Crime scene: the girl with the doll
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The girl with the doll |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
WDR |
| length | 86 minutes |
| classification | Episode 330 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | April 8, 1996 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Markus Fischer |
| script |
Pea Fröhlich Peter Märthesheimer |
| production | Veith von Fürstenberg |
| music | Illi Noise |
| camera | Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein |
| cut | Nina Ergang |
| occupation | |
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The Girl with the Doll is a television film from the crime series Tatort . It is the 14th case of the Düsseldorf investigators Flemming and Koch and the 330th crime scene sequence. The report produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk was broadcast for the first time on April 8, 1996 on Das Erste . Flemming and Koch are dealing with the death of a Southeast European girl and the human traffickers behind it.
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Kurt runs an illegal employment agency for Eastern Europeans and also arranges women for sexual services. A young Croatian girl who he lets abuse for erotic photos becomes rebellious. When he tries to be intimidated by his henchman Stipe, it dies. The gangsters deposit the body at a nearby lake. When the body is found, Flemming and Koch learn that the girl was still a virgin and that she only put on her clothes as a kind of costume shortly before her death. Flemming and Koch suspect that the girl came from the Balkans and are looking for an area where young people from the region live. There they actually find the dead girl's belongings and discover that she has regularly transferred small amounts of money to her brother Milan at home. You notify Milan. He travels to Düsseldorf and identifies his sister, but is otherwise not particularly cooperative with the officers. Flemming and Koch take the young man to the train station, but instead of starting the journey home, he sneaks back out of the train unnoticed by the officers.
Milan watches Eastern European children stealing at the train station and suspects what fate has befallen his sister. He shows them a photo of her, whereupon they give him a clue about where his sister is staying. There he meets the Pole Babsi. She tells him about Kurt and that they are all scared of him. While Flemming and Koch determine that the girl could have been the model for child pornography photos and where such photos are sold, Milan is one step ahead of them when Babsi points out the photographer Carlo, who took the photos of his sister .
Milan visits Carlo and threatens him with a knife in order to get clues about the people behind him. Carlo gives him the wrong information. Milan threatens to come back if the clues are wrong. Carlo immediately informs Kurt, while Milan hides in the house. Kurt and Stipe seek out Carlo and fake his suicide so that he cannot betray Kurt. Milan secretly sneaks into Kurt's van and drives them to Kurt's apartment in an industrial area.
Meanwhile, Flemming and Koch receive a reference to Carlos from a dealer in the photos and find him hanged. In the suicide note made by Kurt, he accuses himself of having killed the girl, but the officers find Milan's signs of the burglary and doubt Carlos' suicide. In the apartment you can also find photos of Babsi, whom you know from the interrogation after the dead girl was found, in the attic Koch finds Milan's suitcase, so the officials do not believe Carlos was suicide. Flemming and Koch visit Babsi again, who refuses any cooperation, is able to escape the officials and explains to Kurt's people that they and the other Eastern European street children no longer want to work for Kurt. As a result of revenge, Kurt has the houses of the street children ravaged by a group of thugs and Babsi is kidnapped. An industrial site worker who is knocked down by the thugs can describe Kurt's van. Koch had already seen it on Kurt's premises nearby. Meanwhile, Milan watches as Kurt and Stipe come home with Babsi. In their absence, he had installed a booby trap for Kurt in the elevator. He can defuse this at the last minute, but is seriously injured in the leg from the elevator.
Flemming and Koch find a container on Kurt's premises in which women from Eastern Europe are hidden. Meanwhile, Kurt abuses Babsi, because she had indicated that someone wanted to kill Kurt and he wanted to get the name out of her. Kurt is informed about the police operation on his premises from his Arab business friend. Kurt sends Stipe there. Kurt is about to set his trained dog on Babsi when Milan comes out of cover and threatens Kurt with a knife. However, he pulls a pistol and disarms Milan.
During interrogation by Flemming and Koch, Stipe realizes that Kurt has sent him to the premises so that he can be arrested and Kurt can thus gain time for his own escape. Stipe escapes the officers, Flemming and Koch follow him to Kurt. However, you cannot prevent Stipe, who wants to topple Kurt from the terrace, from falling to his death along with Kurt, chased by Kurt's dog. The officers free Babsi and Milan.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of the Tatort The Girl with the Doll on April 8, 1996 was seen by a total of 7.25 million viewers in Germany and thus achieved a market share of 22.09%.
Reviews
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm rate the episode as mediocre and comment: "Cliché rushing with logic"
Web links
- Crime scene: The girl with the doll in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The girl with the doll in the online movie database
- Summary of the plot of The Girl with the Doll on the ARD website
- The girl with the doll at the crime scene fund
- The girl with the doll at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on February 28, 2016.
- ↑ The girl with the doll short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 28, 2016.
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