Crime scene: Bad ground

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Bad ground
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Cinecentrum on behalf of the NDR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 1037 ( List )
German-language
first broadcast		 November 26, 2017 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Sabine Bernardi
script Georg Lippert
Marvin Kren
production Dagmar Rosenbauer
music Axel Huber
Philipp Noll
camera Oliver-Maximilian Kraus
cut Anne-Kathrein Thiele
occupation

Böser Boden is a television film from the crime series Tatort , which was produced for Norddeutscher Rundfunk and was premiered on November 26, 2017. It is the 1037th episode in the series and the eighth case of Chief Detective Thorsten Falke .

action

The Iranian engineer Arash Naderi is found dead in front of a natural gas production plant in Lower Saxony - he was brutally beaten and suffocated with a bag. Commissioner Thorsten Falke and his colleague Julia Grosz are investigating militant environmentalists and a deeply divided village community.

As Falke and Grosz found out, as a truck driver for a fracking company , Naderi was transporting highly toxic substances that arise from the controversial gas extraction method and was therefore harassed by farmers and eco-activists in the area before his death. Their ringleader Jan Kielsperg had already come into conflict with the protection of the constitution several times. He regularly holds meetings in his barn and is known for inciting people. Falke and Grosz soon find out what these conspiratorial meetings are about: The farmers are planning campaigns against fracking and natural gas extraction. The local police officers who support Falke and Grosz are also convinced opponents of fracking and therefore keep clashing with the two federal police officers.

The villagers, striking with their pale faces, skin rashes and dull hair, are a mystery to the investigators with their callous and increasingly aggressive demeanor. The area with the lake, the forest and the boggy land also appears unhealthy and rotten. The scientist Henry Fohlen from the Lower Saxony Mining Office wants to support the investigative duo with his mobile laboratory. The investigation actually shows that the lake is highly polluted with toxins and everyone who has bathed in it recently has become sick. Henry Fohlen has to feel this firsthand and does not rule out that the poisonous composition overcomes the blood-brain barrier and leads to changes in the nature of those affected.

It is becoming increasingly clear that the victim was not a target because of his or her origin but because of his job. Not only did he have the village population against him, but also his employer. According to records that are leaked to Falke and Grosz, the victim began collecting incriminating material against the refinery, which proves that toxic substances were illegally dumped into old wells. He had also drawn his brother's wrath. Hamed Naderi indirectly blames him for his youngest son's nervous disease because he worked for the company that is responsible for the poisons. When the situation worsens and the whole Naderi family becomes the target of popular anger, he admits to Falke and Grosz that he intercepted his brother on the way to work and maltreated him with a jack. Falke explains to him that he did not kill his brother with the beatings, but if he had come back to him, he could have saved him, because taking advantage of the helpless situation of Arash Naderi, one of Jan Kielsperg's children, who were also changed in character, had one for the driver Plastic bag pulled over his head so that he was suffocated.

The relationship between Falke and his son, who is hanging in the Hamburg drug scene, is a sideline. Once, Falke simply disappears without informing his mercilessly rational colleague in order to look for his son at a club concert. This behavior puts a strain on the relationship of trust between Falke and Grosz.

background

The film was shot from October 11, 2016 to November 9, 2016 in Hamburg, Dollbergen and Lower Saxony.

At a club concert, AnnenMayKantereit plays her piece “Oft asked” live, which is also played repeatedly during the course of the film.

In the Rotenburg (Wümme) district , where the film takes place, a significant part of German natural gas is extracted. In 2015, with 1.2 billion m 3 of raw gas, this was the gas field with the highest production. In 2016, investigations by the epidemiological cancer registry of the Lower Saxony State Health Office on cancer in the period from 2003 to 2012 were reported, according to which, for example, in the municipality of Bothel, the number of men with blood and lymph gland cancer was twice as high as the average, in Rotenburg itself the number was 30% above average. In Wittorf , too, there were protests by residents against fracking. The State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology in Clausthal-Zellerfeld carried out immission measurements in 2016 .

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Böser Boden on November 26, 2017 was seen by 7.99 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 21.8% for Das Erste .

Reviews

The reviews of this crime scene episode were largely negative. So criticized Christian Buss at Spiegel Online : "This 'crime scene' maneuvers awkwardly around his major themes around. In general, the narrative is constantly falling into the balls, even in actually harmless moments. There are a few unfortunate changes of location. "

At the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Holger Gertz wrote : “The federal police officers Julia Grosz [...] and Thorsten Falke [...] are fighting their way through a case in which horror is mixed with crime, and because everything is mixed with everything anyway, the result is porridge. The unfamiliar horror moments are mixed with the most rancid scenes of the crime scene, the inspector says inspector sentences from the eighties: 'Something's wrong here.' [...] The crime scene here is more of a nightmare. "

Thomas Gehringer from Tittelbach.tv said: “The 'Tatort - Böser Boden' [...] quotes the zombie genre, with expressive, sometimes caricature-like figures (a festival for the make-up artists). The borrowings from fantasy horror are appealingly implemented, but often seem like foreign bodies in typical crime TV realism. The mix doesn't make a convincing whole. Also because the case is confusing and not very credible. "

Daniele Muscionico from the Neue Zürcher Zeitung commented: “'Böser Boden' has the beginnings of a master stroke in its strongest moments. He plays with our intellect and mixes genres so easily that the ground turns: Sometimes it's an environmental film, sometimes a horror flick, in passing you touch the cannibalism and more of the old fairy tales that are effective in people. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angela Hübsch: Dollbergen - a village in crime scene fever. In: NDR 1 Lower Saxony. Norddeutscher Rundfunk , November 9, 2016, accessed on November 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Crime scene: Bad ground at crew united
  3. ↑ Oil and gas in the Federal Republic of Germany 2015 - annual report, download (PDF, 4.56 MB)
  4. ↑ Bernhard Honnigfort: Does death come from the earth? In: Frankfurter Rundschau . April 20, 2016
  5. ^ Wittorfer leave home: "Don't want cancer" . In: Kreiszeitung . April 12, 2014
  6. ↑ Thorsten Kratzmann: Rising cancer numbers in the Rotenburg district: How much poison is stored underground? In: Nordsee-Zeitung . 22nd September 2017
  7. ↑ Immission measurements in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme): investigation results (2016)
  8. ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime Check: Sunday, November 26, 2017.quotemeter.de , November 27, 2017, accessed on November 27, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Christian Buß: Horror "crime scene" about fracking. Attack of the eco zombies. Spiegel Online, November 24, 2017, accessed on November 24, 2017 : "Rating: 4 out of 10 points"
  10. ↑ Holger Gertz: Something is wrong here. In: Media. Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 24, 2017, accessed on November 24, 2017 .
  11. ^ Möhring, Weisz, Lippert / Kren, Bernardi. "The Walking Dead" in Northern Germany? at Tittelbach.tv , accessed on March 10, 2018.
  12. ^ Daniele Muscionico: crime scene: cemetery of the cuddly toys. www.nzz.ch, November 27, 2017, accessed November 30, 2017 .
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