Crime scene: mine game

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Mine game
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 597 ( List )
First broadcast May 8, 2005 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Torsten C. Fischer
script Karl-Heinz Beetle
production Sonja Goslicki
music Fabian Römer
camera Hagen Bogdanski
cut Benjamin Hembus
occupation

Mine Game is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced by WDR was broadcast on May 8, 2005 in the first program of ARD . It is the 31st case of the investigative team Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk and the 597th crime scene episode.

action

The entrepreneur Lars Fresinger, who regularly goes jogging in the city forest, steps on a land mine one day . Both of his lower legs are torn off and he bleeds to death. In addition to the Commissioners Ballauf and Schenk, the State Security is also investigating . With this, Eva Bertsch takes over the management of the investigation into the "Mine Game" case. The reason for the attack was very likely the fact that Fresinger was a board member of the "Land instead of Mines" foundation. His company traded in machines and had good relations with Africa, where he also met his current wife.

Fátima Fresinger comes from Angola , a country that is still littered with landmines after years of civil war. She worked there as an interpreter for Fresinger's company. During the interrogation, the widow is quite closed to the investigators. The relationship between the couple had cooled lately. In the event of a divorce, she could be deported to Angola, and as a widow she would have the right to stay. For Ballauf und Schenk this is a reason to investigate in this direction. Fingerprints of an António Mussamo have been found in Fresinger's house. He is a member of an organization that fights for a free Angola and was deported to Angola four months ago. Fátima Fresinger says she doesn't know him, but she's obviously lying.

A short time later, the little son of Wieland Schauff, a business friend of Fresinger, is seriously injured in another mine attack. Obviously the attack was aimed at his father, because he is the chairman of the foundation “Land instead of Mines” and supports the “Society for Ordnance Disposal”. One clue leads to a mine accident in Angola, in which five people who were traveling on behalf of the foundation were killed and one Thomas Lauer was seriously injured. He currently lives in Cologne and is being interviewed. He looks bitter and is very dismissive.

António Mussamo can be picked up by Hannah Siems, Fátima Fresinger's friend. The investigators learn from him that Hannah Siems and Thomas Lauer were a couple. Both worked as paramedics and have known each other since their time in Angola. It turns out that António Mussamo is the brother of Fátima Fresinger and brought his sister's little daughter from Angola to live with her. Little by little, there are more and more suspicions against Hannah Siems.

But since there are also references to the opaque explosives expert Lothar Raschke, the state security investigates his training area in the presence of Ballauf and Schenk. You will find various explosives there, for which he has a gun license. Raschke states that three of his Italian fragmentation mines were stolen. Before that, Thomas Lauer and Hannah Siems had made very intensive inquiries about mines because he supposedly wanted to know what kind of mine had torn off both of his legs. Schenk immediately drives to Lauer and finds him sitting lifeless in his wheelchair. An empty pill tube lies on the floor.

The investigators now begin a search for the third stolen mine and the potential victim. While Ballauf goes on a search by helicopter and sees the car of his colleague Schenk below him, he is amazed. He had to watch in horror as the explosive device he was looking for exploded in the car. But when Schenk calls on his cell phone, he is very relieved. While his colleague was in Lauer's apartment, Hannah Siems took his car and fixed himself.

background

A first preview took place at the Hamburg Film Festival in autumn 2004. On April 20, 2005, the WDR showed the crime scene as part of a public hearing of the Committee for Human Rights in the German Bundestag , chaired by Christa Nickels . The crime scene was then shown for the first time on public television on the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.

Klaus J. Behrendt and Dietmar Bär are involved in the Landmine.de action alliance . In the credits, the WDR thanked the foundation Menschen gegen Minen eV and the action alliance Landmine.de .

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Minenspiel on May 8, 2005 was seen by 8.77 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 24.7% for Das Erste .

Reviews

"Nonetheless, with episodes such as 'Minenspiel' (2005), after which the team was heard by the Bundestag Human Rights Committee, or ' Blutdiamanten ' (2006), committed pieces of socio-political relevance have repeatedly been achieved."

- Peter Luley : Spiegel Online

“At Cologne's WDR, people like to use the crime series 'Tatort' as a platform for legal matters. That went wrong a few times at the beginning because there wasn't enough space for the crime thriller because of the message. This time, too, the film sometimes mutates into a leaflet that you can get hold of on Saturday mornings in the pedestrian zone. […] Nevertheless, 'Mine Game', the grim ambiguous title suggests, is far more than just a clumsy pamphlet; even if the author Käfer and the director Torsten C. Fischer never make a secret of the fact that they had anything but an ordinary Sunday thriller in mind. "

- Tilmann P. Gangloff : Tittelbach.tv

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Crime scene - mine game. Filmfest Hamburg, accessed on July 19, 2015 .
  2. ^ Motif Bär & Behrendt. (PDF) In: posters, promotional items, advertisements. Action alliance Landmine.de , accessed on July 19, 2015 .
  3. ^ Rüdiger Oppers: Invitation to preview TATORT "Mine Game" in the German Bundestag. Public hearing in the Human Rights Committee. WDR press office, April 15, 2005, accessed on July 19, 2015 : "The Committee for Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid is using the TATORT 'Mine Games' as an occasion for a public hearing."
  4. ↑ Mine game. Crime scene fund, accessed on August 10, 2014 .
  5. ^ Peter Luley: Ten years of the Cologne "Tatort". Just don't be milder with age! In: Culture. Spiegel Online, October 7, 2007, accessed July 19, 2015 .
  6. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff: Series "Tatort - Mine Game". Tittelbach.tv, May 8, 2005, accessed on July 19, 2015 .
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