Crime scene: garbage
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | rubbish |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
WDR |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 695 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | April 20, 2008 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kaspar Heidelbach |
| script | Achim Scholz |
| production | Sonja Goslicki |
| music | Arno Steffen |
| camera | Daniel Koppelkamm |
| cut | Hedy Altschiller |
| occupation | |
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Garbage is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced by WDR was broadcast on April 20, 2008 in the first program of ARD . It is the 40th case of the investigative team Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk and the 695th crime scene episode.
action
A mutilated woman's body is found after a fire in a garbage dump. The head and arms were severed to prevent identification. If the fire hadn't started, the body hidden under the garbage might never have been found.
The inspectors Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk investigate and first take a close look at the recycling center. In the past, this hit the headlines as the victim of an extortionate garbage scandal, which has already resulted in a series of fires. Larger companies tried to force the smaller companies to give up using mafia-like methods. According to the operator Peter Esser, the site is locked at night so that unauthorized persons have no access. But it looks like illegal garbage collectors have long since discovered a "loophole" to get things for the flea market . One of these people is the lonely Willy, who lives in Ballauf's neighborhood and with whom the inspector literally “collided” recently.
Ballauf and Schenk continue to concentrate on the recycling company, because the process of the “garbage mafia” that has existed for years is still a concern of the judiciary. Esser's secretary has recently disappeared and should become a key prosecution witness. Prosecutor von Prinz wants his commissioners to investigate this lead. The investigation reveals that Esser went to his secretary at home and argued loudly with her. He is therefore taken into custody under urgent suspicion, as the investigators suspect that the dead woman is the missing secretary.
At the same time, Schenk deals with the disappearance of Michaela Weber. Her son Dennis has been missing her for two days, and since Schenk had met the young man while questioning a witness, he would like to reassure him. Dennis lives with his mother on the premises of his father's nursery. His parents separated, from which the boy still suffers. His father lives in the main house with his girlfriend Kaja Krumme. It was also she who reported the fire, because the nursery is in the immediate vicinity of the recycling yard. Due to the disappearance of Dennis mother, Schenk asks for genetic material, whereupon Kaja Krumme takes a hairbrush out of the house. However, the check is negative, so it is still assumed that the dead person is Esser's secretary. During a house search there, no usable genetic material was found, which still leaves the identification of the dead open.
A tire track at the “loophole” of the recycling yard leads Schenk to Willy. He hesitantly admits to having seen the start of the fire. There would have been an explosion and so he and the other garbage collectors would have fled the place. However, Schenk senses that Willy is hiding something from him. Ballauf later finds out that Willy found a severed arm while collecting garbage and took the ring off the finger of his hand. That costs him his life in the end, because he is attacked and dies as a result.
The fire investigator has now found out that the fire was caused by a deflagration of combustible material stored there, triggered by a smoldering fire. It can be assumed that the murderer initially tried to burn his victim, which he did not succeed. Only then did he cut off the head and limbs. The smoldering fire could develop through smoldering remains of clothing. For Ballauf and Schenk, these indications speak against Esser, who vehemently denies having done anything to his secretary. After the coroner found radioactive contamination of the body, which indicates that the recycling center has accepted illegally contaminated waste, Esser admits that he disposed of the hazardous waste through his company. His secretary would therefore be hiding from the "garbage mafia", as her testimony in court would do them both great harm.
Ballauf and Schenk do not ignore the second missing person and find out that Kaja Krumme gave them their own hair sample so that the victim cannot be identified as Michaela Weber. The area of the nursery is searched with a large police presence and the victim's head is found under one of the fir trees that Kaja Krumme has freshly planted. Confronted with this evidence, Weber's partner admits that she killed her rival. After Frank Weber's wife was always able to influence their new relationship and was always present, Krumme made the decision to eliminate the problem. During the confession, she also admits that she went to Willy to get the ring back. She wanted to stun him with a stun gun. Due to a heart attack he had suffered in the past , this was unfortunately fatal for him.
background
The film was shot in Cologne from February 27, 2007 to March 28, 2007. A Corvette from 1964 is used as a company car by KHK Bär at this crime scene .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Müll on April 20, 2008 was seen by 8.56 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 24.8 percent for Das Erste .
Reviews
At Stern.de , Franz Solms-Laubach assesses the crime thriller as “a solidly made but structurally boring film” and says: “Seldom has a crime scene been as dirty as the new episode of the Rhine. No wonder, the episode is also called 'garbage'. No one is surprised when Klaus J. Behrendt, as Commissioner Ballauf, has to dig through the dirt with both hands to clarify the identity of a headless woman's corpse. It just stinks to heaven. [...] Until the bitter end, the audience is further with their investigations than the rather haphazard inspectors Ballauf and Schenk. Completely incomprehensible, also by no means human, is the investigation margin that extends the crime thriller to ninety minutes. You don't have to be a hair-splitter to discover them immediately. "
“The Cologne [Kaspar Heidelbach] seems to be infatuated with the local Rhine panorama, because the sausage roasting house, which is picturesquely set up opposite the cathedral and has been an important location in Cologne's 'Tatort' for years, is used here in abundance. That's a bit much folklore, but the private life of the commissioners is more of a minor matter. "
“He has his moments, this 'crime scene', when Willy, the garbage collector and messie, chooses a housekeeper as his fiancée. But even the good actors Elena Uhlig, Hans Diehl or Wotan Wilke Möhring cannot save the story. What remains is not a corruption thriller, but rather a lesson about the throwing behavior of Germans. "
Web links
- Garbage in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of rubbish on the ARD website
- Garbage at the crime scene fund
- Garbage at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Crime scene: Garbage at crew united
- ^ A b Rainer Tittelbach: "Tatort - Garbage" series. In: tittelbach.tv. April 20, 2008, accessed March 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Garbage at the crime scene fund
- ↑ Franz Solms-Laubach: When the Garbage Mafia has Cologne under control on stern.de, accessed on August 23, 2015.
- ↑ Kathrin Buchner: The dead woman in the garbage. In: "Tatort" review. Stern, April 21, 2008, accessed May 24, 2015 .
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