Crime scene: At the end of the day
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | At the end of the day |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
MR |
| classification | Episode 770 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | September 5, 2010 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Titus Selge |
| script | Titus Selge |
| music | Kai Fischer |
| camera | Frank Blue |
| cut | Stefan Kraushaar |
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At the end of the day there is a German television film from Hessischer Rundfunk from the ARD crime series Tatort . The 18th case of Frankfurt investigators Dellwo and Sänger in 2010 was the last joint case between the investigators. The two commissioners try to prove the innocence of their ex-boss Rudi Fromm, who is suspected of murder. A released prisoner relentlessly takes revenge and kills three uninvolved people, including Fromm's lover. Although the framework story appears very violent and emotional, it is a rather calm exit for the two inspectors.
action
Rudi Fromm, the head of the Frankfurt homicide squad, spends the hours before his retirement with his lover Bea Ziegler. A man enters the apartment and shoots Bea Ziegler in front of Fromm's eyes with his service weapon. He goes into hiding immediately to find the fugitive murderer and to prove his own innocence.
Dellwo and singer are called to the scene and find a photo of their boss. They want to bring him the news of the death of his acquaintances and are surprised not to find him at home. His wife says that he only came home that morning and was noticeably pale. Shortly afterwards, Fromm's service weapon is identified as the murder weapon and public prosecutor Dr Scheer instructs Dellwo and Singer to find Fromm as quickly as possible before a manhunt has to be initiated.
Fromm goes on a search for the murderer and is visibly struck by what happened. He goes to the archives of the Bureau at night and looks for his old cases. He quickly finds what he is looking for: Nikolaus Graf was imprisoned 20 years ago and now he seems to want revenge. Graf and his wife Regina had committed a series of brutal bank robberies in the 1970s and 1980s. He had caught it and his wife died, who was also pregnant at the time.
Singer runs into Nikolaus Graf in a bar and learns from the owner Bruno Swoboda that Fromm was with him on the same day. She is therefore convinced that her former boss will investigate on her own. The next day she looks at the old cases that Fromm worked on while he was on duty and notices that Nikolaus Graf's file is missing. When she gets a photo of Graf and looks at it, she realizes that this is the man she met in the bar the night before. So it is clear that you have to find this man if you want to prove Fromm's innocence.
Shortly afterwards, the body of Bruno Swoboda, who was also shot with Fromm's service weapon, is found. Since Fromm's daughter Katrin tells the investigators where to find her father, they can arrest him and question him. She herself is an actress at a theater and is stabbed to death by Graf after an evening performance. When the investigators have to deliver the news of his daughter's death to Fromm, he suffers a heart attack. However, he does not want to stay in the hospital and lets his wife, from whom he otherwise lives separately, bring him home. Fromm is supposed to receive police protection, but refuses, as he thinks he can attract Graf better without protection.
At Katrin's funeral, Graf approaches Fromm and tells him that he would like to see how he suffers. But he also makes him a suggestion and immediately disappears. Fromm then turns to Scheer and is officially employed as a freelancer. Graf lures Fromm to him, and although Dellwo and Singer are watching him, he can shake them off. Shortly afterwards, shots are fired and both opponents stand facing each other on a bridge with pistols drawn. Dellwo and singer are behind it. Dellwo shoots Fromm in the leg, whereupon he falls to the ground and Graf says in astonishment: “I didn't shoot.” He then shoots himself. A broken Rudi Fromm remains. Fritz Dellwo and Charlotte Sänger decide to go on vacation together, further fates remain open.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of At the end of the day on September 5, 2010 was seen by a total of 7.61 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22.3% for Das Erste ; In the group of 14 to 49 year old viewers , 2.46 million viewers and a market share of 16.9% were achieved.
Reviews
The reviews of this crime scene are mostly positive. Christian Buß at Spiegel.de is impressed, because “The Frankfurt series has never been so flattering before. [...] As in no other "crime scene", the topography of the area with its psycho-economic peculiarities as a financial metropolis was negotiated. "
Freddy Langer at Faz.net mainly deals with the investigators' departure after eight years and says it is “not the worst ending for a“ crime scene ”team, whose artistic energy manifests itself in small explosions more than once during the filming in Frankfurt has discharged. "
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv praises this Frankfurt crime scene and writes: “As expected, HR has come up with an unusual case for the departure of the best“ Tatort ”team of the last decade.” The “Ex-boss Fromm is suspected of murder. Nevertheless, the “Tatort” profound founders say goodbye to their viewers in a downright moody (and self-referential way). [...] [Even if] Titus Selges and Frank Blau's camera concept [...] plays with a lot of shadows and backlighting, [...] [and] danced a little out of line. But then it comes to a showdown on a Main Bridge - where "at the end of the day" suddenly everything seems possible again. "
“It is the actor Peter Lerchbaumer as Rudi Fromm who gives this film its enormous impact, an old man for whom nothing is ever good anymore. He looks right into evil. It may be the revenge for many unimportant television thrillers: parting is a bit like dying. "
“The pictures are bleak, the prospects bleak, the murders are cold-blooded, the detective officers are desperate. And yet in this cool desolation there is now and then a spark of warmth. Titus Selge (script and director) says goodbye to the Frankfurt investigator duo with a very good, but utterly unglamorous crime thriller. "
Web links
- At the end of the day in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of At the end of the day on the ARD website
- At the end of the day at the crime scene fund
- At the end of the day at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Seven and a half million see Sawatzki's farewell. Quotemeter.de , September 6, 2010, accessed on February 12, 2015 : "Before Joachim Król investigates in Frankfurt, Commissioner Sänger went on a last murder hunt."
- ↑ Christian Buß : Pale Porcelain in the Red Light Swamp on spiegel.de, accessed on February 16, 2014.
- ↑ Two commissioners have played on faz.net, accessed on February 16, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 16, 2014.
- ↑ Claudia Tieschky: View into Evil. Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 5, 2010, accessed on February 12, 2015 : "Your farewell (written and directed by Titus Selge) is not pathetic, it is great."
- ↑ Ulrike Klode: Two farewell kisses. Stern, September 6, 2010, accessed on February 12, 2015 : "With At the End of the Day , director Titus Selge has created a thriller that is almost consistently a gloomy pleasure."
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