Crime scene: the mole
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Mole |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
MDR |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 926 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | December 21, 2014 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Johannes Grieser |
| script |
Michael B. Muller , Leo P. Ard |
| production |
Judith Smeaton , Michael Smeaton |
| music |
Robert Schulte Hemming , Jens Langbein |
| camera | Michael Boxrucker |
| cut | Philipp Schmitt |
| occupation | |
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The Mole is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The episode, produced by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk and directed by Johannes Grieser , was broadcast for the first time on December 21, 2014. It was the second case of the Erfurt team of investigators Funck, Schaffert and Grewel and the 926th crime scene sequence. After the broadcast of this case, Alina Levshin and Friedrich Mücke decided to get out of the crime series. The MDR then completely stopped the Erfurt crime scene.
action
The prisoner Timo Lemke managed to escape during a rescue operation. One policeman is killed and two others are injured. The former red light king of Erfurt had received a prison sentence of several years for manslaughter and human trafficking , which he had almost served. As it turned out later, his escape had to do with a new fellow prisoner, the Albanian Jetmir Muschkolai. Lemke had killed his son in a gang feud and now had to fear for his life.
In order to track down Lemke quickly, criminal director Petra Fritzenberger calls in the trainer and criminal director Volker Römhild, who once headed the investigation against Lemke. The head of the current investigations will be entrusted to Chief Detective Henry Funck. His teammates Schaffert and Grewel find a clue to Lemke's accomplice, who helped him escape , through a conspicuous tattoo that caught one of the injured police officers. The commissioners then check Ingo Konzack, who years ago was suspected of being bribed by Lemke and who was subsequently dismissed from the police force. However, they cannot detect a tattoo on him.
A surveillance of Lemke's girlfriend, Nadine Schuricke, leads the investigators to Jochen Berner, who wears the conspicuous tattoo and who is very likely to be hiding the person in his sick mother's apartment. Police access, however, is unsuccessful. Lemke has disappeared.
Detective director Fritzenberger, the superior of Funck, Schaffert and Grewel, is kidnapped. The commissioners assume that Lemke is behind it in order to get revenge on her and possibly also on Römhild, since they were both significantly involved in Lemke's arrest. When Lemke appeared at Römhild's house shortly afterwards, he was shot by the policeman. This makes it difficult for the investigative team to find their boss again. However, they doubt whether Lemke is behind the kidnapping at all. There are clues that lead to Ingo Konzack.
Konzack had worked with Fritzenberger before his release and felt betrayed by her. Lemke's escape brought the past to the surface again, because since his dishonorable dismissal his private and professional life has only been going downhill. With the kidnapping, he wanted to force those involved to tell the truth in order to restore his honor. So it was not Ingo Konzack who was Lemke's henchman, but Römhild. Due to massive financial problems, he had allowed himself to act as a mole for Lemke in the Erfurt police . He directed the suspicion to Konzack and now had to fear that Lemke would have exposed him. So he quickly moved it out of the way. When Funck, Schaffert and Grewel realize this, however, they can no longer prevent Römhild from killing Konzack as well. Römhild had found out about the hiding place of the kidnapped Fritzenberger from the young inspectors, who had just found it out with Schaffert's skill. There he met the scapegoat he had advanced and shot him. Before he can eliminate Fritzenberger as the last witness, Funck, Schaffert and Grewel appear, overpower Römhild and arrest him.
background
The working title of the crime scene was an endurance test . The film was shot in Erfurt from August 5 to September 3, 2014. The opening scene was shot at the main cemetery in Erfurt , the largest cemetery in Thuringia.
The film music used includes the music titles Turn Down For What by DJ Snake and Watch Out For This (Bumaye) by Major Lazer .
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Der Maulwurf on December 21, 2014 was seen by 8.47 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 18.5 percent for Das Erste .
Reviews
At Spiegel Online , Christian Buß thinks : “In the approach, [...] [the] second Erfurt 'crime scene' [...] works well. However, the plot is then a kit. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave this crime scene the best possible rating (thumbs up), but commented critically: "Old hands, young cops: a bit stupid, but entertaining".
“In the Erfurt crime scene, great actors are burned up, who - in a shitstorm of presumably used toiletries and blown away by insults from school theater - have to perform wooden and woody dialogues:“ All right? ”(Schaffert) -“ They don't have that much fun here otherwise. "(Grewel)."
Web links
- The mole in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of The Mole on the ARD website
- The mole in the crime scene fundus
- The mole at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ After only two episodes: out for the Erfurt “Tatort” team at Spiegel online, accessed on January 7, 2015
- ^ Crime scene: The mole at crew united
- ↑ Anja Derowski: Erfurt crime scene: Opinions divided about the mole in the police , Thüringer Allgemeine , December 22, 2014
- ↑ Manuel Weis: Primetime check: Sunday, December 20, 2014.quotemeter.de , December 21, 2014, accessed on December 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Christian Buß: Young generation "Tatort" from Erfurt: "Jacqueline is actually called Mandy". Film review at spiegel.de, accessed on February 17, 2015.
- ↑ Crime scene: The mole on TV feature film (with pictures of the film)
- ↑ Holger Gertz: Erfurt crime scene "The Mole". Tick, trick, track . Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 21, 2014, accessed on December 21, 2014 .
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