Crime scene: Maybe
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Maybe |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
RBB |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 922 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | November 16, 2014 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Klaus Krämer |
| script | Klaus Krämer |
| production | Mirko Schulze |
| music | Christine Aufderhaar |
| camera | Christine A. Maier |
| cut | Monika Schindler |
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Maybe a TV movie from the crime series Tatort . The by RBB contribution was produced on 16 November 2014 First erstgesendet. It is the 31st and last case with Chief Detective Felix Stark and, after the departure of his colleague Till Ritter , the only case with him as sole investigator . Overall it is the 922nd episode of the crime scene .
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Chief Inspector Felix Stark, appointed head of the homicide squad after the departure of his colleague Till Ritter, is called in by his assistant to give a bizarre testimony. The Norwegian psychology student Trude Bruun Thorvaldsen, who lives in Berlin, claims to have met a TU student named Lisa Steiger three weeks ago. Since then she has been dreaming that Lisa is murdered by a man in dungarees. She often dreams things that would then happen. In her dream, Lisa is in an apartment and tries to open her eyes, but she doesn't succeed. She doesn't know whether the murder has already happened or is still happening, but she often has visions that would come true. Stark attaches little importance to the statement, but has Trude routinely checked after he has also consulted his Norwegian colleagues. But he suspects that Trude is lonely and wants to attract attention.
Shortly afterwards, Trude meets Lisa, who is accompanied by her friend Florian Pathke, again in the cafeteria. Florian notices that the young woman is behaving very strangely towards Lisa. After Lisa said goodbye to her lecture, Trude told Florian about her dream after a moment's hesitation. A few weeks later, Lisa lets a craftsman with dungarees into her apartment. He overpowers the young woman and puts her on her bed. At that moment Florian rings and knocks on her door and calls Lisa's name. As in Trude's dream, Lisa tries in vain to open her eyes. The "craftsman" whispers to her that nothing will happen to her if she is "good". After Lisa was found dead by her roommate, Felix Stark is called, who finds the young woman with wide eyes and strangled as if strangled in her bed. In a conversation with Lisa's mother, the inspector learns that ten days ago Lisa broke up with Florian out of the blue, with whom she was so happy before. Her daughter felt increasingly harassed by Florian. Further investigations reveal that Pathke struggled with separating from Lisa. Since a neighbor saw the young man in the stairwell around the time of the crime, Stark had Florian summoned. When Stark asks him about the breakup and the fact that Lisa was feeling pressured, Pathke tells the inspector, who takes notice, of his encounter with Trude and her dark prophecy. When he told Lisa about Trude's dream, she accused him of just making it up in order to dominate her by stirring up fear. This led to a separation. He also reports that two weeks earlier he saw a red-haired craftsman in dungarees on the stairwell of Lisa's rented apartment.
Stark and the police psychologist Robert Meinhardt want to speak to Trude, but when they visit, they only meet her roommate Marlies, who is convinced of Trude's visionary abilities, which she describes as a "second face". When she moved in, Trude had predicted that her boyfriend would cheat her, which actually turned out to be true. At the same time, Trude is approached by a strange young man in a café who wants to start a conversation with her, which she blocks. When Trude leaves the café a little later, the "craftsman" who murdered Lisa is in the immediate vicinity and is watching the young woman closely. He then sneaks after her and peeks out the stairwell.
In another conversation with Stark, Trude tells him that she has had visions since she was eleven. At that time, among other things, she foresaw the accidental death of a neighbor, which then also happened. The village community then avoided her because they had great reservations about the girl with the terrible visions. From then on she tried to keep her premonitions to herself, but she didn't succeed. It makes them sick too. When Stark asked, she admits that she cannot describe Lisa's murderer in more detail. Another search of Lisa's apartment reveals a letter from an alleged handicraft company, which, however, cannot be reached by phone. Other residents of the house did not receive such a letter. Meinhardt then puts forward the thesis that Trude did not find the information that Lisa was murdered in Lisa, but in the murderer, with whom she must have had unknowing contact.
Stark is plagued by self-doubt, he reproaches himself for not taking Trude's hint seriously enough. Meanwhile, dreams plague Trude again. The next morning, from the café across the street, Lisa's killer observes Trude's roommate moving out, so he knows that Trude is now living alone. Shortly afterwards, Stark goes to Trude to ask her again about the dungarees. She tells him about her latest dream from the night before. In a restaurant a man is sitting at the table with his eyes open, he has a bullet hole in his head from which blood is leaking. A car sped away. Stark doesn't know how to deal with this vague prophecy. Trude dreams again the following night and wakes up bathed in sweat. The next morning at university she meets Florian, who reproaches her for telling him about her dream. Trude is scary to him and he says that things might not have happened if Trude had n't predicted them.
