Crime scene: don't say anything

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Don't say anything
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 551 ( List )
First broadcast December 14, 2003 on ARD
Rod
Director Lars Kraume
script Hans Christian Laaber ;
Edited by
Stefan Cantz and
Jan Hinter
music Jan Josef Liefers
camera Philippe Cordey
cut Bernd Schriever
occupation

Say nothing is a German television thriller by Lars Kraume . It was created as the 551st episode of the crime series Tatort and is the fourth case of the Thiel and Boerne investigative team . The episode first aired on December 14, 2003 on Das Erste .

action

A dead man is found on the bank of a lake. Tire tracks at the crime scene indicate an SUV that was used to transport the dead person to the site. In Münster such tires were bought by three persons, one Boernes physiotherapist Roswitha Baermann is. She has been missing her husband Wolfram for a few days, who turns out to be the dead man from the lake. Wolfram was considered depressed and was last seen on Friday - at the funeral of his stepmother Gudrun. Boerne and Thiel find out that the family has had some blows of fate. Wolfram's sister Hanne has been mentally unstable in a clinic for many years. Her birth mother disappeared with a US soldier when Wolfram and Hanne were still children. After the death of the second wife, who was severely alcoholic , Thiel now has to teach the widower Henner Baermann the death of his son. He endured his family blows by distracting himself with his breed of rabbits for years.

During the autopsy , Boerne finds out that Wolfram has been sedated and can detect toilet cleaner in the bronchi. In fact, widespread smeared traces of blood were discovered in the bathroom of Wolfram and Roswitha's house. So Wolfram was killed in the bathroom; a club, possibly made of hardwood, can be used as a weapon. Roswitha, who initially stated that she went to a seminar in Wilhelmshaven immediately after the funeral , later admits that she spent the weekend with Wolfram's partner Klaus Weisberg. As it turns out, both were in Holland on the IJsselmeer at the time of the crime .

Investigators also learn that Wolfram had a heated argument with his father at the funeral, but do not know what it was about. Wolfram had custody of her in consultation with his sister Hanne. Thiel and Boerne visit Hanne in the psychiatry and she shows them her doll's house, which is exactly based on their parents' house. As Boerne notes, a door to a room on the upper floor cannot be opened. When asked what is there, Hanne writhes around for an answer. It becomes clear that her relationship with her father is severely disturbed. Thiel goes to the family doctor who found the stepmother Gudrun dead. Here he learns that Wolfram had also asked him about Gudrun's cause of death. He suspected that his father murdered her. On vague suspicion, Thiel arranges for the exhumation of the dead that Wolfram had wanted to achieve. But Boerne actually finds nothing except a no longer functioning artificial heart valve .

Hanne is on vacation and is allowed to leave the psychiatry. She goes to Klaus, whom she perceives as a “good prince” and whom she hopes will one day “kidnap” her. Both have known each other since childhood. While Henner is at a breed rabbit show, Boerne brings Hanne and Klaus to Wolfram's house. He hopes that by confronting the rooms at the time, Hanne will be able to make a statement about what she may have seen as a child and what has bothered her so much for years that she almost breaks. In fact, with Klaus' help, Boerne manages to get Hanne to talk. Her mother had an argument with Henner the night after she allegedly fled with the GI . Hanne went into the bathroom and saw her mother crying in the tub while Henner screamed. Later on, her mother was lying there “asleep” and “covered” herself with a towel while Henner was packing suitcases. The investigators now believe that Henner murdered his first wife and forced the children to believe in the story of the GI, which broke both mentally. Prosecutor Wilhelmine Klemm makes it clear to them, however, that the statements of the unstable child Hanne do not represent a reliable suspicion - and that she will not give Thiel a search notice on this basis after the unsuccessful autopsy of the stepmother . Shortly afterwards, Hanne disappeared from the psychiatric ward, while a stick that Henner uses to stun the rabbits shows traces of DNA from tungsten. Thiel drives to Henner, who is trying to strangle his daughter. She had started digging in a flower bed that had been tended for years and accusing her father of burying her mother here. Henner is arrested and the investigators actually find the skeleton of Hannes and Wolfram's mother shortly afterwards. The case has been solved and the question remains what will become of Henner's breeding rabbits. Boerne suggests a preparation with thyme, garlic and bacon beans.

production

The shooting of Sag Nothing took place under the working title Lichterloh from July to August 2003 in Münster and in the studios of WDR Cologne. The Hölterhoffstift in Bad Honnef was used as the clinic in which Hanne lives . The film experienced on 14 December 2003 at the First its television premiere, reaching an audience of 22 percent (7.98 million viewers). In 2010 the film was released on DVD. It was the fourth case for investigators Thiel and Boerne .

criticism

"In the context of the otherwise bizarre 'Tatorte' from Münster, this case seems rather profound, almost melancholy," said the TV Spielfilm .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for the crime scene: Don't say anything . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 123089-a / V). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Don't say anything about the crime scene fund
  3. ↑ Don't say anything at filmportal.de
  4. ↑ 551/03 Don't say anything (WDR) . In: Rüdiger Dingemann: Tatort. The encyclopedia. All the facts, all the cases, all the commissioners . Knaur, Munich 2010, p. 305.
  5. ↑ See tvspielfilm.de
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