Crime scene: Last days
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Last days |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR , SRF |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 878 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | June 23, 2013 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Elmar Fischer |
| script | Stefan Dähnert |
| production |
Uwe Franke , Sabine Tettenborn |
| music | Matthias legs |
| camera | Stefan Sommer |
| cut | Martina Butz-Kofer |
| occupation | |
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Last Days is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film with Eva Mattes as chief detective Klara Blum was produced by SWR and broadcast for the first time on June 23, 2013 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This 878th episode in the crime scene series is the 25th case of Klara Blum and the 21st case of Kai Perlmann .
action
Blum and Perlmann are called to the Romanshorn - Konstanz ferry . The construction plumber Jochen Heigle was found dead here in his car. The forensic doctor suspects a weak platelet because the man has obviously bled to death. In the footwell of the car is a hypodermic syringe with a residue of blood-thinning acetylsalicylic acid that he could well have given himself. However, there is also the ticket that is purchased for two people. However, a second person cannot be found. His cell phone is also nowhere to be seen.
While Blum asks for eyewitnesses, she notices her Swiss colleague Matteo Lüthi on the ferry bridge. Both investigators disagree on who is responsible for investigating the case. Lüthi was the first to be there, but the dead man was found on German territory. Blum and Lüthi inform Jochen Heigle's family and find out there that due to his leukemia, which is already in its terminal stages, he no longer has a driver's license and could not actually drive his car. Blum now hopes that it wasn't suicide, so that the family is covered by Heigle's life insurance. She looks at the footage from the ferry's surveillance camera and recognizes her Swiss colleague. Not only was he at the scene first, but he was obviously the first to find the body and possibly took the cell phone.
Based on Perlmann's research and the fact that Jochen Heigle was part of a user observation for a new cancer drug from the Sanortis company, the investigators Blum and Perlmann come to the conclusion that Heigle must have blackmailed the pharmaceutical company. The Swiss colleague Lüthi was supposed to hand over the money on the ferry and something went wrong. This is the only way Blum can explain why Lüthi is evidently suppressing evidence. So that he can no longer investigate on his own, she simply handcuffs him and herself and throws the key into Lake Constance. So he has to take her to the Sanortis company and discover that they had every reason to get rid of Heigle.
Perlmann is now looking for the self-help group for leukemia patients and meets the medical student Mia Hennig, who is currently promoting a large-scale typing campaign for the benefit of Jonas Rattke, who is suffering from leukemia. She confesses to Perlmann that she gave Heigle a CD with the results of a B study because her brother works at the institute that was commissioned with the work. Heigle blackmailed the pharmaceutical company because it proves that the new “wonder drug” does more harm than good, and he wanted to make this public in his self-help group. There, Jonas' father in particular clings to everything that brings hope for his son and denies Heigl's evidence. In addition, Sanortis supports the self-help group financially in order to circumvent the ban on advertising for drugs. If these funds were to be lost, it would also be a disaster for Rattke personally.
Mia Hennig comes under suspicion of murder at short notice, as photos show that she was Heigle's passenger on the ferry. As a medical student, she is familiar with the effects of acetylsalicylic acid. She admits she argued with him because she wanted the CD back, which - in the wrong hands - could have exposed her brother as a spy. Unexpectedly, however, she receives an alibi from Lüthi, who admits to having been with her. However, this means that Steffen Rattke's statement is contradictory and Perlmann wants to question him again. When he comes to the office of the self-help group, he finds an email there with the indirect order from Blattmann to take care of another blackmailer. Ms. Heigle found the CD by chance and is now blackmailing the pharmaceutical company on her own. When she wants to take the deposited money, Steffen Rattke appears and gets the CD in return. She furiously attacks him and asks him if he killed her husband. He desperately admits this while the police are waiting for him.
background
The shooting of this 878th crime scene crime film took place in Konstanz , Baden-Baden , Meersburg and Romanshorn and under the working title Dead Ship or Dead Sunday . The film was shot on the Tábor motor ferry operated by Stadtwerke Konstanz, which runs between Konstanz and Meersburg.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of the crime scene last days on June 23, 2013 was seen in Germany by a total of 9.02 million viewers and thus achieved a market share of 27.30 percent.
Reviews
The crime scene of last days is judged to be quite average at Moviepilot.de, and the critics see the story as "a diffuse mystery network [...] that once again touches on many topics of various kinds, also at times wants to be melodramatic, then again funny and cheerful, in the end, however, offers the usual patchwork without any great depth. The fact that the TV broadcast has suddenly triggered a high in DKMS donations is at least the positive side note of a very poor end to the season. "
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv comes to the conclusion that this crime scene episode “opens a lot of barrels: drug scandal, extortion as a pension, hints of corruption, a love-hearted Perlmann who dares emotionally, and a 'mother' Blum who doesn't dare - and converted their 'sympathies' for their Swiss colleagues into antipathy. Variations of the usual lack of competence and an immoral company policy as a cheap splash of social criticism are common crime patterns. "
Lars-Christian Daniels from Filmstarts.de awards 1.5 out of 5 possible stars and comes to the result: “No tension, no tricky murderer search, no good dialogues - the last few days didn't have much to offer. The 21st assignment of Blum and Perlman is simply boringly boring and one of the weakest consequences of the first half of 2013. "
Thordes Herbst from the serial junkies judged the "introduction to yawning, [but] not everything is bad [...] the initial skirmish between Blum and Perlmann on the one hand and Lüthi on the other [seems] too long-winded, but small bright spots like Perlmann's nickname Perle in an internet forum or Beckchen (Justine Hauer) address to a horde of Chinese tourists have a lot of humorous potential in them. Unfortunately, these bright spots [...] are literally crushed under the weight of the double attack on the pharmaceutical industry and the Swiss intelligence service [...] The criminal case that underlies the last few days looks much too constructed and sometimes too confused in retrospect, but it would certainly have entertained better can, if he hadn't been killed by the stoically raised index finger. "
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate the film as:
"The case is explosive, the implementation bloodless"
Web links
- Crime scene: Last day in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the action from last days on the ARD website
- Last days at the crime scene fund
- Last days at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Filming locations and audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 4, 2014.
- ↑ In the SWR library recognized by the lateral steel beam arches and the recognizable at 12:05:30 lettering, accessed on 17 December 2018th
- ↑ In a nutshell : Below average! at moviepilot.de, accessed on January 4, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Longing harbingers of death on tittelbach.tv, accessed on January 4, 2014.
- ^ Lars-Christian Daniels: Critique of the Filmstarts.de editors on filmstarts.de, accessed on January 4, 2014.
- ↑ Thordes Herbst: Review Tatort: Last Days ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from serienjunkies.de, accessed on January 4, 2014.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 4, 2014.
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