Crime scene: Counted
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Counted |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
ORF and RBB Superama Filmproduktions GmbH (Munich) |
| length | 88 min. Minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 881 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | September 15, 2013 on Das Erste , ORF 2 , SRF 1 |
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| Director | Sabine Derflinger |
| script | Martin Ambrosch |
| production | David Schalko, John Lueftner |
| music | Geri Schuller |
| camera | Christine A. Maier |
| cut | Niki Mossböck |
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Counted is a television film from the crime series Tatort , which was broadcast for the first time on September 15, 2013 on Erste as well as on ORF 2 and SRF 1 . It is the 881st episode in the series, the 31st case of the Austrian investigator Moritz Eisner and the seventh case of the Eisner / Fellner investigative team. The crime thriller about poverty prostitution in Vienna was awarded the Grimme Prize 2014 .
action
Former prostitute Yulya Bakalova is the victim of an arson attack on the street. The assassin is twelve-year-old Ivo, who sprays the Bulgarian woman with gasoline from a water pistol, which ignites immediately because she has a burning cigarette in her hand. Bibi Fellner still knows the victim from her time with the custom , when the woman testified against the Bulgarian pimp Aziz, which earned him several years in prison. Fellner then accepted the Bulgarian woman into a witness protection program and promised her to protect her. Now she reproaches herself for the fact that the young woman called her immediately before the crime, but Fellner had not accepted the call, which was reported to be anonymous. A little later, Bakalova dies in the hospital from her severe burns.
It turns out that Aziz was released early a few weeks ago, but the authorities failed to notify the witness or the police of the release. Shortly before the attack, the former boxer spoke to the young woman and upset her. Eisner and Fellner, who are convinced that Aziz was the perpetrator of the attack, confront him, but cannot prove anything.
Eventually the boy who committed the crime is caught. He has a piece of paper with him that says in poor German that his name is Ivo, he is 12 years old and therefore, according to the law, he should not be punished. After he remains silent and hides his identity, Eisner and Fellner find out that he is also of Bulgarian descent. His mother Nora, who, like the burnt victim and many other young women , had been lured away from her home village to Sofia by Aziz under false promises , had been beaten, raped and “put on the line ” by the pimp . When the only 17-year-old Nora became pregnant by Aziz and gave birth to Ivo, she gave the boy to a home and had to continue to “buy” for Aziz in Vienna in order to pay off the debts that the pimp had placed on her.
Ivo, who had left his Bulgarian foster family and came to Vienna to find his mother, is brought to the children's turntable by Fellner , a social institution for children in need. From there, however, he sits down again and finds his way back to his mother's apartment. Aziz ' thug Petrow has since given her permission to leave the city unmolested, as Ivo has paid all her debts through his act. When she packs up her belongings and Ivo wants to join her, she beats him, calls him a murderer and leaves him alone.
After the boy wandered aimlessly around town for a while, Fellner finally found him in front of her house and brought him to her apartment. She feels sorry for him and wants to protect him from access by the judiciary and the press, as her superior Ernst Rauter expects the fastest possible results and wants to present the public with a guilty party for the murder. The boy, who has since gained confidence in the policewoman, tells her that Aziz recruited him for the murder of Yulya Bakalova and in return promised him his mother's freedom.
The pimp has meanwhile recognized that the boy can cause him difficulties as a witness and sets off with his henchmen in search of him. During a search of Nora's apartment, he finds a clue to Fellner's address. While his sidekick Petrov blocks the main entrance of Fellner's house, Aziz gains access to her apartment. He hits Fellner, who stands protectively in front of Ivo, the pistol from his hand and brutally beats it up. Then he drags her in front of the apartment in the outside hallway to push her over the railing into the depths. In the meantime, Eisner uses his service weapon to forcibly gain access to the house by shooting Petrov through the glass door. Once at the top he witnesses how Ivo shoots the man who is his biological progenitor with Fellner's pistol and thus saves the life of the policewoman.
At the end of the film, Ivo is officially accepted into the social facility Kinder-Drehscheibe , while Bibi Fellner, still clearly marked by the brutal attack, visits her father in the old people's home, with whom she has not spoken for over 20 years.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Counted on September 15, 2013 was seen in Germany by 9.43 million viewers and achieved a market share of 27.5% for Das Erste ; In the group of 14- to 49-year-old viewers , 2.98 million viewers and a market share of 21.7% were achieved.
In Austria, 873,000 viewers and a 31% market share were achieved.
Reviews
“Thankfully, this“ crime scene ”is not interested in the usual investigative office fetishism, such as victim photos stuck on the wall or coffee machine slapstick. Instead, it is a psychological test of strength. Above all, we dive into Viennese conditions beyond the glossy brochures on long night drives. "
“Nevertheless, the new Austrian" Tatort "is more than a milieu shocker with a certificate of authenticity. The filmmakers succeed in skillfully turning the dramaturgical rules of crime novels on their heads. [...] That is the grim punch line of this extraordinary "crime scene": The murderer, here he does not have to be hunted, but protected. "
“With the Austrians, the characters were developed with patience and probably also with love, they reveal themselves more in each episode. The inner context of the episodes explains the inner closeness of the commissioners. Two hissing and stumbling grumblers: Nowhere else do the investigators tell so much about the character of their location. "
Background and public reaction
The film correctly mentions that there are around 6,000 prostitutes in Vienna, 3,200 officially registered and an estimated 3,000 more illegal ones. The police have six investigators who specialize in prostitution. According to chief investigator Tatzgern, they are only supported by around 30 investigators from the field of smuggling , uniformed police officers and investigators from the Federal Criminal Police Office in the case of major focus actions and international investigations . In 2008 there was still a staff of 36 investigators in the field of human trafficking and prostitution, which was reduced by retirements, police reforms and restructuring. After the crime scene episode was broadcast, the police union Greilinger demanded that the number of specialized investigators be doubled in order to have a second group in this area. Police spokesman Johann Golob did not see the personnel situation as dramatic, since there were the supporting units.
Awards
- Grimme Prize 2014 for Martin Ambrosch, Sabine Derflinger, Adele Neuhauser and Harald Krassnitzer
Web links
- Counted in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Crime scene: Counted at filmportal.de
- Summary of the plot of Counted on the ARD website
- Counted in the crime scene fund
- Counted at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Timo Nöthling: Primetime Check, Sunday September 15, 2013.quotemeter.de , September 16, 2013, accessed on September 16, 2013 .
- ↑ Medienforschung ORF , data from Sunday, September 15, 2013.
- ↑ Oliver Junge: A child as a weapon. In: Culture. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 12, 2013, accessed on September 13, 2013 : “Urban slave trade: The“ crime scene. Counting "pulls to light what society likes to suppress"
- ↑ Christian Buß: ORF "Tatort" about sex slaves: Vienna's sold souls. Spiegel Online, September 13, 2013, accessed on September 14, 2013 : "Sabine Derflinger, one of the most daring German-speaking directors, had already shown part of Vienna's red light district in her drama" Day and Night " in 2010. "
- ↑ Holger Gertz: table maid. Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 15, 2013, accessed on September 15, 2013 : "This is a crime scene that is well worth seeing, it's about Bulgarian prostitutes in the outskirts of the city."
- ^ According to "Tatort": More police officers required. In: wien.orf.at. September 17, 2013. Retrieved September 17, 2013 .
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