Crime scene: the black grave
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | The black grave |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Saarland radio |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 704 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | September 14, 2008 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gregor Schnitzler |
| script |
Thomas Kirchner novel based on: Martin Conrath The black grave |
| production |
Peter Lohner Martin Hofmann Inge Plettenberg |
| music | Manu short |
| camera | Carl Finkbeiner |
| cut | Ollie Lanvermann |
| occupation | |
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The black grave is the title of the third Tatort episode with Maximilian Brückner and Gregor Weber as the new Saarbrücker Tatort team Kappl and Deininger . The script goes back to Martin Conrath's crime novel The Black Grave . Kappl is trapped underground during an investigation and Deininger continues to investigate above ground despite a severe concussion.
The 704th Tatort episode was first broadcast on September 14, 2008 on Das Erste .
action
When Chief Detective Franz Kappl wants to speak to David Steinmetz, his brother Mark tells him that he still has to be in the mine in the Karlsgrube . At the same time there will be a ceremony underground, as the pit will be closed shortly. The reactions to it are violent and very different, depending on which side you are on. While Kappl, who has decided to drive in to speak to David Steinmetz, drives downstairs with other men, there is a huge explosion and people shouting and running around the inspector. Kappl is in the center of this hubbub and witnesses how the miners Steiger Mark Steinmetz hand over a helmet that belongs to the highest-ranking underground. The commissioner tells David Steinmetz that his wife has been murdered. There is also a dead man underground, State Secretary Dr. Heinz Barenz and some seriously injured people. For a long time, Barenz was an appraiser who decisively determined where coal should be mined underground. Outside the pit there is tense tension and hectic pace, rescue measures are initiated. It is noted that on the sole 8 34 people trapped and based on current knowledge of the conveyor basket must be crashed. The question arises as to whether it is sabotage . Meanwhile, Mark Steinmetz tries to calm down the miners and the guests at the ceremony and implores them that they will not rest upstairs until they have been taken out. He helps the others and gives instructions on how to behave in this situation. The men remain suspicious of Kappl. David wants to know from the inspector how his wife died. He tells him that the forensic medicine department told him that she was in no pain and that a targeted blow with a miner's iron resulted in death. Kappl asks him if he knows an Edgar Simmerling. David says that he did not unhook Edgar's wife and that it is not his fault that Simmerling started drinking afterwards. Mark Steinmetz tells his brother that his wife Wiebke was still alive when he left.
Kappl gets the opportunity to talk to his colleague Chief Detective Stefan Deininger over the phone. It looks like someone was planning the car crash. Shortly beforehand, water supplies for around two weeks were ordered. Kappl suffers a small attack of weakness in the unfamiliar environment. The unofficial rumor is already spreading among the men that it was an attack. David Steinmetz, meanwhile, tells the inspector that his buddies didn't understand that he had taken Edgar Simmerling's wife, as they put it. There is a certain code of honor among the miners . In reality, Wiebke had separated from her first husband a long time beforehand. Kappl also learns that the Steinmetz brothers' father was also a miner and hanged himself at the age of 53 after taking early retirement. He couldn't bear to be no longer needed. Mark has changed a lot after the death of his father and has fully concentrated on his younger brother David. He then had himself transferred to a post for days because he did not want to be present at his own funeral, by which he meant the closure of the pit.
While Mark Steinmetz informs the people that their relatives have arrived, Kappl hears those present underground individually and also speaks to the alleged reporter Heiner Dietz, who knows how to play people off against each other in this difficult situation and to heat them up. In a conversation with the coroner Dr. He tells Rhea Singh, who is worried about Kappl, that the dead Barenz has a noticeable puncture on the neck. In addition to Dietz, the weather climber Rüdiger Conradi also tries to stir up those trapped again and again. Dietz is known for his hate speech against the mine, says a young woman and adds half questioningly, but it was only through the work in the mines that the prosperity of the Saarland was built, if you question that.
Deininger and his team have since discovered that there are fingerprints of Simmerling in the entire area around the dead Wiebke Steinmetz. When his house is searched, traces of explosives are discovered. When Deininger and his colleague Ben Müller catch Simmerling, he manages to hit Deininger over the head with a club. A severe concussion is diagnosed in the hospital. Simmerling was also injured in the incident and was taken to the clinic. When Deininger visits him some time later in his room and wants a confession from him, he overreacts and says it would be a trap, he could never kill the woman he still loves. She called him and asked for help, the door was open and he found her dead. A check shows that there was actually a call from Haus Steinmetz to Simmerling. During a search of the apartment Steinmetz syringes with the poison of the plant aconite found and a fax with which the water has been ordered for underground.
