Crime scene: The curse of the mummy
The curse of the mummy is a television film from the crime series Tatort on ARD and ORF . The film was produced by WDR and broadcast for the first time on May 16, 2010. It is the 763rd episode in the crime scene series and the 17th case with Axel Prahl and Jan Josef Liefers as Münster investigators Thiel and Boerne .
action
Because the water pipe in Boerne's house has to be repaired, Frank Thiel is forced to keep his morning toilet in his father's summer house. Boerne joins him. Both are surprised by Herbert Thiel with the news that he has found a mummy in the attic of the Schorlemer family, where he also works as a caretaker . While Boerne argues with the responsible archaeologist Kastner about the competence of the assessment of this sensational find, Thiel and his assistant Nadeshda Krusenstern have to deal with the murder of the correctional officer Matthias Reinhardt. He was killed in his apartment near the JVA Münster . It turns out that Reinhardt was obviously very well off financially for unknown reasons. Surveys in the prison itself show that Reinhardt was considered sadistic by the inmates and probably also had an alcohol problem.
Meanwhile, Boerne's assistant Silke Haller befriends the released prisoner Andreas Lechner, who visits her after his release and wants to thank her for the pen pal and support during his detention. She offers him a job as a temporary assistant in forensic medicine, as there is a temporary shortage of staff there after some of Boerne's notorious absences. Later, the investigation into the murder of Reinhardt leads to Lechner as the main suspect, who admits to having been near Reinhardt's apartment on the day of the crime, but denies the murder. He claims to have heard a mobile phone ringing in the apartment, but it could not have come from Reinhardt. He is in custody taken. When Reinhardt's apartment is searched again, Thiel and Nadeshda find out that the murdered man was involved in a lucrative drug trade. The answer to the source of his prosperity has thus been found. There is also the murder weapon, a flashlight. The interrogation of Reinhardt's drug supplier Stefan Karb reveals that an inmate who fled the prison, the Lebanese Nabil Mavrat, could have had a motive to kill Reinhardt. Mavrat fled shortly before his release a few years ago and has since disappeared. His former fiancée, Marion Ende, has not heard from him either. Shortly afterwards, Lechner was released from custody and took up his position in forensic medicine again.
Meanwhile, Boerne investigates the mummy and finds out that the person known as the Persian prince was shot. He therefore doubts the authenticity of the find. However, nobody believes him. Although Ms. Schorlemer and the archaeologist admit that the mummy did not come from the estate of the Schorlemer family, but that they had acquired it abroad in a questionable manner, they continued to claim against Boerne's expertise that the mummy was real. A reconstruction of the appearance of the supposed prince reveals, however, that the mummy is Nabil Mavrat, the Lebanese inmate who fled the prison. Thiel and Boerne confront the archaeologist in his institute with the truth. He confesses that he found Mavrat dead in the forest years ago and then painstakingly prepared it as a mummy. He invented the story of the alleged purchase of the mummy abroad to cover up. But there is no proof of Mavrat's murder. Eventually, ballistics determines that Mavrat was shot with a gun like the one Reinhardt owned.
Mavrat's former fiancée is questioned again. She says that she had a relationship with the head of the prison, Bausch, during Mavrat's imprisonment. She also has a child with him. Meanwhile, Bausch goes to forensic medicine to bring personal items from Mavrat's possession for DNA testing. Then he receives a call and Lechner recognizes the ringtone as the one he heard from Reinhardt's apartment on the day of the event. Bausch realizes that his actions can now be proven and takes Lechner and Frau Haller hostage with them on the run. Finally, the police can put Bausch at the Münster harbor . He killed Mavrat in an affect when he attacked him because of his relationship with his fiancée. Reinhardt witnessed this incident and had his silence and complicity in depositing the dead man in the forest with a carte blanche for his sadistic harassment of the prisoners and his drug deals. When Reinhardt went too far with his blackmail, Bausch killed him too.
background
Almost all of the scenes were filmed in different locations in Münster . Andreas Lechner wakes up at the fountain at the Lamberti Church . Nadeshda drives with Commissioner Thiel on the Prinzipalmarkt , which is only released for buses, taxis and delivery traffic. The chase towards the end of the film ends in the port of Münster . The scenes that take place in and at the Münster correctional facility were not shot in Münster. Further recordings were made in Cologne . The scene in front of the villa where the mummy was found was filmed in Rösrath . The Academic Art Museum in Bonn served as the backdrop for the building of the Schorlemer Archaeological Institute from the outside and (largely) from the inside .
Filming began on June 23, 2009 and ended on July 22, 2009.
In two scenes, Prof. Boerne gives an interview to a reporter in which the WDR logo can be seen several times on microphones, cameras and vehicles. The interviews were conducted by Anke Bruns , who actually works as a journalist for WDR .
In the opening credits, Jan Josef Liefers ' role name is incorrectly read as “Börne” instead of correctly “Boerne”.
reception
criticism
The reviews of The Curse of the Mummy were mostly mixed to positive.
