Crime scene: Bermuda

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Bermuda
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 540 ( List )
First broadcast September 14, 2003 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Manfred Stelzer
script Scarlett Kleint ,
Roswitha Seidel
production Sonja Goslicki
music Lutz Kerschowski ,
Danny Dziuk
camera Tomas Erhart
cut Bernd Schriever
occupation

Bermuda is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film, produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and directed by Manfred Stelzer , was broadcast on September 14, 2003 on ARD's first program. It is the 26th case of the Cologne team of investigators Ballauf and Schenk and the 540th crime scene episode.

action

Barbara Sylvester is found stabbed to death on the banks of the Rhine in Cologne and it looks like a robbery. When Ballauf and Schenk are called to the site, Schenk recognizes the woman as the boss of his friend Wolf-Dieter Lachner, who works as a training manager in the dead’s car dealership. Schenk also knows that she has been a widow for half a year because her husband was killed in a car accident. A break-in has obviously taken place in the house of the dead and the devastation and graffiti on the walls suggest an act of revenge. When Ballauf and Schenk visit the dealership, they quickly find out that they had a relationship with Lachner and that the two had argued badly yesterday. Otherwise, Lachner is a very social person, who is currently taking care of the criminal David Brunner, who is doing an apprenticeship in the car dealership as part of rehabilitation. Since Lachner himself seems to be on the run, that makes him suspicious at first. It later emerges that he wanted to get himself and some of the company's documents to safety from a Danish car mafia.

Investigators are trying to find out who the victim last met. A note leads to a restaurant. Barbara Sylvester had obviously been waiting there for someone, who, however, had not come. Since Franziska finds out that the victim has a daughter and that she lives in a social housing project, Ballauf and Schenk take a look around. Surprisingly, they meet David Brunner there, who lives together with Winifred Sylvester, Marlott and Philipp Rabe in this shared apartment , the "Bermuda". From him they learn that Winifred's relationship with her mother was so strained that she no longer wanted to know anything about her family and had moved out. Her mother recently tried to make up with her so that she could come back home. Otherwise, the four young people try to get their lives under control. They all get along very well and Winifred has no desire to go back to her noble parents' house. Here you are on your own and only your tutor, Micha Kramer, comes by once a week. Obviously Winifred and Marlott are very close to each other. In their free time they meet strange men to whom they tell made-up stories of suffering. While the men listen pityingly to Winni, Marlott relieves them of their wallets.

David Brunner was about to be fired because he had often "borrowed" customer cars and even threatened his boss when she found out. For the time of the crime, he claims to have been in "Bermuda", which his roommates confirm. Her tutor Michael Kramer also falls into the group of suspects, as the investigators find out that he had blackmailed Winnie's father with his knowledge about his abuse of his daughter.

After traces of blood were found on a knife from "Bermuda" and such a knife was clearly the murder weapon, Ballauf and Schenk want to arrest Kramer. However, when they get to the flat, they find the suspect stabbed to death in the outdoor area. David is then arrested and the youths are separated from each other. Your statements seem so perfectly coordinated that the investigators hope that the separation will break the alliance of the four. Since Winnie will own her parents' house in the future, Ballauf takes her there and leaves her alone. Schenk now finds out that David was miles away from the crime scene and with this alibi he is eliminated as a suspect. The commissioners use a ruse and explain to the young people that "Bermuda" would soon be closed and that they would be separated once and for all. That would be the greatest catastrophe for Marlott, since she is attached to Winni like a burr. She then goes to Winnie's villa. Both talk to each other a lot and she confesses to her friend about the murders. She didn't want to let Winni's mother want to take her away from her. Her educator planned to take Winni out of the group because she didn't really belong there. She says she only did it for both of them. Ballauf and Schenk join in and arrest Marlott.

background

Bermuda was produced by Colonia Media on behalf of WDR . The shooting took place in Cologne and the surrounding area.

reception

Audience ratings

When it was first broadcast on September 14, 2003, the episode Bermuda was seen by 7.10 million viewers in Germany, corresponding to a market share of 26.10 percent.

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv has this to say about the crime scene: “A popular topic, told as a classic Whodunit, with which you can sometimes forget what is being investigated because of the sheer relationship quarrel and Lolita touch. In order for the viewer to find the red thread again, a second corpse has to be found in this thriller, whose script is not exactly a masterpiece. Manfred Stelzer has staged the story in a very harmonious dark look. And the young actors, especially Marie-Luise Schramm, make the best of the original. "

The criticism at Kino.de is cautious: “The illumination of the shared apartment enclave is just as gloomy as the characters. So it doesn't detract from the tension that the script appears a bit erratic in the pursuit of the multitude of suspects and that the end doesn't come as a complete surprise. "

At Moviesection.de, Stefanie Rufle awards four out of five possible stars and says that with this socially critical crime thriller, the director avoids “in his staging of the usual clichés, slipping into sentimentalities or platitudes, but rather relies on nuanced and sometimes almost lapidary dialogues and an absolutely skilled camera work. [...] Even if 'Bermuda' looks a bit over-constructed in some places and the resolution is not entirely surprising, this Cologne 'Tatort' is definitely worth a look. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm judge: "The young actors steal the show from the 'old ones'."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Location and audience rating at fundus.de, accessed on October 17, 2014.
  2. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on October 17, 2014.
  3. ^ Film review at kino.de, accessed on October 17, 2014.
  4. ↑ Stefanie Rufle: Tatort - Bermuda at moviesection.de, accessed on October 17, 2014.
  5. ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on October 17, 2014.
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