Crime scene: Château Mort
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Château Mort |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR , SRF |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 935 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | February 8, 2015 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marc Rensing |
| script | Stefan Dähnert |
| production |
Uwe Franke Sabine Tettenborn |
| music |
Rainer of many Michael Schönmetzer |
| camera | Jürgen Carle |
| cut | Isabelle Allgeier |
| occupation | |
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Château Mort is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film with Eva Mattes as chief detective Klara Blum was produced by SWR and SRF and first broadcast on February 8, 2015. This 935th episode in the crime scene series is the 28th case of Klara Blum and the 24th case of Kai Perlmann .
When solving a murder, the investigators come under the responsibility of their Swiss colleagues and work together with Commissioner Matteo Lüthi.
action
In Konstanz the corpse of the young unemployed Rico Schmitz is from the Bodensee fished. During the autopsy , an external influence is determined, but the weapon cannot be determined initially. The forensic doctor later found out that Schmitz was injected with compressed air into his throat with a cannula and that he then died in agony of an embolism . Skin particles that may have come from the killer could also be recovered. In the rucksack that the victim had with him, there are several broken wine bottles and one intact. Investigators Klara Blum and Kai Perlmann are curious about this historic looking bottle.
They visit Rico Schmitz's mother to find out what the motive for the murder might have been. He recently lived in a caravan by the lake and had most recently worked as a temporary worker for the large laundry owner Clemens Koch. But although he graduated from high school and could have looked for a permanent job, he only worked occasionally and preferred to deal intensively with the Baden Revolution of 1848/49. At least that's what the books that Blum and Perlmann find in his trailer suggest.
In order to analyze the antique wine bottle, the investigators contact the wine expert Hans Lichius. In his opinion, it could be a so-called Droste bottle, which he believes is unlikely, since he himself recently found a batch of a few bottles of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's wedding wine , which is currently selling six-figure amounts at auctions . Blum suspects that Schmitz could have stolen the bottle, so she contacts the auction house in Switzerland, which manages the valuable bottles. Susann Tobler not only auctions the objects, but also stores them professionally and with optimal air conditioning upon request. Blum asked her Swiss colleague Matteo Lüthi from the Thurgau police to check a list of buyers to find out who might have lost one of the valuable bottles.
Strangely enough, Lüthi is investigating various money laundering cases in parallel and also comes across Susann Tobler and her auction house. When buying old and expensive wine, assets can be deposited untaxed at the action house without the tax authorities having access to the assets. When the detectives realize that the two cases may be related, they decide to work together as a trio. When checking the auction customers, Blum discovers that one of them is the laundry owner Clemens Koch, for whom the victim worked “black” . According to his behavior, he looks suspicious to the investigators. Schmitz could have stolen a bottle from him and in an argument about it, he killed him.
Perlmann, on the other hand, is certain that Schmitz carried out historical excavations and came across another discovery of the valuable wedding wine. His guess seems to be confirmed when the wine expert Lichius can confirm the authenticity of the bottle's contents. That would mean that the Droste bottles, which have been auctioned at high prices so far, are not real. Therefore he withholds his discovery from Blum, but informs Susann Tobler of it, since he had also examined her wine and does not want to endanger the sale that has already taken place.
Meanwhile, Perlmann finds out that Schmitz had someone who knew about it. Ignatz Popp, the owner of a copy shop, discovered what Schmitz was working on and is now offering Droste wine for sale on the Internet. For Susann Tobler this means that it could turn out that her wines are fake. To prevent this, she meets Ignatz Popp by buying one of his bottles and wants to pick it up personally from him. Before he recognizes the danger, she injects him with a corkscrew that works with compressed air, a lethal dose of air into his body, just as Schmitz did. Afterwards she wants to get Lichius out of the way as the last confidante and makes him so drunk that he doesn't notice how she wants to poison him with car exhaust fumes.
Lüthi can now prove the authenticity of the wine in an independent laboratory. When Ignatz Popp is found dead, Blum and Lüthi suspect that the wine expert committed the murders. When they want to see him, the police arrive just in time to rescue him.
So it is clear that Susann Tobler is behind the murders and she is arrested by the Swiss police.
background
This crime scene crime thriller, produced by Südwestrundfunk and Swiss Radio and Television in cooperation with Maran Film , was shot in Konstanz , Baden-Baden , Reichenau and the vicinity of Konstanz.
