Crime scene: the golden ribbon
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The golden ribbon |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Nordfilm GmbH |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 854 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | December 16, 2012 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Franziska Meletzky |
| script | Stefan Dähnert |
| production |
Heike Streich , Kerstin Ramke |
| music | Johannes Kobilke |
| camera | Eeva Fleig |
| cut | Jürgen Winkelblech |
| occupation | |
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The golden ribbon is a television film from the crime series Tatort of ARD , SF and ORF . The film was produced for Norddeutscher Rundfunk and first broadcast on December 16, 2012. It is the 854th crime scene episode; For Detective Chief Inspector Charlotte Lindholm, alias Maria Furtwängler , from the LKA Hannover , it is her 21st case, following on from throwaway girls , her 20th case, where the perpetrators of the cruel deeds could not be proven guilty.
prehistory
Charlotte Lindholm tells Carla Prinz that until today she has not been able to prove to Koschnik that a little more than six weeks ago he had ten young women flown in as forced prostitutes from Belarus to a party for a handful of men from the Hanoverian upper class for dessert. At least two of them were raped and severely ill-treated. Littchen confessed that he drugged the women and threw them in the garbage. One, Greta Kubina, is dead and the other, her cousin Larissa Panchuk, miraculously survived. But she knows that Littchen only did the clean-up work for the fine gentlemen.
action
case
Chief Detective Charlotte Lindholm thoughtfully looks at pictures of Greta Kubina and Larissa Pantschuk. Her thoughts go back to her last case, which ended so unsatisfactorily with the arrest of Wolfram Littchen. Littchen had confessed to having killed 16-year-old Greta in an argument. Littchen enjoys numerous perks in the Langenhagen prison, which Uwe Koschnik, the president of the rocker club "Hunnen", has given him. He blackmailed Koschnik with his knowledge of what went on at the party where Greta Kubina was killed. Shortly afterwards he is dead. In prison, Lindholm meets Detective Superintendent Carla Prinz, who is involved in the Littchen murder case. Prince assumes an act of revenge, since Littchen abused his fellow prisoners in the worst possible way and ordered them around. It is evident that something has been feverishly searched for in Littchen's cell. Lindholm receives a chip from a certain Marko, which he should keep as a kind of life insurance for Littchen. Lindholm later reveals the details of the entire case to Carla Prinz. When Prince asked why she did not bring these prominent fellow citizens to justice, Lindholm replied that she had never found the place where the party took place and that she was also unable to prove the identity of the men. After the two inspectors initially slowed each other down through mutual distrust and hindered their work, they soon found each other and skillfully complement each other in the investigation.
The secured chip is a GPS chip from a navigation device . It also contains the dates of March 6th, the day of the fateful party. The recordings clearly show that Littchen was in the “Auenschlösschen”, the location of the party, and also where else he was with the car. The "Auenschlösschen" is owned by the real estate tycoon Hajo Kaiser. Littchen's statement that he made about Greta's death is thus refuted. When Lindholm saw a large poster with the Kaiser's head, she remembers that she had already seen the one from the witness shelter to which Larissa had been brought. At the time she didn't know what Larissa was getting at. When Lindholm presented the new facts to her boss, Stefan Bitomsky, in order to be able to resume the investigation, she learned from him that the missing eight girls had been found dead in the Emirates . They were drugged and then frozen to death in a refrigerated container . Bitomsky says he wanted to protect Charlotte emotionally and therefore did not inform her.
When Lindholm visits Kaiser, who is giving a lurid lecture to his employees, he, to her surprise, introduces Jan Liebermann as his biographer. Jan, Charlotte's friend, later tells her that he only accepted the biography work on the pretense so that he could better penetrate Kaiser’s network. It is about corruption on a grand scale: in Lower Saxony alone, Kaiser's company has over 13,000 residential units that he has acquired very cheaply and with which he could make enormous profits if the law was to be changed shortly. Kaiser practically helped to ensure that the protection of social housing is lifted. When Jan confided to her that he was at the party in question, which he left with Kaiser very early, Charlotte is more than surprised, but asks him for an official testimony. In his hotel room, Jan shows her all the documents he has so far collected for his explosive article. Among them are photos of Klaus Rühmkopf, the chairman of the expert commission in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and quasi father of the deregulation law , of Joachim Bohrmeisters, chief physician of the municipal clinic, and of Rüdiger Corneley, emperor's banker. Jan considers Corneley to be the key figure. He distributes the millions to emperors. Jan asks Charlotte to keep his name out of the matter until he has more tangible evidence in hand. With Lindholm's help, Jan succeeds in installing a Trojan in Rüdiger Corneley's laptop . This is very helpful in further investigations and enables the officers to listen to emails and conversations between Corneley and his friends.