The Tatort episode was "a pretty adventure dud" , "more comedy than crime" , are located stern.de , Rainer Tittelbach and the editors of kino.de as well as TV movies and the Frankfurter Rundschau agree. The Bild-Zeitung even asks itself “How gaga can a» crime scene «be?” And wonders: “The Münster crime thriller was obviously well received by the television audience, despite exaggerated nonsense scenes and a murder that was almost forgotten about it! "
With their "pleasantly uncomplicated action" that the writers ' weird, but quite some entangle " could, they deliver " relaxed Sunday evening entertainment " that " simply entertaining " was. The "construction is absurd, but round in itself" . According to the judgment of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the scriptwriters thus succeeded in "one of the best Münster" crime scene "episodes for a long time," whose opinion Der Westen shares. The Frankfurter Rundschau is also of the opinion that the script and direction were "almost perfect" . The Tagesspiegel judges: "With the» Curse of the Mummy «, the authors have succeeded in presenting a» crime scene «that is unusual even for Münster's standards." The motive for the murder goes "in a brilliant way with the Westphalian university town" . The “smart dialogue gags” “with politically incorrect sayings” were praised as well as Arno Steffen's film music, which was “a wonderful mixture of country rock and blues” .
The West praised the harmony of the investigative duo "in a heartfelt love-hate relationship" . The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung also found positive words for the portrayal of Justus von Dohnányi , who is known as the archaeologist Dr. Kastner is "like an alter ego" Boernes, "just as brilliant and blasé, in need of approval and presumptuous" , but at the same time "but still a good bit ahead of this in the broad field of madness" . In addition, it was positively emphasized that the supporting roles played by Christine Urspruch and Friederike Kempter would get a bigger role in this episode.
Matthias Dell from Der Freitag finds less positive words . He is of the opinion that the roles of Thiel and Boerne are "the extension of the Heinz Rühmann humor into the 21st century" because "the so-called little man (Thiel) [...] can laugh up his sleeve at the vain authorities" . The dilemma is: “Münster wants to be everything, just not ordinary. And therefore tries a balancing act in every episode that fails every time - funny and crime scene at the same time. " Dell states that " the price for originality is high, " which is why his conclusion is: " And so the worst thing about the Münster crime scene is this honesty, which constantly appeals to crude amusement: As in this episode everyone is talking about who cannot produce evidence of Aryan until the Middle Ages ("Never get involved with a camel driver", "Red Lebanese or Black Afghan") or not of race - Textbook from 1935 are available (all the tiresome allusions to "Alberich's" greatness), for some this may apply as evidence of a particularly high and possibly even more "refreshing" unconventionality - but unfortunately it is just stupid, ignorant and dreary. " The editorial staff of news.de writes: “Unimportant matters quickly overlay the already weak-chested story, which Boerne's verbal insolence doesn't make much livelier . On the contrary: This time Jan Josef Liefers exaggerates it enormously and slips into overacting time and time again, until Boerne is only a caricature. The crime scene from Münster - after this episode he is finally at a crossroads. "
Audience ratings
The first broadcast on May 16, 2010 was seen by a total of 10.24 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 28.6% for Das Erste ; In the group of 14- to 49-year-old viewers , 3.62 million viewers and a market share of 23.8% were achieved. This makes this episode the most successful episode in the last five years.
literature
- Holger Wacker: The big crime scene book. Movies, facts and characters. Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89487-353-1 .
Web links
- The curse of the mummy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of The Curse of the Mummy on the ARD website
- The curse of the mummy in the crime scene fund
- The curse of the mummy at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for Crime Scene: The Curse of the Mummy . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ a b Internet Movie Database : Filming Locations
- ↑ a b WDR local time Cologne, report by Jens Gleisberg
- ↑ Colonia Media : A new and a very old corpse for Thiel and Boerne - shooting start for "Tatort: The Curse of the Mummy" , June 22, 2009
- ↑ Internet Movie Database : Budget and Box Office Results
- ↑ a b c stern.de : "Tatort" review: Münsteraner Mumpitz with mummy , Kathrin Buchner, accessed on October 4, 2011
- ↑ a b c d tittelbach.tv: "Tatort - Fluch der Mummy" series , Rainer Tittelbach, accessed on October 4, 2011
- ↑ a b kino.de: Filmkritik , tpg, accessed on February 17, 2012
- ↑ TV feature film : film review
- ↑ a b c Frankfurter Rundschau : Tatort Thiel and Boerne urgently need to go to the bathroom , culture / media, Judith von Steinburg, May 14, 2010
- ↑ a b image : Münster thriller "The curse of the mummy": How gaga can a "crime scene" be?
- ↑ a b c Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : "Tatort" from Münster: The Karl Lagerfeld of Pathology , news / features / media / television, Hubert Spiegel, May 16, 2010
- ↑ a b c The West : Television: Münster-based Tatort Team and the "Curse of the Mummy" , Jürgen Overkott, May 14, 2010
- ↑ a b Der Tagesspiegel : Krimi: Loch im Dach , Kurt Sagatz, May 16, 2010
- ↑ Prism : Film: Tatort - The Curse of the Mummy
- ↑ Friday : Is that pee? , Culture / TV & Media, Matthias Dell, May 16, 2010
- ↑ news.de: Tatort Münster: The Prince in the Attic ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2010 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. , Tobias Köberlein, May 16, 2010
- ↑ Glenn Riedmeier: Primetime check: Sunday, May 16, 2010.quotemeter.de , May 17, 2010, accessed on October 4, 2011 .
- ^ Die Welt : ARD: "Tatort" episode from Münster achieves top ratings , dpa / kami, May 17, 2010
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