Crime scene: The lost child

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The lost child
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
length 86 minutes
classification Episode 648 ( List )
First broadcast November 26, 2006 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Jobst Oetzmann
script Magnus Vattrodt , Jobst Oetzmann
production Silvia Koller
Veith von Fürstenberg
music Dieter Schleip
camera Hanno Lentz
cut Dirk Göhler
occupation

The Lost Child is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report, produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk under the direction of Jobst Oetzmann , was first broadcast on November 26, 2006 in the first program of ARD . It is the 648th crime scene episode and the forty-fourth case of the Munich Commissioners Batic and Leitmayr .

action

Franz Leitmayr, who has just returned from vacation in Norway, is driving with his colleague Ivo Batic to a crime scene in an old apartment in Munich. Carlo Menzinger is already there: the widower Adalbert Kirchner lies slain on the floor; the murder took place about 48 hours ago.

Apparently he lived all alone in the apartment, as confirmed by the Italian couple who run a café on the ground floor. On the other hand, every time he left the house with his cell phone, Kirchner constantly dialed the room monitoring of his phone in the apartment. When testing this room surveillance, the commissioners hear suspicious noises in the apartment - so Carlo Menzinger is assigned to night surveillance of the apartment.

After a short time, Carlo Menzinger notices that he is not alone in the apartment and calls his colleagues for help. Together they overwhelm a mentally handicapped young man who can only express himself verbally inadequately. It turns out that it is Hans Kirchner, who was shielded from the outside world by his father Adalbert Kirchner since childhood. He did not attend kindergartens or schools and in principle does not exist for the authorities. Batic and Leitmayr can establish contact with Sabine Schmiedinger, Hans Kirchner's sister. They are amazed that she did nothing about her brother's martyrdom. The husband explains to investigators that his father-in-law broke off contact with her. After Hans' mother died, Adalbert Kirchner expected his daughter to take care of him and her brother from now on. She refused because she had just opened her own kindergarten and got married.

As things stand, the investigators assume that Hans Kirchner has taken revenge on his own father after 30 years of imprisonment. The instrument of the murder was found in his dwelling with Kirchner's fingerprints and understandably he would have the strongest motive.

Sabine Schmiedinger cannot imagine that her brother should be capable of such an act. One would think at first sight that Hans was being held captive. In truth, the locked windows and the belts on his bed were only for his protection. He would live in the attic because he wanted it that way and liked to hear the rain pounding on the roof. Your father wasn't a monster. He loved his son. In early childhood, her parents had entrusted the boy to a home with the result that he was given the wrong medication there and had been in the cellar for half the night after falling. After that, her father would not have trusted anyone and would have taken everything into his own hands.

Sabine Schmiedinger realizes that the apartment is missing an antique mantel clock. That could actually point to another perpetrator. Batic and Leitmayr manage to find an antique shop that bought the watch. However, this does not lead directly to any further, because the watch was sold two years ago. But the commissioners then scour the craft firms that Kirchner had allowed into his apartment in recent years. But before they can track down the Croatian Stanka Duric, who has been identified in this way, they have to take care of Hans. He was able to leave the clinic in an unattended moment and is on his way to see his sister. After a confused person was reported on the highway, Batic and Leitmayr are able to find him and bring him back.

After Stanka Duric can be questioned it turns out that Hans had given him the watch because he had spent a little time with the boy. After that he would never have been there again, even though he had promised Hans to come back. So the boy remains her prime suspect again. To get better access to Hans, they get him from the clinic and bring him to his familiar surroundings. They try to re-enact the day his father died with him. Hans plays along well and everything indicates that he saw the killer. He also leads the investigators to a hiding place where his father had deposited money that is no longer there. Thus, robbery murder can again be accepted as a motive, which finally relieves Hans. He is now allowed to go to his sister with whom he is always peaceful.

Batic and Leitmayr try to find out who could have known about the money. There they come across Kirchner's brother-in-law, his wife had given her brother 50,000 euros as a gift shortly before her death. As a perpetrator, however, he is eliminated. The investigators track this down by chance when they listen to one of Hans children's tapes in the car and notice that he has also recorded something himself. After a long search, one of his tapes reveals a dispute between Adalbert Kirchner and Dietmar Schmiedinger. He killed his father-in-law in an argument about the money, which he also knew about. However, one can also hear that he knows that Hans saw him. He is currently on a climbing tour with him in the mountains and the investigators fear that he could kill Hans. Although he actually intended to, he helps the boy when he threatens to fall. When Batic and Leitmayr arrive, he has just rescued Hans back on the rock.

reception

Reviews

"In the overall very low-light atmosphere with plenty of fog, director Jobst Christian Oetzmann creates strong images, creates a strong contrast between the idyllic, snow-covered foothills of the Alps and the gloom of the murder apartment, stages Hollywood-style chases with shock effects and touching scenes that never drift into kitsch."

- Kathrin Buchner : Star

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv thinks this crime scene is: “Strongly played, strong staged!” “With its alienated images that reflect the young man's perspective, the film is initially also visually appealing. Later, the human level dominates because Hans' fate naturally touches you. This is not least due to the portrayal of Schwering-Sohnreys, who has some experience with such figures. "

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Das verlorene Kind on November 26, 2006 was seen by 7.55 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 21.2 percent for Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kathrin Buchner: "Tatort" critique. Klein-Hänschen as a master detective. Stern , November 27, 2007, accessed on October 16, 2012 : "The Munich" Tatort "episode" The Lost Child "impressed with a gripping story and was also brilliantly implemented."
  2. ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Wachtveitl, Nemec, Schwering-Sohnrey, Oetzmann, Vattrodt. Hans im Pech called the film review at tittelbach.tv.
  3. ↑ The lost child. Crime scene fund, accessed on October 16, 2012 .
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