Crime scene: Corrosive

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Corrosive
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Wiedemann & Berg film production
length 87 minutes
classification Episode 962 ( List )
First broadcast November 15, 2015 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Dror Zahavi
script Stephan Wagner
Mark Monheim
production Nanni heirs
Quirin Berg
Max Wiedemann
music Jörg Lemberg
camera Gero Steffen
cut Fritz Busse
occupation

Corrosive is a television film from the crime series Tatort , which was first broadcast on November 15, 2015. It is the 962nd episode in the series and the second case of the Berlin team of investigators Rubin and Karow . In the first case Das Muli refers to the episode in black and white pictures in the first few seconds as a flashback. This horizontal narrative structure , which is unusual for the crime scene and in which individual storylines extend over several episodes, was also retained in the following case We - Your - You .

action

On a major Berlin construction site at Treptower Park , construction workers come across a barrel that contains sulfuric acid while demolishing an allotment garden colony. If the investigators initially assume illegal dumping , it turns out that the barrel contains a human body. The construction site is then searched by the police with a team of dogs, who uncover another dead man, wrapped in a tarpaulin, whose skull is bullet-proof. The remains of the dead body from the barrel provide little that could contribute to identification. Using a pacemaker, which is removed from the barrel with the corpse, the investigators are finally able to identify the body. It is a 47-year-old Iranian named Ferhat Merizadi, who came to Germany in the 1980s, was naturalized in 1991, but was never reported missing after his disappearance. The further investigations lead the two inspectors to his brother Saed, who runs a small dental laboratory in Neukölln. But Saed, who obviously pretends to be Ferhat, never had a heart operation. Saed is temporarily arrested for review. During the arrest, his heavily pregnant wife Layla and her son Arash escape. Layla is at risk of bleeding to death during a home birth, which is why her midwife takes her to a hospital against her will, where she gives birth to her daughter Nasim.

The investigators successively succeed in putting together the tragic family story. Ferhat Merizadi had signed a maintenance obligation four years earlier so that his younger brother Saed could come to Germany with his wife and son. In the meantime, however, the visas of the three have long expired, so that the Iranian family now lives illegally in Berlin without papers. When Ferhat did not return one day, his brother Saed not only took over his job, but also his identity in order to ensure the survival of his family and not be deported.

Finally, the investigators manage to find out the circumstances that led to the death of Ferhat Merizadi. On October 30, 2012, a craftsman named Tim Baumgartner called the police in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen . He had claimed to have witnessed a fatal traffic accident as a passenger, but was unable to name the scene of the crime, the injured party or the driver, which is why the proceedings were dropped. The two inspectors learn from Baumgartner that he hitchhiked home on the night in question after a bachelor party in Berlin-Spandau, heavily drunk. Another craftsman picked him up in a pickup truck. Baumgartner fell asleep while driving and was awakened by a thud. The driver got out and lifted the pedestrian he ran over onto the loading area.

Baumgartner is brought by Rubin and Karow to the house of the craftsman Heiko Evers, who in 2012 cast the floor slab for the arbor under which the barrel with the corpse was found. Evers is recognized by Baumgartner as a driver involved in an accident, tries to escape and is arrested by the investigators on urgent suspicion of negligent homicide and the cover-up of a criminal offense.

Meanwhile, Saed Merizadi's application for arrest has not been lifted. The immigration authorities are investigating him and his family for violating the Residence Act . This is followed by the conviction of the Merizadi family under Section 95 of the Residence Act. Six months after the conviction, they are deported to Iran. She is prohibited from re-entering Germany.

In the case of the second body found on the construction site, Rubin learns that Karow's former partner, Gregor Maihack, was shot with the same gun as the man who, after a tooth comparison, can be identified as 25-year-old Stephan Reimers. Reimers is known to the police and has a criminal record and was reported missing by his mother three months ago. Due to an anonymous tip, the public prosecutor has Commissioner Robert Karow's private rooms searched by his colleague Commissioner Nina Rubin. A 9 mm caliber weapon is found, which is sent for a ballistic investigation in order to carry out a comparison with the murder weapon in the Reimers and Maihack cases. When Karow is arrested, he appeals to his colleague Rubin to find the cell phone of his former informant Mehmet Erdem, who has since been killed, because it contains a video exonerating him.

background

Ätzend was filmed in Berlin from June 23, 2015 to July 23, 2015 . The episode celebrated its cinema premiere on November 9, 2015.

