Crime scene: Borowski and the silent guest
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Borowski and the silent guest |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR , Nordfilm Kiel GmbH |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 842 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | September 9, 2012 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christian Alvart |
| script | Sascha Arango |
| production | Kerstin Ramcke |
| music | Michl Britsch |
| camera | Ngo The Chau |
| cut | Sebastian Bonde |
| occupation | |
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Borowski and the silent guest is a television film from the crime series Tatort . It is the 842nd episode in the series and the 19th case of the investigator Klaus Borowski ( Axel Milberg ), who is assisted by the commissioner candidate Sarah Brandt ( Sibel Kekilli ). The film premiered on September 9, 2012 on First .
action
Shortly before her murder, Carmen Kessler calls the Kiel police and asks for help. She states that someone is in her apartment. Despite the best efforts of the police, any help comes too late. Kessler is found cruelly murdered in her home. The investigators involved in the case, Kriminalhauptkommissar Borowski and Commissioner candidate Brandt, are faced with a puzzle. Because although the apartment door was locked and the perpetrator left no traces, he seems to have walked in and out of Carmen Kessler's. Apparently he'd lived with her, made her presents, and studied her closely.
The silent guest, Kai Korthals, can still not be found. It looks like he's already targeting another victim: Borowski's colleague Sarah Brandt. Before that, however, he is still busy with his current "case", Roswitha Kranz. He plays with their young son, Nathaniel. When the door to the apartment opens and the boy's mother comes home, the silent guest can sneak out of the apartment unnoticed. It becomes clear that the child is not his own and that the apartment does not belong to him either. The mother is a drug addict prostitute who, barely arriving, injects a dose of heroin in front of her child.
After an emotional discussion between Borowski, Kriminalrat Schladitz and Sarah Brandt, the young woman suffers an epileptic fit . Borowski takes her to the office unnoticed and explains to her after she regains consciousness that under these circumstances she is unsuitable for working with a weapon and is actually not even allowed to drive a car. Brandt asks him to keep her condition a secret.
In the evening Borowski is visited by Schladitz, who, according to his statement, has been "banished" by his wife after she caught him red-handed with a prostitute. After initial grumbling, Borowski offers Schladitz to live with him.
The next time Roswitha Kranz comes home, little Nathaniel has disappeared. Your emergency call will be forwarded directly to Borowski, as he had sensitized the clerk, who had previously dealt with such cases rather laxly, whether the first murder had occurred. As in the Kessler murder, the door of the Kranz apartment was locked. Borowski and Brandt do not find any traces during an investigation. Borowski nevertheless takes the toothbrush with him, which later turns out to be unused. Roswitha Kranz had taken drugs as a result of the shock of her son's disappearance and is no longer available. Since it cannot be ruled out that she herself might have done something to the child, whom she very often left alone to “buy”, she is taken to the presidium.
Korthals found out about Brandt's epilepsy through his work at the post office and also got her address through his job. The next day he follows Brandt to her apartment and examines it thoroughly while she takes a shower. A short time later, Brandt noticed traces of gloves on her mirror. She is sure that these come from a stalker or the perpetrator, and informs Borowski and Schladitz of their suspicions.
Roswitha Kranz, who is now back home, wants to throw herself from her balcony. A ringing doorbell prevents them from doing so. It is Korthals who brings Nathaniel back, pretending to have found him in the doorway. After Roswitha asked him in, Korthals reveals himself through his detailed knowledge of her apartment - he then kills Roswitha and takes Nathaniel back with him.
Borowski and Brandt drive together to Brandt's house, where Borowski's suspicion that Brandt should be Korthals' next victim is confirmed. And in fact, shortly afterwards, Korthals appears at Brandt's to deliver a package. The young woman recognizes him. She then also discovers that Korthals was using her computer and ordered the package that had just been delivered himself. When she talks to Borowski about it, Korthals can eavesdrop on this conversation unnoticed by both of them through their laptop's webcam and learns that his identity is no longer a secret. When the commissioners want to visit him shortly afterwards, however, his apartment is orphaned and a garage he rented turns out to be an operations center, the explosive self-destruction of which is triggered only a little later by an inattentiveness of Borowski. Under these circumstances, Brandt does not want to go back to her house and prefer to spend the night in a police cell. However, Korthals sneaks into the precinct and even ends up in Brandt's cell. There he gives her the epilepsy medication she had forgotten and disappears. Borowski and Korthals make a short phone call in front of the station, from which it becomes clear that Korthals still has Nathaniel under his control and wants to flee with him.
