towards sublime stupidity wants it to be. "

- Jakob Biazza : focus.de