Crime scene: Amour Fou

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Amour Fou
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 REAL FILM Berlin on behalf of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 1023 ( List )
First broadcast June 5, 2017 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Vanessa Jopp
script Christoph Darnstädt
production Sibylle Stellbrink
music Loy Wesselburg
camera Judith Kaufmann
cut Jochen Retter
occupation

Amour Fou is a television film from the crime series Tatort that first aired on June 5, 2017. It is the 1023rd episode in the series and the fifth case of the Berlin team of investigators Rubin and Karow .

action

In the arbor garden of the homosexual teacher Enno Schopper, who is on leave, a burned corpse is found, killed, doused with gasoline and set on fire. The Berlin commissioners Nina Rubin and Robert Karow are therefore investigating at his comprehensive school in the Neukölln Rollbergkiez. There the student Jasna has just taken a positive pregnancy test in the toilet. The alleged child father is Duran, the son of a criminal and an alcoholic, whom Schopper took care of after he was the only one of a gang of boys who had torched his car three years ago. Instead of reporting him, he had taken him to the hospital and wanted to finance a study abroad for him after graduating from high school.

The leave of absence took place because Enno Schopper was seen to involve Duran in a sexual act. An interrogation of Duran on this incident fails because he allegedly fled abroad with his father. Thus Duran is suspected of murder and is now wanted by arrest warrant. But since he does not contact his girlfriend and cannot be reached by phone, Jasna fears that something might have happened to him. But while checking the petrol stations near the crime scene, Duran is seen buying a can of petrol, which increases the suspicion against him. But Jasna is firmly convinced that Duran has done nothing to Schopper. After all, he had trusted the teacher who was his father's substitute. In the course of the investigation, the commissioners also have doubts about the young man's sole guilt. So Armin Berlow, Enno Schopper's partner, is in the sights of the investigators. He behaves more and more conspicuously and seems to know more than he pretends to be. Robert Karow tries to win the trust of the man who is still very concerned. Nevertheless, there are indications that indicate that the victim was slain in Berlow's apartment and from here was taken to the allotment garden. In the meantime everything indicates that Armin Berlow actually killed his partner because he wanted to be with Duran, whom he is presumably hiding in France. When the policemen check the whereabouts there, they are in for a great surprise, because not Duran, but Enno Schopper they find safe there. So in the end it turns out that the victim is not Schopper at all, but Duran's father. That evening he had shown up at Berlow's and his partner's house drunk and wanted to use force to get his son, who, as so often, was staying there instead of at home. Armed with a knife, he threatened Schopper, so that Berlow couldn't help but hit the man with the next best thing. Fearing that you would not believe “two fagots and a student with a migrant background ”, they came up with the red herring.

background

The film was shot in Berlin from September 6, 2016 to October 7, 2016 . In the film, the song is repeatedly La Mer by Charles Trenet to hear.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Amour Fou on June 5, 2017 was seen by 7.90 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.5 percent for Das Erste .

Reviews

“[…], Nevertheless one would have wished for a little more ambivalences in the depiction of the adolescents […]. Your raging is staged very clumsily. The script is otherwise full of surprising twists and turns, ingenious reflections and cleverly leveraged clichés. "

- Christian Buß : Spiegel Online

“With this fifth adventure you are now setting everything to zero, Nina Rubin […] and Robert Karow […] have to clarify why a gay teacher was killed and burned, they ring the doorbell for this purpose and ask investigators questions. It's a classic thriller, self-contained. That is good for the commissioners, and for the public too. "

- Holger Gertz : Süddeutsche Zeitung

The critic Ulrich Feld at Frankfurter Neue Presse rated this crime scene as “well mixed and well prepared.” The film shows “many thoughtful and loving details that give the story a high density. Whereby the crime thriller tells its story mostly in calm pictures, but with rather brutal details. Because it's pretty rough what gets the crime story rolling here. "

Axel Weidemann from the FAZ said: “This title, 'Amour Fou', [sounds] more like surrender to emotional overload than like a glowing premonition that something terrible could happen.” “Rubin and Karow work on this case with their usual argumentative and eloquent style which, however, gets a bit too tricky. Above all, the dialogues draw from the liveliness and credible boldness of Meret Becker. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Scene of the crime: Amour Fou at crew united
  2. ↑ Information on the film music accessed at daserste.de .
  3. ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime check: Whit Monday, June 5, 2017.quotemeter.de , June 6, 2017, accessed on June 6, 2017 .
  4. ^ Christian Buß: Neukölln- "Tatort". Strange in your own neighborhood. Spiegel Online, June 2, 2017, accessed on June 3, 2017 : "Rating: 7 out of 10 points"
  5. ↑ Holger Gertz: "Tatort" from Berlin. Finally a classic thriller. In: Media. June 2, 2017. Retrieved June 3, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Ulrich Feld: Film review at fnp.de, accessed on November 13, 2017.
  7. ↑ Axel Weidemann : And the love film review is ready at the FAZ , accessed on November 13, 2017.
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