Crime scene: Côte d'Azur
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | French Riviera |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Südwestrundfunk with Maran Film |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 960 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | November 1, 2015 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ed Duke |
| script | Wolfgang Stauch |
| production |
Uwe Franke Sabine Tettenborn |
| music | Martin Probst |
| camera | Andreas Schäfauer |
| cut | Martina Butz-Kofer |
| occupation | |
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Côte d'Azur is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film with Eva Mattes as chief detective Klara Blum was produced by SWR and Maran Film and first broadcast in Germany on November 1, 2015. This 960th episode in the crime scene series is the 29th case of Klara Blum and the 25th case of Kai Perlmann .
action
The police headquarters in Constance received the telephone voice message “I'm dead. Reeds at the end of the Winterer Steig. Take care of my baby. Quickly please! ”, Which the murderer sent via SMS from the victim's cell phone. Then Blum and Perlmann are ordered to the crime scene. Vanessa Koch's body is found quickly, but Perlmann does not order the search for the baby so as not to destroy any traces in the reeds, especially since he assumes that the child will be found in the dead person's apartment. Blum is furious about it and orders that the baby Alex be found. After the police found it, they handed the severely hypothermic child into the care of pediatrician Dr. Schwenkner, who fights and fears for Alex's life.
The further investigations lead the two inspectors to a homeless barrack on the Seerhein , which bears the melodious name "Côte d'Azur". The residents include the former self-employed craftsman Urs, the punk Lucky, the ex-circus cowboy Bill, the drug addict Franzi and Hagen Bötzow, who used to be a commissioner in the presidium of the two investigators. Vanessa Koch was a frequent guest in this group and had stayed in the barrack shortly before her death.
Only a valuable ring, which the investigators can see in photos of the dead but cannot find in their apartment, is brought by the officers into contact with a local dealer and fence who supplies Franzi with drugs after discovering the piece of jewelry at a jeweler. As the owner of the ring, the commissioners can track down the music producer Jürgen Evers. He claims that the ring was stolen from him during his last birthday party. At first he denies knowing Vanessa Koch, later it turns out that Evers impregnated Koch at this party.
Urs, whom Vanessa Koch could make believe he was Alex's father, had also learned of Evers' fatherhood. Because he also knew that Alex was suffering from his mother's excess alcohol, he had ambushed her in the reeds to kill her with an ax from the barracks. In this way, he wanted to make sure that Evers was doing his duty as a father and looking after the boy. In fact, Evers takes the baby in. Urs Hahn is arrested by Blum and Perlmann after a confession.
background
The film was shot from November 4, 2014 to December 7, 2014 in Baden-Baden and Konstanz .
The world premiere took place on October 5, 2015 as part of the Hamburg Film Festival . According to the original plan, the episode should have been broadcast on television at Christmas, but had to swap slots with the Cologne Tatort episode Used at short notice .
The Christmas song Silent Night, Holy Night was chosen as background music for the title sequence , while the protagonists in the film credits sing O du merry .
On the bed of the baby Alexander detective chief Kai Perlman reads in the hospital room the first two sentences from the fairy tale Allerleirauh the Brothers Grimm , before being interrupted by unannounced visitors.
Roland Koch , who played the role of Swiss policeman Matteo Lüthi in previous episodes from Constance, had expressed his displeasure with the cancellation of the crime thriller and is no longer part of the cast in this episode, in contrast to the last episode Château Mort .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Côte d'Azur on November 1, 2015 was seen by 9.39 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.9% for Das Erste . The Tatort was able to win more than twice as many viewers as the repetition of Rosamunde Pilcher's work The False Nun , which took second place in the ranking.
Reviews
Detlef Hartlap , chief editor of prisma , agrees that Côte d´Azur was not broadcast for Christmas, but for All Saints' Day . The production company Maran announced the episode as a thriller with "nuances" , but only delivered "waves with the fence post" . Hartlap sums up “that Lake Constance doesn't produce any good thrillers” , maybe “this time it will be different” .
According to the judgment of Thomas Schmidt from the Westfälische Nachrichten , the episode is a “classic“ Whodunit ”crime thriller" that delivers "an exciting staging [...] a gloomy, somewhat premature Christmas picture full of contrasts" . In addition to directing, Schmidt particularly emphasizes the actors' “classy homeless people” , whose acting is “always close to the cliché” , but “but never overdrawn” . The investigators seem to be "constantly at odds" with each other for no apparent reason , and Perlmann's "sudden conversion to Christianity" seems to be "out of thin air" , but "this crime scene" does not have to hide behind others " .
According to Roger Tell from tittelbach.tv, the episode is “a warm-hearted social thriller with no false nuances” . This is “worth seeing, narrated in a concentrated manner, well cast, exciting” , which is why Tell awarded four out of six possible points.
Lars-Christian Daniels from Filmstarts is of the opinion that the Côte d'Azur was the "weakest" crime scene "of the second half of 2015, but this is less due to the cast than to the weak script [...], with good scripts the Lake Constance- Crime has rarely been blessed in recent years ” . "The noticeably resentful nature of the otherwise so prudent commissioner" seems "artificial" , at the same time "constructs the whole conflict" . "The pesky pediatrician Dr. Schwenkner " is then chosen " with his tasteless remarks on the common enemy image " . Meanwhile, Justine Hauer, in the role of assistant Annika “Beckchen” Beck, “cannot go beyond the role of the interchangeable heroine with a hard-working southern German tongue” . The episode only seems “exciting” “in the opening sequence enriched with slasher motifs” . The resolution takes place according to the "tried and tested pattern" , but is one of "those of the trickier kind" . Frank Fink embodies “the most interesting figure in the crime novel” in the role of the “mentally battered ex-circus cowboy” Bill. The result is "another less exciting Lake Constance" crime scene "in a Christmas setting that did not match the first broadcast date" . Daniels awarded two out of five possible points.
Awards
Uwe Franke was nominated for the Hamburg Producer Award for German TV productions at the Hamburg Film Festival in 2015 .
Web links
- Crime scene: Côte d'Azur in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the action of the Côte d'Azur on the ARD website
- Côte d'Azur at the crime scene fund
- Côte d'Azur at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Scene of the crime: Côte d'Azur at crew united
- ↑ Bavaria Film : A new case for Klara Blum: Start of shooting for “Tatort: Côte d´Azur” (AT) on November 4, 2014 , November 4, 2014
- ↑ a b filmportal.de : Côte d'Azur: Germany 2014/2015, TV feature film , films, accessed on November 12, 2015
- ↑ a b c d prisma : Is a baby lying in the reeds ... , Sunday at the “Tatort”, Detlef Hartlap , October 31, 2015 - November 6, 2015, No. 44/2015, p. 11
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Filmstarts : Tatort: Côte d'Azur , accessed on November 12, 2015
- ^ A b Westfälische Nachrichten : Bodensee- “Tatort” in front of Pilcher , media, dpa , November 3, 2015
- ^ A b c Westfälische Nachrichten : Crime scene: Côte d'Azur (ARD) - classic "Whodunit" crime , media, Thomas Schmidt, November 2, 2015
- ^ A b Rainer Tittelbach : "Tatort - Côte d'Azur" series , November 3, 2015
- ^ Filmfest Hamburg : Tatort: Côte d'Azur , accessed on November 12, 2015
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