Crime scene: the man who lies

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The man who lies
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 1071 ( List )
German-language
first broadcast
November 4, 2018 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Martin Eigler
script Sönke Lars Neuwöhner and Martin Eigler
music SEA + AIR
camera Andreas Schäfauer
cut Claudia Lauter
occupation

The Man Who Lies is a TV movie from the crime series Tatort . The by Südwestrundfunk Post produced the 1071 crime scene episode and was on November 4, 2018 First erstgesendet. The Stuttgart investigator duo Lannert and Bootz is investigating its 22nd case.

action

During the investigation into the murder of Uwe Berger, Lannert and Bootz interviewed a man whose name they found in the murdered man's diary. Jakob Gregorowicz withholds information during the interrogation, making himself increasingly suspicious of the inspectors. He only ever admits what the commissioners have found out from other sources, and when he gets himself a false alibi, which the investigators also notice, he is arrested. The financial advisor Uwe Berger had robbed him and other customers of their savings. Gregorowicz is obviously struggling not to reveal too much so that his wife doesn't find out about the speculative deals and the impending ruin, but finally has to admit it to her.

At first, the investigators assumed that Berger's son Linus had done something to his father because they didn't have the best relationship, but there are traces of blood from both of them at the scene and Linus has since disappeared without a trace. Based on the circumstantial evidence, Lannert and Bootz now hold Gregorowicz for the murderer of Uwe Berger and for the kidnapper of Linus, because based on the amount of blood, the investigators fear that the young man is injured and possibly no longer alive. They prove to Gregorowicz that he has had a secret sexual relationship with Linus for over two years, which he has to admit. Although he assures that he is not involved in the murder and kidnapping, the investigators cannot persuade him to cooperate in clarifying the whereabouts of Linus.

When Gregorowicz was released from custody, he received a text message from Linus' cell phone for help. He sneaks into an abandoned factory site and is finally found by Lannertz and Bootz, who followed him, with the tied and bled Linus in their arms. Gregorowicz now declares that he is the kidnapper and that he has held Linus here, but the investigators do not believe his statements. Gregorowicz had to assume that his wife had got behind the financial ruin as well as his homosexuality and was therefore involved in the murder of Uwe and the subsequent kidnapping of Linus Berger, together with Gregorowicz's tennis friends Schacht and Schönfliess, who had also been cheated by Uwe Berger . Gregorowicz now takes the blame on himself to punish himself for not having prevented the murder of his lover. He comes back into custody. After Lannert and Bootz can prove that he and his wife are innocent and that only Schacht and Schönfliess were involved in the crimes, Gregorowicz is released from custody. He committed suicide that same day.

background

The film was shot from June 12, 2017 to July 15, 2017 in Baden-Baden, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart. The premiere took place on May 18, 2018 at the SWR Summer Festival in Stuttgart.

reception

Reviews

Tilmann P. Gangloff criticized for tittelbach.tv and came to the conclusion: “The self-producing SWR has not only succeeded in another high-class Stuttgart crime scene; The Man Who Lies also continues a remarkable series of thematically and narrative surprising crime stories. "

Eliana Berger wrote for the Berliner Zeitung : “The clever change of perspective gives this crime scene a very unobtrusive tension. Similar to the commissioners, the viewer increasingly despairs of Gregorowicz and the big question of why. The crime scene therefore never becomes lengthy or boring, although in fact not very much happens. Only the resolution could have been made a little clearer. "

Christian Buß from Spiegel Online said: “A very exciting matter, but not for people with a low attention span. The audience is forced to keep collecting facts and false reports in the hope of being able to distinguish one from the other at some point in the course of the plot. A crime thriller in which the German television crime coziness is confidently lifted upside down: It is important to recognize the truth through the eyes of a liar. "

SWR3 , on the other hand, called this crime scene: “Permanently dreary” because “the title hero lies to himself for 90 minutes across the scene. Lies to his wife, lies to his tennis buddies, lies to the commissioners, and his lawyer brother-in-law until he really doesn't feel like it anymore. Which brings us to the point. At some point, the viewer feels very much like the lawyer. "

Katrin Maue-Klaeser said in the Rhein-Zeitung that at the center of this “silent crime scene” is “the growing insecurity of a swindler who no longer knows who he can trust himself.” Rubey noted “this increasing fragility of an embarrassed existence absolutely believable. "The inner decay of a person" who can not even imagine that his credibility is gone ", projects Rubey" one to one on his face. "The Stuttgart team of investigators takes this episode" to an admirable degree. " back, can be seen more at the edge of the picture and yet present. "

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of The Man Who Lies on November 4, 2018 was seen by 9.22 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.0% for Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Crime scene: The man who lies at crew united
  2. ↑ The festival starts with the big SWR Tatort premiere. In: Summer Festival Stuttgart. SWR, May 18, 2018, accessed on May 20, 2018 .
  3. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Manuel Rubey, Richy Müller, Felix Klare, Neuwöhner, Eigler. The perpetrator perspective at tittelbach.tv , accessed on November 5, 2018.
  4. Eliana Berger: Critique of the crime scene Exciting change of perspective in “The man who lies” at berliner-zeitung.de , accessed on November 5, 2018.
  5. ^ Christian Buß: Clever "Tatort" from Stuttgart. The liar we trust. Spiegel Online, November 2, 2018, accessed on November 2, 2018 : "Rating: 8 out of 10 points"
  6. Lying title hero at swr3.de, accessed on November 5, 2018.
  7. Katrin Maue-Klaeser: The new Totaort is simply a "thriller": Thank you! Rhein-Zeitung of November 3, 2018, p. 29
  8. Fabian Riedner: Primetime check: Sunday, November 4, 2018.quotemeter.de , November 5, 2018, accessed on November 5, 2018 .