Crime scene: blood dogs
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Bloodhounds |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Bavaria Film and Telepool on behalf of Bayerischer Rundfunk |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 375 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | December 21, 1997 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Schulze-Rohr |
| script | Norbert Ehry |
| production |
Silvia Koller Veith von Fürstenberg |
| music | Wolf wolf |
| camera | Hans Grimmelmann |
| cut | Helga Kriller |
| occupation | |
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Blood Dogs is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Telepool and Bavaria Film for Bayerischer Rundfunk was broadcast for the first time on December 21, 1997 in the first as the 375th episode in the series and was the 18th case for Munich inspectors Batic and Leitmayr . The duo has to solve a fatal bungee accident as well as several obviously staged accidents.
action
The foil fencer Petra Nickel dares a bungee jump, although she is not comfortable with it. The rope snaps and Nickel falls to his death, Oliver Graf, who works on the bungee system, films the accident unintentionally and immediately notifies his father, the sensational reporter on local TV station Isar-TV Hendrik Graf. Leitmayr is annoyed and surprised by the sensational reporter because his partner Batic has known him and his son from the tennis club for many years. Initial investigations into the course of the accident indicate material failure. While Oliver Graf and his friends Linda and Mike are happy about a fee of DM 20,000 for the video from Isar-TV, Batic and Leitmayr are amazed at the news report from the local broadcaster, as the existence of the video at the scene of the accident was concealed from them. Oliver Graf has a pangs of conscience because he encouraged Nickel to jump, meanwhile Batic and Leitmayr ask the broadcaster about the video, but they are denied the release and the identity of the cameraman. Batic seeks out Oliver Graf, whom he has known since he was a child, who also does not tell him that he had filmed the accident. On the same day, riots take place on the sidelines of a football game, and a report is shown on Isar-TV showing how a man beats another into a coma. Since Batic and Leitmayr suspect, based on the recordings, that the thug was hired and the act was staged, they turn to the broadcaster. This time, too, the broadcaster refuses to cooperate with the officials and merely denies the allegations. Leitmayr notices that Batic conspicuously defends Hendrik Graf, Batic finally confesses that he feels guilty towards him because he had an affair with Graf's then wife Ruth Salina, Oliver's mother and now editor-in-chief at Isar-TV, and Graf's marriage had destroyed.
Leitmayr learns from Oliver's friend Linda that the employees of the bungee system always film the first jumps of a new customer, shortly afterwards the officials learn that Nickel's death was actually an accident due to material fatigue. When Hendrik Graf loses his driver's license because of excessive speed, Batic, plagued by feelings of guilt, offers himself to drive his friend so that he can continue his work as a reporter. After he himself had doubts and was encouraged by his father, Oliver Linda explains that he will no longer participate in bogus videos such as the hooligan violence scene in the future. The next day, Oliver's friends Mike and Linda provoke a pile-up on a country road by throwing a stone from a bridge, in which a person was killed. Hendrik found out about this through the police radio and had Batic drive him to the scene of the accident. The responsible editor Schuster from Isar-TV refused to pay Mike, who had also made accident recordings, because he suspected that Mike and Linda had provoked the accident. Shortly thereafter, Leitmayr found out from forensics that a large stone had been seized, which had apparently hit the windshield of the truck, and he had Isar-TV ordered a house search. When Hendrik Graf comes home, he finds an envelope with a large sum of money in it. He wants to ask his son about the origin of the money, but does not get in touch with him. Meanwhile, Oliver agrees to produce new videos with Mike and Linda. Leitmayr can use the video material stored in the transmitter to analyze that the accident was provoked by a stone throwing it; he is now trying to locate the camera with which the incident was filmed.
Hendrik tells Linda on the head that he knows about her machinations and admonishes her to leave Oliver out of the game, he plays the mad reporter in order to raise suspicions for the sake of his son, but he can do that with Batic as a constant Companion no longer. Carelessly, he mentions that only news of catastrophes that can be anticipated in advance and that are reported live will bring real money. When his son made a suggestion the next day that he and his friends were planning something like that, he informed Batic . Leitmayr learns meanwhile that the fictitious accidents and also the death jump of Nickel must have been filmed with the same camera. While the officers are looking for Oliver, Linda and Mike, the trio sabotages railroad tracks to derail an Intercity. Meanwhile, Batic and Leitmayr learn from Isar-TV that an attack on an express train is planned, a video shows the trio performing sabotage work in an unknown location, Hendrik confesses to his friend that he unconsciously gave the trio the idea. Ruth Salina acts dutifully as a news anchor and pretends to prevent the attack and save lives. Meanwhile, Oliver tries to persuade his friends to give up, when this fails, he calls his father and Batic, for fear of Mike, who seems capable of anything, he doesn't dare to reveal their position. Batic hears a police helicopter in the background and lets Leitmayr locate all the positions of the helicopters in use. Ruth suffers a faint attack in front of the camera when Leitmayr storms into the studio and speaks directly to the three young people and tries to persuade them to give up. She was not aware that her son was one of the perpetrators. Based on the coordinates given by Leitmayr, Batic and Hendrik can just arrive at the designated accident site and Batic stop the train at the last minute, Hendrik just pulls his son, who has stood on the track, down. The trio can be arrested.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcasts of bloodhounds on December 21, 1997, seen in Germany of 7.27 million viewers and a market share of 19.07% in the first .
Reviews
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate the crime scene positively and say: "Attack on sensational journalism".
Book about the film
Martin Baresch : Crime scene: Blood dogs , a case by Commissioners Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr , co-author: Norbert Ehry , Weltbild, Augsburg 2000. / Audio book: Blood dogs , read by Felix Klare , Tandem Verlag, Königswinter 2008
Web links
- Bloodhounds in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bloodhounds in the online film database
- Summary of the plot of blood dogs on the ARD website
- Blood dogs at the crime scene fund
- Bloodhounds at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Audience rating on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 21, 2016.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 21, 2016.
- ^ Record of the audio book Tatort: Blood Dogs in the catalog of the German National Library . Retrieved April 18, 2014.
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