Crime scene: the second face

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The second face
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 646 ( List )
First broadcast November 12, 2006 on ARD
Rod
Director Tim Trageser
script Claudia Falk
Matthias Seelig
production Jutta Müller
Anke Scheib
Matthias Seelig
music Ulrich Reuter
camera Eckhard Jansen
cut Jochen Retter
occupation

The second face is a German television thriller by Tim Trageser from 2006. It was created as the 646th episode of the crime series Tatort .

action

Boerne and Thiel shiver in the cold winter, because the heating in Boerne's house is broken. The cold also leads to a death: the homeless Kalle is found frozen to death. It is the first case that Nadezhda is allowed to work alone. She only notes that Kalle did not have any identification papers or other things that could identify him. While Nadeshda is still busy with the dead, Roswitha Brehm tries to talk to Thiel. However, he lets them get rid of because he doesn't want to talk to this "pain in the ass". Shortly afterwards, Roswitha is found dead in the uninhabited Steinhagen villa. Apparently she fell down the stairs. A tragedy took place in the villa six years ago when the parents Steinhagen and their son Christoph were murdered. At that time, the daughter Franziska was suspected of murder, but she was in a boarding school. The three bodies were never found and to this day nothing has changed in the condition of the villa since the murder.

Boerne was able to detect ketamine in Roswitha's blood , which was fatal for the woman with heart disease. It becomes clear that she was murdered. In her apartment there are numerous occult objects, glass balls, placed cards and a book in which the woman with the second face recorded her visions. However, your latest records are missing. A phone call to Thiel, to whom she spoke on tape, shows how urgently she wanted to share her findings.

The investigators learn that Roswitha's godchild, Dr. Hanno Mittenzwey is the lecturer of Franziska Steinhagen. He is supposed to sell the Steinhagen villa for her. Franziska was also in contact with Roswitha, at whose seance she attended to find out about her family's whereabouts. In the meantime, Nadeshda finds out that the dead man's name is Karl-Heinz Metzler and that he was Christoph Steinhagen's club mate as a child. Shortly afterwards, the investigators are called to a country road: Dr. Mittenzwey was run over and died on the street. In his car, Thiel finds a city map and in it the missing pages from Roswitha's record book. They show, among other things, an old gate, trees in a certain arrangement and the skeletons of two people lying next to each other. A note in the accompanying text indicates red earth and in fact there is red earth on Mittenzwey's soles. There is a used spade in the trunk. Without further ado, Thiel and Boerne follow the markings on the city map, find the gate and the trees and the place where Mittenzwey dug. After a while, Boerne actually reveals two skeletons, which he can ultimately identify as mother and father Steinhagen. The body of Christoph has disappeared because it never existed, the investigators conclude. They look for Franziska and find her with her brother's record collection, which she supposedly wants to sell. However, the classifieds she's recently posted only speak of a Brother in Arms record she wants to buy. However, since the original is Brothers in Arms , the investigators suspect an encrypted text that is actually used to contact her brother. Thiel looks for Franziska in the library and tells her that her parents' bodies have been found. He also urges her to tell him about a possible contact attempt by her brother.

Another encrypted advertisement in a newspaper tells the investigators that Franziska wants to meet Christoph on the same day. Due to Thiel's visit to the library, Franziska was unable to attend the meeting, so that Christoph disappeared again. He wrote himself in the hotel as “Dr. Karl-Heinz Metzler “- Kalle had given Christoph his papers after the day of the crime, so that Christoph, who looked like him, could go into hiding and start a new life. Boerne analyzes Christoph's blood from the scene of the crime and can prove a strong narcotic. The investigators therefore suspect that Christoph could have inflicted his injury on himself at the time. They look for Christoph and Franziska until Thiel thinks he knows their whereabouts. He drives to Villa Steinhagen and he actually sees Franziska. She tells him that she knows what happened again. Her father killed himself by being shot in the head during an escalating argument with his mother, because she provoked him to the effect that he would not dare to do this. Shortly afterwards Christoph found the dead father and killed the mother in desperate rage. Christoph again disappeared, but now returned. Both Roswitha and Mittenzwey suspected that Christoph was alive, which is why they were murdered by Franziska. It also shows Thiel Christoph's corpse. He had returned to tell her that he was leaving her for good and that she would kill him. Franziska is arrested.

production

The shooting of The Second Face took place from February to March 2006 in Münster and the surrounding area as well as in the WDR studios in Cologne. The film experienced on 12 November 2006 at the First its television premiere, reaching an audience of 21 percent (7.84 million viewers). In 2011 the film was released on DVD. It was the tenth case for investigators Thiel and Boerne .

criticism

"A tricky case with curious delicacies," said the TV Spielfilm .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for the crime scene: The second face . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 128243-a / V). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ 646/06 The Second Face (WDR) . In: Rüdiger Dingemann: Tatort. The encyclopedia. All the facts, all the cases, all the commissioners . Knaur, Munich 2010, p. 348.
  3. ↑ See tvspielfilm.de
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