Crime scene: Damian

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Damian
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SWR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 1075 ( List )
First broadcast December 23, 2018 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Stefan Schaller
script Lars Hubrich and Stefan Schaller
music Johannes Lehniger and Sebastian Damerius
camera Andreas Schäfauer
cut Sabine Garscha
occupation

Damian is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The by Südwestrundfunk Post produced the 1075 crime scene episode and was on 23 December 2018 First aired. The Freiburg investigator Franziska Tobler is investigating her third case.

action

For some time now, Commissioner Franziska Tobler and her temporary colleague Luka Weber have been investigating a double murder of a 17-year-old girl and her tennis teacher. The face of the 17-year-old resembles the face of a woman who was murdered many years ago and whose killer has not yet been caught. The dead were found shot in a forest. One of the suspects is construction worker Peter Trelkovsky, who lives withdrawn in a construction trailer and let his dogs die in his house during his assembly-related absence. Trelkovsky claims to have found a car at the edge of the forest and, because he no longer needed it, that he parked it there again. The car was in the immediate vicinity of the murdered couple, which makes the car relevant to the investigation. The owner is the pensioner Heinrich Adam, who has missed him for some time.

One of the suspects in the double murder is the student Damian, who is studying law in Freiburg and who was picked up by the police one night while jogging in the forest. Damian is mentally unstable and schizophrenic, has fears of failure regarding his exams and feels persecuted and, moreover, misunderstood by his parents. He is a member of a country team and lives in their dormitory. He seems to get on better with the student Georg, also a member of the country team, than with his girlfriend. In the expectation of finding a chip placed there under his skin, he injures himself. Hoping to help the police if possible, he brings a blood-smeared travel brochure he found to Tobler, who gives the blood for examination.

A short time later, in the forest, not far from where the two dead were found, another heavily charred body is found in a burned-down hut. The commissioners are not making any headway in the investigation of this case.

Only late did the commissioners notice a contradiction in the statements made by Adams regarding the theft of his car. They then confront the pensioner in his house and confront him with the similarity between the murdered 17-year-old and the woman who was murdered many years ago. Adam then admits to having committed the double murder because he believed to have recognized in the young woman the woman he murdered out of jealousy years ago. He willingly reproduces his approach to the double murder together with the police.

At the police station, the inspectors received the result of the blood test on the travel brochure and were surprised to find that it was genetically identical to Damian's blood. It is now clear that Damian was burned in the hut. His death turns out to be suicide. At the constant encouragement of Georg, whom he had only imagined the whole time, Damian doused himself with flammable liquid and set it on fire.

background

The film was shot from April 4, 2018 to May 8, 2018 on 24 days in Baden-Baden , Karlsruhe , Freiburg im Breisgau and Ehrenkirchen (Kohlerhof). The premiere took place on September 4, 2018 at the Festival of German Films .

This crime scene is somewhat unusual because it links two different time levels, which the viewer can hardly tell apart. The time of the double murder is mentioned only twice (March 10th) and just as often the day of the fire (April 28th), which shows the time span between the case-specific investigations. Since the solution to the double murder is delayed beyond the fire that has since broken out, both cases run in parallel here at times. In addition, the story of Damian, who runs through the plot from beginning to end, is also told. Indications for the delayed investigation and jumping back and forth between the present and the past are the visual condition of the inspectors' desks and a water dispenser in the presidium, which is missing at the beginning, is back in its place later and is missing again at the end. In addition, at the end of the film, the officer who was already present during the investigation is introduced again and this scene occurs twice in the film.

reception

Reviews

Christian Buß gave Spiegel online eight out of ten possible points and judged: “But despite a few bold references, a little too many distractions and slightly sordid scenes [...] the filmmakers [...] find a sensitive staging style to depict the storm of perception with which Damian presents the world. "

Holger Gertz said in the Süddeutsche Zeitung : "As ambitious and sometimes overambitious as the story in 'Damian' is [...] the pictures are so accurate, the actors are impressed."

The film service rated the film with three out of five possible stars and rated it as a deliberately complex crime thriller "with a bizarre atmosphere that is not always a convincing game of confusion". "The willingness to formal experiment and some good performance" made up for "the taste-insecure humor."

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Damian on December 23, 2018 was seen by 6.27 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 18.4% for Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nikola Vogt: Review of the crime scene shooting in Ehrenkirchen. Badische Zeitung, December 21, 2018, accessed on December 24, 2018 .
  2. ^ Crime scene: Damian at crew united
  3. ↑ Damian (crime scene). Festival of German Films, September 2018, accessed on December 11, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Hell in the head at spiegel.de , accessed on February 23, 2019.
  5. ↑ Christian Buß: Black Forest "crime scene" about schizophrenia. Hell in your head. Spiegel Online, December 21, 2018, accessed on December 21, 2018 : "Rating: 8 out of 10 points"
  6. ↑ Holger Gertz: Everyone longs for peace and quiet and nobody can find it. Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 21, 2018, accessed on December 21, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Crime scene - Damian. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  8. ↑ Timo Nöthling: Primetime check: Sunday, December 23, 2018.quotemeter.de , December 24, 2018, accessed on December 24, 2018 .
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