Crime scene: outcrossing
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Outcrossing |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
WDR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 811 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | September 25, 2011 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Torsten C. Fischer |
| script | Karl-Heinz Beetle |
| production | Sonja Goslicki |
| music | Fabian Römer |
| camera | Theo Bierkens |
| cut | Benjamin Hembus |
| occupation | |
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Outcrossing is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film by director Torsten C. Fischer based on a screenplay by Karl Heinz Käfer is the 51st case of the Cologne team of investigators Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk . The report produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk was first broadcast on September 25, 2011 on Das Erste .
action
In a genetic engineering research laboratory in Cologne, a young woman was experimenting at night when the cooling system that was supposed to control the temperature of her samples failed. She tries to cool them with ice so that they are not damaged. On the same night a group of activists occupied a field where genetically modified crops were being grown to demonstrate against genetic engineering.
The next day, the young researcher is found dead over the freezer, suffocated in dry ice. The commissioners Ballauf and Schenk take over the investigation and the first investigations show that the cooling system was deliberately short-circuited and sabotaged. It is also striking that the victim was hired even though she did not have sufficient qualifications. This fact makes the team leader, Dr. Christoph Rubner, suspicious, and the commissioners quickly find out that he had a relationship with the victim. Since his wife also works at the institute, an act of jealousy is also conceivable. Initially, the investigators concentrate on the group of opponents of genetic engineering who have taken very radical action in their action and who do not shy away from violence. The activist, suspected of Alexander Geyda, who has already been noticed by the police and was friends with researcher Lara Bahls, appears here. After the institute employee, Dr. David Prangel, a colleague and former affair of Lara Bahls, is found suffocated in his apartment, the investigators focus on Alexander Geyda. He could have murdered him out of jealousy.
However, when Lara Bahls was broken into and apparently only a pack of ice cream was stolen, the inspectors' investigations took a whole new direction. According to her research, Prangel had stolen a protein from the institute, but it was no longer in his apartment after his death. While Ballauf and Schenk are trying to explain the disappearance of this sample, Bahls is in the process of investigating this protein that their Prangel had placed in safekeeping. She finds out that this protein, which her research team uses to research AIDS drugs, is ineffective. Knowing this, she goes to Rubner and has no idea that it was he who killed Prangels. He numbs his colleague with a sleeping pill and tries to suffocate her with a garbage bag. But Bahls wakes up again and flees the house. When Ballauf and Schenk appear, Rubner is arrested.
Rubner admits he sabotaged the freezer to destroy the protein. His employee was accidentally killed. When Rubner learned that there is another sample in the possession of Prangel and that Prangel wanted to make public that the material was useless, he killed it. He stole the sample that was with Lara Bahls and hid it in the ice pack, but did not know that there was another sample hidden in the Prangel aquarium. After Bahls examined them, he tried to kill them too.
background
The shooting of the 811th crime scene crime story took place in Cologne . The scenes in the laboratories and in the research institute were filmed at the caesar research center in Bonn . It was the 51st crime scene with the Cologne investigator duo Ballauf and Schenk. This episode is one of two episodes in which the two commissioners Ballauf and Schenk do not eat currywurst. The background is that at the time of filming, construction was taking place on the banks of the Rhine in Cologne and the booth was therefore closed.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Auskreuzung on September 25, 2011 was seen by a total of 7.7 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22% for Das Erste ; In the group of 14 to 49 year old viewers , 2.53 million viewers and a market share of 17.4% were achieved.
criticism
The combination of crime scene and genetic engineering was increasingly criticized as boring. The portrayal of Luise Berndt, who played the role of Lara Bahls, was praised.
“'Outcrossing' goes into the inner workings of a plant research institute. Laboratory samples have disappeared. Accidental death, then maybe murder after all. German genetic researchers under pressure, opponents of genetic engineering ready to take action. Without the crime fiction umbrella brand, this half-hearted themed thriller would not have four million viewers. Even someone like Torsten C. Fischer has no chance against the sterile ambience and the more rustic acting inspectors. The only bright spot: Luise Berndt's game - like on drugs, on drug work! "
“Instead of exciting crime fiction, there were highly scientific explanations about genetic engineering that were difficult to follow. But there was also a ray of hope in this otherwise boring 'crime scene': Actress Luise Berndt, who played a cool femme fatale and not only spiced up the thriller with a lot of bare skin. "
Web links
- Crime scene: outcrossing in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Outcrossing in the online film database
- Summary of the act of outcrossing on the ARD website
- Outcrossing in the crime scene fundus
- Outcrossing at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ quotemeter.de : Primetime-Check: Sunday, September 25, 2011 , accessed on January 23, 2012.
- ↑ tittelbach.tv: "Tatort - Auskreuzung" series , accessed on January 23, 2012.
- ↑ “Tatort - Outcrossing”: Genetic engineering thriller to yawn
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