Crime scene: distress
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Distress |
| Country of production | Germany , Switzerland |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR , SRF |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 692 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | January 13, 2008 on SRF |
| Rod | |
| Director | René Heisig |
| script | Dorothee Schön |
| production |
Ulrich Herrmann , Uwe Franke , Stefan Hoffmann |
| music | Rainer Michel |
| camera | Jürgen Carle |
| cut | Carola Hülsebus |
| occupation | |
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Seenot is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film with Eva Mattes as chief detective Klara Blum was produced by SWR and SRF .
On January 13, 2008, the film was broadcast outside of the Tatort series as part of the “SF Schweizer Film” series on SF 1 , so the usual Tatort opening and closing credits were omitted. The dialogues between the Swiss protagonists were dubbed into Swiss German . On March 24, 2008, the film was broadcast for the first time in Germany as part of the Tatort series. This 692nd episode in this series is the 14th case of Klara Blum and the 10th case of Kai Perlmann . Reto Flückiger , the Swiss colleague, is investigating for the first time with the German team. When investigating the murder of a shipyard owner , he sees one of his colleagues being seriously incriminated.
action
Klara Blum notices a distress missile from her house at night . Concerned, she calls the officers of the water police and is informed that the signal has been sent from the Swiss side of Lake Constance and that the emergency call has been passed on to the responsible body in Switzerland. Blum is astonished that the next morning a yacht drifts near her house. She can see neither an occupation nor any other sign of life and decides to look. She rows a small boat to the yacht and finds no one, but there are blood stains. Without further ado, she calls forensics, but at the same time notifies her colleagues from Switzerland because the yacht is carrying a Swiss flag. So she meets with Reto Flückiger, who is provided to her by the Thurgau public prosecutor's office as administrative assistance.
Initial investigations lead Blum to the Stähli shipyard, where the found yacht, which belongs to a Russian owner, was being repaired. Although she has actually been banned by the authorities until a drug smuggling allegation has been clarified , someone was with her on the lake. Since the shipyard owner Urs Stähli is nowhere to be found, Blum suspects that it was he who was out with the boat.
Blum meets with Chief Inspector Flückiger and Marcel Steiner from the Maritime Police in Thurgau. In Steiner's opinion, Stähli not only has his fingers in the drug business, but also has an ideal platform through his shipyard to launder the drug money. For Steiner it is obvious that Stähli has gone abroad because the floor was gradually getting too hot for him and the authorities were already paying attention to him and his business.
While Perlmann asks the young woman Stähli about her husband, his phone rings and he receives the message that Stähli's body has just been found swimming in Lake Constance. Stähli has a head injury, but apparently he was still alive when he was thrown into the water. When Kurt Weingarten, an employee of the shipyard, was questioned, inconsistencies emerged with regard to the emergency call tracking process for Swiss officials. Steiner gets entangled in contradictions, and when Blum promises this to his head, he flees and is gone. Blum wants to be shown the recordings of the emergency call and the officer in charge finds that the 30 minutes before the operation was deleted by someone. Flückiger refers to the emergency call center, where the period could still be saved. Nevertheless, he takes protection of his colleague, known as a hothead, who, as Flückiger knows, has been through a lot. His parents ran a pharmacy and were killed years ago by a junkie looking for drugs. Accordingly, he has declared his personal war on drugs and dealers. Blum and Flückiger discover that Steiner has been secretly monitoring Stähli for a long time. Using cell phone monitoring, he always knew when and where his archenemy was. With this knowledge, even Flückiger has no choice but to write out Steiner for a manhunt.
Perlmann is now pursuing another lead and informs Blum that he has sensational news. Since he often goes to the casino and also met Stähli there from time to time, he researched in the casino and found out that Stähli was in contact with his Russian business partners here, including a money launderer who was already being targeted by the federal police . This corroborates Steiner's allegation against Stähli.
Blum asks Perlmann to check Kurt Weingarten's alibi. According to him, he was in the supermarket and has a receipt as proof that he was far away from the lake at the time of the possible crime. The footage from the surveillance camera in the supermarket does not show Weingarten, but Stähli's wife. Perlmann immediately went to Beate Stähli to confront her. By chance, he also finds documents for a paternity test, so it is clear that Stähli discovered that his wife had been cheating on him with his best employee for years. Perlmann has no idea that Weingarten is already in the house, and so he is overwhelmed by it and, with Beates' help, is brought to the lake by car and locked on a boat. As soon as it is night, they want to drown the confidante in the lake.
Blum worries that Perlmann has not contacted us again. Since he finally wanted to check Weingarten's alibi, she secretly monitors him in the hope that he will lead her to Perlmann. The plan works and Blum is able to free him together with Flückiger.
From the conversations that Perlmann had overheard, it was clear that Stähli had just six million drug money in stock. The Russian business partners should get the impression that Stähli had gone abroad with the money, and no one would have suspected Beate Stähli and Kurt Weingarten would have it.
background
The shooting of this crime scene crime story, produced by Südwestrundfunk and Swiss radio and television in collaboration with Maran Film , took place in Konstanz , Baden-Baden , Kreuzlingen , Romanshorn and the island of Reichenau . Seenot premiered on January 13, 2008 on Swiss television outside the Tatort series as "SF Schweizer Film" in the Swiss dialect version.
reception
Audience ratings
The German first broadcast of Tatort Seenot on March 24, 2008 was seen by 6.79 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 19.00 percent.
Reviews
Kino.de assesses: "After all sorts of unsuccessful attempts to deliver a serious crime thriller, this 'crime scene' from Constance can finally be seen again." This is how they find words of praise for those responsible for the film: "In addition to author Schön, Klara Blum too shaped her scripts like no one else, and the composer Rainer Michel, whose music is sometimes almost Miles Davis quality, deserves the greatest praise for this convincing Lake Constance thriller director René Heisig, who has already proven several times how old people are Row figures can find surprising sides. Above all, Heisig made sure that the lake finally comes into its own. Shot exactly a year ago, the film shows the water under almost all possible climatic conditions, from thick fog to bright sunshine. This wealth of facets has apparently also inspired the actors. Eva Mattes in particular, who recently seemed to be underchallenged, is finally allowed to play nuances again. And by the finale at the latest, when Perlmann is in acute danger of his life, this 'crime scene' shakes off all slowness and develops real drama. "
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv also finds words of praise for the script, direction and soundtrack. Tittelbach said: “The story pulls out all the stops, here a bit of the Mafia, there a bit of private conflict - yet this crime thriller seems anything but overloaded. The somewhat more sedate Swiss pace is good for this Lake Constance-focused film and ensures that the atmospheric is not neglected. [...] One of the strongest cases of the Bodensee 'Tatort' team so far, in which Eva Mattes gets to play a little more. Stefan Gubser is also doing well as Flückiger, whom the inspector clearly likes. "
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm describe the episode as a "boat trip with surprises" and as "a lively, atmospherically coherent 'Tatort' co-production."
Web links
- Distress in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the act of distress on the ARD website
- Distress at the crime scene fund
- Distress at Tatort-Fans.de
- Swiss television: SF Schweizer Film: “Seenot” (media kit, PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: distress . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2009 (PDF; test number: 119 645 V).
- ↑ SRF: SF Schweizer Film: “Seenot” , media folder, accessed on March 7, 2017
- ↑ a b Working title and audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 18, 2014.
- ↑ Coproduction and linguistic conception at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 18, 2014.
- ↑ TV ratings on mediabiz.de, accessed on January 18, 2014.
- ↑ Reviews on kino.de, accessed on January 19, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on January 19, 2014.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 19, 2014.
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