Crime scene: Forgotten memory
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Forgotten memory |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) Studio Hamburg |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 755 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | January 31, 2010 on First German Television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christiane Balthasar |
| script |
Dirk Salomon Thomas Wesskamp |
| production |
Marcus Mende Doris J. Heinze |
| music | Johannes Kobilke |
| camera | Hannes Hubach |
| cut | Andreas Althoff |
| occupation | |
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Forgotten Memory is a television film produced by NDR from the crime series Tatort and was broadcast for the first time on January 31, 2010 in the program Das Erste . It is the 16th case for the Chief Commissioner of the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office, Charlotte Lindholm .
This 755th crime scene episode leads the detective chief inspector through a car accident in a mysterious village. Everyone sticks together, knows each other, and Lindholm's accident triggers a late revenge on a pair of brothers.
action
When Charlotte Lindholm is on her way back from a conference, a man and a child in a red jacket are suddenly standing in the middle of the street. Although Lindholm evades and hits a tree, someone lies motionless on the ground. But Lindholm is also ailing and losing consciousness. When she wakes up in the hospital, she cannot remember the last ten hours. So she looks for the fragments and quartered in the village of Volsum. Everyone she asks denies that there was anyone lying on the street, but Lindholm finds a coat button at the scene of the accident. So she gradually questions other villagers and believes it is possible that the vet, since she was at the scene of the accident as first aid, injected her with a drug that could have caused retrograde amnesia in her.
Sometimes she doesn't know whether she really sees reality or is just hallucinating. So she keeps seeing the children of the village in red jackets. But it turns out that the children are actually all walking around in these jackets that they got from the sports club. The residents as well as Lindholm note that the investigator bears a striking resemblance to Erika Wollner, who died in an accident with her husband Albert eight years ago. Strikingly, this accident occurred at the same point as Lindholm's. Wollner's son Franz, who survived the accident, was adopted by the veterinarian because she was a close friend of his mother's. He has been deaf since the accident and has two adult half-brothers, Swen and Knut.
Knut Wollner is suddenly shot in his apartment. He's had a major real estate business lately and wasn't very popular in the village as he wanted to buy all of the land for his business. He claimed that he wanted to start growing organic vegetables like his brother Swen. But it turns out that the attempted land purchase had to do with natural gas fields that are underground here and promise a big profit.
At the spot where Lindholm had the accident, an oil stain is found that was supposed to cover a blood stain, as well as a cartridge case. And in a nearby moor, the body of the man with a gunshot wound is found whose coat matches the button found. The identity of the deceased leads to the Dutch drug dealer Nardac, who works as an informant for a Dutch drug investigator who has been disguised as a businesswoman in the village for a long time.
When Swen Wollner is found in the forest with a shot in the chest, events roll over. Lindholm's son David, who is also in Volsum with Martin Felser, is kidnapped by Tamma von Heuven, who was supposed to be a policewoman, but has obviously changed sides. She demands the two tons of cannabis that she had already paid for at Swen Wollner. His organic vegetables also extended to this illegal cannabis cultivation. Since the village had been swarming with police for days, she was unable to pick up her goods. Now that her supplier has also been shot, she simply recruits Lindholm so that she can see to it that she gets her goods. She uses David as leverage because she assumes that Lindholm will do everything for the well-being of her child.
Lindholm asks Franz Wollner for help, knowing that he is aware of cannabis cultivation. Franz leads Lindholm to an underground hemp plantation and to a bunker. There is an almost fully loaded truck in the warehouse, which she quickly puts into operation and drives to the Dutch border. Tamma is already waiting there, threatening Lindholm with a gun and ready to shoot. A saving shot comes unexpectedly from Horst Randers, who clears the situation from the edge of the forest and disappears again. So it turns out that he shot all the others too. The night Lindholm had the accident, Franz was pursued by Nardac. The drug dealer found out that some youth in the village wanted to trade cannabis. But since he did not tolerate any competition in his territory, he threatened Franz and Horst Randers then shot him to save the boy who, like his mother, has grown very dear to him. When he saw the resemblance of Lindholm to Franz's mother, the past came to the surface again. After the Wollners' fatal accident, Randers found out that Swen and Knut, Franz's half-brothers, had manipulated the car to get their inheritance prematurely. Randers just wanted to restore justice so that Franz could get the inheritance that was his due, and his brothers were also responsible for ensuring that he would never hear a bird sing as he had also lost his hearing in the accident.