When telling the story, the screenwriter works in two time levels. Stefan Dähnert links the current case with the events of 1848 and builds on historically proven facts a game of thought he constructed, which revolves around the life of the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and the Baden Revolution .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of the crime scene Château Mort on February 8, 2015 was seen in Germany by a total of 9.38 million viewers. A market share of 25.6 percent was achieved.
criticism
Nina Paulsen in the Berliner Morgenpost : "Director Marc Rensing brings form and content into harmony and takes the time to stage the sensual experience of the three inspectors against the backdrop of a murder." - "This 'crime scene' is out of the ordinary - and that pretty entertaining. This is also due to the flashbacks to the year 1848, which are only historically plausible to a limited extent, but open up a second time level in which research is also carried out. An interesting swing in the crime scene repertoire. "
Christian Buß at Spiegel Online : “Director Marc Rensing stages it with smoke and a shudder. Towards the end, Perlmann sits trapped in a dungeon with a well-preserved corpse from times of revolution because it has not been ventilated. Actually, it turned out quite nicely, like an early 'Tatort' in Münster. Or are we just nostalgic? In December, the SWR announced that the Lake Constance area would be liquidated, and after the mostly very boring or very unsuccessful Konstanz 'crime scenes', we actually didn't think it was a shame. But here now a tone of voice flashes that is good for Mattes and Bezzel. "
Annette Berger vom Stern writes: “Expensive wine, tax fraud, the murder of a homeless person and a historic crime. Doesn't fit into a single thriller? But - this Konstanz 'Tatort' was simply great. ”-“ Despite the multiple storylines, 'Château Mort' is told in an exciting way, the slapstick moments, for example a wine tasting with wine pope Lichius and the investigators, loosen up the action and are not embarrassing. It's actually a shame that the Blum and Perlmann team should stop at the end of 2016. "
Kurt Sagatz in Der Tagesspiegel : “In addition to the revolutionary entanglements of 1848, in which the love life of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff also played a notable role, there are also fine old wines and the new worries of tax evaders living in Switzerland have to look for new forms of investment. Dähnert and director Marc Rensing have created an entertaining crime thriller out of it, even if it turned out to be a bit to be expected in the end. "-" [...] 'Château Mort' is one of the most original and therefore worth seeing 'Tatort' episodes not only from SWR. The commissioners from both sides of Lake Constance are doing their work as unpretentious as ever. But with such extraordinary scripts it should be easier to slowly say goodbye to the role of the "crime scene" commissioner. "
Oliver Junge at the FAZ comes to the conclusion: “But there is simply too much clutter and cliché here. Good poor, nasty rich, involved superiors, plus plenty of ' In vino veritas ': There's nothing exciting about the Heckerhut . Both cases drag themselves wearily, the inspectors waddle wearily around the crime scene. [...] The direction of Marc Rensing corresponds to the boring game, which apart from a car scene stolen from ' House of Cards ' has absolutely nothing mysterious: a constant alternation of long shots and close-ups of the faces. The historical scenes switched on in this fourth from last Blum / Perlmann 'Tatort' also have the effect of embarrassing ' reenactments ' for cheap history documentation. Manteuffel's sommelier poetry fits the character of the film very well: 'With traces of salty taste, herbaceous bitter substances [...] and a hint of decay in the finish'. "
Volker Bergmeister from tittelbach.tv sees the crime scene a little more positively and writes: “Director Marc Rensing (' Parkour ') does not rely on action, longer dialogue passages, quiet investigative work at the desk and a small, delicate (almost) bond between Klara and Matteo dominate the scenery. The few historical scenes about Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and the revolution of 1848 are well integrated. It is the love for the details, it is the small scenes that give 'Chateau Mort' a certain charm: "
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm give the thumbs up and say: "Sometimes a little hard work, but definitely entertaining, and monkey wine connoisseurs you can't caricature enough." Conclusion: "Go easy and don't worry."
Web links
- Crime scene: Château Mort in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Château Mort on the ARD website
- Château Mort at the crime scene fund
- Château Mort at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The story of the unmarried poet's wedding wine is fictitious. In her honor, the Meersburg State Winery , to which the vines of the Fürstenhäusle once owned, now belong, a wine Cuvée Annette
- ↑ Tatort - Château Mort Information and ratings at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 4, 2015.
- ↑ a b Volker Bergmeister: Tatort - Château Mort film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 4, 2015.
- ↑ Nina Paulsen: A “crime scene” between romance, Schwips and sensuality
- ↑ Christian Buß : Revolution "crime scene": freedom, equality, tipsy
- ↑ Annette Berger: Deep look into the past, film review at stern.de, accessed on February 8, 2015.
- ^ Film review at tagesspiegel.de , accessed on February 8, 2015.
- ↑ Oliver Junge: Château Mort - Film review on faz.net, accessed on March 4, 2015.
- ^ Tatort - Château Mort Filmkritik at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on March 4, 2015.
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