In order to create the most authentic possible scenery for the corpse, the expertise of Michael Tsokos from forensic medicine at the Berlin Charité was used. Instead of acid, a brew of mustard, fat and loosened parts of lightly burnt roast was used.

You can see u. a. the former headquarters of Landesbank Berlin on Bundesallee , the Am Urban Clinic , the Glienicker Bridge and a major construction site in Berlin-Neukölln on which the Berlin city motorway is to be extended.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Ätzend on November 15, 2015 was seen by 9.71 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.6% for Das Erste . This enabled the crime scene, which began broadcasting in the first due to the ARD's reporting on the terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 in Paris with a 15-minute delay, the audience of 9.68 million viewers and a market share of 26.5% switched on the focus, even surpassed.

In Switzerland, 506,000 viewers over the age of three watched the first broadcast of the episode, giving it a market share of 24.9%. In the group of 15 to 59 year old viewers, 273,000 viewers were counted and a market share of 21.7% was measured.

Reviews

With a "horizontal narrative", the episode emulated the Dortmund investigators Faber, Bönisch, Dalay and Kossik , but presented "new viewers with difficulties", judged Christian Schmidt of the Westfälische Nachrichten . The "problem with this script system" is that "in all of the continuing storylines [...] the focus deviates from the case". "With all the ingratiating on US storytelling techniques, the exciting crime thriller must not be lost," concludes Schmidt.

dpa correspondent Julia Kilian calls the episode a "confusion about identities". The action is being advanced "at a rapid pace". At the same time, she makes “leaps from one place to the next and mostly touches on socio-political issues in subordinate clauses”. Visually, the result is “often somewhat like retro photos”, because “the colors look as if you had put a filter over them with a smartphone”, and at the same time show “unusual settings”.

The editorial offices of TV Today and TV Spielfilm saw a "quiet episode with an exciting team". They commented critically that "» Horizontal storytelling "" is "currently in fashion", "It doesn't make things easy for beginners here". “The rather quiet continuation” of the episode Das Muli “embeds a touching case in the ongoing drama of the new team”. "The latter remains exciting, but at the end of the day a few» coincidences «are tried too hard," to end with a cliffhanger to the next episode. TV Today awarded two out of three possible points, and TV Spielfilm gave the best of three possible ratings.

Andrea Diener judged for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that the episode appeared "almost provincial". The fact that every episode of the Berlin team of investigators in addition to the current investigation always carries the case of Karow's past with it, thus two cases are discussed in parallel, means that "one case [...] is at the expense of the other", especially "in the development of the narrative ”. Diener concludes, "as a viewer you should definitely have a great love for Berlin abysses and snotty things in order to survive the bump".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die Zeit : “Tatort” critics mirror: Today slime, early human , November 15, 2015
  2. ^ Crime scene: Corrosive at crew united
  3. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : "Etching" second case , media, pd, November 10, 2015
  4. ↑ a b YouTube : Making of Tatort Ätzend , tatortfans, October 26, 2015
  5. ↑ scene: Corrosive in Tatort-Fans.de
  6. ↑ Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg : Second Berlin crime scene with Meret Becker and Mark Waschke: Investigations on the large construction site , culture, accessed on November 20, 2015
  7. ↑ ARD Mediathek : Video: Making of: From excavator driver to extras ("Tatort: ​​Ätzend") ( Memento from October 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), October 11, 2015
  8. ↑ a b Westfälische Nachrichten : Almost ten million see “Tatort” , media, quotas, dpa , November 17, 2015
  9. ↑ a b Swiss radio and television : SRF 1 - November 15, 2015 ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Mediapulse television panel - German-speaking Switzerland, Overnight, people three years and older, accessed on November 26, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.srf.ch
  10. ^ A b Westfälische Nachrichten : crime scene: corrosive (ARD) - deviated from the case. Media, Seen, Christian Schmidt, November 16, 2015.
  11. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Pony trimmed, suit sits: The second case of the still young Berlin “Tatort” duo turns into a confusion about identities. ( online ), Media, November 14, 2015.
  12. ↑ TV Today : film review / TV feature film : film review
  13. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : TV review "Tatort: ​​Ätzend" - Berlin snout is not everything. Features / Media, Andrea Diener, November 15, 2015
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