Crime scene: Big black bird
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Big black bird |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
RBB |
| length | 87 minutes |
| classification | Episode 899 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | February 9, 2014 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alexander Dierbach |
| script |
Jochen Greve , based on an idea by Titus Selge ; Script editing Britta Stöckle |
| production | Regina Ziegler |
| music | Sebastian pill |
| camera | Markus Schott |
| cut | Marco Baumhof |
| occupation | |
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Big black bird is a television film from the crime series crime scene of ARD and ORF . It is the 30th and last joint case of the Berlin investigator duo Ritter and Stark . The RBB television film directed by Alexander Dierbach was first broadcast on February 9, 2014 in Das Erste .
action
An assassin placed a letter bomb in front of the front door of the radio host Nico Lohmann. But not this one becomes the victim, but a boy playing in the stairwell. The chief detective officers Till Ritter and Felix Stark are trying to clarify whether the attack has anything to do with past bomb attacks. But the state security is not interested in this case, since objectively there is no terrorist reason behind it. First of all, the investigators do research among the callers of the radio program “Nicos Nacht”. There they meet Heiner Piwek. Lohmann had advised his wife to leave him because he is very violent. When he tries to question him, he flees, which puts him in the focus of the investigation.
In the course of their research, Ritter and Stark found abnormalities in Lohmann's résumé. He had a serious car accident five years ago, which meant that he had to end his career as a competitive swimmer. A woman and her young daughter died in the accident. The husband, Ulrich Kastner, is still convinced that his wife was not responsible for the accident. In his opinion, Lohmann was the culprit and now “another person had to die because of him”. Ritter and Stark talk to Henriette Jahn, who was the first to arrive at the scene of the accident. She was Lohmann's girlfriend at the time, but broke up with him shortly after the accident. They also speak to the police officer who handled the case. He confirms that the accident was never properly resolved. Investigators increasingly have the impression that Nico Lohmann felt that the stroke of fate was a kind of release from the pressure to perform in his athletic existence. He was trained very hard by his father, Hans Lohmann, and success was becoming increasingly difficult. Obviously he also had a depressive crisis at the time, so that he may have been under the influence of drugs. It is therefore quite possible that he himself caused the accident.
Lohmann's friend Anne Krobe, who is currently expecting a child, no longer wants to stay in the apartment as long as the perpetrator is not caught. She moves in with Nico's father, who had offered to let them live with him. Still, she doesn't feel safe and thinks she saw someone sneaking around the house. That same evening, Petra Piwek had to call the police because her husband came to see her and beat her. Shortly afterwards, he was arrested. However, he denies having anything to do with the attack. He said he ambushed Lohmann to give him a rub, but there would also have been a conspicuous delivery van. The investigators are concentrating on Ulrich Kastner, who runs a vegetable trade and has now brought Lohmann into his power. He drives him along the country road in his van at high speed and demands an account of why he destroyed his family. Suddenly he stops and gives up his plan, because in the end he doesn't manage to kill himself with Lohmann.
background
Big black bird was produced by the film production company Ziegler Film on behalf of the Berlin-Brandenburg broadcasting company. The shooting took place in the Berlin districts of Kreuzberg, Moabit, Charlottenburg, Zehlendorf and in Potsdam-Sacrow .
With this episode, Dominic Raacke leaves the series. Boris Aljinovic initially continues the investigation alone as Chief Detective Stark.
reception
Audience ratings
9.99 million viewers saw the episode Big Black Bird in Germany when it was first broadcast on February 9, 2014, which corresponds to a market share of 26.7 percent.
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv evaluates this crime scene as a worthy, poetic conclusion and says: “Even if the plot shows a few gaps in retrospect, this RBB 'crime scene' has a great cohesion - through the atmospheric staging, the clear, unobtrusive Image style and the convincing play of the entire ensemble. [...] 'Big Black Bird' masters the balancing act between crime and psychodrama. [...] It is a quiet, demanding walkout for the two Berlin buddies, a film that can be seen in every respect. "
Michael Hanfeld criticizes the Frankfurter Allgemeine quite harshly and says that this crime scene is "bleak in its pictures, in the dialogues, in the plot [...]. With sentences like 'You don't understand me, do you? I don't understand myself ', pronounced by a caller on Lohmann's hotline, the whole thing begins and unfortunately continues. And over there fly the crows, at the house by the lake where Lohmann grew up, at the site of the fatal accident, actually everywhere. A sign. So often in the picture that everyone will understand. "
Holger Gertz ( Sueddeutsche.de ) says: “You don't have to say goodbye to every figure like the Cologne team recently their best strength Franziska. But the commissioners Ritter and Stark do their last crime scene very dispassionately. Not a good sign if the music is the best in the end. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm think that the crime scene "takes a calm course, but gets there."
Web links
- Crime scene: Large black bird in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Großer Schwarze Vogel on the ARD website
- Large black bird in the crime scene fund
- Big black bird at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filming locations at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on September 10, 2014.
- ↑ Background information at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on September 10, 2014.
- ↑ Audience rating at tatort-blog.de, accessed on September 10, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on September 10, 2014.
- ↑ Michael Hanfeld: Everything used to be much more melancholy at FAZ.net , accessed on September 10, 2014.
- ↑ Holger Gertz: Open the car door, close the car door at sueddeutsche.de, accessed on September 10, 2014.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on September 10, 2014.
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