Crime scene: Descent into hell
Hell trip is a TV film by Tim Trageser from the crime series Tatort . The film is the 727th in the crime scene series and the 15th case with Axel Prahl and Jan Josef Liefers as Münster investigators Thiel and Boerne . The main guest stars of this episode are Mark Waschke , Nina Kunzendorf and Paul Faßnacht .
action
Thiel is on a police training course while Boerne indulges in his beloved golf game. As Boernes golf partner Dr. Bollinger is looking for a sly golf ball in the bushes, he discovers a dead man - strangled on a tree. Boerne calls Thiel, who therefore breaks off the training course and rushes to the golf course. So that the golf tournament does not have to be canceled, Boerne examines the deceased without further ado in the health clinic to which the golf course belongs. It is the banker Dr. Strothoff (also a golf tournament participant). There are fetlock marks on the ankles and indications of an appointment with AK in the jacket pockets, which does not suggest a suicide. Dr. Ralph Winkler, the clinic's doctor, informs Thiel that Claus Verhoven, a trauma patient, has been overdue for two days. Dr. The evening before, Strothoff had an argument with a young woman who had just left the clinic premises. Boerne and Thiel follow the car, but lose sight of it. On the spur of the moment, they look to Ms. Strothoff, who is already the public prosecutor's office, as her husband is suspected of money laundering. Thiel manages to speak to Mrs. Strothoff alone, whereupon she hands him her husband's cell phone. One of the last calls came from the company "Solana Transfer", which Boerne and Thiel are now visiting. The duo looks around the property and around the house and finds Mr. Solana lying dead on the floor, his feet tied, a black blindfold and a pistol in his hand.
When the housekeeper arrives, who was worried, she can tell Thiel a few things about the export company. In the house there are documents on various African countries and a photo of Verhoven, plus a short letter with “A. Kolb ”signed. When a body of water is found, Thiel recognizes from a photo comparison that the dead person is the missing Verhoven. One of the firefighters still knows the dead man from school and knows that he was doing a lot of assembly work abroad. Boerne discovers deeply scarred circular ankle marks on the wrists and ankles and comments on them: “Here we have the original, so far only weak copies.” However, as the corpse should be at least two days old, Verhoven leaves as the perpetrator for the others two murders. In Verhoven's jacket pockets there is a ticket and a crumpled, wet piece of paper. Thiel tries to decipher the words on it and comes across the names "Bollinger" and "Alexandra Kolb", the latter the ex-wife of Verhoven. It's already dark now, and Thiel and Boerne are driving to Dr. Bollinger, who was called to his office because there was supposedly water damage there. When they arrive, Bollinger is tied up and gagged on the floor, but he's alive. He says it was Claus Verhoven because he lost a lawsuit against his company a long time ago when Verhoven fell into the hands of kidnappers in the Sahara.
Alexandra Kolb works at a gas station and suspected that Verhoven would not end well. She seems repellent, but gives details of the kidnapping. Strothoff, for his part, recommended contacting the company “Solana Transfer”, as they had repeatedly successfully negotiated similar hostage-taking. Nevertheless, it took five months until Claus Verhoven was free again. However, Solana put 50 percent of the ransom in his own pocket, and Strothoff canceled their loan.
Since she is suspicious, Thiel and Boerne wait until Alexandra Kolb closes the gas station, follow her and get stuck on a forest path. After a walk through the dark forest, they reach a barn that offers them protection from a thunderstorm. In the hay, Boerne discovers an old, dusty motorcycle that he wants to get going again the next morning so that he can drive back to his golf tournament. His assistant Silke Haller appears as a rescuing mobile angel and takes the two in the car to the health clinic, where Alexandra Kolb was seen and possibly meets with Dr. Winkler meets. While Thiel is looking for Winkler and old documents, Boerne suddenly comes across Alexandra Kolb, who is very scary to him. It turns out that Winkler Verhoven got to know Verhoven in Africa as part of the program of the aid organization “Doctors Without Borders” and got him a therapy place in the spa clinic. In the Winkler affair, the inspector finds photos that show that Winkler was also a kidnap victim. Post-traumatically disturbed, he has now taken revenge on those who let his friend suffer for so long and who led such a carefree life here. He ties Thiel and lets him experience what it feels like to be about to be executed. Police chief Seifert rescues Thiel from his precarious situation.
The golf tournament can finally go on and Boerne seems to lose when the public prosecutor arrests his opponent off the course. The investigations at the Strothoff house revealed that Bollinger was complicit.
production
Production notes, filming
The film was produced by Müller & Seelig Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. KG under the working title Thousand Dead . Jutta Müller and Matthias Seelig acted as producers.
The film was shot from August 5 to September 5, 2008 in Cologne , Münster , Billerbeck , Havixbeck , Dülmen and Nottuln .
Fun deposits
The usual fun interludes can be found, as always, in the pun of the arguments with "Alberich", a shot drive out of a corn field, a group of cyclists, a brief disorientation of Boerne and a mishap with his beloved car.
reception
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach gave the film four out of six possible points on his website tittelbach.tv and praised it: “The fresh air is visibly good for this 'crime scene', which initially comes across as a comical road movie. The verbal battles between the two adult kids are more subtle, their teasing tips more casual and the gags rumble less loudly than usual. "
“This time too, the Münster clown duo Thiel / Boerne, Axel Prahl / Jan Josef Liefers succeeded in solving a criminal case in addition to fun, sport and play. The latter is the result of wild car trips, wild coincidences and finally a 1 + 1 totaling that the viewer has already done at this point. "
“There are now thrillers from all cities, but the authors apparently only think of constellations of this kind for Münster. The dilemma in which Chief Inspector Thiel (Axel Prahl) is stuck in the prologue is straight away as an exercise, but the case is all the more opaque. As a quality feature, however, the perfect balance between crime and comedy is no less important. Even if some slapstick moments are a bit out of the ordinary and a guerrilla war between the blasé forensic doctor Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers) and a group of cyclists takes on increasingly absurd traits: The film is funnier than many comedies and at the same time more exciting than some thrillers. "
Audience rating
Tatort: Höllenfahrt achieved a market share of 24% with 8.92 million viewers, but only 3.3 million among 14 to 49 year olds, that was a market share of 10.7%.
Web links
- Crime scene: Harrowing in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Crime scene: Hell trip at filmportal.de
- Hell trip at the crime scene fundus
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: Hell trip . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ^ Tatort: Höllenfahrt on filmportal.de. Retrieved January 5, 2012.
- ^ Tatort: Höllenfahrt on the page tatort-fundus.de. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
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↑ a b series "Tatort - Höllenfahrt". Prahl, Liefers, Waschke: WDR smirk thriller that grows into a drama. see page tittelbach.tv.
Retrieved December 17, 2019. - ↑ Chic car breaks through cornfield . Retrieved January 5, 2013.
- ↑ Crime scene: Höllenfahrt on kino.de. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
- ↑ The strongest "crime scene" in a long time beats "Krupp" . dwdl.de. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
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