Crime scene: the first victim
The first victim is a television film from the crime series Tatort , which first aired on October 9, 2011. It is the 9th episode of the Stuttgart investigative team Lannert and Bootz .
action
The building contractor Detlef Börner was found dead in his construction container. It was only with a wheel loader seriously injured and then died from bleeding to death, because he followed a blood coagulation inhibitor was injected. When the body is examined, the commissioners are called to another murder case. The victim is the restaurant owner Sigrun Karrenbrock, who was deliberately run over on a dirt road. The fact that identical photos of the same girl were found at both crime scenes suggests a connection between the murder cases. The commissioners learn that Karrenbrock and Börner were a couple 15 years ago - the time the photo was taken. Soon the lawyer Michael Joswig is increasingly involved, who says he does not know the victims but cannot hide his fear.
In the meantime, the lawyer Heiner Horsch was identified as the owner of the car with which Karrenbrock was run over. He protests his innocence. The investigators find out that 15 years ago, as a public prosecutor, he dealt with a case of an accident escape, in which Börner, Karrenbrock and Joswig were driving a car while drunk and ran over the girl who is shown in the picture at the current crime scenes; they were acquitted for lack of evidence. Horsch had benefited from the acquittal by taking advantage.
Joswig finally reveals himself to the police and receives temporary police protection. After the perpetrator and the father of the accident victim appear to be caught, the police protection is lifted. After questioning the accident victim's mother, Lannert and Bootz conclude that the girl's partner now worked in the forensic department of the Presidium and thus has access to the files of the statute-barred case and the current status of the investigation. They recognize in him the actual perpetrator, driven by motives for revenge. In the meantime, Joswig has been kidnapped by him and he is preparing to kill Joswig by a passing car at the previous scene of the accident. The act can be prevented by Lannert and Bootz at the last moment.
background
The film was produced by Maran Film and Südwestrundfunk . The shooting took place from February 22, 2011 to March 25, 2011. In addition to Stuttgart itself, filming took place in Baden-Baden, Karlsruhe and Freiberg am Neckar.
The R128 house by architect Werner Sobek, completely glazed on all sides, is particularly striking as a location .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast on October 9, 2011 was seen by a total of 9.66 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.8 percent for Das Erste ; In the group of 14-49 year old viewers , 2.76 million viewers and a market share of 18.4% were achieved. This makes the crime scene the most successful crime scene in Stuttgart with Richy Müller and Felix Klare to date.
criticism
The crime scene polarized the criticism:
"Cold-blooded campaign of revenge at prime time - the new Stuttgart" crime scene "is unusually brutal and good."
“Director Nicolai Rohde and the authors Stephan Brüggenthies, Leo P. Ard and Birgit Grosz succeeded in creating the tension. And stylistic devices such as the mysterious call to lawyer Michael Joswig (very well played by Hans-Werner Meyer) or the missing photo in the accident file keep this tension up over the 90 minutes. Two real shock scenes, in which the perpetrator suddenly strikes, also do their part, as does the well-fitting and used music. "
"It fits the antiquated dramaturgical concept to chew the viewer line by line as if he would not understand anything without the redundancies."
“The Stuttgart commissioners are preoccupied with two murders with cruel killing methods. Is it a late revenge? "The first victim" is not unexciting, but dramaturgically it is lacking and we do not want to hear murder comments à la "a terrible thing" in the "crime scene"! Richy Müller & Co slowly have to be careful not to gamble away the credit that critics and the public alike gave them in abundance as Bienzle successors. "
“The main characters cannot save the film. Richy Müller's initial coolness now seems like bored indifference. His colleague Bootz has two cute children, otherwise the figure remains pale and random. The gag at the end is so lame, you can't even retell it. "
“It was scary. Two murders out of revenge. And the next victim has already received his warning. But at some point the crime scene from Stuttgart ran out of air. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b General information at tatort-fundus.de
- ↑ days of shooting
- ↑ Audience ratings
- ↑ Critique of the Hamburger Abendblatt
- ↑ Critique of the Lübecker Nachrichten ( Memento from November 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Critique of the TAZ
- ↑ tittelbach.tv: “Tatort - The First Victim” series , accessed on October 17, 2011.
- ↑ Criticism from rp-online ( memento of the original from October 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Review by n-tv
Web links
- The first victim in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The first victim in the online film database
- Summary of the plot of The First Victim on the ARD website
- The first victim in the crime scene fund
- The first victim at Tatort-Fans.de
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