Crime scene: used

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Used
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
with Bavaria Film
length 86 minutes
classification Episode 967 ( list )
First broadcast December 26, 2015 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Dagmar Seume
script Jens Maria Merz
production Sonja Goslicki
music Günther Illi
camera Gunnar foot
cut Oliver Grothoff
occupation

Used is a TV movie from the crime series Tatort . The broadcast produced by WDR was broadcast on Saturday, December 26, 2015, Boxing Day, in the first ARD program. In this 967th crime scene sequence, the Cologne commissioners Ballauf and Schenk determine their 64th case.

action

Ballauf and Schenk investigate the murder of the export and financial advisor Lessnik, who was shot. The suspicion of the murder victim's former business partner, Karsten Holler, is reinforced by the evidence. But he has disappeared without a trace since a motorcycle tour with Lessnik through the Sahara four years ago and was officially declared dead. Soon there are increasing signs that Holler is still alive: his ex-wife and his former business partner Winter und Gläsgen are blackmailed. The young investigator Trapp, who is being put to the side of the homicide squad by Customs to support the investigation, also finds out that her superior, Brandt, covered Holler's illegal arms deliveries to Iran four years ago . Brandt is suspended and goes in search of Holler. He hides in Brandt's weekend house, where he orders winter and glasses to hand over the money. Winter finds the lifeless Holler in a pool of blood and escapes, directly into the arms of Ballauf and Schenk, who arrest him. Gläsgen is also arrested because his car is found at the alleged crime scene, where Holler is no longer found when Ballauf and Schenk arrive. It turns out that Holler faked his death a second time to get revenge on his former accomplices Winter, Gläsgen and Brandt and his ex-wife. In the end he is tracked down by Ballauf and Schenk and arrested for the murder of Lessnik.

background

Company car of the KHK Schenk

The film was shot from October 14, 2014 to November 13, 2014 in Cologne and the surrounding area. The result was u. a. shot at the crane houses at Rheinauhafen , where the Rhine washes a corpse onto the bank.

Screenwriter Jens Maria Merz commented on the idea of ​​leaving a dead person under suspicion of murder: “The editorial team at WDR wanted an unusual approach to the story. I thought about it for a while, because after 40 years almost everything has already happened in a »crime scene«. Then I realized that the killer himself had been dead for years - the investigators are apparently chasing a corpse! "

In this episode, Chief Inspector Schenk uses an Opel Diplomat from the 1969-1972 series as a company car .

reception

Reviews

The episode is "sedate" and takes on known concepts from previous Cologne Tatort episodes, judged the prisma editorial team . In criminal circles, the Cologne crime scene is "quite popular" because it is "realistic" . The "dilemma with reality" is, however, the judgment of the prism that this "be pretty static" could.

The result Used is the opinion of dpa "a complicated case" , in which director and screenwriter "big plans - perhaps too much" have made. “Anyone who does not listen carefully as a spectator quickly loses the thread” , although “Commissioner Ballauf briefly summarizes the state of affairs for his colleagues” . “The sensitive political issue of illegal arms exports is too complex to be treated and criticized as a kind of subplot” , so that instead “the social criticism typical of Cologne's“ crime scene ”is quite clichéd” .

“How do you tell a good story? 'Show, don't tell,' say the Americans. The play by Dagmar Seume (book: Jens Maria Merz) can hardly be explained through scene and image, especially through talk and empty phrases from the investigator's questionnaire. "

- Holger Gertz : Süddeutsche Zeitung

“The characters look wooden, the plot is confused. A note box of half-baked ideas. Only one thing is really convincing here: the pleasantly casual outing of assistant Tobias Reisser […] - who is now officially the second gay 'Tatort' investigator, after Berlin Commissioner Karow […] had an emphatically wicked one-night last month -Stand with a man. "

- Christian Buß : Spiegel Online

Audience ratings

The first broadcasts of Use on 26 December 2015 was seen in Germany of 6.67 million viewers and a market share of 21.1% for the first . With just 580,000 fewer spectators, the dream ship was relegated to second place.

In Austria, the dream ship was shown on ORF 2 at the same time and not the first broadcast of the Tatort episode, as usual.

In Switzerland, 322,000 viewers over the age of three watched the first broadcast of the episode, giving it a market share of 19.1%. In the group of 15 to 59-year-old viewers, 160,000 viewers were counted and a market share of 16.0% was measured.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Crime scene: used by crew united
  2. ↑ a b c d prisma : Crime scene on Christmas Day: The Commissioners as Real Estate ( online ), December 26, 2015 - January 1, 2016, No. 52/2015, tl, p. 5
  3. ↑ Das Erste : Questions for the director and screenwriter , accessed on January 3, 2015
  4. ^ A b c Westfälische Nachrichten : A complicated case and minor territorial frictions: the Cologne “Tatort” duo are dealing with illegal arms deals , media, dpa , December 24, 2015
  5. ↑ Holger Gertz: A body in water and a lot of talk. Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 23, 2015, accessed on December 26, 2015 .
  6. ^ Christian Buß: ARD holiday crime thriller. The new "crime scene" from Cologne in a quick check. In: Culture. Spiegel Online , December 26, 2015, accessed on December 26, 2015 : "4 out of 10 points"
  7. ^ Robert Meyer: Primetime-Check: Sunday, December 26th, 2015.quotemeter.de , December 27th, 2015, accessed on December 27th, 2015 .
  8. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : "Tatort" and Fischer in front , media / people, dpa , December 28, 2015
  9. ↑ Medienforschung ORF , data from Saturday, December 26, 2015
  10. ↑ a b Swiss Radio and Television : SRF 1 - December 26, 2015 ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Mediapulse TV panel - German-speaking Switzerland, Overnight, people three years of age and older, accessed on December 30, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.srf.ch
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