Scene of the crime: Borowski and the return of the silent guest
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Borowski and the return of the silent guest |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR , Nordfilm Kiel GmbH |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 964 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | November 29, 2015 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claudia Garde |
| script | Sascha Arango |
| production |
Kerstin Ramcke Johannes Pollmann |
| music | Colin Towns |
| camera | Philip Peschlow |
| cut | Thomas Stange |
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Borowski and the return of the silent guest is a television film from the crime series Tatort . It is the 964th episode in the series and the 26th case of investigator Klaus Borowski ( Axel Milberg ), who is assisted by the commissioner candidate Sarah Brandt ( Sibel Kekilli ). The film was first broadcast on November 29, 2015 in the first .
action
After a long time, the woman murderer Kai Korthals, wanted by the police, appears again. A completely confused young woman is found on the Kiel Fjord . At first unresponsive, after a while she draws Korthals' face on paper. It turns out that she had a child from Korthals who Korthals cut out of her abdomen. During the night, Korthals did not recognize any expressions of life in the child. He then takes it to the doctor, who immediately alerts the emergency services. Afraid of being discovered, Korthals flees during the phone call. Since there is a risk that Korthals could kidnap the child, it is finally taken to the Bundeswehr clinic.
Sarah Brandt understands the confused woman's drawings as an indication of Korthals' return. Ms. Brandt is overwhelmed by her own memories of her encounter with the murderer. The new case is inconvenient for investigator Borowski, because he is freshly in love. One day his lover Frieda doesn't come to a rendezvous, she seems to have disappeared. Korthals has now changed his approach: He no longer lies in wait for his victims, but brings them to his apartment and locks them there in a separate room, as is Frieda. For this purpose he manipulated the elevator of his house - by turning a key a brick wall is pushed in front of the door to Frieda's dungeon.
Korthals later turns up in Borowski's apartment, which he had previously secretly visited. He demands that his child be exchanged for Frieda. Borowski manages to overpower the armed Korthals. In order to find out Frieda's whereabouts, he does not inform his colleagues about it. In the meantime he is called to the police headquarters. There he learns that the investigators are convinced that Frieda's disappearance has nothing to do with Korthals.
After a night and a day, Borowski puts Korthals in a van and drives away. He notices that he is being followed by the other investigators and therefore deliberately causes an accident, so that Korthals can apparently escape unnoticed. Korthals manages to escape to his house, but is surprised by Borowski in the elevator. He pushes him into the apartment and opens Frieda's dungeon with a key through the elevator. Since this only opens the door of the hiding place in the apartment, the Korthals who remained there can get to Frieda. Frieda stabs Korthals several times in the stomach. Seriously wounded, he flees into the elevator shaft. Finally, a special police force arrives, storms the apartment building and searches the elevator and its shaft. Korthals escapes through the elevator shaft to the roof of the building and is caught there by Borowski so that he cannot commit suicide by jumping into the depths. Since Frieda cannot live with Borowski's work, she separates from him.
background
The episode ties in with the Borowski case and the silent guest from 2012, in which the perpetrator Kai Korthals was the only perpetrator to have escaped the investigative team from Borowski and Brandt. “It wasn't planned from the start. The open end was more of a gag, a game with the shock effect, ” reported Lars Eidinger. The reason for the successful escape was the acting performance of Lars Eidinger , so that, according to the scriptwriter, the escape kept the possibility of a sequel open. The decisive factor for the decision to shoot a sequel were the reactions of the audience, explained NDR feature film director Christian Granderath . For the first time in the history of the crime scene, a sequel was filmed. Gunther Witte , inventor of the Tatort television series , expressed indignation to the picture in 2012 : “A murderer must not escape!” Again, the screenplay comes from Sascha Arango , who was already writing the screenplay for this subsequent episode when the first episode was broadcast. Eidinger took over the role of Kai Korthals again. This episode comes out entirely without murder.
To make it easier for viewers to get started, the previous episode Borowski and the silent guest was made available in the ARD media library shortly after the first broadcast of the episode Borowski and the return of the silent guest .
Filming began on February 24, 2015 and ended on March 25, 2015. The filming locations were Kiel , Hamburg and the surrounding area.
The episode premiered on October 2, 2015 at the Hamburg Film Festival . The Purgatory case was originally scheduled to be broadcast on November 29, 2015 . Due to the terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 in Paris , the broadcast was postponed and instead the episode Borowski and the return of the silent guest was broadcast, which, according to the original plan, should not have been broadcast until 2016.
In an elevator scene, classic theater means are used when the audience is addressed directly by Kai Korthals and thus the “ fourth wall ” is breached.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Borowski and the return of the silent guest on November 29, 2015 was seen by 8.57 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 24.0% for Das Erste .
