Crime scene: Borowski and the angel
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Borowski and the angel |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 892 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | December 29, 2013 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andreas Kleinert |
| script | Sascha Arango |
| production |
Kerstin Ramcke Sabine Holtgreve |
| music | Daniel Dickmeis |
| camera | Benedict Neuenfels |
| cut | Gisela Zick |
| occupation | |
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Borowski and the Angel is a television film from the crime series Tatort and was first broadcast on December 29, 2013 on Das Erste , after it had already premiered on October 3, 2013 at the Hamburg Film Festival. It is the 22nd case of Klaus Borowski and the Kiel investigator is dealing with a young woman who deliberately causes a serious accident in order to be publicly celebrated as a saving angel. When the scenario and the consequences grow over her head, Borowski manages to expose her.
With this episode, the Borowski crime scene celebrates its tenth anniversary.
action
The geriatric nurse Sabrina Dobisch looks after the elderly Mr. Kellermann. After he has a nightmare or becomes short of breath due to his health condition, she supplies him with oxygen, caresses him tenderly and lies down next to him in bed with a happy expression on her face. Kellermann wakes up and rudely pushes Sabrina out of bed. Sabrina then leaves the room and watches television. When he later calls for her, she finds the television program, which apparently regularly takes her into a dream world, more important. When she does check on Kellermann, he is dead in bed.
Shortly afterwards she takes Kellermann's cat, which she is transporting in a closed bag, on the street and lets it run just as a car comes. The driver wants to avoid the animal and drives into the window of a flower shop, in which the young pianist Christian van Meeren has just bought flowers for his friend and is now caught by the car. While all passers-by stay shocked at the scene of the accident, Sabrina Dobisch is the only one who takes the initiative and tries to help the accident victims. She secretly takes the cell phone of the pianist who dies at the scene of the accident. Although she does not seem indifferent to the young man's death, she deliberately gives false information to the police about the course of the accident: While the driver Doris Ackermann speaks of a cat that she wanted to avoid, Sabrina Dobisch denies that there was a cat. She even claims to the young officer that the pianist said: "She wants to kill me", while looking at the driver.
In public, Sabrina Dobisch can be celebrated as a heroine and enjoys public attention. Borowski begins the investigation against real estate agent Doris Ackermann based on her allegation. In their accident car there is not only an empty bottle of plum brandy , but also an unregistered pistol in the glove compartment. Nevertheless, Borowski finds the course of the crime strange: after all, Doris Ackermann couldn't know when the pianist would come from the flower shop. When Borowski asks her about it, she says that the witness would lie. It was really a unfortunate accident. The fact that she was at the young man's concert the day before and that his father, Felix van Meeren, owns the bank, which is currently demanding a high six-figure sum from her, is a coincidence. She is not a murderer and Borowski (who begins to be personally interested in her) believes her.
Doris Ackermann wants to confront Sabrina Dobisch. She wants to know why she would spread such lies about her. She wants to offer her money, but Ackermann falls so unhappy in an argument that she falls unconscious into the water and drowns. Sabrina Dobisch stands there motionless and does nothing to help her. When Borowski wants to go to Doris Ackermann again that evening, he does not meet her and only the mailbox answers on her cell phone. Reluctantly, he lets them write out for a search, since it can be assumed that they are fleeting. He is considering applying for personal protection for Sabrina Dobisch, as she may be in danger. Borowski still doubts their statements, as his research after the accident cannot have been as Sabrina Dobisch tried to explain: After the autopsy report, Christian van Meeren could not have spoken at all due to his chest injuries.
Sabrina Dobisch starts another phase of her staging. She goes to the dead man's parents and poses as his friend. Because of the recordings on the cell phone, she knows details from his life and the parents do not suspect anything. To make matters worse, she also declares that she is pregnant and lets van Meeren hire her as a personal nurse because he is in need of care due to illness.
At van Meeren's funeral, Borowski comes into contact with André Rosenthal. He is Christian's friend, for whom he bought the flowers. Rosenthal quickly saw through Sabrina Dobisch and says: "She bores into the family like a hyena in the carrion". This also gives the investigator food for thought and he researches Dobisch's environment. He found out that her patient Kellermann died two hours before the accident and that there were some indications of a black cat in his apartment, which could not be found.
Meanwhile, André Rosenthal goes to Sabrina Dobisch. In front of her eyes he mixes a milkshake with peanuts to which he is knowingly highly allergic. He went into anaphylactic shock soon after ingestion . Dobisch wants to get the corpse out of her apartment as quickly as possible, puts her in a wheelchair and drives her, hat pulled down over her face, through the city to the Kiel Canal , where she is in Rosenthal with her wheelchair and her bag she let the cat fall into it.
