Crime scene: order in balance
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Order in balance |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Radio Bremen (RB) Degeto Film |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 828 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | February 12, 2012 on First German Television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Henning and Claudia Prietzel |
| script | Peter Henning Claudia Prietzel |
| production |
Bernd Bielefeld Claudia Schröder |
| music | Andreas Weiser |
| camera | Bella halves |
| cut | Elke Schloo |
| occupation | |
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Ordinance in the Lot is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Radio Bremen and broadcast for the first time on February 12, 2012 in the program Das Erste . For Chief Detective Inga Lürsen ( Sabine Postel ), it is the 25th case in which she is investigating and for Detective Stedefreund ( Oliver Mommsen ) the 20th case that he has to solve together with Inga Lürsen. This 828th crime scene episode leads the investigative team into a strange world of conspiracy theories and the hypersensitive perception of a witness.
action
When the teenager Max Lange comes home in the evening, his mother is standing in the gas station opposite her house with a pistol in hand. The petrol station operator Jure Tomic is shot dead on the ground. Max sends his distraught mother back to the apartment, takes the gun and calls the police. When Lürsen and Stedefreund appear, they first ask Max Lange and his mother, who seems a little strange to them. She talks very confused and obviously didn't like the gas station. She observes them every day with binoculars and speaks of a danger. Just as she only sees terrible things everywhere and seems to be paranoid. Max does not want his mother to be questioned too much and becomes entangled in contradictions with the investigators. But he is reassured when his mother can make him understand that she only found the pistol and that it is therefore not a murderer.
The circumstances are also quite strange for the investigators, so Tomic had sent his workshop employee Baumann home earlier, which he never did otherwise. He had bought his son a trip at short notice and sent his wife to her sister. As if he deliberately didn't want anyone around on the evening of the crime. Possibly he was involved in criminal machinations, because it was obviously not a robbery since there was no money missing from the cash register.
Lürsen has Sylvia Lange examined by a neurologist. Her husband is upset about this and explains that his wife simply has a keen sense of danger, which has never before harmed his family. However, they have already changed houses twice because they felt the vibrations were bad. The neurologist certifies Sylvia Lange a schizoid personality disorder . Lürsen, however, thinks it is possible that her increased fear stems from the fact that she may have observed the crime and the perpetrator. Meanwhile, Ole Lange is also convinced that his wife would be better off in psychiatric care. He uses quite drastic means to ultimately achieve that.
Stedefreund manages to get Max into his conscience, because he has long noticed that Max knows more than he admits. Max then brings the surveillance video to the police, which he took from the gas station because he initially thought that his mother had shot Tomic. Lürsen and Stedefreund look at it and have the impression that Tomic has been waiting for his killer. Without resistance he lets himself be shot. Shortly afterwards, Sylvia Lange can be seen how she arrives and the murderer escapes. For Lürsen it is clear that this was killing on demand. Tomic's recently increased life insurance and general indebtedness suggests this. Since Tomic had already met his killer in advance and he can be seen on one of the older surveillance tapes with his car, he can be identified via the vehicle registration.
background
The film was shot by Radio Bremen and Degeto Film under the working title Alles im Lot in Bremen and the area around Bremen. The journalist and television presenter Mikhail Paweletz plays a news anchor in this crime scene.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Ordinance in Lot on February 12, 2012 was seen by a total of 8.34 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22.20 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv sums up his criticism as follows: “As strange as this familiar microcosm may be as the basis for a 'crime scene', 'order in the balance' leads us into a coded world which (after a period of familiarization) is extremely fascinating . […] Unusual perspectives, strangely framed images, an extremely remarkable film music (Score: Andreas Weiser) that creates its own cosmos of alienation. And then there is the theater actress Mira Partecke, who delivers a terrific performance. [...] This Dadaesque testimony to verbal madness lays at least as lasting a trace through the events as the actual crime case, which is appropriately cautiously resolved and ends in the drama. "
Susanne Baller at Stern.de judges this crime scene, at which Inga Lürsen also seems to be “a little 'contaminated'”: “Greek mythology, paranoid schizophrenia and contract murder are the stuff that Inga Lürsen and her colleague Stedefreund are on their toes holds. An imaginative script and a wonderful madman make the Bremen 'Tatort' a successful and instructive storytelling hour. "
Holger Gertz from Süddeutsche.de says: “If the plot is lagging as a whole, the commissioner has to decipher the scribbles of a confused person in order to solve the case. In the 'Tatort' from Bremen, the viewer gets the feeling that the role of a mentally disturbed person has been featured in the scripts of television crime too often.
Edo Reents at faz.net sees it a bit more soberly and writes about this “oppressive film”: With this “crime scene”, “the somewhat incongruous episode“ Order in the Lot ”grows into a masterful psychodrama in which the actual investigative work at best runs alongside and at some point surrenders itself after the soul garbage of the Lange family has been exposed. [...] That also means: who it was in the end is no longer so important. "
T-online.de appreciates: “This 'crime scene' was exhausting, puzzling, often annoying with its confusing complexity and was almost unbearable in the moments in which the psychosis of a seriously ill woman almost brought her family to collapse. Perseverance was required. Still, the thriller was worth watching. In addition to the usual murder case, it was possible to conjure up an open-ended family drama in an innovative and depressing way. "
Julia Bähr at Focus online doesn't see the whole thing very positively and says that "ARD provides the best sleep aid, [...] because nothing happens in the middle 45 minutes of the film - it doesn't even succeed in creating the oppressive atmosphere that was obviously intended."
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm judge this crime scene, in which a “solid crime plot as a hook for the portrait of a mental illness. [had to serve as a] creeping tragedy with quirky comedy. "
Web links
- Order in the Lot in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the act of order in the Lot on the Internet pages of ARD
- Order in balance with the crime scene fund
- Order in the Lot at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 31, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 31, 2014.
- ↑ Susanne Baller: Woe, if the news anchor comes on stern.de, accessed on March 31, 2014.
- ↑ Holger Gertz: Why the statisticians are tormented on sueddeutsche.de, accessed on March 31, 2014.
- ^ Edo Reents: Gas station zombies on faz.net, accessed on March 31, 2014.
- ^ "Tatort: Order in the Lot": When madness reigns on t-online.de, accessed on March 31, 2014.
- ↑ Julia Bähr: Lasting wasteland with surprising resolution on focus.de, accessed on March 31, 2014.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 31, 2014.
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