Crime scene: Fallen angels

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Fallen angel
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavaria Film and Telepool on behalf of Bayerischer Rundfunk
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 397 ( List )
First broadcast September 20, 1998 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Thomas Freundner
script Peter Probst
production Silvia Koller
music JJ Gerndt
camera Jo home
cut Ulla Möllinger
occupation

Fallen Angels is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Telepool and Bavaria Film for Bayerischer Rundfunk was broadcast for the first time on September 20, 1998 in Das Erste as the 397th episode in the series. It is their 20th case for Commissioners Batic and Leitmayr . You are chasing a murderous moralist who has already killed three men and has chosen Leitmayr as his fourth victim.

action

Batic and Leitmayr have to go into the labyrinth of the sewer system in Munich because a corpse has been discovered there. The forensic doctor can limit the period of death to two to three weeks due to environmental influences and the state of decomposition. The noble garments suggest a quite wealthy middle-aged man. There is an image of a saint in his jacket pocket. Later it turns out that it is Wolfgang Heindl, a businessman from Vienna.

The very next day, another body was discovered in a landfill. When the investigators arrive, the man is still alive, but dies on the way to the hospital. Since he had a hotel key with him, his identity can be determined. The hotel receptionist recognizes the dead person as Reinhardt Bode. He had business to do in Munich, so Batic and Leitmayr went to see the owner of the company with which he had made an appointment. Old medicines are sent all over the world there, and the owner, Klaus Aigner, states that he also knows Bode well privately. Both planned to merge their companies soon. Batic and Leitmayr noticed, however, that the drugs are not only old, but in some cases have even expired. Batic can secretly talk to an Aigner employee and learns that her boss had a massive argument with Bode. Thereupon Batic has Aigner arrested on suspicion of murder.

Meanwhile, the journalist Mathias Lang from Hamburg, who was working on a revelation story, is found dead. At the time of death, Aigner was already in custody, so that he is out of the question as a perpetrator and he has to be released again. Leitmayr discovers that all three dead seem to have a religious connection. The image of the saint of the first dead matches a relic of Mary that Reinhardt Bode carried with him, and the journalist's enigmatic tattoos turn out to be passages from the Bible.

In the meantime, Batic visits brothels in Munich, having found out that Bode had asked about such establishments in the hotel. It turns out that the other two dead were also visitors to a posh brothel. Since all three died of carbon monoxide poisoning, the investigators suspect that the murdered were victims of a serial killer whose motive arises from religious delusions. In the search for this man, the investigators have to do detailed criminal work and collect clues like pieces of a puzzle. One trail leads to a taxi driver who has also been noticed in other different areas with his extreme moral ideas. For example, a phantom image can be made on which the prostitute Frances recognizes a former guest of the brothel, who called them all “fallen angels” and wanted to convert them. Since Leitmayr is helping Frances, she discovers her heart for him. She visits him privately and even stays with him.

In search of the religiously lost, Batic and Leitmayr turn to a pastor they know well. There they have the impression that his young vicar knows something but is not allowed to talk about it. So they keep an eye on the church and visitors, but receive no specific information. Batic tries to have the secret of confession revoked in the case of the young priest, but he is unsuccessful. Nevertheless, the investigators get the decisive clue here about a Bruno Ellner who, because of his exaggerated piety, had not passed the seminary. Since Ellner is registered in Munich, Batic and Leitmayr can check his apartment. According to the landlady, he himself has been missing for four days. The investigators find a sealed garage outside, which is obviously the place where Ellner killed his victims with exhaust fumes.

Ellner regularly watches the sinners who visit the brothel. He noticed Leitmayr, who got involved with one of the prostitutes, and so he followed him to his apartment. He succeeds in bringing Leitmayr under his control, and he wants to do penance together with him because they are both sinners and have been absent . But Batic and Carlo, who are already looking for their colleague, are able to find them and free Leitmayr. They can also save Ellner from killing himself and arrest him.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Gefallene Engel on September 20, 1998 was seen by 7.44 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22.03% for Das Erste . In the crime scene blog, the episode reached number 90 out of a possible 911.

Reviews

On the Moviesection.de website, Thomas Ays is awarding all five possible stars this time and judging the crime scene that the director succeeds very well in “creating a suitable atmosphere and chasing [he] his viewers at regular intervals always goose bumps down the back. [...] (In addition to Edgar Selge, who is disgustingly staged as a religiously fanatical murderer) [...] the two inspectors [...] are wonderfully funny again. This is how we want to see our investigators and thanks to Carlo Menzinger (Michael Fitz), who has become Buddhist, you can laugh out loud every now and then. Scriptwriter Peter Probst did not miss to illuminate the comic side in addition to all the spookiness, which turns "Gefallene Engel" into a believable mix of well-known Munich "Tatort" quality and atmospheric educational work. "

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm describe the episode in which the investigators hunt down "a murderous moral apostle, as a] sophisticated [n] [..] case [whose] climax [...] is a race between the Munich commissioners against time [is]. [They do] between the brothel and the Bible [a] smart [...] slalom ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Audience rating on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 29, 2014.
  2. ↑ Ranking list on tatort-blog.de, accessed on January 29, 2014.
  3. ↑ Thomas Ay's review on moviesection.de, accessed on January 29, 2014.
  4. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 29, 2014.
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