Crime scene: Borowski and the house by the sea
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 1112 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | 15th December 2019 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nikolaus Stein von Kamienski |
| script | Nikolaus Stein von Kamienski |
| music | Jacki Engelken |
| camera | Arthur W. Ahrweiler |
| cut | Jochen Retter |
| occupation | |
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Borowski and the House by the Sea is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced by NDR is the 1112th Tatort episode and was broadcast on December 15, 2019 on Das Erste . The Kiel commissioner Klaus Borowski is investigating in his 34th case, his colleague Sahin in her third case.
action
In a forest near Kiel, Klaus Borowski and Mila Sahin, a visibly confused eight-year-old boy runs in front of the car. He tells of a dog and his grandfather who had been attacked by the dog. While Sahin looks after the boy, Borowski looks in the forest all the way to the nearby Baltic Sea coast, but he can see nothing conspicuous. There was only one woman on the beach and a ship was anchored in front of the bay. Back at the car, the boy explains that an Indian who came by ship "killed" the dog. Borowski and Sahin don't really know what to think of the boy's descriptions. Simon is the pastor's son and lets them take him to his mother, who works in the local nursing home. She reports that Simon's grandfather had Alzheimer's disease and was picked up several times in a disoriented manner, which is why they brought him to the rectory.
The next morning, tracking dogs are used to find Simon's grandfather. Unfortunately, only his body can be identified. The situation in which it was found is unusual, however, because someone had obviously buried Heinrich Flemming here after he had brought him here from the forest. After the corpse has been exposed, there are no bite marks, but his hands are strictly folded upwards. Close to the grave is the grave of a dog, of which only the skeleton is left and it has therefore been lying here for a long time. Borowski therefore has another conversation with Simon, who is also being looked after by a child psychologist. After Simon describes in detail how the Indian would have fought the dog, the psychologist tries to make it clear to the inspector that traumatized children often create their own world in which they mix reality and fantasy. But since there is this dog grave, Borowski is willing to believe Simon's story. Sahin therefore suspects a transference phenomenon , where past incidents are now linked to new ones, so that the dog attack was probably a long time ago. Borowski later comes into contact with a shepherd whose herding dog had disappeared a year ago, so that Sahin's hypothesis seems plausible. Simon's wish for a strong helper could then have led to the apparent existence of the Indian in his imaginations.
After the autopsy of the victim, it is clear that Heinrich Flemming drowned after a fall, in which he must have been forcibly pressed with his face into the water. In his folded hands, the coroner found a piece of bone that is shaped like a leaf. This can identify them as the ear bone of a special fish without which it cannot hear.
The family situation of the Flemings seems very unusual to Borowski, because Pastor Flemming took care of his demented father, although he rejected him since he was born. The reason for this lay in the past of Heinrich Flemming and the Nazi ideology of his father. He had suffered from this and was of the opinion that this misanthropic attitude would be passed on and that he therefore did not want children. So he had left his wife and child and founded a reform pedagogical movement in Denmark and brought up young people according to their new ideology. His son Johann Flemming had turned away from his father's ideology and sought his salvation in faith and became a pastor. During his time in Denmark, Heinrich Flemming had taken on a new wife: Inga Andersen. She owns the ship that Borowski had seen on the beach. The crew includes Andersen's daughter Senta and Erik Larsen, who has been deaf and mentally disabled since an "accident" in her youth, and who is apparently of Indian descent. Since both have disappeared, investigators must assume that they are connected to the murder of Flemming.
