Crime scene: Before it gets dark

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Before it gets dark
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 680 ( List )
First broadcast November 25, 2007 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Martin Enlen
script Henriette Piper
production Inge Fleckenstein
music Dieter Schleip
camera Philipp Timme
cut Elke Herbener
occupation

Before it gets dark there is a television film from the Tatort crime series. The report produced by the Hessischer Rundfunk was broadcast for the first time on November 25, 2007 in the first program of ARD . It is the 11th case of Chief Detective Dellwo and Commissioner Singer.

action

The single mother of three children and Hartz IV recipient Mechthild Stemmler volunteers to distribute groceries to those in need at the Frankfurt lunch table. Her friend Anne, who is almost blind due to an eye disease, also depends on the blackboard. While distributing the food, Mechthild suddenly collapses. The emergency doctor can no longer help her, however, and she dies on the way to the hospital. The coroner found poisoning by potassium cyanide . Broken bones and scars from scalds also indicate that Mechthild was mistreated for years. Since Commissioner Charlotte Sänger and Commissioner Fritz Dellwo suspect a poison attack on the lunch table, they have all the food that was distributed returned. Meanwhile, the singer visits Mechthild's children and tells them about the death of their mother. She learns that Mechthild was divorced from her husband Horst three years ago and finds evidence that she had a lover for a while. Since Horst has a criminal record for bodily harm, among other things, he is suspected of killing Mechthild out of jealousy.

It turns out that the potassium cyanide was in a tampon that Mechthild had used. Regina Schottmüller, who promotes the lunch table with her medical supply store Schottmüller & Söhne, learns that she is pregnant. The child's father is the married Jochen Bender, the head of the lunch table, who also had a relationship with Mechthild. He recently broke up with Regina to save his marriage. When Dellwo and his young colleague Jan Gröner find a syringe at Mechthild's ex-husband Horst, he runs away and thus escapes his arrest. However, when Horst met his son Kevin one evening, who had always stood by him, he turned himself in to the police. Singer and Dellwo then learn that Mechthild had borrowed the tampon with the cyanide from Regina. Accordingly, the murderer did not want to poison Mechthild, but Regina. According to her sister-in-law Ines, Regina has made numerous enemies over the years with her cold-hearted business practices. She herself would have enough reasons to kill her too.

The singer finally visits Mechthild's secluded friend Anne, who is currently preparing to be completely blind in a few months. Shortly afterwards, the investigation reveals that Anne once worked as a bandagist for Schottmüller & Sons. When she was pregnant and suddenly started bleeding at work, Regina forbade her to go to the hospital. As a result, Anne lost her child and her husband divorced her. When her retina began to destroy itself from the outside in, Regina released Anne. Singer and Dellwo finally search Anne's apartment and find syringes in a flower box. It turns out that Anne had ordered the potassium cyanide over the Internet. Regina, who wants to talk to Jochen, arrives at the lunch table. A message on a piece of paper that she believes comes from Jochen instructs her to go to the warehouse. Once there, the light suddenly goes out and the door closes behind her. Anne appears and accuses Regina of having destroyed her life. While Anne is threatening Regina with a cyanide syringe, Commissioner Sänger enters the warehouse through an air shaft. She tries to convince Anne well. When the police do not want to wait any longer and blow up the door of the warehouse, Anne gives herself the injection and dies.

background

The shooting took place from March 13 to April 20, 2007 in Frankfurt am Main . Josef Sanktjohanser was responsible for the production . At the premiere on 25 November 2007 at the First the audience was 7.99 million viewers, representing a market share of 21.4%.

Reviews

According to Stern's Kathrin Buchner , stand before it gets dark with his "strong actor ensemble [...] in the best Tatort tradition". The film has to offer "multi-layered characters, an unusual story and a surprising ending". Christian Buß from the daily newspaper said that the HR crime scene, after “the upright dismay” that Margarethe von Trotta had previously delivered with Unter uns , with Before it gets dark “again a certain bilious psychosocial complexity”.

"Captivating, applied a little thick towards the end," said TV Spielfilm . Prisma described the crime scene contribution as an "exciting story in which Enlen also incorporated socially critical aspects".

Awards

In 2008 Karoline Schuch was awarded the Günter Strack Television Prize for her role as Vanessa Stemmler, the daughter of the murder victim, as the best young actress .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. tatort-fundus.de
  2. ↑ Kathrin Buchner: Cyanide in the tampon ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Stern , November 26, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stern.de
  3. ↑ Christian Buß : misery, hatred and jealousy . In: the daily newspaper , November 24, 2007.
  4. ↑ cf. tvspielfilm.de
  5. ↑ cf. prisma.de
  6. ↑ Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award 2008. In: filmportal.de . Deutsches Filminstitut , April 11, 2008, accessed December 25, 2016 .
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