When Kappl, accompanied by David Steinmetz, wanted to take another look around in a side shaft underground, the light suddenly went out and shortly afterwards on again and a very large excavator rolled towards the inspector. There is no evasion to the rear and Kappl is scared to death. When David reappears at the last moment, a man escapes from the vehicle. Shortly afterwards there was a fight between the men, with the aggression mainly directed against Heiner Dietz. It is believed that he killed Barenz. When Kappl stands in front of him to protect himself, the men armed with iron bars demand his surrender. Then the lights go out again and Dietz has disappeared. Shortly before the rescuers approach, Kappl and David Steinmetz see Mark threatening someone. It turns out that he killed Wiebke. He should have done it, he says. She found out that he was planning to show everyone what it was like to be locked underground. And asked his brother if he didn't understand that he did it for her father and that there was no other option. David looks at his brother in disbelief and then hits him on the head, screaming: “You broke everything, you killed my wife. I am not your property. ”Then he collapses on his brother and keeps coming out:“ You are no longer my brother. ”Shortly afterwards, rescue workers also pull Kappl and David and Mark Steinmetz out of the tunnel . Kappl is greeted happily by colleagues. Mark Steinmetz is arrested.
Production notes
This episode was filmed from February 19 to March 2007 in Saarbrücken and the surrounding area as well as in the former Luisenthal mine and in the Reden mine .
It is a production of the Saarländischer Rundfunk in cooperation with the ARD - Degeto Film . The production company was Askania Media , Telefilm Saar. Inge Plettenberg was the editor.
The foreign title of the episode is The black grave . The working titles were 5 days of fear and black grave . For the Saarländischer Rundfunk, this crime scene was the first film to be set in a mining environment. As the broadcaster itself stated, this episode was also the most complex in the broadcasting history to date. During the filming, the team was accompanied by a film team who shot a making of Mord auf Sole 8 under the direction of Dietmar Noss, which was broadcast before the Tatort episode was first broadcast.
reception
Audience ratings
When the episode The Black Grave was first broadcast on September 14, 2008, 7.24 million viewers tuned in, corresponding to a market share of 21.6%. In Saarland, 230,000 viewers tuned in, with which the investigative duo Kappl / Deininger was able to achieve a market share of 46.1% in Saarland.
Reviews
TV Spielfilm said: "Unusual, somewhat overloaded who was it? - 'Tatort', which grippingly tells of the structural change." Conclusion: "Not completely round, but striving for realism."
Rainer Tittelbach was of the opinion, “As good as the idea of the 'Tatort' crime thriller underground is, the execution leaves a lot to be desired. The fact that The Black Grave by Gregor Schnitzler ('solo album') and author Thomas Kirchner comes across as a bit rough in terms of dramaturgy in terms of film aesthetics is only partly explained by the desired realism of the film - i.e. the miners' milieu. Much is technically imprecise. And seldom has one recently seen a 'crime scene' whose case is so crude and leaves the viewer with so many inconsistencies. "
Marco Maurer from the Süddeutsche Zeitung said that already from the opening sequence "an aesthetically excellent crime thriller" is developing, in which the focus is not on "the why of the deed", "but the so-called Whodunit, the 'who did it?'" It was "a psychological game in an extreme situation and the psychology of the characters [was] well chosen."
Torsten Wahl from the Berliner Zeitung highlighted the performance of Tobias Oertel and said that he “proves his class as a character actor here. Maximilian Brückner finally gained significantly in stature in his third Saarland 'crime scene'. How his Kappl [grow] beyond himself, not only fighting against the emerging anxiety, but also defusing the explosive situation again and again, that impresses and awakens hopes for the next cases. "
The TV magazine prisma says: “Director Gregor Schnitzler (' Die Hitzewelle - Keiner kann Escape ', 'Die Wolke') has staged less of a crime story than a social drama in which he shows the problems of mine closings in Saarland. Author Thomas Kirchner ('Das Wunder von Berlin', 'Mord am Meer') provided his third template for the popular crime series after 'Schleichendes Poison' and 'Macht der Angst'. "
Web links
- Crime scene: The black grave in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The black grave Summary of the plot on the ARD website
- The black grave at the crime scene fund
- The black grave at Tatort-Fans.de
- Crime scene: The black grave "The Bavarian in the pit" at tatort-fundus.de
- Crime scene: The black grave Questions to the main actors at tatort-fundus.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tatort: The black grave "Kappl among buddies" at tatort-fundus.de.
- ↑ a b c d Tatort: The black grave Data on the crime scene sequence at tatort-fundus.de.
- ↑ a b c d Tatort: The black grave at efi-de.com. Retrieved April 17, 2013.
- ↑ Crime scene: The black grave TV crime thriller with Maximilian Brückner (“Rubbeldiekatz”). A tunnel becomes a murder pit. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved April 17, 2013.
- ↑ series "Tatort - The black grave" Rainer Tittelbach of tittelbach.tv. Retrieved April 17, 2013.
- ^ Tatort: The black grave at prisma.de. Retrieved April 17, 2013.
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