Crime scene: blackout
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | blackout |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR Maran film |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 921 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | October 26, 2014 on Das Erste , ORF 2 , SRF 1 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Patrick Winczewski |
| script |
Eva Zahn Volker A. Zahn |
| production |
Nils Reinhardt Sabine Tettenborn |
| music | Rainer Oleak |
| camera | Andreas Schäfauer |
| cut | Angela Springmann |
| occupation | |
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Blackout is a TV film from the crime series Tatort and a SWR production in collaboration with Maran Film . This 921st episode in the series was broadcast for the first time on October 26, 2014 on Erste Deutsche Fernsehen as well as on ORF 2 and SRF 1 . The Ludwigshafen investigator duo Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper have investigated a sexually motivated murder of a married man in Odenthal's 60th case.
action
A real estate agent finds her husband dead in a sexually humiliating manner in the apartment she is about to rent. The dead man was strangled and a champagne bottle was shoved into his anus. His name is Justus Wagner and he was 36 years old. Lena Odenthal, whose colleague Kopper has just gone on vacation, questions the dead man's wife at the crime scene. He had apparently used the empty model apartment as a love nest and met a lover there. The widow says that her husband often went out in the evening with a friend, and that he sometimes stayed in the guest room afterwards, and she did not notice her husband's affairs. Ms. Wagner does not have an alibi for the time of the crime. Odenthal then interrogates Tobias Wagner, the dead man's brother. He had called Justus Wagner on the night of the crime because the two were having trouble with a business partner. He was with his sister-in-law at the time of the crime. Meanwhile, the LKA investigator Johanna Stern, who is there as a vacation replacement for Kopper, has identified a homeless person who may have observed the crime from a building opposite, but this has not yet been found.
Meanwhile, it is determined that Justus Wagner was slowly murdered by suffocation, the external injuries were inflicted premortally. Before he was killed, the victim had been anesthetized with knockout drops and then anally raped with a bottle. Odenthal seeks out Moritz Lohse, a friend and colleague of the dead man, but he says that he did not meet his colleague on the evening of the crime. He also denies that Wagner wanted to throw him out because he felt betrayed by him. Meanwhile, a young woman, Betty Adam, is being investigated who was poisoned with knockout drops the previous evening. No traces of rape were found, but she stumbled disoriented over the Rhine bridge in the evening and can't remember anything. In the evening Odenthal and Stern go to the bar that the dead man had visited on the evening of the crime. The bartender says that Wagner was there in the early evening, accompanied by a young woman with a butterfly tattoo, they both left the bar together. The young woman was Betty Adam, Odenthal visits her again, but she can't remember anything except the dark face of Justus Wagner and that she was in the bar with him. When Odenthal left, Betty and her roommate Charlotte Wittmann talk about the dead person as a rapist who gave Betty the knockout drops. Both are relieved that he is dead.
The offices of Justus Wagner and Moritz Lohse have been broken into; Odenthal suspects Lohse of having fabricated the break-in to make evidence disappear. Meanwhile, Stern has found out that there were three cases with women who were also anesthetized with knockout drops and subjected to anal penetration, but all victims were strangled, but none were murdered. Stern suspects a connection to the Wagner murder case. Odenthal interrogates Adam in the presidium, she had gone to the bar alone and met Justus Wagner there. She wanted to party and have fun with a man again. She can't remember anything else. No traces of KO drops could be found in the champagne bottle, and no such traces could be found anywhere in his apartment. However, the analysis of his SMS and email traffic shows that Wagner often cheated on his wife. In response, she admits to have known about it, but claims to have loved her husband anyway. However, Odenthal suspects she has taken revenge on her husband for infidelity. Meanwhile, Stern has found out that all three KO drop victims had an alibi at the time of the crime.
Odenthal is called to the hospital in the evening, Mrs. Wagner had attempted suicide. Odenthal apologizes for her suspicions, Ms. Wagner says that Justus was a big boy who thought that what he enjoyed was also fun for others, that he didn't want to hurt anyone. In the meantime, the homeless man has been identified, who camped in the shell of model apartments next to the crime scene and could have seen something. He says that there were two men and one woman in the apartment, but he cannot identify him when compared with Moritz Lohse. Odenthal hears Tobias Wagner. However, he denies the act and manages to arouse self-doubt in Odenthal. Meanwhile, Stern finds out that one of the raped women recognized Justus Wagner. Odenthal goes to see Betty Adam and Charlotte Wittmann again, the two are concerned that there was a second man in the apartment, Betty fears that she has been raped by two men. The homeless man cannot confirm that it was really two men and a woman he observed in the apartment, it could also have been the other way around. However, he must have seen a scooter in front of the house. Odenthal and Kopper, who returned prematurely from vacation, visit Betty Adam again; The police were able to seize two champagne glasses from a dumpster, one of them has fingerprints and traces of knockout drops, the other glass is clean. Meanwhile, Charlotte Wittmann visits Moritz Lohse.
Meanwhile, Betty Adam admits that she was the decoy for Charlotte towards Justus Wagner, Wagner had previously stunned and raped Charlotte with knockout drops, Betty helped her with her plan of revenge. They had waited for him in the bar for a few weeks before he finally showed up. They didn't want to kill him, just teach him a lesson. After they had drugged him, Wittmann hit him several times. Shortly afterwards, the officers found the USB stick in Wittmann and Adam's apartment, which had been stolen from Justus Wagner. Lohse has meanwhile brought Charlotte Wittmann into his power and threatens to rape her again. Lohse, but not Justus Wagner, can be seen on the stick raping Charlotte, so she apparently killed “the wrong person”. The officers then storm Lohse's apartment, but they no longer find anyone there. It occurs to Odenthal that Lohse mentioned a quarry in a phone call, in fact Lohse wants to kill Wittmann there and make him disappear. When Odenthal and Kopper arrive, they arrest Lohse, but he has already killed his victim.
background
The film was produced by Südwestrundfunk in cooperation with Maran Film and shot in Ludwigshafen, Baden-Baden and Karlsruhe . There was an open-air preview with the main actors at the SWR Summer Festival on May 30, 2014 in Mainz .
reception
criticism
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm judge this crime scene as “thickly applied, but well played.” Spiegel online sums up: “After a long dry spell, finally a crime scene from Ludwigshafen that touches you.” In view of the service anniversary, the Ludwigshafen commissioner asks the Neue Zürcher Zeitung : “So how do you deal with a certain solemnity that stems from the fact that Ms. Odenthal appeared at the very moment when the wall was disappearing without overloading it with socio-political clutter? The authors Eva Zahn and Volker A. Zahn find a good mix in the anniversary episode 'Blackout', which takes the past with it and at the same time points to the future. Last but not least, they also cleverly open a back door in the event that the facelift in Ludwigshafen should no longer succeed. "
Web links
- Blackout in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Blackout in the online film database
- Summary of the plot of Blackout on the ARD website
- Blackout at the crime scene fund
- Blackout at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on November 2, 2014.
- ^ "Long TV evening" and the premiere of the crime scene. In: swr.de. March 28, 2014, accessed October 8, 2014 .
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on November 2, 2014.
- ^ ARD Sunday crime thriller: The new Ludwigshafen "Tatort" in a quick check. Spiegel Online, accessed December 12, 2015 .
- ↑ Claudia Schwartz : The new women's question. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 26, 2014, accessed on December 12, 2015 .
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