When the men meet at the Italian, the harmony between them is already slightly disturbed. The police later have Rühmkopf, who has no suspicions, blow into an alcohol measuring tube to get his DNA . When shortly afterwards Prince calls that Larissa has been found, Lindholm drives to her with Bitomsky. But she experiences a bitter disappointment, because Larissa suddenly doesn't want to know anything more about her former statement and revokes everything. Lindholm can no longer get at her because they have found a "husband" for her and she is therefore legally in the country and the Commissioner has no leeway. When Bitomsky and Lindholm get upset, the inspector stays behind and goes to the red light bar again and manages to switch off Larissa's “husband” for a moment. Larissa excitedly shows her her passport and repeatedly repeats "Papers in order", tipping on the photo of her son and asking "Do you understand?" Lindholm suddenly realizes that the child is being used as leverage against Larissa. Hence their persistent refusal to testify.
Liebermann's documents and everything he wrote, including the copy in the editorial server, have disappeared. Rühmkopf's DNA was found to be 99.9 percent identical to the traces found on Greta Kubina. Rühmkopf had intercourse with the victim. “Of course,” says Charlotte, “that's why they all kept shut, because they all needed his law: Kaiser for his real estate, Corneley to justify the loans to Kaiser. They all accepted that the women were thrown away. But Larissa Panchuk will not testify as long as her son Boris is in danger. ”Bitomsky releases Charlotte from the case because she has worked with means that he cannot approve. Charlotte then packs her travel bag and wants to bring Boris to Hanover. In Larissa's hometown, she finds out that the local police officer is also corrupt and involved in the proceedings with the models . Even Larissa's father knows what has happened. In a situation threatening Lindholm, however, he stands protectively in front of the inspector and is then killed by the local police with a shot in the head. When he also wants to finish off Lindholm, Jan Liebermann, who had an idea similar to that of the inspector, is there at the right moment. The corrupt policeman is handcuffed by both of them. Together with Boris they escape in the police car. You will also notice that model competitions for very young girls are already taking place in the village, and that there is plenty of interest.
The three manage to leave the country and land in Hanover, with Lindholm using her son David's passport for Boris. Jan's documents are back in their entirety and his article is on the editorial server. He gives Charlotte a laptop that he took from an office during the modeling contest. Prinz and Bitomsky receive the commissioner at the airport. Larissa Pantschuk is also there and happily embraces her child. Bitomsky informs Lindholm that Interpol has been involved and that he has taken on all the violations she has committed. All transactions for the past 12 months are on the laptop that Jan Liebermann gave Charlotte. With this, Koschnik can prove human trafficking and forced prostitution in 52 cases. Lindholm refers to an order from the beginning of March, where ten women were ordered for 18,000 euros for a party on March 6th in Hanover. The commissioner succeeds in provoking Koschnik in such a way that he loses control and covers her with foul language, only to then blurt out that the girls were no longer usable after this party and that Littchen should therefore dispose of them. When Lindholm has him taken away, he threatens her that she should be careful that her son doesn't even get lost. Larissa makes her statement and identifies Corneley, master drill and boasting head. When Lindholm asked, she explained that Claussen was not there and Kaiser was only at the beginning. He was soon gone again. The three men are arrested for failure to provide assistance and community manslaughter .
Jan Liebermann rings Kaiser and shows him his article about him, which will appear the next day. On the other day Kaiser wants to go on vacation for a few days with his wife and daughters. Prince tells him, however, that he will have to look for a new legal advisor because his lawyer Claussen has a conflict of interests and proceedings are pending against him for treason . Lindholm also tells Kaiser that hopefully he won't get a leg on earth in this city and if he tried, she would get him. She is also curious how he will explain it to his daughters. When the inspector is later in her apartment with her son and mother, several members of a rocker club drive by on their motorbikes.
