Crime scene: The Indian

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The Indian
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Maran Film on behalf of SWR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 952 ( List )
First broadcast June 21, 2015 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Niki Stein
script Niki Stein
production Sabine Tettenborn
music Jacki Engelken
camera Stefan Sommer
cut Barbara Brückner
occupation

The Indian is a television film from the crime series Tatort . It was first broadcast on German television on June 21, 2015. It is the 16th case of the Stuttgart investigative team Lannert and Bootz . The film deals with power and corruption in the real estate sector around Stuttgart 21 .

action

After a building scandal occurred as part of the Stuttgart 21 major project, in which various companies went bankrupt, the background is to be clarified in an investigative committee. Former State Secretary Dr. Jürgen Dillinger testifies there and a short time later he is the victim of an assassination attempt. The commissioners Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz are investigating the case. They realize that the murder can only have something to do with the building scandal. Apparently a professional killer was hired to take out Dillinger.

First, the investigators question the former Prime Minister Rubert Heinerle, who is one of the victim's closest circle of friends. However, the main suspect appears to be the architect Busso von Mayer. With the support of an Indian investor, who later turned out to be an impostor, he had brought the construction project to failure and was convicted as the responsible entrepreneur. Since he sees the guilt with the politicians and is in custody as a prisoner, he could well have commissioned the murder. For Lannert and Bootz, this solution seems too simple and they are trying to find out who might benefit from the failed real estate deal "Gleisdreieck" and who should have no interest in the fact that the investigation committee brings the truth to light. Basically, all politicians and investors who have already benefited from subsidies during the planning phase are eligible.

Due to the media attention, Lannert and Bootz have to research carefully so as not to let the press destroy their work. The first trace of the assassin leads to a hotel. From surveillance recordings it is obvious that he is injured and on the run with the help of the prostitute Mira. In addition, it can be identified as Franc Lefevre via traces of DNA found. When this gets through to the media and Lefevre hears the wanted man on the radio, he wants to flee from his hiding place and is shot by Mira's father after Lefevre had threatened him with his weapon.

The search for Lefevre's employer remains for the commissioners. As it stands, the bankruptcy was planned in order to be able to bypass the development plan and the costly requirements associated with it. Dillinger was so corrupt that he supported this plan and delivered the architect Busso von Mayer to the knife as a pawn sacrifice. In revenge, von Mayer hired the professional killer through his connections. Lannert gets the architect to admit this too. But before the inspector can arrest him, von Mayer throws himself to his death in an unobserved moment.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast on June 21, 2015 was seen by a total of 9.49 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 28.3 percent for Das Erste .

Reviews

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv says appreciatively: “It's a hot potato that the SWR tackles this 'crime scene' about Stuttgart 21: The Sunday thrillers rarely deal with current economic and political events in such a concrete way. The construction project is at the center of the plot, but Niki Stein's artfully constructed film is primarily a crime thriller. [...] Stein's complex narrative structure is at least as attractive as the subject matter. As if the story wasn't already complicated enough, the film continually hops back and forth between different temporal levels in order to let the whole picture emerge bit by bit; even if this initially makes the plot even more confusing. "

Holger Gertz at Süddeutsche.de has this to say about the crime scene: “The story is constructed in such a sophisticated way that it is difficult to follow it. […] Also with the secondary lines: the killer drives in a car with Alsatian license plates, is rescued by a Czech woman, speaks with Belgian dialect and, irritatingly, is very similar to the RAF terrorist Christian Klar, as one can see from his late interview with Günter Gaus knows."

The critics at Focus online state: “The initially irritating time leaps require the full attention of the viewer. The search for a murderer also disappears under a stylistically attractive but narrative confused network of interrogations and flashbacks. Anyone who is not only interested in crime thriller but also in the 'Whodunnit' can enjoy a respectable thriller and a differentiated story about the Stuttgart 21 project, which covers the entire spectrum of reactions to the construction project - from the angry citizens throwing paint bags from the visionary architect to the latently annoyed inspector who simply doesn't feel like being in constant traffic. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on November 15, 2015.
  2. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Richy Müller, Felix Klare, Thomas Thieme, Niki Stein. Swamp from Felt and Corruption Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on November 15, 2015.
  3. ↑ Holger Gertz: Was isch los at sueddeutsche.de, accessed on November 15, 2015.
  4. ↑ This is how the Stuttgart “Tatort” is on focus.de, accessed on November 15, 2015.
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