Crime Scene: Brothers (2014)
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | brothers |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Radio Bremen and WDR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 901 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | February 23, 2014 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Florian Baxmeyer |
| script | Wilfried Huismann , Dagmar Gabler |
| production | Stephan Bechtle Bremedia film production |
| music | Stefan Hansen |
| camera | Marcus Kanter |
| cut | Friederike Weymar |
| occupation | |
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Brothers is a television film from the television crime series Tatort by ARD , ORF and SRF with Chief Commissioner Inga Lürsen alias Sabine Postel and Commissioner Stedefreund alias Oliver Mommsen . The film was produced by Bremedia on behalf of Radio Bremen and WDR and first broadcast on February 23, 2014. It is the 901st episode in the crime scene series.
action
The police officers David Förster and Anne Peters answer an emergency call - a man feels seriously threatened. The mission escalates and Peters is critically injured. When the investigating police chief inspectors Inga Lürsen and Nils Stedefreund arrive, Förster and the stranger have disappeared. Circumstances suggest that the man was murdered. Ahmed Nidal can be identified as one of the perpetrators through a hair found in the police car. He belongs to the dreaded clan of serious Arab criminals who terrify the citizens of Bremen. His brother Hassan Nidal is currently on trial. He considers himself inviolable because the clan works according to his rules, which makes it difficult to prove anything to him. A key witness who could be instrumental in this process recently disappeared.
Lürsen and Stedefreund find out that David and Anne have disrupted the activities of this criminal clan. When David appears again, he evades questions about the course of events. However, a witness is found who had observed the attack from his window. According to his statement, David Förster had left his colleague Anne Peters alone. Lürsen is certain that the young woman is only so badly injured because she recognized someone. It is therefore surprising that Förster was able to escape unmolested.
David Förster is deeply affected by the events. His main problem is that he is friends with Mesut, Hassan Nidal's brother, whom he faced during the attack. He goes to see them even though he has had little contact with him for years. Mesut has sworn off the clan and has lived in Bremen for years. Nevertheless, Förster makes him jointly responsible for Anne's condition and, with Mesut's help, wants to hunt down the culprits. Since this is difficult with the legally restricted police options, he goes his own way. The fact that Förster was suspected by his colleagues of abandoning Anne Peters makes his decision easier for him. He knows the Nidals and what they are capable of.
The DNA traces found at the crime scene can be assigned to the forwarding agent Benno Eisen. He was supposed to testify as a key witness in the ongoing Nidal trial. Also, the witness who observed the attack on the police officers is so pressured and intimidated by Nidal's people that he collapses. When Anne Peters then succumbs to her serious injuries, it seems that all evidence against the clan has been destroyed. However, Lürsen can locate the transporter in which DNA traces of the victim Benno Eisen and the brothers Hassan and Ahmed Nidal are found. In the opinion of the Commissioner, these points would be sufficient for a trial even if no body was found. However, the clan has now also threatened the judge, so Hassan Nidal can continue to be at large. This renewed setback does not leave the investigators resigned either. They keep looking for evidence against him. Lürsen suspects that Eisen, as the owner of the shipping company through which the clan brings its goods into the country, diverted a container in order to have evidence against Hassan. While searching for it, she unexpectedly finds Iron's body. This means that the pre-trial detention against Hassan can no longer be refused, but he is now on the run and is also looking for the missing container. This is the chance for foresters. He contacts Hassan through Mesut and wants to find out the date and place of arrival of the drug delivery that is in the container in question. Inevitably, Förster confides in Lürsen and Stedefreund and they work together to capture Nidal. As a result, the Nidal clan, who is currently in the process of unloading their goods from the container, succeeds in redeeming them. Hassan Nidal is hit by a bullet and taken seriously injured to the hospital. Based on the evidence, the ongoing trial can be expanded to include the murder of Eisen and Peters, but it will be suspended until the main defendant, Hassan Nidal, can be heard again.
Forster's friend Mesut, who actually despised his family and always kept his distance from the clan, takes Hassan's fate more with him than he thought. He returns to the family's lap and takes over his brother's position.
background
The episode was filmed by the Bremedia production company for Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Bremen and the surrounding area under the working title Sunny .
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Brüder on February 23, 2014 reached 10.18 million viewers in Germany and a market share of 27.4 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
Volker Bergmeister from tittelbach.tv rates this crime scene as a “tightrope walk. The authors Wilfried Huismann and Dagmar Gabler play with a complex and frightening topic: the fear of the overwhelming power of large Arab families over the German state. A difficult balancing act between political correctness, prejudice and social reality. The film by 'Tatort' expert Florian Baxmeyer has tension, speed, emotions, action, but also (too) many clichés in its implementation. Still: worth seeing! "
At Stern.de , Annette Berger has a similar opinion: “The plot of the new Bremen 'Tatort' episode 'Brothers' moves into exciting and risky terrain. It is about the criminal machinations of a large German-Arab family that cannot be stopped by the police or the judiciary. In reality there are such parallel societies in Germany too, for example in Berlin, but also in Bremen. The material is sensitive because it harbors the risk of slipping into cliché or even xenophobic. However, director Florian Baxmeyer and the scriptwriters Wilfried Huismann and Dagmar Gabler deliver a very unsentimental piece - apart from a few shallow spots in the second half of the plot. "
Robert Braunmüller from the Abendzeitung-Muenchen says: “The all too soft bureaucrats of the law seemed almost paralyzed by the looks of the tough guys. The crime thriller does not say a word about the connections between organized crime and civil business. 'Forget the multicultural talk,' said the police officer. 'If you make yourself too green, the goats will eat you', the commissioner Goethe quoted the intimidated judge. But: What can be done about the organized crime of foreigners? Methods from the wild west like in this crime thriller are no solution either. "
“The Miris don't have the city under control, but they spread fear and horror, not least among the Bremen police. It is remarkable that Baxmeyer processed the topic at all and messed with the numerous guardians of political correctness. [...] That is a clear experimental arrangement, and Baxmeyer tells the story succinctly, a story about mutual strangeness in all shades. People caught in opposition; everyone thinks they are the law. […] The characterization of the clan members sometimes comes across as a bit clichéd, but for a long time the crime scene keeps the topic and the tension, and it does not offer solutions where there are no solutions. "
Web links
- Crime scene: Brothers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot by Brüder (2014) on the ARD website
- Brothers (2014) at the crime scene fundus
- Brothers (2014) at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Didis TV pages No. 632 - Tatort Bremen, episodes 5 , accessed on June 20, 2016.
- ^ "Tatort" from Bremen about family clans: "We are the law" at tagesspiegel.de , February 23, 2014, accessed on June 20, 2016.
- ↑ RUBYCON crime scene - Film 901: Brothers , accessed on 20 June 2016th
- ↑ Audience rating at spiegel.de , accessed on May 11, 2015.
- ↑ Volker Bergmeister: Postel, Mommsen, Letkowski, Baxmeyer. "Don't forget, I'm the law here" Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on May 11, 2015.
- ↑ Lawless in Bremen at stern.de, accessed on May 11, 2015.
- ↑ TV review: That was the "Tatort" from Bremen at abendzeitung-muenchen.de, accessed on May 11, 2015.
- ↑ Holger Gertz: Strangeness in all shades. Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 23, 2014, accessed on February 23, 2014 .
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