It turns out that Inga Andersen has been developing activities for some time to bring Heinrich Flemming to Denmark and possibly wanted to kidnap him on the night of the crime. Since that didn't work out, Senta Andersen and Erik Larsen now get Simon to join them on the ship. In view of this kidnapping, Johann Flemming confesses to having quarreled with his father on the night of the crime and after he ran into the forest, he followed him until he fell into the small stream. Since all of a sudden an Indian was standing in front of him, he ran back to the rectory. Borowski is convinced that Erik Larsen took advantage of the situation to take revenge on Heinrich Flemming, who caused his disability. Heinrich Flemming had pursued his supposedly liberal ideology with the same fanaticism as his father had followed his racist worldview. Heinrich Flemming had acted with severity and corporal punishment against any misconduct of his pupils and so he had beaten Erik in such a way that he was severely damaged. Erik and Senta were lovers already in their youth, which he would not tolerate and now they have taken revenge on him after so many years. Actually they just wanted to take him to the ship, but when he lay so helplessly on the ground in front of them and insulted them again, she too was angry. Together they had then taken him to the beach and buried him, with Erik putting the piece of bone in his hands as a sign of his deafness. Since both of them fled to Denmark with Simon, Borowski pursues them and finds them in the old, abandoned boarding school that Heinrich Flemming founded at the time. After initial resistance, both of them are willingly arrested.
background
The film was shot from September 12, 2018 to October 11, 2018 in Kiel and the surrounding area. The shooting of the church scenes took place at the village church of Steinbergkirche- Neukirchen. The premiere took place on August 31, 2019 at the Festival of German Films .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Borowski and the House by the Sea on December 15, 2019 was seen by 8.24 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 23.8% for Das Erste .
Reviews
For Spiegel Online depreciated Christian repentance : "The murder investigation is to search for clues in the neuroses maze. The author and director Nikki Stein plays with space and time to reveal the destructive dynamics between the generations. Jumps in time, double floors in the narrative, deposits in the social environment - this family chronicle of hatred comes across in a sophisticated and epic way. ”Otherwise, however, rather a“ weak investigator appearance ”by Borowski.
Thomas Gehringer wrote for Tittelbach.tv : The “confused” story “is told in a kind of landscape thriller: the dark forest, the deserted beach and the wide sea, a small place on the coast where time seems to have stood still, and the house of the pastor family Flemming, which was furnished the day before yesterday, and in which there is a peculiar uncomfortability - settings, décor, costumes (such as the nurses' costume in the hospital) and Arthur W. Ahrweiler's camera create an atmosphere full of tension. "" It is still a joy To see Axel Milberg in the role of the slightly withdrawn, crazy commissioner. In this episode, he proves again that he has a special antenna in dealing with other people. "
At Die Zeit , Matthias Dell judged somewhat cautiously: "The Kiel 'Tatort' draws a highly dubious analogy between the guilt of Nazi fathers and the rigor of the 68 children."
Ursula Scheer from the FAZ said: “With a light hand Niki Stein paints an abysmal narrative about failed paternity without falling into black and white paintings (toxic masculinity here, saving femininity there). Everything remains immersed in a pleasant gray, sometimes in wind and weather outside between sheep or at the sea, sometimes locked in parsonage rooms decorated like a backdrop, the inevitable cars or in the meeting room. "" The characters with their life lies may in part be clichéd, so played they are not: Martin Lindow in particular is convincing in the role of the seedy shepherd. The question remains whether it really needed the leaps in time, the artistic back and forth in the storytelling. But it doesn't hurt either. "
Web links
- Crime scene: Borowski and the house by the sea in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot by Borowski and the house by the sea on the ARD website
- Borowski and the house by the sea at Tatort-Fans.de
- Crime scene: Borowski and the house by the sea at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ Can fish hear? Retrieved from Abendblatt.de.
- ^ Scene of the crime: Borowski and the house by the sea at crew united
- ↑ How did you like the new "Tatort" in Kiel? Kieler Nachrichten , accessed on December 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Borowski and the house by the sea (crime scene). Festival of German Films , accessed on August 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime check: Sunday, December 15, 2019.quotemeter.de , December 16, 2019, accessed on December 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Christian Buß: Kiel "crime scene" about the war of generations. Father, you are in the mold. Spiegel Online, December 13, 2019, accessed on December 13, 2019 : "Rating: 8 out of 10 points"
- ↑ Axel Milberg, Almila Bagriacik, Niki Stein. Fundamental generation breaks at Tittelbach.tv , accessed on March 5, 2020.
- ↑ Dog falls to Grandpa at zeit.de, accessed on March 5, 2020.
- ↑ “Indians are not always the good ones.” At faz.net , accessed on March 5, 2020.
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