Crime scene: Borowski and the lonely hearts
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Borowski and the lonely hearts |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 707 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | October 12, 2008 on First German Television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lars Jessen |
| script | Thomas Schwank |
| production |
Danela Pietrek Kerstin Ramcke Doris J. Heinze |
| music |
Frank Wulff Stefan Wulff Hinrich Dageför |
| camera | Marcus Kanter |
| cut | Sebastian Schultz |
| occupation | |
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Borowski and the Lonely Hearts is a television film from the crime series Tatort and was first broadcast on October 12, 2008 on Das Erste . It is the 11th case for the Kiel investigator Klaus Borowski .
In this 707th episode of Tatort, Borowski has to deal with a jealous woman who takes every man out of the way who gets too close to her best friend.
action
Inspector Borowski is investigating a crime scene and finds that a similar murder occurred two days ago and that he is very likely dealing with the same perpetrator. Both victims are male, middle-aged, of similar stature, and were each stabbed with a fist knife in their apartment .
In the latter case, it is obvious that the victim had recently had a woman visit. Borowski learns from the cleaning lady that Mr. Bauer was looking for a partner via a personal ad. That is why the inspector asked the “Kieler Bote”, where Bauer had advertised, to give him all of the advertisements and customers from last year. On the basis of the information that the gentlemen gave about themselves, he selects a sexton who is most similar to the type of victim and asks him about the women who have contacted him. In the description that Küster can give, Borowski Gundula Beck stands out because she comes closest to the profile that Frieda Jung created of the perpetrator. But before he can visit the lady, the next victim is found: Berthold, the advertising manager of the “Kieler Bote”, whom Borowski had just met when he was looking for the advertisers. Strangely enough, he lived under the name Stephan Reller. Borowski finds out that Berthold has simply appropriated sympathetic replies from his customers and met the women under a false name in an acquaintance's apartment, which now became his undoing.
Kriminalrat Schladitz suggests that Borowski submit a complaint and investigate undercover as a decoy. He is not enthusiastic about it, but complies. He meets one after the other with different women in a café. Frieda Jung takes on the role of the waitress and can secure a DNA sample from each candidate through the coffee cups used. Only Gundula Beck lets Borowski flash, which makes her all the more interesting for him. He searches for her and meets her in a fitness club, where he suddenly meets Anne Schilling, whom he had already spoken to in the café. He talks to her and notices that the two women are close friends. Borowski goes on a sailing tour with Gundula Beck, on which she clearly sets the tone. In the evening he meets her again in the pub and on the way home they talk about personal matters and also about Anne Schilling. She does the bookkeeping for her in her leather shop. She had mourned her ex-husband for fifteen years and was slowly starting to open up again.
Borowski finds out that Gundula Beck's ex-husband is Jan Petersen, who also wants to make women acquaintances through advertisements, but, unlike his wife, has not even met a candidate. When the forensic scientist can assign traces from the last crime scene to Gundula Beck, she is arrested and interrogated. There is a fist knife in her handbag, which she says she always has with her because she never knows who she will come across at meetings. Her husband gave it to her fourteen years ago when she opened her leather shop. Borowski doubts whether Beck is really the perpetrator. Frieda Jung also rates her statement as very credible. In his opinion, the real culprit only struck when Beck had left her male acquaintance.
Borowski wants to set a trap and meet Gundula Beck at his home. He lets her in on his plan and can convince her to play along. He brings Gundula Beck to his home as planned. Kriminalrat Schladitz and other police officers are waiting in hiding for the perpetrator to appear when Beck leaves Borowski late in the evening. But nobody appears. Surprisingly, however, she meets her ex-husband in her apartment, who looks very threatening to her. He confesses to her that he still loves her, but she rejects him. He then became irascible and besieged her and her apartment until Borowski appeared the next morning because he was worried. He puts Jan Petersen in his place. Gundula fears that he might have done something to Anne because she doesn't answer, and so Borowski drives to her. Anne Schilling is fine, however, and she invites Borowski to a cup of tea. As he drinks it, he suddenly realizes that she has mixed an anesthetic into the tea. With a knife drawn, she says: “Our friendship will not break a man.” But he succeeds in overpowering Anne and she can be arrested.
background
The film was produced by Studio Hamburg Produktion Kiel GmbH and Norddeutscher Rundfunk and shot in Kiel under the working title Born to be wild . This crime scene was first broadcast in Finland on November 10, 2011.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Borowski and the lonely hearts was seen on October 12, 2008 in Germany by a total of 6.87 million viewers and achieved a market share of 19.30 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv says: “As exciting as this 'crime scene' is from time to time due to Borowski's immediate threat - the plausibility of the crime thriller plot is somewhat less than the fates and images of people shown. So it is once again reserved for the ironically ambiguous game of Milberg and Eggert to put its highlights on the film. "
Tilmann P. Gangloff comments on this 'crime scene': “Despite the very serious criminalistic side: For 'Borowski' standards, the film sometimes just misses the parody, which is why the end of the action seems a bit artificial. As a serial killer story, the thriller is almost too burlesque anyway. But Milberg is good as always. "
Kathrin Buchner at Stern.de thinks this crime scene is very “funny and entertaining, but also slightly banal and irrelevant. […] At least, it gives a little insight into the psychology of single women of a mature age, spiced with dialogues as you know them from Gaby-Hauptmann and Ildiko-von-Kürthy novels. The slapstick between Jung and Borowski is amusing. Warmth of heart in the far north, the inspector as a dude in love. It will be interesting to see where Borowski's advances towards his colleague will lead. "
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm think that this crime scene is just a "mild plot, but an amusing crowd."
Web links
- Crime scene: Borowski and the lonely hearts in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot by Borowski and the lonely hearts on the ARD website
- Borowski and the lonely hearts at the crime scene fund
- Borowski and the lonely hearts at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 17, 2014.
- ↑ Filming locations on Internet Movie Database , accessed April 15, 2014.
- ↑ Broadcast data on Internet Movie Database , accessed April 18, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on April 18, 2014.
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Critique of the film on Kino.de , accessed on April 18, 2014.
- ↑ Kathrin Buchner: The "lonely heart" sticks to stern.de, accessed on April 18, 2014.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on April 18, 2014.
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