Crime scene: the girl Galina

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The girl Galina
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SWR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 738 ( list )
First broadcast June 21, 2009 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Thomas Freundner
script Stephan Brüggenthies
production Sabine Tettenborn
music JJ Gerndt
camera Georg Steinweh
cut Martina Butz-Kofer
occupation

The girl Galina is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced by Südwestrundfunk under the direction of Thomas Freundner is the 738th episode of the crime scene and was first broadcast on June 21, 2009 on ARD's first program. The Stuttgart investigator duo Lannert and Bootz is investigating its fourth case.

The commissioners have to solve the murder of a prostitute and get into the world of politicians.

action

After an emergency call, Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz discover the body of a young woman in a luxurious Stuttgart apartment. Shortly after they entered the rooms, someone shoots them and injures Bootz, who has to go to the clinic at short notice. Lannert tries to follow the fugitive perpetrator and when he wants to return to the corpse with the forensic team, it has disappeared.

According to the neighbors, the apartment was used by constantly changing women and men. The penthouse was rented by Wolf Zehender, whom Lannert and Bootz visit immediately. The man works as an erotic photographer and allegedly uses the premises only for photographic purposes. Every now and then his models had got the key to the apartments for their own purposes, but he supposedly doesn't know who their companions were. With the help of photos, Bootz can recognize the dead woman, who is apparently nineteen-year-old Galina Trifunovic. The commissioners look for Galina's friend Mareen Juranec, who explains that they would only use the penthouse for "special customers".

In Galina's room, Lannert and Bootz find a notebook with combinations of numbers that forensic scientist Nika Banovic can decipher. The booklet provides various names of high-ranking Galina customers. The state parliament member Högele was therefore the last she was with in the penthouse. The investigators go to see him, but he denies knowing Galina. Meanwhile, Laura Högele, the politician's daughter, explains that Galina was her friend. She cannot imagine that Galina was supposed to have been a prostitute.

Lannert learns from Mareen that Wolf Zehender knew very well which men they met in the penthouse. Often he even conveyed them when they were important to him. Zehender plans to build a new brothel in Stuttgart, for which he does not yet have all the permits. So it doesn't take long before Lannert and Bootz find evidence that clearly shows Högele and Galina having sex in Zehender's penthouse. A large sum of cash in the politician's house also indicates an attempt at blackmail. Since only Zehender can have installed the camera that was used to take this picture, he is under urgent suspicion. During the interrogation he states that Högele was Galina's customer that evening and that she called him in fear because “he” wanted to kill her. When he got into the apartment, Galina was already dead and he wanted to get her body away. After hearing someone approach, he would have shot through the door in fear, injuring Bootz, which he very much regrets. For Högele's protection, he would have buried the body in the forest, where the police found and examined it, according to Zehender's information. The cause of death were stab wounds with a kitchen knife seized at the crime scene.

After Lannert and Bootz listen to the recording of the emergency call again, they are sure that this is the voice of Galina's friend. They assume that Mareen had hoped for Högele herself and could not bear that Galina would take away the man who was supposed to get her out of her prostitute existence. They want to arrest her, but do not find her in her apartment. They find out that Mareen wanted to go to Högele. There she is now alone with Laura Högele and is in the process of strangling her because Laura had also found out that Mareen killed Galina. Lannert and Bootz arrive on time and are able to save Laura.

background

The film was shot from November 11, 2008 to December 12, 2008 in Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Das Mädchen Galina on June 21, 2009 was seen by 9.23 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.0 percent for Das Erste .

Reviews

“Grimme Prize winner Thomas Freundner has enriched the rather average template with the visible pleasure in the action, with humor and many small emotional nuances. The fact that the actors are missing big names is not a shortcoming. It even increases credibility. "

- Rainer Tittelbach : Tittelbach.tv

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave this crime scene the best possible rating (thumbs up) and found it to be "exciting and full of surprises."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Scene of the crime: The girl Galina at crew united
  2. ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime check: Sunday, June 21, 2009.quotemeter.de , June 22, 2009, accessed on October 26, 2015 .
  3. ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Series "Tatort - The Girl Galina". Tittelbach.tv, June 21, 2009, accessed on October 28, 2015 : "Richy Müller & Co play their way up the" Tatort "sympathy scale"
  4. ↑ TV thriller. The Stuttgart investigators dive into the red light district. Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 17, 2016.
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