Crime scene: Babbeldasch
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Babbeldasch |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 1012 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | February 26, 2017 on Das Erste , SRF 1 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Axel Ranisch |
| script | Sönke Andresen |
| production | Nils Reinhardt |
| music | Elena Kats-Chernin , Gioachino Rossini , Edvard Grieg and Béla Bartók |
| camera | Stefan Sommer |
| cut | Susanne Heller |
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Babbeldasch is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by SWR was broadcast on Erste and SRF 1 on February 26, 2017 . There was a preview on October 5, 2016 at the Hamburg Film Festival . In this 1012th crime scene episode, the Ludwigshafen commissioners Odenthal and Kopper determine their 56th joint case.
The result is the first film in the series in which written dialogues are dispensed with and the spoken texts have been developed on the basis of improvisation . In addition, all the episode roles were played by amateur actors from the Ludwigshafen dialect theater Hemshofschachtel . The film polarized media and viewers alike when it was broadcast and caused a shit storm on social networks .
action
Peter Becker takes his colleague Lena Odenthal to a performance by the Babbeldasch dialect theater in Ludwigshafen. On the evening of the premiere, there was a scandal, because an official from the building authorities stated that there was insufficient evidence of the building safety and that he would have to cancel the event. Without further ado, the man is shown outside and the theater begins its performance anyway. In the first act, the leading actress and theater director Sophie Fettèr dies of an allergic shock and the audience is sent home.
That same night, Lena Odenthal appears in a dream Sophie Fettèr. She threatens to visit her every night if she doesn't explain what would have happened in the theater. The Commissioner learned from the newspaper the next day that the press accused the baker of having baked death croissants because all of the baked goods he delivered contained poppy seeds, to which the victim was highly allergic.
After initial research, Sophie Fettèr was in a dispute with her landlord Bohlmann because he wanted to give her the theater space, but she had a lifelong tenancy right granted by his father. So Bohlmann obviously benefits from Fettèr's demise. Since he was demonstrably on vacation at the time of the crime, he cannot be the perpetrator.
Sarah Fettèr, the victim's daughter, is determined to continue the theater. In order to be able to investigate undisturbed within the theater people, Odenthal applies there as an amateur actress and is warmly welcomed, as nobody here knows that she is a commissioner. She continues to be plagued by nightmares in which Sophie Fettèr appears again and again. Johanna Stern heads the official investigation and finds out that the victim knew about his allergy and therefore had an emergency kit. However, this has not yet been found, which is why it can be assumed that someone had deliberately stolen it. Odenthal happens to observe that Bieni, one of the employees in the theater group, seems to be doing business with the hated landlord Bohlmann. Bieni is interrogated and admits that Bohlmann had promised him money if he made sure that the premiere "bursts". That's why he would have injected the poppy seed mixture into the croissants. He was of the opinion that Fettèr would only "tighten the neck a little" and she would be out of the game that evening. He would have made sure that Fettèr had her emergency kit in his pocket.
After there was another accident in the theater in which Sophie Fettèr's friend fell fatally, Manfred Oehlenschläger, who had also been friends with Sophie for 37 years, confessed to having taken the emergency cutlery. He was angry that the theater manager, contrary to her promise, did not want to stop the theater. When she suddenly got the allergic shock in front of his eyes and asked him for her emergency kit, he took it out of her pocket, but just kept it in his hand and watched her die.
background
The film was shot from June 7, 2016 to July 7, 2016 in Baden-Baden and Ludwigshafen, there in the dialect theater Hemshofschachtel . 25 members of the Hemshofschachtel ensemble took part.
reception
Reviews
“This Agatha Christie scenario with a dozen suspects just doesn't work out because the tension would have to be achieved via the precisely constructed and equally played plot. The network of relationships cannot really be disentangled precisely in improvisation. And the symphonies by Grieg and Bartók, which Ranisch placed over the tender, shirt-sleeved jostling of the baker and nurse ensemble, hardly function as coherent counterpoints. […] For the 'crime scene' in general and the Odenthal television district in particular, this episode is still of value. It represents an important experiment that does not have to succeed in order to shake up the crime series properly. "
“This allegedly completely different crime scene by filmmaker Axel Ranisch is, in terms of content and at the bottom of his heart, a crime scene of the most ordinary and conventional kind. The fact that the victim - here the theater director - is killed by a chocolate croissant contaminated with poppy seeds extends the table of causes of death on Sunday evening. What follows, however: a classic murder search with different tracks and a surprising twist at the end. [...] Little is played, a lot is babbled on endlessly. Stress in the police station. Coffee is drunk. The coffee machine is broken. So, despite impro: things drag, the piece is so terribly boring. "
“This Ludwigshafen crime scene is an experiment that was a complete success. Because "Babbeldasch" is the first episode of the crime series that was shot without a script and completely improvised. The result: a lot of passion. Few directors could have implemented this undertaking as well as Axel Ranisch. The all-rounder ("Big Girls", "Alki Alki") always shoots without a script. The decision to cast almost all of the supporting roles with actors from the Ludwigshafen amateur theater Hemshofschachtel also proves to be a direct hit. Seldom has one come so close to the people of the Electoral Palatinate. "
“What worked for Alki Alki often backfires in this thriller. The actors play stiffly, the story stops. Especially the dream scenes are involuntarily funny. Surrealism from the nursery. - Swap 20 amateur actors for 1 professional "
“Whether you wanted it or not, this film is surrounded by the aura of the Volksbühne, and in terms of its dramaturgical sophistication and the acting skills of its actors it unfolds the flair of Peter Steiner's Theaterstadl , which was an old-fashioned relic two decades ago. (...) To put it bluntly, "Babbeldasch" is an advertising film for scriptwriters and drama schools, because it illustrates what a boring piece of work can arise if you want to (largely) do without both. "
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Babbeldasch on February 26, 2017 was seen by 6.35 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 17.6% for Das Erste . In Switzerland, the crime scene was watched by 317,000 viewers on SRF 1 and achieved a market share of 18.3%.
Web links
- Crime scene: Babbel Dasch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Babbeldasch on the ARD website
- Babbeldasch at the crime scene fund
- Babbeldasch at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ date for the preview called up at rtntvnews.de.
- ↑ Crime scene: Babbeldasch at crew united
- ↑ Ludwigshafen: Tatort shoot for “Babbeldasch” in Hemshofschachtel with Ulrike Folkerts and director Axel Ranisch. Retrieved February 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Christian Buß: Dialect "Tatort" with Odenthal. The zombie who babbled in the Palatinate. In: Culture. Spiegel Online , February 24, 2017, accessed on July 8, 2018 : "4 out of 10 points"
- ↑ Holger Gertz: The first improv crime scene in world history. Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 24, 2017, accessed on July 8, 2018 .
- ^ Paul Katzenberger: crime scene gleanings - successful experiment - culture - Süddeutsche.de. sueddeutsche.de, accessed on February 27, 2017 .
- ↑ TV Spielfilm, issue 5/2017, page 127
- ↑ The Critics: Tatort - Babbeldasch
- ↑ Manuel Weis: Primetime check: Sunday, February 26, 2017.quotemeter.de , February 27, 2017, accessed on July 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Audience figures , SRF 1 - 02/26/2017. (PDF) Retrieved April 3, 2017 .
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