Crime scene: Borowski and the ideal world
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Borowski and the ideal world |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 732 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | May 3, 2009 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Florian Froschmayer |
| script |
Elke Schuch Marc Blöbaum |
| production |
Kerstin Ramcke Doris J. Heinze |
| music | Oliver Kranz |
| camera | Roman Novocien |
| cut | Birgit Bahr |
| occupation | |
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Borowski and the ideal world is a television film from the crime series Tatort and was first broadcast on May 3, 2009 on Das Erste . It is the 12th case of the Kiel investigator Klaus Borowski .
action
Michelle Nowak is a cheerful little girl, but her parents often quarrel and are usually just annoyed. Since her mother is expecting a second child, she becomes irritable very quickly. When they fight again, Michelle runs away and in the evening her mother reports her missing.
The next day the child is found dead on a ferry. Somebody choked her. When Borowski visits Nadine Nowak, she already suspects that he has bad news for her. The forensic doctor found older hematomas and other abnormalities that indicate regular abuse of the girl. When Borowski asks his parents about it, the impression grows that the relationship between the couple is very tense. The child's father, Thies Nowak, also has a criminal record and has a certain potential for violence. Borowski looks around Michelle's room and gets the impression that the child was afraid of something. He learns from the neighbors that Thies Nowak is generally known to be violent.
At school, Borowski receives a reference to Tim Hansen from Michelle's classmates. He works in Thies Nowak's restaurant and liked Michelle and made her laugh. But his brother Eddy thinks he is a pedophile and thinks he has evidence against Tim. Borowski investigates, but cannot find any further incriminating evidence.
He still thinks Michelle's father is capable of doing something to the child. An emergency call from Nowak's neighbors, when Thies has just freaked out again and flees the property with the car, confirms him. His wife, however, says nothing negative about her husband. Frieda Jung says she is protecting him out of fear of losing him, which is not unusual and a very typical behavior pattern for many married couples. Gradually Borowski discovered that Nadine was playing a very sly game. With all imaginable means and even auto-aggressive behavior, she always finds ways to bind her husband to her and to force his care for her. She wants to build an ideal world around her. A family without conflicts - a dream world that doesn't exist. In order to have her husband only to herself, she even sets fire to his restaurant.
When Nadine Nowak finds out that Borowski has seen through, she fled to her mother. She talks to her about the night Michelle ran away and confesses that she suffocated her daughter. She followed her to the ferry, but Michelle didn't want to go home with her. She just wanted her to put on her jacket because it was cold, but Michelle didn't want to.
When Borowski locates her with her mother and wants to speak, she rushes out of the window. She suffers a spine fracture, but her baby survives unharmed.
background
The film was produced by Studio Hamburg and Norddeutscher Rundfunk and shot under the working title Michelle - 8 years in Kiel and the surrounding area.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Borowski und die heile Welt on May 3, 2009 was seen by a total of 8.11 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 23.7 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv says: “The gentle game between closeness and distance, the ritualized game of hide-and-seek, rarely succeeded as well as in this 12th thriller about Borowski and his 'better half'. The camera is very close to Axel Milberg - and he has a mimic repertoire that makes it a pleasure to watch him. Maren Eggert also shows once again that she is one of the greats. Looks are the driving force in 'Borowski and the perfect world'. Camera glances too. Director Florian Froschmeyer tells very visually. "
At Stern.de , Kathrin Buchner notes: “The Kiel 'crime scene' 'Borowski and the ideal world' dissects a fragile construct, the discrepancy between deception and truth, between love and self-deception in relationships. […] Sensitively and without any showmanship, director Florian Froschmayer staged the outstanding screenplay by Elke Schuch and Marc Blöbaum, with a clear focus on the essentials, without getting lost in secondary lines and with the courage to use strong symbolism. [...] With this 'crime scene', Axel Milberg as Commissioner Klaus Borowski and his team finally catapulted himself into the league of the big Sunday evening social studies of the past few years. "
Carin Pawlak from Focus.de sums up: “A mother as a murderer or: Why the world is never whole. If there is a German Kurt Wallander, then his name is Klaus Borowski. Such a weird investigator is good for you. "
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm judge this crime scene as a "coherent, artistically filmed psychogram" and as an "intimate, psychologically sophisticated drama."
Web links
- Borowski and the ideal world in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of Borowski's plot and the ideal world on the ARD website
- Borowski and the ideal world at the crime scene fund
- Borowski and the ideal world at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 8, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 8, 2014.
- ↑ Kathrin Buchner Borowski and the murdering mother on stern.de, accessed on March 8, 2014.
- ↑ Carin Pawlak Der Kantige from Waterkant on focus.de, accessed on March 8, 2014.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 8, 2014.
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