Lindholms private life
In this episode, the private relationship of Commissioner Charlotte Lindholm to Jan Liebermann is discussed in more detail and plays a role in the investigation. During a conversation she overheard with two colleagues, the commissioner found out that Katharina Brasun, Jan's friend before Charlotte, and Jan worked together in Africa , and that Katharina was Jan's great love. She was shot insidiously and coldly from behind in front of his eyes. Katharina was pregnant at the time. On the way back to the airport in Belarus, Charlotte tells Jan that she always thought she and Jan would make it; she tried, but it would no longer work. She believed he needed more time and then everything would be fine. Shortly after arriving at the airport in Hanover, Jan sadly says goodbye to Charlotte and says that he would have liked to have been the right person for her and David.
background
The shooting for the double episode began on March 30, 2012 and lasted until June 11, 2012. The "Auenschlösschen" as the scene of the crime is Villa Herzfeld in Potsdam . The episodes Tatort 853 and 854 Disposable Girls and The Golden Band became a double episode .
Cathrin Schauer from the association KARO e. V. in Plauen said after the crime story was broadcast in Günther Jauch's political talk that the crime scene corresponded to reality. The chief criminal director Christian Zahel from the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office also made a similar statement . The journalist Alice Schwarzer , who was also a guest on the program, said that since the law was changed in 2002 on the initiative of the Greens , Germany has been a hub for trafficking in women in Europe.
In autumn 2013, Maria Furtwängler was one of the first to sign the appeal against prostitution initiated by Alice Schwarzer and the magazine Emma , which she publishes .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of this episode on December 16, 2012 was seen by 11.02 million people, giving a market share of 29.9 percent. The golden ribbon was able to easily overtake the previous episode Wegwerfmädchen and is thus the most successful Tatort episode with Charlotte Lindholm to date.
In Austria, 790,000 people saw this crime sequel by throwaway girls .
criticism
Holger Gertz from Süddeutsche judges that the “'Tatort' double episode is appropriately coolly staged” - “and the topic” carries the length […] “and the story is hardly covered with pathos” Christian Sieben from RP Online draws in “ Ambivalent conclusion: On the one hand: entertaining, provocative, unusual. On the other hand: laden with clichés, adventurous and defamatory. "The BZ Berlin asks whether things are like this in Germany and says that" the story is very well constructed "and [...]" every little stone here matches the other. "[...]" The Double episode "is" an exciting crime thriller in which the viewer is happy "when they now and then discover a clear allusion to reality". TV Spielfilm thinks that The Golden Ribbon is an "exciting and unsettling thriller" which "unfortunately" lacks credibility in the "trip to Poland [sic] including corrupt cops and child liberation". The world judges: [...] with the exception of the overly hastily staged ending, a less realistic trip by Commissioner Lindholm to Belarus, the second part of this Hanover thriller (title: 'The golden ribbon') is even more captivating than the already exciting first Part.
Web links
- Crime scene: The golden band in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Das goldene Band on the ARD website
- The golden ribbon in the crime scene fund
- The golden ribbon at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tatort-Fundus.de. Retrieved December 18, 2012 .
- ^ Image of the Villa Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse 54 in Potsdam. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
- ↑ Crime scene red light district - how brutal is the sex business? Broadcast on December 16, 2012. Accessed January 9, 2019.
- ↑ “Tatort” continuation brings ARD record rate In: Berliner Morgenpost of December 17, 2012 . Retrieved December 18, 2012.
- ↑ “Tatort” double sequence: “Das goldene Band” In: tv.heute.at on December 18, 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. . Retrieved December 18, 2012.
- ↑ Upper class equals the underworld In: Süddeutsche.de on December 16, 2012 . Retrieved December 18, 2012.
- ↑ "Tatort Das goldene Band" Exciting, but rather thick. In: rp-online.de on December 17, 2012 . Retrieved December 18, 2012.
- ↑ "The Golden Ribbon" Hanover-Tatort: Is that how it is in Germany? In: BZ Berlin on December 16, 2012 . Retrieved December 18, 2012
- ^ Tatort: Das goldene Band In: tvspielfilm.de . Retrieved December 18, 2012.
- ↑ The world of “throwaway girls” - Part 2 becomes even more oppressive In: Die Welt on December 16, 2012 . Retrieved December 18, 2012.
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