Crime scene: Borowski and the free fall
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Borowski and the free fall |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| classification | Episode 846 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | October 14, 2012 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Eoin Moore |
| script | Eoin Moore, based on an idea by Fred Breinersdorfer |
| production | Kerstin Ramcke |
| music |
Warner Poland , Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt , Wolfgang Glum |
| camera | Jana Marsik |
| cut | Antje Zynga |
| occupation | |
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Borowski and the Free Fall is a television film from the crime series Tatort , which was broadcast on October 14, 2012 on Das Erste . It is the 846th crime scene episode. The Kiel chief inspector Klaus Borowski ( Axel Milberg ) is investigating here in his 20th case. At his side is the commissioner candidate Sarah Brandt ( Sibel Kekilli ) in her third case.
action
While the politician Karl Martin von Treunau is driving home from a political event, Ulla Jahn switches from her talk show to Tom Buhrow von der Tagesthemen . Arriving at home, von Treunau watches the news that reports on the death of the writer Dirk Sauerland. Both von Treunau and Ulla Jahn, who is still in the studio, are concerned about the death of Sauerland. In the meantime, chief detective Klaus Borowski has started his investigation into the Sauerland death. The writer was found dead on his yacht . He died of gas poisoning. The dead man has a hematoma on his head, which, according to the first studies, probably came from a wine bottle. Borowski wants to look at photos found at the crime scene later. When the inspector wants to look around Sauerland's house, he comes across Martin von Treunau, who explains to him that Sauerland was a friend. Von Treunau told Borowski that he had the feeling that strangers were in the writer's house. Sauerland felt threatened after his return from Geneva , why and why he does not know. Sarah Brandt has since discovered that the data on Sauerland's computer has been professionally deleted. In the course of his investigation, Borowski visits Ulla Jahn. She is the ex-wife of Sauerland. She recently transferred 150,000 euros to her divorced husband. Ulla Jahn tells Borowski that she was in the studio last night and that Dirk was gay and that was the real reason for their separation. He planned to come out .
BND officials are now in the Sauerland office taking documents with them. They tell Sarah Brandt that it is a matter of military classified information . Meanwhile, Borowski goes to a gay bar where he ordered von Treunau. He tells the politician that he is gay and that Sauerland's friend was. Von Treunau replied whether he was crazy and could even imagine the tremendous explosiveness such a remark would have. Borowski points out that his alibi misses the hour between 5 p.m. when he wanted to take a breath and 6 p.m. when he was only seen again. In the course of the further investigation, Borowski finds photos and other material from the Uwe Barschel case near Sauerland. Borowski was involved in investigations into the Barschel case at the time. The commissioner said to Brandt that he saw more evidence of suicide than of a conspiracy . Sauerland was alcoholic and had little success with what he wrote and was also gay. Sarah Brandt takes a closer look at the investigation files and other results in the Barschel case. At the time, the coroners had found that the politician died of drug poisoning. Brandt wonders what really happened in his hotel room back then and whether traces were removed. Borowski wants to know from Ulla Jahn, who was in Geneva with Sauerland in 1987, what Sauerland wanted in Geneva at that time. Jahn tells him that arms dealers met in Geneva in October 1987 and that her husband wanted to write about it.
The officers learned from Mrs. von Treunau that her husband had been in a relationship with Dirk Sauerland for over four years. She asks that this information be kept confidential, especially in the interests of her children. At the same time, she gives her husband an alibi for the hour in question. They would have walked together on the shore of the lake. Borowski and Brandt travel to Geneva and rent the hotel " Beau-Rivage ", where Barschel was found dead at the time. The inspector wants to know from a Professor Leway what Dirk Sauerland has to do with the death of Uwe Barschel. Leway is supposed to explain the connection between a 1987 arms deal and Sauerland's involvement in the case. The professor says that he was an interpreter at the United Nations at the time and that he translated for a foreign secret service as a side job . At that time, Sauerland was accompanied by a photographer who owned a tiny camera and he helped both of them get pictures of secret agents. On the edge of a conversation with a secret service, he heard that Barschel should be silenced, either with money or with force. Leway also lets Borowski know that Sauerland found something while recording in Barschel's room. Then he gets up and lets the surprised Borowski know that he will tell him everything when he is back in Germany and under personal protection.