Stark visits Trude again because he wants more details about the restaurant where the man is being shot. Trude lets him know that in her latest dream there are two men who are about to be shot. From their exact description, Stark creates a sketch that is as true to the original as possible and lets his team keep an eye out for the restaurant. Since Trude's prediction is the only source of information, the action should be as inconspicuous as possible. Trude is meanwhile approached again by the stranger in the café, who introduces himself to her as "Martin" and wants to invite her to dinner, which she refuses. The following night, Trude wakes up again from one of her dreams bathed in sweat. The next morning she visits Stark in the presidium and claims that she no longer dreams, that the prophecy about the restaurant will not come true either, because she only had this dream once. You strongly do not believe because she had already reported three dreams. She blocks and insists that she has nothing more to do with the whole matter. She will soon be returning to her homeland, Norway, anyway. In the meantime, the houses where the Gaslicht company had carried out work in recent months have been identified. Lisa's murderer pretended to work for "Gaslicht". One of the residents who match the perpetrator profile is red-haired.
Meanwhile, Trude is visited at home by Lisa's murderer, who uses a pretext ("slip trick") to get her to open the apartment door. When Trude, as requested by him, searches for pen and paper in one of the rooms, she does not close the apartment door, just leans it ajar. Since Trude the man looks strange, she calls Stark, who immediately notifies the SEK after he learns that the man is red-haired. Trude locks her apartment door from the outside and, at Stark's command, goes out into the street to get to safety. With the help of the SEK, Stark can arrest Lisa's murderer who actually snuck into Trude's apartment. The man named Armin Teigler is led away amid wild insults against Stark. Trude continues to insist that she no longer has her dreams. After Stark explains to her that she has identified a serial killer through her prophecies, who otherwise would most likely have murdered other women, she manages to tell the inspector about the outcome of her dream. The restaurant in which the two men are shot is a pizzeria. A shot was fired during the night and Stark was lying on the floor in a pool of blood. She doesn't know whether he will survive or die. Outwardly, Stark says calmly that her dream and the fact that she told him about it is not her responsibility.
Countless pieces of evidence are found in the Lisa murder case; the perpetrator kept a file on each of the victims he raped. Stark reacts impassively and asks his employees to locate the Italian restaurant. From now on he is wearing a protective vest. Meinhardt asks him if something is wrong, but he doesn't confide in him. The next day, Stark submits his transfer application to his manager. In the meantime, his team has found the restaurant in Tempelhof based on the description. Stark and two employees go to the pizzeria where the table seen in Trude's dream is. From there, the inspector calls Trude, who wants to fly back to her home that same evening. He asks her to identify the restaurant. After a while, a couple comes into the restaurant and sits down at the table in question. The officers are relieved that a man and a woman are seated there. While Stark and his assistant Oleg go into the kitchen to ask the landlord whether he is being blackmailed by the mafia, his assistant is supposed to telephone the executive committee to have the restaurant's financial situation checked. While Stark and Oleg are talking to the landlord, two shots are fired. Trude, who is just coming to the restaurant, sees Martin rushing out of the café and fleeing in a car. The couple lies dead at the table in question, exactly as Trude described the two dead from her dream.
Trude informs Stark that the killer is called Martin and spoke to her in the café, she gives him a description. Stark informs his superiors that he will quit his job before dark in order to avoid Trude's prophecy. He just wants to get Trude's things and take them to the airport. In the back yard he meets a suspicious man while carrying out the things. When he turns around to identify himself, it is Martin who is holding a gun and suddenly fires twice at Stark. Since he tips forward with the first shot, the second shot hits him under his protective vest, seriously injuring him. In the hospital, his colleagues are waiting for the emergency operation to end. When they ask the doctor on duty whether their colleague will survive, the answer is: "Maybe".
reception
Awards
The film was nominated for the German Television Crime Award 2015.
criticism
“Boris Aljinovic, as Commissioner Felix Stark, has again the greatest voice of all investigators. He can scream softly. And then that lovely French face. A man made of paper at a very, very large desk. "
Spiegel Online praised the unusual topic of parapsychology in the last episode with Commissioner Stark as a successful experiment:
“In the shadow of how the old team was wound up, fatalism is definitely appropriate, but the bad mood had a positive effect on the film. Aljinovic as Stark approaches the difficult topic quietly, in self-doubt; like someone who has nothing more to lose. "
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Perhaps on November 16, 2014 was seen by 9.86 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 27.1% for Das Erste .
Web links
- Perhaps in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Maybe on the ARD website
- Maybe at the crime scene fund
- Maybe at Tatort-Fans.de
- "Crime scene"? "Maybe" not either ... with the quota meter. de
Individual evidence
- ^ German Television Crime Festival 2015. (PDF) Program booklet. Cultural Office of the State Capital Wiesbaden, p. 26 , accessed on May 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Holger Gertz: Everything floats. Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 16, 2014, accessed on November 23, 2014 .
- ↑ Christian Buß: As a guest at your own funeral. November 14, 2014, accessed May 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Timo Nöthling: Primetime check: Sunday, November 16, 2014.quotemeter.de , November 17, 2014, accessed on November 23, 2014 .
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