Crime scene: the name of the orchid
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The name of the orchid |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR , Maran Film |
| length | 87 minutes |
| classification | Episode 590 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | March 6, 2005 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jürgen Bretzinger |
| script | Dorothee Schön |
| production |
Ulrich Herrmann , Mark Horyna |
| music | Markus Lonardoni |
| camera | Hans-Jörg Allgeier |
| cut | Roswitha gracious |
| occupation | |
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The name of the orchid is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film with Eva Mattes as chief detective Klara Blum was produced by SWR and Maran Film and broadcast in Germany on March 6, 2005 for the first time. This 590th episode in the crime scene series is the 7th case by Klara Blum and the 3rd case by Kai Perlmann . You are investigating the murder of a gardener and luminary of orchid cultivation. In doing so, they get caught up in the ambitious competition between orchid breeders.
action
A large orchid competition is taking place on the island of Mainau. For this reason, valuable orchids from all over the world are shown and renowned breeders come to the island for this purpose. Helmut Weiss, the responsible gardener at the foundation, allegedly has a new achievement: the red lady's slipper . But he has hidden his rarity well. Nobody has seen it yet and before the competition begins, Weiss is found dead in the greenhouse and the valuable plant has disappeared. Blum and Perlmann start the investigation.
Dr. Raven, official orchid taxonomist and president of the jury, wants to continue the competition at all costs. He was very excited about the new discovery of Weiss, which he was not allowed to see himself and which Weiss probably hid somewhere, camouflaged among the countless orchids in the exhibition. When he raved about the advantages of orchids across Perlmann, he secretly took an orchid with a brown blossom and later gave it away to his colleague Annika Beck.
Blum looks around the greenhouses and meets Knut Baginski from the Constance customs investigation team. Following an anonymous tip, he investigates whether Weiss illegally imported an orchid that is subject to species protection. He is said to have found this red lady's slipper of the species Paphiopedilum in Vietnam and brought it to Europe to sell it for a profit. When Blum afterwards with Dr. Diana Martini, the world's best orchid expert, speaks, she is convinced that Weiss was killed because of an orchid.
In the meantime, the forensic doctor discovers that Weiss was already lying on the ground when he was killed. Small puncture marks, most of which stem from acupuncture treatment, also suggest that he may have been anesthetized before the murder so that he could not defend himself.
Between Dr. Klaus Raven and Maximiliane Tausend from the event management are in competition to see who will be the first to taxonomically process the newly discovered species and thus give it a name. While Blum is talking to Raven in the hotel restaurant, Perlmann secretly looks around in his room, but can't find anything useful in the event. Also with Dr. Diana Martini speaks to Blum again and has details about Raven and Weiss told, because she has known both of them for years and knows about the business relationships between the two.
The customs investigator Baginski was seen several times in the vicinity of the investigators and the research shows that he had been bribed by Weiss for years to issue false papers. He admits that he wanted to buy the new orchid from Weiss to sell to a Japanese man, but he didn't kill him. In the meantime, the forensic doctor has new knowledge, because one of the puncture marks in Weiss' back is obviously caused by a poison arrow. Since Raven's doctoral thesis dealt with hallucinogenic mushrooms, he moves into the circle of suspects.
In the evening, Dr. Diana Martini Blum to, she urgently wants to come to her, her dog has been poisoned and she is afraid. So Blum goes to her. Martini suspects Raven of poisoning her dog and ransacking her home while she was away. Blum should finally do her job and arrest the man who is obviously walking over corpses. But Blum discovers an Indian blowpipe in the apartment and Martini knows a lot about poison arrows. While she was still giving such details, she noticed that Blum was suffering from massive paralysis after she had just finished drinking her tea. The orchid expert is satisfied and talks to Blum. She has long felt neglected by the entire orchid world and wanted to own the Red Lady's Slipper herself , but Weiss did not want to give it to her. She has long felt she had been discovered by Blum and therefore lured her into her house, knowing full well that she mostly works on her own. But Blum told Perlmann on the answering machine that she was going to Martini and that he should come. When Perlmann appears, Blum has already recovered from her simulated paralysis because she did not drink the tea because she suspected that it would contain a plant poison. She recorded Martini's detailed confession on a dictation machine. Martini allows himself to be led away and asks Blum to take care of her orchids.
However, the legendary lady's slipper is not found. Blum suspects that white changed its color to camouflage it by placing it in colored water for a few days, so a fiery red flower can turn into a brown one and nobody can recognize it.
In Blum's office, the cleaning lady is clearing away the orchid pot that Perlmann had brought back from the exhibition. The flower color has meanwhile shifted noticeably to the reddish.
background
The shooting of this crime scene crime story, produced by Südwestrundfunk in cooperation with Maran Film, took place in Konstanz , Baden-Baden and on the island of Mainau .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of the crime scene The Name of the Orchid was seen in Germany by a total of 8.58 million viewers and achieved a market share of 22.50 percent.
Reviews
Kathrin Lang awards two out of five possible stars on "Moviesection.de". She writes: “The beautiful shots of the island of Mainau and the sweeping views over Lake Constance [...] [would] almost be the only good reason to watch the episode The Name of the Orchid at all. [...] Again and again the investigations drag on between all the lengthy discussions about special orchid species and soon the viewer in front of the television doesn't care who the murderer is. Somehow this also seems to apply to the investigators, who are also increasingly interested in extraordinary orchids and their cultivation than in uncovering the murder case. The chemistry between Blum and Perlmann is also wrong in this episode. The dialogues that Dorothee Schön wrote for the two of them should probably be funny, but they are increasingly causing more incomprehension. At the latest after the fifth joke that doesn't want to ignite between the two, this crime scene runs out of air. The name of the orchid - boring Sunday evening entertainment that you can definitely miss. "
Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv thought the script and the plot were “great (whereas the director Jürgen Bretzinger [...] lost the tension during the implementation. "
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm judge the episode as: "Not such a rosy case with investigator Blum [and I think] this case is electrifying as a walk through the flower bed."
Web links
- The name of the orchid in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of The Name of the Orchid on the ARD website
- The name of the orchid in the crime scene fund
- The name of the orchid at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Production at Internet Movie Database , accessed January 17, 2014.
- ↑ a b Production and audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 14, 2014.
- ↑ Kathrin Lang: Film criticism ( memento of September 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on moviesection.de, accessed on August 31, 2019.
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff: Film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on January 17, 2014.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 17, 2014.
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