Contrary to Borowski's order, Brandt looks around the hotel in Geneva. The investigations carried out at the time revealed that Barschel's room had been broken into and all data on his computer had been deleted. When Brandt comes to room 317, where the politician was staying at the time, Borowski is already in. Brandt transferred the images that were found near Sauerland to her tablet computer in order to make comparisons in the hotel. Brandt told Borowski that Barschel was probably forced to take the drugs that were found during his autopsy . Borowski resentfully replies that they have to solve Sauerland and not Barschel's death. Back in Germany, Borowski asked Ulla Jahn again. She tells him that Sauerland only wanted to intercept Barschel. If he had known anything about Barschel's true death, he would not have kept it from her. In the meantime, the news shows that Karl Martin von Treunau came out after his “gay double life” went through the media and resigned from his ministerial post. Shortly thereafter, Ulla Jahn had a dispute on her talk show with von Treunau, whom she accused of supporting the Sauerland company so that they could get lucrative contracts. After Ulla's show ran, Tom Buhrow told her that her talk show had just been canceled. From 12 noon, von Treunau's immunity is lifted. Borowski visits him shortly afterwards and wants to know why he called the photographer Cornelius Graf, who has since been found dead. Von Treunau told the inspector that Dirk had been strange and mysterious lately and that he had noticed that the friend had wanted to meet someone. Borowski asks about von Treunau's alibi when Cornelius Graf was killed. The ex-politician replies that he was home alone. He also went for a walk by the lake by himself. He has no witnesses. Borowski wants them to go to the lake together, where he wants to know from Treunau how his relationship with Dirk was. Von Treunau tells him that Dirk and he met while sailing two years after the divorce from his wife Ulla , then it took another two years before things got serious between them. Borowski says that Graf wanted to blackmail both of them, that he knew about the assignment that von Treunau had given his friend, which was incompatible with his work as a member of parliament. When von Treunau takes pictures from a secret hiding place on the yacht, Borowski finds a cassette. Von Treunau means that people have been looking for it for a long time.
Borowski later watches the film with Brandt. It was filmed with a small hidden camera. Someone knocks on the door with the room number 317 and a questioning "Mr. Barschel?" The person steps into the room, walks around, sees himself in the mirror and takes a suitcase out of the room. When Borowski later talks to Professor Leway about it over the Internet , he tells him that Barschel should be silenced. In the suitcase was a sum of 10 million US dollars and should have helped him with his considerations. Sauerland took the suitcase. Borowski is certain that Sauerland shared the money with Jahn and Cornelius Graf. It was also Jahn who outed von Treunau. By chance, the inspector found out that the program with Jahn on the day of the event was not a live broadcast, but a recording. When he confronts Jahn with his theory, she is completely beside herself that Sauerland wanted to go public with his story about the Barschel affair. He would have ruined everything for her that she had built up over many years. She admits that she went to see him on his yacht and hit him over the head with a wine bottle. When he was lying on the floor, unconscious, she thought of the gas. Dirk wanted to use a DNA analysis to prove that there was a man in Barschel's room (the one who brought the suitcase there). Borowski and Brandt find that all data on their computers has been deleted. Professor Leway, for whom Borowski had requested safe conduct, was not on the flight. His cell phone number shows: No connection under this number. Leway had told a completely different version of the Barschel story six years ago in England. When asked at the University of Geneva, nobody knew anything about a professorship. Borowski tells Sarah Brandt that she infected him with her hunting fever and then smirks: "Well, maybe one day we will solve the Barschel case."
background
This crime scene episode was filmed from April 19 to May 23, 2012 in Kiel and the surrounding area as well as in Hamburg and Geneva . The scene in the canteen was filmed in Studio Hamburg, the studio of Ulla Jahn shown in the film is the studio for the Beckmann program . The actor Thomas Heinze said in an interview, when asked about this crime thriller, "that he has rarely read such an exciting script, but he does not believe that in future all Tatort episodes will have to be based on real events." The working title of this episode was: Tatort: Borowski and the stowaway .
Borowski and the Free Fall deals with the death of Uwe Barschel on a fictional level . Tagesthemen moderator Tom Buhrow can be seen in a guest appearance as himself. Barschel's widow, Freya Barschel, criticized the crime scene because she had not been asked for her consent to a film adaptation.
Uwe Barschel (1944–1987) was a German CDU politician . Barschel was Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein from 1982 to 1987 . Shortly after his resignation on October 2, 1987 because of the so-called Barschel affair , he was found dead on October 11, 1987 in the Hotel Beau-Rivage in Geneva, the question of whether murder or suicide has not yet been clarified.
reception
Reviews
“It's about a dead author and, in a broader sense, about the death of Uwe Barschel back then in Geneva. First of all, this idea deserves respect. But Borowski and Brandt grope in the new “Tatort” from Kiel on wooden feet through the panorama and are hardly recognizable. [...] There are even worse crime scenes. What better can not be said about this one. "
"As in 'Borowski and the Free Fall', however, the real case of the undead of German politics is linked with a fictitious power game, seems awkward and speculative over the course of time.
