Crime scene: power and powerlessness
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Power and powerlessness |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
X Films Creative Pool on behalf of Bayerischer Rundfunk |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 868 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | April 1, 2013 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Stiller |
| script | Dinah Marte Golch |
| production | Michael Polle |
| music | Fabian Römer |
| camera | Philipp Sichler |
| cut | Vera van Appeldorn |
| occupation | |
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Power and Powerlessness is a television film from the crime film series Tatort . The report produced on behalf of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation with investigators Batic and Leitmayr was broadcast on April 1st, 2013 in the first . The premiere took place on March 2, 2013 at the Großes Fernsehen festival in Cologne.
Batic and Leitmayr are investigating a murder and extensive violence with the police, in which their old colleague Carlo Menzinger is partly by their side.
action
The kiosk owner Latif Kara was beaten so brutally by three men that his life is in danger. The police officers Matteo Lechner, Frank Bressinger, Georg Zimmermann and Iris Bülow are pursuing the perpetrators. When they do this, they are very brutal. Back in the district - for the successful day - there is a lively atmosphere among colleagues while showering after work. However, Lechner has to find out that one of the suspects is to be released again because he cannot be clearly identified on the video surveillance recording in the kiosk. The fact that Lechner has a reliable informant who betrayed the perpetrators is not a sufficient reason for imprisonment for the service group leader.
At the same time, Carlo Menzinger unexpectedly appears in the Munich police station. He wants to get married, needs papers for the wedding and would like to ask his former colleague Lechner to be his best man. While the two are still loudly saying hello, Bressinger comes from the shower, apathetically walks past them and shoots himself with his service weapon in front of his locker. Everyone is shocked and at the same time outraged that their work does not seem to be bearing fruit, because Birol Yenal, who was arrested so painstakingly, is being released again.
In the evening, Lechner's informant appears and complains to him that he is now in great danger if the perpetrators are at large. Lechner urges him to testify against the people, but this refuses. Carlo involuntarily witnesses the argument.
Batic and Leitmayr are called to a murder victim the next morning. It is Ralf Grabowski, Lechner's informant. When they look around his apartment, they find a message on the answering machine. This call comes from his brother-in-law, whom Batic and Leitmayr visit immediately. There they find out that Grabowski was always in trouble, but at the moment everything seemed to be going well because he had an apprenticeship and a policeman (Lechner) had found him an apartment to help him. The investigators go to Lechner and he confirms that Grabowski was his informant who had just helped him arrest the perpetrators of a robbery. Birol Yenal comes under suspicion, but they also have to hear from Carlo that Lechner had an argument with Grabowski. Birol Yenal is quickly found and arrested. During interrogation, he incriminated Lechner, who allegedly threatened him recently. He is accused of excessive violence.
Shortly afterwards, Lechner is found hanged in a forest. Carlo is convinced that it wasn't suicide, especially since there is no suicide note. Lechner's ex-wife knows about a lawyer who Lechner could not prove had had domestic violence and with whom he therefore often had arguments. This lawyer was Joachim Bentele, Grabowski's brother-in-law. Since forensic medicine confirms that Lechner was already dead when he was hung, Carlo also goes to look for the perpetrator. He looks around Lechner's apartment and is dejected. When Batic and Leitmayr find him there and look around, they find the weapon that Grabowski was killed with in Lechner's toolbox. In addition, his PC is stolen, but Carlo manages to get Lechner's e-mails, and there are cell phone recordings with scenes of the acts of violence that the police officers committed against potential perpetrators.
Assuming that Lechner was blackmailed by Grabowski with these recordings, they want to speak to Georg Zimmermann, Lechner's colleague, who can be seen with him on the video. However, Zimmermann evades questioning and flees the police station when he sees the investigators coming. So it turns out that he killed Grabowski because of the alleged blackmail, and also Lechner, because he recently became weak and Zimmermann had to fear that he too would reveal everything. In truth, however, his friend and colleague Iris Bülow was the sender of the email. She wanted to get her colleagues to finally stop the excesses of violence, because like Frank Bressinger, she too could no longer bear it.
background
The production company was X Films Creative Pool . The actor Michael Fitz , who as Carlo Menzinger was part of the Munich investigative team from 1991 to 2007, has his first guest appearance since the crime scene episode The Dream of the Au .
reception
Reviews
“[The television audience] has long since immersed itself in the cop world, which is so hopeless, so compelling, so physically staged in this 'crime scene' that all problematic and proselytizing dialogues that are obligatory in the 'crime scene' fade away. Director Thomas Stiller, who was previously responsible for the very serious Munich episode ' The Sad King ', filmed a 'Tatort' that is pushed with an inevitability like a cop thriller by Sidney Lumet (' Serpico '). Just that Brooklyn is Bavaria here. "
“The people of Munich face the crime scene quota hysteria and the cackling about painfully flat consequences like the one from Münster most recently with the sovereignty of old masters. This episode is about violence and counter-violence. "
“The film doesn't make it easy. He does not simply accuse police brutality, nor does he make the lonely fighter against the dirt a hero, as would be an old movie cliché. Exceeding the competencies in the direction of the law of the thumb - and the otherwise rather brave law enforcement officers are tempted here - seems understandable, but develops its own logic. The fact that, with this melancholy, honest look at everyday police work, ' police officers ' from extra breadth -' You smoke, mild variety ', because life is tough enough' - is as stylish and coherent as everything about this Easter thriller, which you can (of course without any chance) wants him to exceed the ratings of the Roland-Kaiser-Börne-Thiel-Clownerie. "
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Power and Powerlessness on April 1, 2013 was seen by 9.30 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.1% for Das Erste .
Web links
- Crime scene: power and powerlessness in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of power and powerlessness on the ARD website
- Power and powerlessness in the crime scene fund
- Power and powerlessness at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b crime scene - power and powerlessness. LfM Nova, archived from the original on June 22, 2013 ; accessed on July 15, 2018 : "Present at the premiere were: Udo Wachtveitl, Miroslav Nemec, Emilio De Marchi, Sonsee Neu, Gisela Weilemann, Michael Polle and Thomas Stiller"
- ↑ Rudolf Ogiermann: 'Crime Scene': visit to the home. Münchner Merkur , September 27, 2012, accessed on July 15, 2018 : "In the ARD 'Tatort' episode 'Macht und Ohnmacht' there is a reunion with Michael Fitz alias Carlo Menzinger."
- ^ Christian Buß: Munich "crime scene" about everyday police work. The buddy with the killer look. Spiegel Online, March 29, 2013, accessed July 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Holger Gertz: Visit from Thailand. In: Tatort column. Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 31, 2013, accessed on July 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Oliver Junge: Mild variety, hard tobacco. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 1, 2013, accessed on July 15, 2018 : “Batic, Leitmayr and Menzinger: Even gray men can still eat hard. An excellent "crime scene" addresses the excessive demands and brutality of the police. "
- ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime check: Easter Monday, April 1, 2013.quotemeter.de , April 2, 2013, accessed on July 15, 2018 : “The first secured primetime victory on Easter Monday, because a new“ crime scene ”entertained 9.30 million viewers and brought 26.1 percent market share. "
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