In Austria, 522,000 viewers were reached, an average reach of 7% and a market share of 17%.
In Switzerland, 318,000 viewers over the age of three watched the first broadcast of the episode, giving it a market share of 18.2%. In the group of 15 to 59 year old viewers, 225,000 viewers were counted and a market share of 17.6% was measured.
Reviews
Oliver Junge from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes: “A criminal figure like Kai Korthals is welcome to return to the scene of the crime, even for the next forty years.” Because Kai Korthals, the “friendly, cruel sociopath [...] calls for a psychological duel ". The opening credits are already a “bravura piece” that “moves in a stage-like sequence through Korthal's stylized apartment”, while “reciting passages from Grimm's fairy tale » Snow White «”. Director Claudia Garde did well to "move the drama even more deeply into the characters" than was the case in the previous episode with Korthals and at the same time works "with tricks from the thriller box: dark apartments, noises behind doors, sound effects ". The episode is not a “simple continuation” because “all the characters have developed”. Junge is of the opinion that it is the "inscrutable exceptional actors Eidinger and Milberg who wear this exciting, abstruse and not fearful" crime scene "which, despite the clear, simple plot, knows how to surprise us several times".
The editorial team of TV Spielfilm judged, "Two returnees bring heaven and earth to the Kiel Commissioner Borowski." The "investigations go beyond the pain threshold." This case gets under your skin! ”. The result is "a cleverly constructed case in which the evil again comes across as frighteningly harmless". The two main actors are praised: “Eidinger succeeds in preventing the audience from cheering, here you shiver too! Axel Milberg as his opponent is also in great form. ”The editors awarded the best of three possible ratings.
Iris Keßler from the Westfälische Nachrichten thinks the episode is a "worth seeing duel" between Borowski and Korthals. “Axel Milberg is particularly good at the gloomy”, as the episode even contains “horror components”. The episode "was again under the torture", as the "outstanding" first episode with Korthals did three years earlier, "although the script did not have the ingenuity of its predecessor". “Borowski's private suffering seemed too constructed”, “nonetheless, a duel between Milberg and Lars Eidinger as the psychopath Korthal's worth seeing awaited the viewer, which impressed with their facial expressions and great pictorial moments”.
Awards
Kerstin Ramcke and Johannes Pollmann were nominated for the Hamburg Producers Award at the Hamburg Film Festival in 2015 .
Web links
- Crime scene: Borowski and the return of the silent guest in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of Borowski's plot and the return of the silent guest on the ARD website
- Borowski and the return of the silent guest at the crime scene fund
- Borowski and the return of the silent guest at Tatort-Fans.de
- Norddeutscher Rundfunk : Press kit , accessed on January 2, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Das Erste : "The Return of a Demon" , accessed on January 2, 2016
- ↑ a b c d e Westfälische Nachrichten : The psychopath is back: Continuation of a legendary "Tatort" episode: "Borowski and the return of the silent guest" , media, dpa , Daniel Rademacher, November 28, 2015
- ↑ a b Stern.de : “Tatort” with an open end: Borowski and the daring sequel , Niels Kruse, September 12, 2012
- ↑ a b c d e f g Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : Borowski investigates in the "Tatort": Everyone has their opponent in fear , Oliver Junge, November 29, 2015
- ↑ a b c d e f TV feature film : Tatort: Borowski and the return of the silent guest , accessed on January 2, 2016
- ↑ Borowski and the return of the silent guest at Tatort-Fans.de, accessed on January 2, 2016
- ↑ Das Erste : Conversation with Axel Milberg , accessed on January 2, 2016
- ↑ ARD Mediathek : Borowski and the silent guest ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , November 27, 2015, 89 min.
- ↑ Borowski and the return of the silent guest at the Tatort fund, accessed on January 2, 2016
- ^ Borowski and the return of the silent guest at filmportal.de .
- ↑ Das Erste : Video: Extra to "Borowski and the return of the silent guest" , November 29, 2015, 1:18 min.
- ^ Tittelbach.tv : Series "Tatort - Borowski and the return of the silent guest" , Rainer Tittelbach, accessed on January 2, 2016
- ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Not a big hit for Borowski , media / quotas, dpa , December 1, 2015
- ↑ Medienforschung ORF , data from Sunday, November 29, 2015
- ↑ a b Swiss radio and television : SRF 1 - November 29, 2015 ( memento of the original from January 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Mediapulse TV panel - German-speaking Switzerland, Overnight, people three years and older, accessed on December 4, 2015
- ↑ a b c d Westfälische Nachrichten : Tatort: Borowski and the return ... (ARD) - Worth seeing duel , media / seen, Iris Keßler, November 30, 2015
- ↑ Internet Movie Database : Nominations and Awards , accessed January 2, 2016
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