There is a chase that ends in a field. Korthals' camping van is surrounded and suddenly explodes. In the ensuing chaos, Korthals sneaks away with Nathaniel, but is caught by Borowski and Brandt. In his defense, he states that he is not a bad person and that he never wanted to kill anyone. The first victim spotted him and screamed loudly that he didn't know what else to do. Nathaniel's mother is a fixer and the boy has no chance in life unless someone takes care of him. He sets Nathaniel down and then injures himself badly with an ax. An ambulance takes the seriously injured man to the prison hospital. When the car arrives there, it is found that Korthals was able to escape.
reception
Audience ratings
7.5 million viewers tuned in for the first broadcast, which is below the average for the series. However, it was the best value for the Kiel “Tatort” in three years.
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv wrote appreciatively: “'Borowski and the silent guest' is the fourth Borowski 'crime scene' from the pen of Sascha Arango. All of them crime novels in which the perpetrator is openly carried out. [...] Script and direction are characterized by a unique narrative economy. Which does not mean that there is no room for bizarre 'minor matters': Or what else is it when Borowski annoyedly shoots his brown car, which is not only ugly, but now also no longer drives. "
On the one hand , Christian Buß stated with a smile on Spiegel Online : “After this 'crime scene', that much is certain, one or the other viewer will switch to disposable brushes.” But he also meant very seriously: “As a 'Home Invasion Thriller', in Since the women's apartments are occupied by a dubious male power, the crime thriller unfolds a considerable effect - the psychological fine-tuning is visibly lost, however. Nevertheless: the filmmakers find a couple of strong scenes for the characters lost, for the eternal interaction of closeness and distance that victims, perpetrators and investigators are subject to. "
Holger Gertz from Süddeutschen.de gave the following verdict: “Much in life happens in silence, vaguely, this is what this very good 'crime scene' tells about, which only gets loud and noisy when the time is right. The time is ripe for Borowski's car. So it will be shot. "
Heike Hupertz from faz.net said: “In 'Borowski and the silent guest' we learn more about the perpetrator than we would like. A 'crime scene' with an irresistible pull. And one last, superfluous minute. "
The critics of T-online.de judged the crime scene: “Instead of staging a guessing game, the crime story preferred to stay close to the murderer - and was still as exciting and scary as no 'crime scene' for a long time. In addition, he came up with a special feature at the end: the perpetrator was able to escape. "
particularities
Borowski and the silent guest is one of the few Tatort episodes (others are, for example, Because they are angry and Ms. Bu laughs ) in which the perpetrator escapes the police at the end. The episode Borowski and the return of the silent guest from 2015 is the continuation of this case.
Web links
- Crime scene: Borowski and the silent guest in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Summary of the plot by Borowski and the silent guest on the ARD website
- Borowski and the silent guest at the crime scene fund
- Borowski and the silent guest at Tatort-Fans.de
- Borowski and the daring sequel at Stern.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Milberg, Kekilli, Eidinger, Arango, Alvart. A duplicate key makes a lot easier! Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on August 29, 2014.
- ↑ Christian Buß : "Tatort" on voyeurism: Der Spanner, your friend and helper at spiegel.de, accessed on August 29, 2014.
- ↑ Holger Gertz: Have you seen your brain? at sueddeutsche.de, accessed on August 29, 2014.
- ↑ Heike Hupertz: He comes through the wall at faz.net, accessed on August 29, 2014.
- ^ "Tatort": If the postman doesn't ring at all - and becomes a murderer at t-online.de, accessed on August 29, 2014.
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