Crime scene: the smiles sold
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The sold smile |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Bavarian radio |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 928 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | December 28, 2014 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andreas Senn |
| script | Holger Joos |
| production | Ronald Mühlfellner |
| music | Johannes Kobilke |
| camera | Holly Fink |
| cut | Vera van Appeldorn |
| occupation | |
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The Smile Sold is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk is the 928th episode of the crime scene and was first broadcast on December 28, 2014 in the first program of ARD . The Munich investigator duo Batic and Leitmayr are investigating their 69th case.
action
14-year-old Tim Kiener is found shot dead at the Isarwehr. The chief inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr investigate the background to the crime. The boy did well in school and had no family problems. He pretended to supplement his pocket money with apps programmed in his spare time. In fact, it quickly turns out that he accepted gifts from men he met on the Internet to take pictures and videos of himself. His friends of the same age, Florian and Hanna, were not only familiar with his work, but they also pursued it themselves: The team of three maintained websites through which users could log in and chat with the children for a fee. For one or the other gift, they voluntarily fulfilled the wishes of the customers in front of the camera.
Guido Buchholz - a sporty family man and soccer coach of a youth team - quickly becomes the investigators' sights after analyzing the recorded credit card and IP address data. At first Buchholz denied knowing the dead boy, but a criminal investigation analysis of a previously formatted hard drive produced a photo of Tim. In the course of the investigation, Ivo Batic loses all distance to the case and clings to Guido Buchholz as the only possible perpetrator of the murder of Tim Kiener. It comes under more and more pressure. In fact, the officials determine that Buchholz also had contacts with Florian over the Internet, hooked up with him and made him gifts over the Internet. His alibi - to have been in the soccer stadium of FC Bayern Munich at the time of Tim's murder - is initially confirmed by the monitoring of the stadium and the location logs on his mobile phone, but is invalidated again shortly afterwards by the surveillance videos of the subway. His wife finds the train ticket and confronts Guido, who then admits that he wanted to meet Tim. When asked whether he had planned to approach the boy sexually, the soccer coach actually collapses and in the end, emotionally, affirms his wife's question. Shortly afterwards she moves out of the common house with her two daughters.
When Florian's mother Marina realizes that the investigators are about to identify her son as the one who accidentally killed Tim in an argument with a shot from her gas pistol, she takes on the act with a false confession. The investigators see through their plan, however. Meanwhile, Florian's father Uwe has been violent against Guido Buchholz. When interviewing Florian's mother, Ivo Batic dropped the suspect Buchholz's name. Uwe found out the name of the soccer coach through his mother and looked for him at the moment when his wife and two daughters moved out. When Florian later also visits Guido and finds the seriously injured man, he realizes the far-reaching consequences his actions had.
Thereupon he gets his mother's gas pistol again from the gas station where she works, and makes his way to the Isarwehr, where Tim died, to kill himself. The investigators can't stop him from harming himself, but they manage to quickly get medical care for the boy with the help of the paramedics. It turns out that both 14-year-olds had argued about the affection of Guido Buchholz, which Florian indicated by the sentence "He is mine." Before he shot Tim.
background
The film was shot in Munich from May 13, 2014 to June 16, 2014. The first broadcast was seen near the controversial meeting of the Bundestag investigation committee on the Edathy case on December 18, 2014.
Several titles from German-language rap music were selected as the film music. The music tracks Easy and Dream by Cro and You're Boss by Kollegah can be heard from Tim and Florian's children's rooms .
reception
Reviews
“In front of the viewer, characters unfold full of human inadequacies, the biggest problem being the unspoken needs, the anger, the longing, the lack of closeness. And so in the end there is a perpetrator, but not a villain, and the case raises more questions than it answers - that is a great compliment, especially on mined terrain. "
“In general, this Munich 'Tatort' knows how to say a lot with hints and shades of gray, as well as leaving it open. He shows the commissioners as both experienced and appropriately frightened. A little cynical when it comes to making money from just 14-year-olds, but also (grand) fatherly. Distance while maintaining but not blunted. It could go on like this for a while in the increasing crowds of various new 'Tatort' casts in Munich. "
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of The Smile Sold on December 28, 2014 was seen by 9.71 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 27.4% for Das Erste .
Web links
- The selling smile in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of the sold smile on the ARD website
- The smiles sold in the Tatort fund
- The smiles sold at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatort: The smiles sold at crew united
- ^ A b Sylvia Staude: TV criticism Tatort "The smile sold". Are they supposed to be afraid? (No longer available online.) In: TV-Krimi. Frankfurter Rundschau, December 28, 2014, formerly in the original ; accessed on December 28, 2014 : "You can also think of Sebastian Edathy , but you don't have to."
- ↑ Franziska Bulban: "Tatort" from Munich: "The selling smile." What parents don't know. In: television. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, December 28, 2014, accessed on December 28, 2014 : "But at least technology is not presented here as the source of all evil."
- ↑ Manuel Weis: Primetime Check: Sunday, December 28, 2014.quotemeter.de , December 29, 2014, accessed on January 15, 2018 .
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