Crime scene: Borowski in the underworld
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Borowski in the underworld |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 608 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | October 2, 2005 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claudia Garde |
| script | Sascha Arango |
| production | Kerstin Ramcke |
| music | Jörg Lemberg |
| camera | Martin Farkas |
| cut | Angelika Strelczyk |
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Borowski in der Unterwelt is a television film from the crime series Tatort . It was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk and first broadcast on October 2, 2005 on Das Erste . It is the 608th episode and the fifth of the Kiel investigator Klaus Borowski , who this time has to go down to the Kiel sewer system to solve the case in which there is no murderer in the end.
action
In Kiel, body parts that show traces of acid residues are first found in the digester of a sewage treatment plant , and later also in the sewer system. The human remains come from different bodies. In some cases, the identified pacemakers, hip and knee joints can be used to find out the identity of the person concerned. While Borowski and his colleague Jung are still analyzing how the perpetrator could have dissolved his victims with acid and then flushed them into the sewer via the toilet, the priest Benz appears and admits that he was the wanted perpetrator. But since he only gives the details that he should know from the newspaper, he is not really believed. Borowski doesn't manage to get anything concrete out of him either. The motive is missing, especially since he is a Catholic priest. Borowski asks him about 19-year-old Doreen Winter, who has only been missing for two days. Apparently he took her with him in the car, but he doesn't say where she is now and whether she is still alive.
It can be assumed that Benz is lying and possibly covering someone up. Although he seems narcissistic and vain, no motive can be derived from it. He's supposed to show the police where he committed the murders. So he leads the investigators through the sewer system into a bunker. There are empty old bathtubs in which he claims to have used the acid. Borowski, however, is convinced that Benz is lying and now absurdly spends his time proving to a confessor that he is not the perpetrator.
Doreen Winter's desperate father shoots Benz and seriously injures him. As it turns out shortly afterwards, his daughter was only on vacation in France and was only able to report back now. Hardly regained his strength, the priest manages to escape from the hospital.
Borowski now finds footprints in Benz 'church that lead into the sewer system. Following them he meets a mysterious stranger who seems to be mentally handicapped, speaks only very incomprehensibly and has been living in the sewer for years. Borowski comes under his control for a short time, but Benz joins them and draws attention to himself. Due to his serious injury, he dies in the stranger's arms.
So in the end it turns out that the stranger wasn't a murderer. All he did was confess to the priest and report what he had found, and the priest had misunderstood it. Frida Pöschel, from whom the pacemaker came, jumped into the Kiel Fjord in 1990 and even left a farewell letter that has only just been found. His leg was never found in an accident involving a truck driver. The stranger just collected everything - "human debris", so to speak.
background
The shooting of Borowski in the Underworld was supported by the THW from the Kiel branch: a section of the bunker had to be flooded and dammed for the film.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Borowski in der Unterwelt on October 2, 2005 was seen by a total of 5.40 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 15.8 percent for Das Erste.
criticism
“A case for die-hard 'Tatort' fans is this ['] Borowski in the Underworld'. Body parts are looking for a home. That may sound macabre, but the author Sascha Arango does not rely on the thriller-like speculative, rather, in addition to the slightly grotesque, there is always a casual form of criticism of civilization. 'Somebody turns up who lives in our shit in the truest sense of the word', says director Claudia Garde. The 'two worlds' principle also sets the film apart visually from the usual 'where-were-you-yesterday-evening' thrillers. Atmosphere and action await the audience in equal measure. The underworld is not the place for gangsters here, but a mythological place and a terrain that fits this lonely cross driver Borowski perfectly. Finally he can really dive down. It was made possible by the borderline book by Grimme Prize winner Arango, who last invented the black-humored Eva Blond. Main actor Axel Milberg, who also gives his smug arrogance bolt a little charm on the way into the cloaky water, also finds his master in Uwe Bohm. "
The critics at quotenmeter.de are the story itself is actually pretty good and interesting , but then criticized the dramaturgical elaboration and described it as a downright catastrophic .
"There is almost no tension in the entire film and the resolution at the end is really more than unsatisfactory, because the story is not concluded at all and a lot remains in the dark, which leads to the viewer being upset."
Tilmann P. Gangloff from evangelisch.de , however, comes to a slightly different judgment:
“Well, one is sometimes at a loss or even annoyed when questions remain unanswered in the end. It's different here. On the contrary, it increases the reality content of an unusually morbid and, moreover, surreal story in every respect. "
Web links
- Borowski in the underworld in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of Borowski's action in the underworld on the ARD website
- Borowski in the underworld at the crime scene fund
- Borowski in the underworld at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b General information at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on May 21, 2013.
- ↑ Borowski in der Unterwelt - THW die 2. / Kieler Tatort with further THW support on thw.de, accessed on May 21, 2013.
- ^ Tatort series - Borowski in der Unterwelt at tittelbach.tv, accessed on May 21, 2013.
- ^ The critics: Tatort: Borowski in der Unterwelt at quotenmeter.de quotenmeter.de, accessed on May 21, 2013.
- ↑ TV tip: "Tatort: Borowski in der Unterwelt" at evangelisch.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at evangelisch.de, accessed on May 21, 2013.
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