background
The film was shot by NDR and Studio Hamburg under the working title The Search for Lost Time , Peasant Sacrifice and Legacy To Whom Legacy Deserves in Hanover, Bad Zwischenahn , Bockhorn , Varel and Oldenburg .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Forgotten Memory on January 31, 2010 was seen by a total of 9.70 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.50 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv writes about the “cool Hanoverian LKA woman”: “In 'Forgotten Memory' it takes time for it to regain its old form. The murder brings them back to the front. Get rid of the ruff! And suddenly she's the perfect investigator again, going her way solitary. ”Regarding the film itself, he says:“ Even the excursion into the mystery genre in the first pictures, in which there is a lot of visual movement, is little more than an aesthetic kick . The cinematic effects are the best thing about this 'crime scene', whose crime plot doesn't work because it's hard to follow because of all the names to which no faces are assigned and because of all the retold history. The events surrounding the murder case remained a mystery for a long time. Only the showdown clears things up. A superficial, no more than solid 'crime scene' that clearly suffers from the script. "
Tilmann P. Gangloff states: “Crime, thriller, mystery: everything is included in this 'crime scene' from Lower Saxony, whose complex story is told so confusingly that you just as little see through as Commissioner Lindholm. [...] In addition to the attractive cinematic implementation of Lindholm's nightmarish visions (camera: Hannes Hubach), which illustrates the confusion of the main character through appropriate alienation, the actors in particular ensure that this 'crime scene' from Lower Saxony is a great pleasure [...] [ especially since] almost all characters seem to have a more or less dark secret ”.
At faz.net , Uwe Ebbinghaus writes about this crime scene, which “moves cleverly between mystery, crime thriller and grotesque”: “Even if you take a deep breath in the confusing plot as soon as Lindholm sheds light on the matter with her investigation - she becomes more personable Not the Commissioner. With arrogance, she directs her artificially underexposed village environment [...] and displays an authoritarian behavior that can be interpreted as a strategic counterweight to the alpha investigators of the other broadcasters. [...] The logic of the plot could be criticized for a lot, and the investigation process at the end, in which the natural gas deposits in Lower Saxony are seriously considered as a motive for murder, can hardly be swallowed by realistic standards. But the episode succeeds in spreading the right dose of comforting mystery, which enables the viewer to follow the action with excitement until the end. "
Josef Seitz at Focus online sees the crime scene as "one of the most entertaining Sunday thrillers in a long time" and one has "tried to sort out a highly complex network of relationships between organic vegetables, drug cultivation and inheritance disputes within the family."
Kathrin Buchner at Stern.de gives a sobering verdict: “The plot is as crude as the structure [of organic vegetables], but thrillers actually work like this: First a corpse is found, then the investigators come. It is different with the Lower Saxony commissioner Lindholm: As always, she is stubborn and stubborn and stays in a place where she suspects crime until there is finally one or more deaths. That makes the story lengthy and tension-free. "
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm judge this crime scene, which appears to be "colorful, if overloaded": "Moderately captivating, but beautifully puzzling."
Web links
- Crime scene: The Lost Memories in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Summary of the plot of Forgotten Memory on the ARD website
- Forgotten memories in the crime scene fund
- Forgotten memory at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on April 2, 2014.
- ↑ Filming locations on Internet Movie Database , accessed April 2, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on April 3, 2014.
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Critique of the film on Kino.de , accessed on April 3, 2014.
- ↑ Uwe Ebbinghaus: She always does too much at the same time on faz.net, accessed on April 3, 2014.
- ↑ Josef Seitz: The people on focus.de are strange, accessed on April 3, 2014.
- ↑ Kathrin Buchner: wannabe mystery with bog bodies on stern.de, accessed on April 3, 2014.
- ↑ Brief review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on April 3, 2014.
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