Crime scene: little thieves

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Little thieves
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 BR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 453 ( List )
First broadcast September 3, 2000 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Vivian Naefe
script Harald Göckeritz
music Dieter Schleip
camera Peter Döttling
cut Ulla Möllinger
occupation

Little Thieves is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk was first broadcast on September 3, 2000 in the first program of ARD . The crime scene commissioner Lena Odenthal made a guest appearance in the episode .

action

A dead boy is found in a garbage dump in the north of Munich. His black hair is dyed blonde. The chief inspectors Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic have to discover that nobody seems to miss the child. In the homes for foreign asylum seekers, too, the investigation is inconclusive.

Chance comes to the rescue for the Munich inspectors. The Ludwigshafen colleague Lena Odenthal has come home to Munich to a football match of their favorite team SC Freiburg to look at. In front of the Munich Olympic Stadium , she is stolen by the 13-year-old Mitru and can hold him. Mitru is a Romanian street child, has black hair dyed blond just like the dead boy and is sent on a thief tour by a gang in the city of Munich.

During the first interrogation with Mitru, the inspectors Leitmayr and Batic learn nothing about the case of the dead boy. You can only find out that Mitru is hoping to find his sister in the south of France. The commissioners take Mitru to the social workers at a youth shelter, but the next day he disappeared again.

The commissioners are slowly tracking down those behind the internationally organized gang of thieves. They hide Romanian children in apartments in the suburbs of Munich and force them on thieves. The entrepreneur Wessmann is significantly involved in the ring, but Batic and Leitmayr have nothing against him. The public prosecutor's office has a hard time granting a listening permit and so the inspectors mingle with the guests in the restaurant, where Wessmann meets with customers. You overhear that Burkhardt, one of the drivers who bring the children into the country, was stolen money by one of the boys, whereupon he was called to account, which Wessmann describes as an "accident".

Batic and Leitmayr then have Wessmann's building yard and the airport monitored. A large-scale operation by the SEK then brings success when numerous illegally smuggled children are found in the controlled trucks. However, Mitru is killed during the mission when one of his guardians deliberately runs over him.

criticism

The Berliner-by-choice writes: “Overall, the positive elements outweigh by far, [...] but we are of the opinion that a film that is not a Whodunnit, but a Howcatchem, could have been freed from ballast in the form of subplots. Because the tension here is not in the investigation, [...] but in how the investigators of this gang can get hold of - and we could have imagined a few more ideas and dramatic moments that had to be left out because there was only one crime scene 90 minutes and because space was used for characters like Wessmann or Kruzcy that were not well illuminated. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and wrote: "Social crime thriller: courageous and oppressive".

Awards

The director Vivian Naefe and the actors Miroslav Nemec and Udo Wachtveitl were awarded the Bavarian Television Prize in 2001 for their directorial work and the portrayal of the two investigating commissioners .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filmkritik accessed at derwahlberliner.wordpress.com.
  2. ↑ TV thriller. A child's corpse leads on the trail of Romanian Klau children. Short review called up at TV Spielfilm .
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