Crime scene: vacancy
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Vacancy |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
MR |
| length | 87 minutes |
| classification | Episode 609 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | October 9, 2005 on First German Television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Niki Stein |
| script | Niki Stein |
| production |
Inge Fleckenstein Liane Jessen |
| music |
Jacki Engelken Ulrik Spies |
| camera | Arthur W. Ahrweiler |
| cut | Elke Herbener |
| occupation | |
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Leerstand is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by HR and aired for the first time on October 9, 2005 in the program Das Erste . For the Frankfurt investigators Dellwo and Sänger it is their seventh common case.
action
A homeless person reports the discovery of a female corpse in the old police headquarters in Frankfurt. Since it looks like outside influence, Dellwo and singer should investigate. They look for the alleged corpse in the old building complex, but they find neither a dead woman nor the two police officers who are said to have arrived before them. Instead, they meet homeless people who have set up their quarters in the vacant parts of the building. They're threatening Dellwo and Singer, and it looks like the two cops they were supposed to meet here have been taken hostage. Shortly afterwards, an accomplice of the kidnapper appears with the lawyer Cosima Abt, who, however, does not voluntarily accompany him. While Dellwo and Abbot are being held in the old police headquarters, Charlotte Sänger is also supposed to bring Alexander Kern, who has just been released from prison, to this place. In order not to endanger themselves and the missing officers, they have to respond to the kidnappers' demands.
Kern, who was convicted of the kidnapping of Ulrike Decker in a purely circumstantial trial, had applied for a retrial, which is why he was allowed to leave the prison. He still claims to be innocent, but Ulrike Decker's father wants to prevent the alleged murderer of his daughter from being allowed to go free. Dellwo is supposed to get him to admit the crime. That is why he initiated this whole action. The investigator doubts he can get the smug core to talk, since he couldn't do that three years ago either.
Dellwo makes it clear to Kern that Decker is serious and that he cannot protect him here. Officially, nobody knows that they were all kidnapped here, so no help is to be expected. However, Fromm, Scheer and Kruschke found out that something could not be right with their colleagues and started looking for them. Kruschke finds her trail and notices that his colleagues are being forcibly detained. He comes with SEK reinforcements, but Decker demands that they hold back. After Dellwo and Singer Kern talk to their conscience, he actually leads them to the hiding place in which he had buried the girl. Dellwo opens the lid and under it lies a mummified body.
In the end, Dellwo wakes up in his colleague singer's apartment and realizes that everything seems to have been just a dream. But when he looks at the morning paper, his gaze falls on an article according to which Kern hanged himself in his cell.
background
The film was produced by HR and shot in Frankfurt, including in the old Frankfurt police headquarters , which has actually been empty for many years , and the surrounding area.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of vacancy on October 9, 2005 was seen by a total of 7.2 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 20.1 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv rated this crime scene as “bizarre, exciting, irritating. [...] “Empty space” underlines the exceptional position that the Hessian “Tatort” occupies in the concert of the crime series. No run-of-the-mill cases, no routine investigator. Edgy characters, stories eaten up by the broken side of reality and the courage to break with the conventions of the genre if necessary. "
The critics atquotemeter.de say: “'Empty space' is part of a complex crime thriller that makes it almost impossible for the viewer not to turn their heads on. However, this does not reduce the tension that lasts until the end. Instead of action and hectic pace, the film offers continuity and endurance. 'Vacancy' proceeds cautiously and builds up a strong, psychological atmosphere. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm believe that this crime scene is a "psychodrama with Kafkaesque features."
Web links
- Crime scene: vacancy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the act of vacancy on the ARD website
- Vacancy at the crime scene fund
- Vacancy at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on April 22, 2014.
- ↑ Filming locations on Internet Movie Database , accessed April 22, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on April 22, 2014.
- ^ Film review on quotenmeter.de, accessed on April 22, 2014.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on April 22, 2014.
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Oskar (2002) | Femicide (2003) | Evil (2003) | Janus (2004) | Heart Failure (2004) | Where's Max Gravert? (2005) | Vacancy (2005) | The last race (2006) | Hunter's Day (2006) | Between Us (2007) | Before it gets dark (2007) | The early farewell (2008) | Sisters of Arms (2008) | The Dead Chinese (2008) | Neuland (2009) | Architecture of a Death (2009) | Because they're bad (2010) | At the end of the day (2010)