Crime scene: the pact

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The pact
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 1082 ( List )
First broadcast January 27, 2019 on SRF 1
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Director Zoltan Spirandelli
script Zoltan Spirandelli;
Michael Vershinin
production Martin Hofmann
music Vincent Stein ;
Konstantin Scherer ;
Nico Wellenbrink ;
Bojan Assenov
camera Wolf Siegelmann
cut Magdolna Rokob
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The Pact is a television film from the crime series Tatort , which was broadcast for the first time on January 27, 2019 on SRF 1 and - starting a few minutes later - was also shown on ORF 2 and Erste . It is the 1082nd episode in the series and the eighth and last case with the Saarbrücken investigator duo Stellbrink and Marx, portrayed by Devid Striesow and Elisabeth Brück .

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The student nurse Anika learns that the young, tolerated refugee Kamal, who works for the Initiative Mediziner für Asyl (MefA) , provides the immigration authorities with information about illegal refugees . Anika also works for MefA . She confronts him with it and tells him to admit his betrayal, otherwise she would. Shortly afterwards, Anika's roommate Vanessa is found strangled in Anika's room in the nurses' home.

First the doctor Dr. Interrogated Sharifi, who had consensual sex with her shortly before Vanessa's death . Stellbrink notices the resemblance of the victim to Anika and thinks it is possible that they could be mixed up. This means that Kamal is also the focus of the investigation. Also because he lies during his interrogation, he is first placed in custody. Meanwhile, Kamal's younger brother comes to a children's home, where he is annoyed by other children, so he desperately calls Kamal. As a result, Kamal intentionally injured himself, so that he was taken to a hospital. During the investigation, he escapes from police surveillance. He picks up his brother from the children's home and hides with him from the police, of whom he feels wrongly accused.

Meanwhile, Dr. Sharifi reported on social media that the police suspected Kamal of the murder in the nurses' home. The Belarusian refugee Alexej Volkov, who is very afraid of being deported from Germany, discovers Kamal. He's just waiting in a car for Anika while his brother is sleeping in the back seat when Stellbrink gets in and accuses him of fleeing. Suddenly Volkov, embittered by Kamal's informers for the immigration authorities, rammed the stationary car with a pick-up . Kamal's brother suffers a fatal neck break and Stellbrink a broken arm.

Forensic investigations reveal that Kamal could not have entered the room in which the body was found. Therefore, he is released from custody and no further investigation is carried out against him.

When investigating Vanessa's phone, the investigators come across a phone call between Vanessa and an Indian doctor in Hyderabad , where the German doctor Dr. Bindra, founder and head of MefA, allegedly worked and also did her PhD . Stellbrink and Marx call the doctor who tells that Dr. Bindra is really just a nurse and cannot hold a PhD. Vanessa, led by Dr. Bindra was recently kicked out of the MefA for misconduct, apparently found out that the MefA practiced without a license , and blackmailed her. Stellbrink and Marx then succeed in finding Dr. Convict Bindra as a cheater and murderer. When she was honored for her work with the MefA in the evening, the commissioners appear to arrest her in front of the guests.

The for the Immigration Office Dr. working Hesse had blackmailed Kamal to work as an informant for his authority and to report illegal refugees to him, who he could then deport . In return, he extended the tolerance period for Kamal and his brother. Kamal, bitter over the recent death of his brother and the deaths of other family members in his country of origin, takes the young son of Dr. Hesse was held hostage and threatens to throw himself off a skyscraper roof to her death with him. Stellbrink appears and promises to make Kamal's fate known, whereupon Kamal releases the boy. But Stellbrink can't prevent Kamal from jumping off the roof, whereupon Stellbrink bursts into tears.

background

The film was shot from May 3 to 31, 2017 in Saarbrücken and the surrounding area.

reception

Reviews

In the Süddeutsche Zeitung , journalist Cornelius Pollmer praised the film on the one hand as a worthy end to the Tatort film series with Striesow as Commissioner Stellbrink. On the other hand, however, the film "once again contains a lot of that junk that has been thoughtlessly glued together in Saarbrücken for a long time." there are too many suspects, no narrative stringency and "dialogues that strangle even more tightly than tightly lashed terrycloth."

In the Tagesspiegel , Manfred Riepe commented that in addition to “cheerful moments in which Devid Striesow sets subtle accents”, the film also paints “a gloomy but also exaggerated picture”. The cynical head of the immigration office, for example, suggested "in his stuffy home idyll like a representative of dark Germany". The film shows too little interest in its protagonists, who only remain “sketchy”. For example, “unfortunately” one learns just as little about the Belarusian refugee as about Kamal; the characters are interesting, but are not developed into characters to act. Instead, the film gets bogged down “with an unnecessary parallel plot about a fake medical license”.

In the Austrian newspaper Kleine Zeitung , Julia Schafferhofer rated the film as a "case that wants a lot and achieves little - and thus at most scratches the surface." It is a lesson from the Saarland Tatort films that "even a great actor" how Striesow could not save “weak and discouraged books”.

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Der Pakt on January 27, 2019 was seen by 9.11 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.2% for Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Crime scene: The pact at crew united
  2. ↑ Cornelius Pollmer: This "crime scene" draws attention like an accident. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. January 25, 2019, accessed January 30, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Manfred Riepe: Stellbrink's last case , in: Der Tagesspiegel from Jan. 27, 2019, accessed on Jan. 30, 2019
  4. ↑ Julia Schafferhofer: TV diary lesson from this "crime scene": A great actor does not save weak books , in: Kleine Zeitung of Jan. 27, 2019, accessed on Jan. 30, 2019
  5. ↑ Manuel Weis: Primetime check: Sunday, January 27, 2019. In : quotemeter.de . January 28, 2019, accessed January 28, 2019 .
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