Crime scene: birthday child
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Birthday child |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German |
| Production company |
SRF |
| classification | Episode 879 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | August 18, 2013 on Das Erste , ORF 2 and SRF 1 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tobias Ineichen |
| script | Moritz Gerber |
| production |
Micheal Steiger Anita Water |
| music | Fabian Römer |
| camera | Michael Saxer |
| cut | Isabel Meier |
| occupation | |
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Birthday Child is a television film from the crime series Tatort . It is the fifth case of the Lucerne investigator Reto Flückiger ( Stefan Gubser ). The broadcast produced by SRF was first broadcast on August 18, 2013.
action
Shortly after her 14th birthday, Amina Halter is found dead in Meggerwald near Lucerne. The complicated family environment of the dead is striking. The biological father, Kaspar Vogt, is a troublemaker and former drug addict and lives in a camper van. However, the death of his daughter hits him hard. The stepfather, Beat Halter, is completely the opposite. An example of virtue and head of a Christian denomination. He sees death soberly and as the will of God. The fact that Amina was three months pregnant does not fit in with his morals.
At school, Amina was known to be a quiet student and hardly had any friends. Liz Ritschard thinks she has found evidence of sexual violence. Therefore, DNA analyzes are obtained from Halter and Vogt, but both exclude paternity.
Beat Halter runs a small sawmill. When he finds a wooden figure in Amina's room, it leads him to assume that his apprentice Fabian Gross, who carves exactly such figures, might have known his stepdaughter better. He reports it to Flückiger and Richard and so they investigate Gross. It turns out that he is the father of Amina's unborn child. He states that Amina called him and wanted to meet him. Now he blames himself for not coming to their meeting place that evening. Flückiger suspects that Vogt wanted to get his daughter out of Halter's care and that he intended to kidnap her. Shortly afterwards, he actually kidnaps his second daughter Julia in front of her mother. Flückiger follows him and discovers his mobile home near a river. He manages to convince Voigt to give up his plan and let him talk to Julia. In this way he learns that Amina snuck out of the house that night and did not go to school the next morning, as Halter had claimed. Julia also saw how the other dad (owner) drove after Amina. Faced with further facts, Halter admits that he followed Amina. She wanted to abort the child as if it wasn't enough that she got pregnant. At least that was how he wanted to save her soul.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Birthday Child on August 18, 2013 was seen by 8.0 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 24.9% for Das Erste .
Reviews
“What holds“ birthday child ”together really well in the end is the investigative duo Flückiger / Ritschard, who get better every time because they succeed in what has made good“ Tatort ”teams stand out for decades: that they have their own story alongside of the story, which makes for some successful punchlines here. "
“Towards the end, a suspect in this crime thriller utters the key phrase calmly, he says 'patchwork'. So, this crime scene from Lucerne is patchwork. He wants to be Scandinavian gloomy, but remains in the penumbra, so to speak, also because Inspector Flückiger keeps throwing weak jokes: turn on the lights and say 'there will be light', this category. "
“Ultimately, this crime scene appears bloodless and splashes uninspired. The constant aggression between investigators Reto Flückiger (Stefan Gubser) and Liz Ritschard (Delia Mayer) is more annoying than believable. The fact that in the end the stepfather was the culprit is the greatest disappointment of this autumnal, desolate crime scene. Here, too, the worn-out cliché that the pious do-gooder simply has to be the murderer has been unkindly rehashed. "
Web links
- Birthday boy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of the birthday boy on the ARD website
- Birthday child at the crime scene fund
- Birthday child at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Timo Nöthling: Primetime-Check, Sunday August 18, 2013.quotemeter.de , August 19, 2013, accessed on August 19, 2013 : "In the primetime programs, the« crime scene »triumphed as usual."
- ↑ Claudia Schwartz: And deliver us from the government council. Swiss “Tatort” opens the season. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, August 18, 2013, accessed on August 18, 2013 .
- ↑ Holger Gertz: So patchwork. Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 18, 2013, accessed on August 19, 2013 .
- ^ Adrienne Braun: Tyrannical addiction to harmony. Stuttgarter Zeitung, August 18, 2013, accessed on August 19, 2013 .
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