Crime scene: Evil

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The evil
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 552 ( List )
First broadcast December 21, 2003 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Niki Stein
script Niki Stein
production Inge Fleckenstein
music Jacki Engelken ,
Ulrik Spies
camera Arthur W. Ahrweiler
cut Beate Gottschall
occupation

The Evil is a television film from the Tatort crime series. The contribution produced by Hessischer Rundfunk under the direction of Niki Stein was broadcast for the first time on December 21, 2003 in the first program of ARD . It is the third case of the Frankfurt investigator duo Dellwo and Singer .

action

The film begins with a quote from the Bible :

"When lust has received, it gives birth to sin, but when sin is consummated, it gives birth to death."

- ( Jak 1.15  EU )

In the Frankfurt subway , a man is run over by an incoming train and killed, whereupon Kriminalhauptkommissar Dellwo and Kriminaloberkommissar Sänger start the investigation. These are mysterious: A witness saw how the young man was pushed onto the rails by another man who appeared to be very well-groomed and this man then pressed a key into her hand. Disturbed, she passes it on to Commissioner Sänger, who only finds a note with a book quote in the luggage locker that belongs to it . While the traces are being forensically secured at the locker, Singer is approached by a man who allegedly only wants to know what is going on here. The next day, he went to the Presidium to speak to Singer, but only left his card behind in her office, which showed him as the banker Dr. Karl Petzold identifies.

Dellwo believes it is possible that the alleged witness herself pushed the man. Due to the crowd, nothing can be seen on the surveillance cameras, so that self-negligence would also be possible. The investigation reveals that the victim is a Serbian petty criminal and dealer .

Commissioner Sänger visits Petzold at his workplace, the Wirtschafts- und Kreditbank (WKB) in Frankfurt, because she assumes that he wanted to make an important testimony. But he confesses to her that he just wanted to see her again. She is downright indignant about this, since he is wasting her valuable time senselessly. Petzold apologizes for the misunderstanding and asks her to call him as soon as possible. In the evening he meets with Karin Lange, who desperately wants him to grant her a loan in the millions and who does not shy away from sexual reward herself. But Petzold throws her out of his car and prefers to get a girl from the street . In doing so, he chooses Nina, whom he had met before. And it is precisely this Nina that Dellwo and singer are looking for to question her, because in an old murder case of a prostitute with whom Nina lived together, a fingerprint was saved on the bell button, but it could not be assigned. It has now been determined that he belongs to the dead man on the subway. In order to clarify a possible connection, the investigators want to question Nina, who does not seem to be in her apartment either. When they drive to her again the next day, the apartment door is open and the room is smeared with blood. A corpse cannot be found at first, only when Dellwo looks in the tenement house does he find a violently killed junkie , whose thumbs for the murderer have been pressed into his eye sockets while he is intoxicated with heroin . Nina Grote, however, continued to disappear.

Commissioner Singer seeks out Petzold, who is pleased to see her. However, she has to tell him that Nina's colleagues wrote down the number of his Porsche after Nina got in there. So he is probably the last to see the woman. But he weighs it down and says that he had spent the evening with his customer Karin Lange. Nevertheless, the singer has Petzold fingerprints.

Petzold tries to meet Commissioner Sänger wherever he can. His advances finally bear fruit and he manages to meet her. They talk, and it becomes clear that Petzold is suffering from his numbness. He destroys 4,000 jobs in one fell swoop without feeling anything. He meets with prostitutes and feels nothing with them either. On the other hand, he admits that he would enjoy breaking something. However, he does not succeed in showing sympathy and respect for others, he wishes to learn that from singer, because he has observed that she is very compassionate. She says she can't, only a doctor can do that. When he brings her home, he notices how she is suffering from the stress of having to take care of her demented father and bedridden mother. She, who is already short of time, “wastes” it on these old people. "They don't deserve them," he murmurs softly as he leaves. On the way to his apartment, he is attacked by two men. They hit him and steal his Porsche . One consequence of the fact that he got involved with a prostitute who steals wallets and vehicle documents from her clients on behalf of her pimp.

