Crime scene: Swan Lake
Swan Lake is a television film from the crime series Tatort and a Molina Film production on behalf of WDR . The first broadcast took place on November 8, 2015 in the first . It is the 28th case with Axel Prahl and Jan Josef Liefers as Münster investigators Thiel and Boerne and the 961st crime scene episode.
With 13.63 million viewers, it was the most successful crime scene since 1992 when it was first broadcast and the most-watched TV show in 2015.
action
The corpse of the patient Mona Lux was found on the pelvic floor of the indoor swimming pool in the “Schwanensee” psychiatric facility on the Aasee in Münster . Weights have been placed on her body to keep it underwater. During the forensic medical examination, Prof. Boerne cannot find any evidence of external interference. But the toxicological examination shows remains of an anesthetic in her blood that she could not have administered herself in this concentration. Suicide is out of the question.
The head physician Prof. Weimar explains to Commissioner Thiel and Nadeshda Krusenstern that the six patients are not locked in his facility, but can move freely. Only the entrance is locked, so that the perpetrator can be found among this group of people. Thiel has the patient files given to him and begins his first research. After the inspector examines one after the other and looks for a motive, Prof. Boerne's ambition is also aroused. Without further ado he renounces his long-planned diving vacation and takes over the vacation replacement of one of the therapists in the sanatorium. But all efforts to find a motive or even the perpetrator fail. It is strange, however, that the victim does not seem to have any relatives and that the address given is incorrect. But she had a relationship with the restaurant owner Alberto DiSarto, against whom the public prosecutor is investigating for serious tax fraud. Strangely enough, the tax investigator Andreas Kullmann, who was entrusted with DiSarto's case, is a patient in the "Swan Lake" because of psychological problems. For Thiel this is no coincidence and with Nadeshda Krusenstern's help he actually finds out the true identity of Mona Lux: Esther Borgmann, who she knows from the police school and who then switched to the BKA . From there, the investigators learn that she originally worked as an undercover agent in matters of tax evasion, but that she was released and followed another lead on her own initiative that she had discovered.
According to Thiel's research, Andreas Kullmann , who was gifted on the island, had shown committed work in the fight against tax evaders , so that the head of the tax office, Carstens, had him admitted to this clinic, where he was immobilized with medication. These were given to him by Professor Weimar, the boss of Swan Lake, because Carstens wanted it that way. He had the professor in hand for tax evasion. Carstens himself was in the middle of corruption and money laundering, so that Kullmann's revelations would be his personal downfall. However, the gentlemen have nothing to do with the murder of Esther Borgmann. As initially assumed, one of the clinic's patients is actually responsible for this: Isa Storch. Boerne finds out that the woman not only suffers from schizophrenia , but also from erotomania (madness of love) , which can turn into pathological jealousy. Storch saw Mona Lux's professional interest in Kullmann, with whom she thought she was in love, as an attempt to get closer and therefore put her out of the way.
Boerne had exchanged Kullmann's medication for placebos and so he was gradually “waking up” from his lethargy. He is about to be released, which Isa Storch cannot cope with. She mixes her saved tranquilizers in a champagne bottle and wants to celebrate farewell with Kullmann. She wants to kill him in her maddened love and then take her own life. When Thiel and Boerne realize this, both have already taken a pedal boat to the middle of the Aasee in front of the clinic. The investigators follow suit and after Boerne tried in vain to stop Isa from doing what she was doing with the story of the swan who fell in love with a pedal boat , they just managed to save Kullmann from drowning.
After Andreas Kullmann has fully recovered, the public prosecutor can take action against Carstens, Weimar and other major tax evaders with his help.
background
The film was shot on 23 days of shooting from February 24, 2015 to March 25, 2015 in Münster, among others at the Aaseeterrassen and in the club house of the sailing club Münster, Cologne and the surrounding area.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Schwanensee on November 8, 2015 was seen by 13.63 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 35.7% for Das Erste .
Reviews
“There are a few nicely staged group photos and a few smartly placed cuts, but the gross nonsense predominates. The television audience will still love it, a new rating record is not excluded. "
“Prahl, Liefers, Kempter, Urspruch. You don't watch them play, but rather interact with one another: sometimes it's a pleasure. The Münster crime scene would be nothing without the team. "
Web links
- Crime scene: Swan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tatort episode in the ARD media library, available until January 5, 2021
- Swan Lake at the crime scene fund
- Swan Lake at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: Swan Lake . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ stern.de: "Swan Lake" breaks the audience record
- ↑ Jens Schröder: The TV year 2015: No winner in the station top ten, Münster “Tatort” defeated all football games , meedia.de from January 4, 2016, accessed on January 5, 2016.
- ↑ Shooting for the new Münster crime scene: "Swan Lake" at Aasee - Münster - Westfälische Nachrichten. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .
- ^ Tatort Münster fansite - episodes - news - sayings - locations. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .
- ^ Crime scene: Swan Lake at crew united
- ↑ Sidney Schering: Primetime check: Sunday, November 8th, 2015.quotemeter.de , November 9th, 2015, accessed on November 23rd, 2015 .
- ^ Christian Buß: Münster "Tatort" in psychiatry. We are evil. Spiegel Online, November 6, 2015, accessed on November 23, 2015 : "Rating: 5 out of 10 points"
- ↑ Holger Gertz: Drowning? But not Boerne and Thiel. Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 6, 2015, accessed on November 23, 2015 .
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