Borowski tries to convict Dobisch with a trick: he buys a bag that corresponds exactly to the one she had with her on the day of the accident (as film recordings of the reporters on site show) and claims to have found this bag. At first she denies that it is her bag. When Borowski claims that cat hair was also found in the bag and that Kellermann had a cat, she admits that it "just happened like that". Borowski also speaks to her about Rosenthal, whereupon she describes the process as it actually was, but Borowski doesn't believe her. Rosenthal's body is found in the sewer, but since suicide is very unlikely in this way, Sabrina Dobisch is later actually found guilty of murder.
background
The film was produced by Nordfilm GmbH and Norddeutscher Rundfunk under the working title Borowski and the Angel of Death and shot in Pinneberg and the vicinity of Kiel. Due to a fade-in at the end of the credits: “Sabrina Dobisch was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of André Rosentahl. Doris Ackermann's body was never found. ”The impression is gained that this could have been a real case. This stylistic device was only used to resolve the story. The crime thriller is not based on a true story.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Borowski und der Engel on December 29, 2013 was seen by a total of 8.73 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.2 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
The reviews of this anniversary location from Kiel are consistently positive. Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv says: “'The crime scene - Borowski and the angel' is less of an investigative thriller than an exciting portrait of a borderline personality and a sophisticated discourse about evil and how it comes into the world. Arango's crazy story not only undermines the myths of the TV crime thriller, director Kleinert also makes it clear what he loves: the cinema and its actors. He stylized Lavinia Wilson as an icon of postmodern femininity. Great TV crime art! "
Holger Gertz from Süddeutschen.de says: “This last crime scene of the year is also one of the best, which is not surprising because Sascha Arango wrote the book. [...] Arango's crime scenes are internal investigations of the soul [...] [and 'Borowski and the Angel' is] a grandiose philosophy about good and bad; about appearance and being with Lavinia Wilson in the lead role, which will be remembered for a long time. If the ARD didn't bring the crime scene DVDs into stores so carelessly and without any recognizable structure, they should publish Arangos Borowskis as a box. As an illustration of how to do it: tell stories. "
Christian Buß at Spiegel Online is very impressed and writes: “The film follows its sick heroine unconditionally, registering the monstrous twist in the (admittedly, exaggerated) plot with humor and tenderness. Love is in the air, no matter how sick it may be. Even Commissioner Borowski is very cheeky in the unusually warm climate. Oh, what a precious rare summer moment in the most northern of all 'crime scene' areas. Next time we can let it snow again. "
At Stern.de , Dominik Brück states: “In the end, someone ends up in prison for something that they didn't do at all. That is unusual for a 'crime scene' - but it makes the latest case of Kiel commissioner Klaus Borowski (Axel Milberg) so good. The plot moves away from the usual crime-thriller scheme of 'police chasing criminals, police catch criminals'. Until the end, the viewer is unsure who the culprit should be or whether there is a culprit at all. 'The enemy of a murderer is the detail, the thoughtless word. The inconspicuous mistake that wrecks everything, 'Borowski explains to some students right at the beginning. At the same time he asks: 'Why don't we kill? Isn't there evil in us too? ' - a question that will keep the viewer busy for the entire episode. "
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm judge: "Although the perpetrator has been determined from the beginning, [this crime scene] is gripping until the end [and] a psychologically unfathomable exceptional thriller."
Awards
The crime scene: Borowski and the angel was nominated for the Grimme Prize 2014 , but was not included in the award.
Web links
- Borowski and the angel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Borowski and the angel on the ARD website
- Borowski and the angel at the crime scene fund
- Borowski and the angel at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Borowski and the Angel at the Hamburg Film Festival 2013.
- ↑ a b Production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 5, 2014.
- ↑ So sick, so good! on bild.de, accessed on March 5, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 5, 2014.
- ↑ Holger Gertz : Investigations of the soul on sueddeutsche.de, accessed on March 5, 2014.
- ↑ Christian Buß : 10 years Borowski "Tatort": Death comes in a summer dress on spiegel.de, accessed on March 5, 2014.
- ↑ Dominik Brück Schuld und Atonement on stern.de, accessed on March 5, 2014.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 4, 2014.
- ↑ Grimme Prize nominations for the Fiktion / Spezial 2014 competition , accessed on March 25, 2014
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