The next day, the body of Karin Lange is fished out of the Main, which can neither confirm nor refute Petzold's alibi. Dellwo finds it very strange that everywhere they have found a body in the past few days, Petzold has been around. He thinks he's suspicious. The detective assistants Springstub and Kruschke can now track down Nina Grote. She is very drunk, however, but accuses her pimp and his friend of having beaten and battered her.

Dellwo finds out that the book quote he found comes from guilt and atonement and that the main character of the story becomes a misanthropist who kills for fun and becomes absolutely numb. He seeks love for a woman in order to free himself from this numb state. Dellwo is convinced that only Petzold could have deposited the note and that he chose Charlotte as his "saint". He orders Petzold to the presidium late in the evening and lets him meet the witness from the subway. She recognizes him immediately.

Singer has been practicing for weeks to take part in the state championships in formation dance. When, exhausted, she wants to stop by her parents in the evening, she makes a gruesome discovery: both were killed. Driven by excessive anger, she hurries to the presidium, where Petzold is standing in the hallway. She lunges at him and hits him with her bare hands, screaming why he did it.

background

The shooting took place in Frankfurt am Main and the surrounding area on behalf of the Hessischer Rundfunk by the film company Degeto Film .

The dance scenes were shot with the support of the Karabey TC “Der Frankfurter Kreis” dance school.

This Frankfurt crime scene Das Böse , together with the first two cases, Oskar and Frauenmorde, forms a trilogy in which the threads from the private life of Commissioners Dellwo and Sänger are taken up again. Dellwo is about to leave his former existence behind for good and tries to sell his house, which is difficult because of the body found there in the previous case. In her limited spare time, the singer actively trains formation dancing in order to take part in a championship. She is doubly burdened by her parents in need of care and tries in vain to emancipate herself from them. Niki Stein got the idea for the film through a real life case. In the Paris Metro, several clochards and junkies were pushed onto the tracks by a man in the best social position.

In the course of the episode, it is repeatedly discussed that the police officers are about to move. Among other things, a sign can be seen on the ground floor of the police headquarters announcing an inventory sale. The film thus reflects an actual event: In the summer of 2002, the old police headquarters were given up after 88 years, so that the Frankfurt am Main police headquarters moved into a newly built administration building.

The Commerzbank Tower was the inspiration for the building of the fictitious WKB, which is clearly recognizable due to its characteristic exterior facade.

It is worth mentioning that both Ulrich Tukur and Barbara Phillip appear for the first time in Das Böse, replacing Dellwo and singer from 2010 as Felix Murot and Magda Wächter in the Tatort of the Hessian broadcaster.

reception

Audience ratings

7.17 million viewers saw the episode Das Böse in Deutschland when it was first broadcast on December 21, 2003, which corresponded to a market share of 20.30%.

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv writes “The third HR 'crime scene' [...] again falls outside the framework of the usual 'crime scene' scheme. After Niki Stein's first two thrillers mutated into social drama and thriller, the author and director created the psychogram of a murderer in 'Das Böse'. Ulrich Tukur plays him in an inimitable way. A man with excessive self-esteem, whose power has robbed his senses. He kills out of boredom because he can experience one last bit of thrill. "

At Kino.de , Tilmann P. Gangloff particularly praises Ulrich Tukur's acting performance, who “plays the unscrupulous banker so charismatically and at the same time callously that the film title is absolutely justified. Von Ferne greets Dostojewskis Raskolnikow (from 'Schuld und Atonement') and above all the title character from Hubert Selby's novel 'The Demon' as role models. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm judged: “Disturbing thriller that cleverly plays with time jumps and fade-in. [Conclusion:] A jewel of the range: venture a lot and win. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Location and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on November 20, 2014.
  2. ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on November 20, 2014.
  3. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Film review on kino.de, accessed on November 20, 2014.
  4. ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on November 20, 2014.
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