Crime scene: breakfast forever

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Breakfast forever
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MDR ,
Saxonia Media
length 87 minutes
classification Episode 904 ( list )
First broadcast March 16, 2014 on ARD
( Das Erste )
Rod
Director Claudia Garde
script Katrin Bühlig
production Jan Kruse
music Colin Towns
camera Birgit Guðjónsdóttir
cut Thomas Stange
occupation

Breakfast forever is an episode of the German crime series Tatort from 2014. The Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk film was first broadcast on March 16, 2014 on Erste . It is the 904th crime scene episode and the 19th case with the Leipzig investigator duo Saalfeld and Keppler .

action

Julia Marschner, a love-hungry woman in her mid-forties, celebrates lively at an "over 40s party" that night. The next morning, she was strangled and found with marks on her wrists in the city park. When Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler arrive at the crime scene, the situation reminds them of a case in the past. In the press the murderer was dubbed the "Strangler von Mockau Ost ", but he has been in custody for several years. So it cannot be ruled out that the victim was killed in an unusual love game, because Julia was not averse to sexual adventures. Her friends, the lawyer Silvie Stein and the physiotherapist Karmen Slowinski were always out and about with her at single parties. You remember a young man who harassed Julia on the dance floor the night before. However, you cannot tell if her friend left the party with this man as well.

The investigators learn from Julia's 20-year-old daughter Caro that her mother hired a flirting teacher with whom she also had an affair, but Tom Römer denies such a relationship. Since he got caught up in contradictions during his interrogation and the bartender had definitely seen him at the party with Julia and observed an argument between the two, he is taken into custody. He states that he only wanted to protect Julia from a man who - in his opinion - was not doing her well. He knows this Peter Hauptmann well and knows that as a cosmetic surgeon he has an easy time of it with all women. Römer is also aware of his preference for special sex practices. Then Saalfeld and Keppler seek out Peter Hauptmann. to question him. He claims that he does not know a Julia Marschner and denies. to have been to this "over 40 party". His wife Annika gives him an alibi for the time.

Forensic technician Wolfgang Menzel finds out that Julia had recently been exchanging text messages with Caro's friend. When asked about this, he admits that he had a relationship with her. The investigators suspect that he might have had an argument with her about it, but he can prove an alibi for the time of the crime, which relieves him.

Saalfeld and Keppler ask Julia's friends again about Peter Hauptmann. After all, they should have seen whether Julia left the party with him. However, they state that their friend suddenly disappeared so they did not observe anything. Investigators then research Hauptmann's past and find out that he was tried three years ago for sexual abuse resulting in death, but was acquitted due to a lack of evidence. He is summoned and now admits that he was at the party, but initially denied it to avoid any inconvenience. Shortly afterwards, Silvie Stein appears as Peter Hauptmann's legal advisor and explains that it was not Julia who left the party with her client, but she.

Hauptmann's wife is also questioned and admits that she knows about her husband's adventures, but would not mind that he gets from other women what she can no longer give him due to her sexual reluctance. Her emotional bond with her husband is more important to her than the physical one.

The investigators gain legal access to Hauptmann's second home and find evidence there that Julia must have been here on the night of the crime. Confronted with the facts, Hauptmann breaks in and admits to having strangled Julia. But Keppler doubts and finds out that Silvie Stein was present at the trial of the “Strangler von Mockau Ost” and knew the details of the case. He goes to her with Saalfeld and she confesses to having killed her friend. Actually, she wouldn't have wanted that, but out of the situation she would have choked her until she was finally quiet. Before that, she had already revealed herself to Karmen Slowinski and expressed her displeasure with Julia's way of always taking everything she wanted. Since she had grabbed "her" Peter, where a friend's husband should be taboo, it would have been enough for her.

background

The shooting for this crime scene was carried out by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk in cooperation with Saxonia Media in Leipzig and the Leipzig area.

reception

Audience ratings

8.15 million viewers saw the episode Breakfast Forever in Germany when it was first broadcast on March 16, 2014, which corresponded to a market share of 22.7 percent.

Reviews

Volker Bergmeister from Tittelbach.tv states that 'Breakfast forever' "is firmly in the hands of women." [...] "Directed by Claudia Garde; the book was written by Katrin Bühlig; Birgit Gudjonsdottir stood behind the camera. There are also strong female roles - brilliantly cast with Ursina Lardi, Inga Busch and Victoria Trauttmansdorff. The female half of the commissioner duo, Simone Thomalla, cannot keep up. This intricate 'crime scene' is only a thriller at first glance, but rather an intense and sad ballad of getting older, of ephemeral beauty, of the fear of being left behind. Top book, good direction, finely drawn characters. "

At Spiegel.de , Christian Buß asks and concludes : “'Fifty Shades of Gray' in Leipzig? Saalfeld and Keppler investigate in the SM milieu. What could easily have become a trend piece about the new alleged lust for submission is a cruel thriller about the gray areas of eroticism - and the first strong MDR 'crime scene' in years. "

Holger Gertz ( Sueddeutsche.de ) says: “Director Claudia Garde creates her 'crime scene' as a touching story about love-hungry middle-aged women. Unfortunately, in the search for the 'Strangler von Mockau-Ost', the spring fever of the investigators Saalfeld and Keppler are emphasized too much. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm are quite sober: “Claudia Garde shot great Kiel 'Tatorte', among other things, this often brilliantly played psychodrama gambled away some of its possibilities due to the sterile 'Derrick' environment and superficial SM wickedness. [Conclusion:] Good actors in a given story. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Filming locations and audience ratings on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on April 30, 2014.
  2. ↑ Volker Bergmeister : Review of the film , on tittelbach.tv , accessed on April 30, 2014.
  3. ↑ Christian Buß : SM "Tatort" from Leipzig: Hokus Pokus Koitus on spiegel.de, accessed on April 30, 2014.
  4. ↑ Holger Gertz: Hokus Pokus Koitus on sueddeutsche.de, accessed on April 30, 2014.
  5. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on April 30, 2014.
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