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv certified this crime scene episode good average, because even a weak Borowski is still worth seeing.
“The 'crime scene - Borowski and the free fall' is - as far as the genre is concerned - an exception in the television thriller, the film, however, anything but an exceptional 'crime scene'. The attempt to project relatively certain facts from the Barschel affair onto invented people has succeeded, the investigative duo, on the other hand, operates from stereotypical calf biting (Borowski) to embarrassing (Brandt). Eoin Moore works with genre clichés and cheap dramaturgical tricks. Nevertheless: Even a weak 'Borowski' is a good 'Tatort' average. "
Thordes Herbst from Serienjunkies.de was of the opinion
“That Heinze [was] a great choice for the role of minister. Both in his arrogance and in his anger he [could] convince so much that his performance almost seemed too striking again. [...] The crime thriller manages to achieve a round and thoroughly exciting result without orgies of violence, which has a special charm due to its reference to reality. ”Conclusion:“ Another 'crime scene' from Kiel, the has honestly earned the title worth seeing . "
TV Spielfilm awarded four out of five stars and took the view:
"Strong! Eoin Moore famously combines facts and conspiracy theories about Uwe Barschel's death with the tragic story of the burden of being a public person! ”Conclusion:“ We give you our word of honor: great! ”
T-Online held the Kiel crime scene
“Particularly strong when he didn't refer directly to Barschel, but told about the sad departure of a fictional politician. [...] In addition to Heinze as von Treunau, Marie-Lou Sellem also shines as the smart political talker Ulla Jahn. "
The TV magazine Hörzu ruled:
"Gripping reconstruction of a political scandal, gripping look into the past." Overall assessment: "Successful ."
The television magazine Gong awarded five out of six points, which corresponds to the judgment very well and said:
"The authors knitted a fictional, multi-faceted story around the still unexplained death of Barschel." Conclusion: "Poet political thriller based on the X-Files Barschel."
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Borowski and the free fall on October 14, 2012 was seen by 8.23 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22.1% for Das Erste ; In the group of 14 to 49 year old viewers , 2.78 million viewers and a market share of 17.9% were achieved.
Web links
- Borowski and the free fall in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of Borowski's plot and the free fall on the ARD website
- Borowski and the free fall at the crime scene fund
- Borowski and the free fall at Tatort-Fans.de
- Crime scene: Borowski and the free fall (PDF; 828 kB) - press kit of the NDR, ndr.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ For the “crime scene” Hamburg zu Kiel ( memento from October 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at kn-online.de from October 17, 2012. Retrieved on April 23, 2013.
- ↑ Crime scene: Borowski and the free fall (PDF; 828 kB) at ndr.de (production information etc.)
- ^ Tatort: Borowski and the free fall at crew-united.com. Retrieved March 8, 2013.
- ↑ meedia.de: Barschel-Widow criticizes “Tatort” , accessed on October 18, 2012.
- ↑ Holger Gertz: crime scene Kiel "Borowski and the free fall". More like Peer Steinbrück. Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 14, 2012, accessed on February 18, 2018 .
- ^ Christian Buß: ARD "Tatort" about Uwe Barschel. Video from the edge of the bath. Spiegel Online, October 12, 2012, accessed February 18, 2018 .
- ↑ tittelbach.tv: "Tatort - Borowski and the Free Fall" series , accessed on October 14, 2012.
- ↑ http://www.serienjunkies.de/tatort/reviews/1x846-borowski-und-der-frei-fall.html ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ^ Tatort: Borowski and the free fall at tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved March 8, 2013.
- ^ Tatort: Borowski and the free fall "Tatort": "Borowski, Barschel and the sad fall of a politician" at t-online.de. Retrieved March 8, 2013.
- ^ Tatort: Borowski and the free fall In: Fernsehmagazin Hörzu No. 41 of October 5, 2012, pp. 50, 52.
- ^ Tatort: Borowski and the free fall In: Fernsehmagazin Gong No. 41 of October 5, 2012, pp. 45, 48.
- ↑ David Grzeschik: Primetime check: Sunday, October 14, 2012.quotemeter.de , October 15, 2012, accessed on February 18, 2018 : “The winner of the day was clearly“ Tatort Borowski and the free fall ”with 8.23 million Viewers and 22.1 percent of the total market. "
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