Crime scene: Lower instincts

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Lower instincts
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MDR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 945 ( list )
First broadcast April 26, 2015 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Claudia Garde
script Sascha Arango
production Jan Kruse
music Colin Towns
camera Carsten Thiele
cut Thomas Stange
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Lower instincts is a television film from the crime scene crime series by ARD , ORF and SRF . The film was produced by MDR and aired for the first time on April 26, 2015. It is the 945th episode in the crime scene series and the 21st and last case with the Leipzig investigator duo Saalfeld and Keppler .

action

Her parents only found out that eight-year-old Magdalena was kidnapped on her way home from school when they received a call from school the next day and were told that their daughter had not come to class. The then triggered large manhunt remains unsuccessful. The shock of the devout parents over the disappearance of their daughter causes the two to seek refuge in their prayer community.

By evaluating various surveillance cameras, it is possible to limit the location of the kidnapping to a disused staircase in a pedestrian tunnel under the train tracks, which Magdalena passes regularly on her way to school. Here, traces of the suspected perpetrator's DNA are secured, which is supposed to lead to his arrest through a large-scale DNA screening .

Magdalena is in the meantime in a soundproofed secret room accessible through a hidden entrance in the sauna of Monika and Wolfgang Prickel's villa. Wolfgang Prickel carried out the planned kidnapping of the girl for his wife. With white rubber masks, the two go to the kidnapped girl in their prison and claim to be the girl's parents. The child initially rejects the role-play of their kidnappers as well as the food provided and communication with them. Monika tries to win the child's favor by fetching them from the basement to the house in the absence of her husband. It is then clear to Wolfgang Prickel that Magdalena can no longer be released because she would recognize her kidnapper and his house, especially since he works as a teacher at her school. Monika, on the other hand, threatens her husband to leave him if he should harm the girl.

Monika Prickel manipulates the gas heater so that gas flows out in the bathroom of the house. When her husband lights a cigarette at the open bathroom window, there is a gas explosion that devastates the upper floor of the building and kills Wolfgang Prickel. Monika Prickel is questioned by the police and confronted with allegations that her husband kidnapped Magdalena, which the comparison of the DNA from the kidnapping site would prove. Monika vehemently rejects these allegations. A willful manipulation of the gas heater, which led to the willful death of her husband, cannot be proven at this point, which is why she is not imprisoned.

She returns to her house and looks for Magdalena in the hidden basement room. Due to the lack of electricity, she takes tea lights into the child's room and spends the evening in the hiding place with the girl. When Monika Prickel falls asleep, Magdalena takes the chance to leave her prison and lock the door from the outside.

The child is found on the street by Saalfeld and Keppler and taken back to his parents. Although the police searched the Prickels' property again, the hidden cellar remained hidden. The desperate calls from Monica go unheard in the built-in soundproofing of the room. Meanwhile, one tealight after the other burns down until the light in the room goes out forever.

background

The film was shot from September 3, 2014 to October 2, 2014 in Leipzig and the surrounding area.

The music track called Toxi-Lied by Leila Negra and After Dark by Tito & Tarantula were used as film music .

The audio description for the film was produced by the MDR itself.

The side story about the relationship between the two investigators ends after years of coexistence in a private reconciliation between the two.

The plot was inspired by real events, so that authors of several film reviews saw parallels to the kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch and Josef Fritzl's cellar prison.

reception

criticism

With the episode based on the “convincing script” by Sascha Arango , the investigative duo will, according to Lars-Christian Daniels von Filmstarts “at least get a worthy farewell after a prolonged dry spell”. The “unfamiliar lifting of the fourth wall ”, as it was last staged in the Tatort episode Born in pain , “gives the thriller [...] something theatrical in places”. "The sometimes more, sometimes less amusing arguments" between the two investigators lead through the episode, which tells an "almost mystical story full of twists and turns" and makes it "worth seeing". Scriptwriter Sascha Arango lets the "rousing, if in places somewhat overloaded-looking kidnapping case" culminate in a highly exciting finale, where he sets "a bitterly angry final punch" that "makes the viewer's blood run cold". Daniels praises Susanne Wolff's acting and awards the episode 3.5 out of five possible points.

Sylvia Staude from the Frankfurter Rundschau sees in the episode a thriller that fluctuates "between due seriousness and is-now-no-matter-foolishness [...] in a somewhat irritating way". The “showdown between the divorced chief inspectors” is “juicy”.

According to the TV Spielfilm editorial team , the result was an "entertaining farewell event with weird moments".

"The beginning is so different, so unreal, so good", writes Brigitte Egelhaaf from SWR3 , followed by "90 minutes full of energy, packed with emotions". In addition, the episode "comes up with extraordinary pictures, with great music", comes along with "bizarre ideas, crazy characters" and the portrayal of Simone Thomalla and Martin Wuttke is convincing. The episode received four out of five possible points.

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Niedere Instinkte on April 26, 2015 was seen by 10.06 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 28.3% for Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New "crime scene" and new investigators for Saxony. In: DasErste.de . Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  2. ^ Tatort: ​​Lower instincts at crew united
  3. ^ Tatort: ​​Lower instincts in the audio film database of Hörfilm e. V.
  4. ↑ Die Welt : Leipzig- “Tatort”: Horror lurks under the sauna , culture, Barbara Möller, April 26, 2015
  5. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost : Why the last "crime scene" from Leipzig went so badly , Felix Müller, April 26, 2015
  6. ↑ Express : TV review on the Thomalla farewell: The ridiculous love story of the Tatort commissioners , Bernd Peters, accessed on May 7, 2015
  7. ↑ a b c d e Filmstarts : Filmkritik , Lars-Christian Daniels, accessed on May 4, 2015
  8. ^ A b Frankfurter Rundschau : Tatort: ​​Lower Instincts - The Sneeze of Leipzig , Sylvia Staude, April 25, 2015
  9. ↑ TV feature film : film review , accessed on May 4, 2015
  10. ↑ a b c SWR3 : SWR3 Tatort-Check - Tatort-Critique: Niedere Instinkte , Brigitte Egelhaaf, April 21, 2015
  11. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt : Lower Instincts - Leipzig “Tatort”: “So Leipzig can be good too!?!” , Alexander Josefowicz, April 27, 2015
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