Crime scene: rosewood
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Rosewood |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
RBB |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 537 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | July 6, 2003 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Peter Ristau |
| script | Pim Richter |
| production | Jürgen Haase |
| music | Claudius Brüse |
| camera | Frank Bruhne |
| cut | Christine Boock |
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Rosenholz is a television film from the television crime series Tatort on ARD and ORF . It is the eighth joint case of the Berlin investigator duo Ritter and Stark . The RBB produced the film under the direction of Peter Ristau and was broadcast for the first time on July 6, 2003 in Das Erste .
action
Maria Berkbusch is a committed TV presenter who is currently committed to coming to terms with the East German past and the disclosure of the Stasi files. To get information about an IM "Leopard", she wants to meet Hans Garbrecht, who had worked as a major in foreign espionage in the GDR and who is said to have a list of aliases of the unofficial employees of the Ministry for State Security . When Berkbusch reached the remote house, she found her informant dead in his apartment. Panicked, she flees, but is seen by an attentive neighbor of Garbrecht. But he also saw a conspicuous convertible standing in front of Garbrecht's house. Since such a vehicle is registered for Wolfgang Zimmerer, the managing director of the housing company, for which the victim had worked as an administrator, the inspectors Ritter and Stark visit him. He states that he wanted to talk to Garbrecht, but Garbrecht did not open the door and he assumed that he was not home either. The investigators find it strange that Zimmerer drove to his manager and he did not call his employees to his home. Based on documents found in the victim's vault, Ritter and Stark assume that Zimmerer was blackmailed by Garbrecht. When they confront Zimmerer about their find, he denies such connections. As an aspiring politician, he is constantly exposed to hostility and intrigue.
Their next path leads Ritter and Stark to Maria Berkbusch, who was recognized by Garbrecht's neighbors. She suspects that the police suspect her and flees from Ritter when she sees him. At first she denies knowing Hans Garbrecht at all, but then admits that she wanted to meet him. She has been researching old Stasi clusters for a long time and he wanted to give her information. Since Berkbusch was still driving the car at the time of the crime determined by the KTU , she has since retired as the perpetrator.
On her dogged search for the IM "Leopard", Berkbusch tries to get hold of official Stasi documents that can help her with the investigation. Since she herself does not receive any information from the relevant authority, she tries to cooperate with the commissioners, who as investigators have access to the documents. While she is discussing her concerns with Ritter and Stark, a fire breaks out in her private office and all of her documents and research are destroyed. The commissioners suspect that she must have gotten dangerously close to her "leopard" and that he probably also made sure that she could no longer speak to Garbrecht.
Lutz Weber researched that Maria Berkbusch grew up with her aunt Jutta because her parents had committed suicide. They were dissidents and were betrayed by “Leopard”, which explains the great commitment of Maria Berkbusch. Ritter and Stark manage to get a list of the IMs who can be considered as "Leopards". And among the names is also Max Vollrath, who is married to Maria Berkbusch. Ritter tries to find Vollrath, while Stark visits Maria Berkbusch. Obviously she has a hot lead on "Leopard" too, but she doesn't admit that. She secretly leaves her apartment and goes to see her aunt. She threatens her with a gun to admit she betrayed her parents. Ritter and Stark, who have arrived in the meantime, can dissuade them from their mistake. Her own husband was the traitor and also the murderer of Garbrecht. Stark notes, however, that if Maria hadn't searched for the truth so doggedly, Vollrath would not have become a murderer at all.
background
Rosenholz was produced by ProVobis Film on behalf of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), which was created in 2003 after a merger of the Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) and the ORB and has since had two headquarters in Potsdam-Babelsberg and Berlin-Charlottenburg .
The title Rosewood alludes to the Rosewood files .
reception
Audience ratings
When it was first broadcast on July 6, 2003, the episode Rosenholz was seen by 7.56 million viewers in Germany, corresponding to a market share of 25.00 percent.
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv says about the crime scene: “It is remarkable: The difficult amalgamation of crime thriller and German-German story works far better in 'Tatort - Rosenholz' than the interaction of the two inspectors, who make their image of the big boys all too infantile and who obviously lack something like (compassion) feeling. So Aglaia Szyszkowitz has to save the film with her game: if the 'guys' Raacke and Aljinovic keep every gesture, every sentence purely external, the beautiful Austrian penetrates into her role as an emotionally committed journalist who takes the injustice on her narrow shoulders a. Your shoulders are a bit too narrow for 90 exciting minutes. "
Tom Peuckert finds in the Tagesspiegel : “A list of former Stasi workers in the West. The material is so explosive that even the real file manager Marianne Birthler was persuaded to take on a guest role as the fictional file manager Marianne Birthler. In the film she stands briefly in the door of her office and swallows an overly curious visitor. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm write: “The title alludes to a real electronic espionage file in the GDR. Unfortunately there is a lack of tension. [Conclusion:] Too bogged down, it's a shame about the strong material. "
Web links
- Crime scene: Rosewood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Rosenholz on the ARD website
- Rosewood in the crime scene fund
- Rosewood at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on October 3, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on October 3, 2014.
- ↑ Tom Peuckert: Film review at tagesspiegel.de, accessed on October 3, 2014.
- ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on October 3, 2014.
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