Crime scene: the butcher
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The butcher |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR , Maran Film |
| length | 83 minutes |
| classification | Episode 550 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | December 7, 2003 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jobst Oetzmann |
| script | Fred Breinersdorfer |
| production | Mark Horyna |
| music | Dieter Schleip |
| camera | Real Estate Rentz |
| cut | Roswitha gracious |
| occupation | |
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The Schächter is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film with Eva Mattes as chief detective Klara Blum was produced by SWR under the direction of Jobst Oetzmann and first broadcast in Germany on December 7, 2003. This 550th episode in the Tatort series is the 4th case of Klara Blum, who investigates a case in which an Orthodox Jew is cleverly incriminated with circumstantial evidence.
action
Detective Inspector Klara Blum is called to the campsite with Jakob Leeb and Edgar Rodammer while they are playing boules, as a body was allegedly seen there. The somewhat less well-off campsite host Edgar accompanies Blum to the boathouse. Forensics can detect human blood in the wooden planks. In the evening, Blum visits Edgar under a pretext so that he can take a hint from his many notes. "Grotto cross" is written there several times - and in fact Blum finds a corpse wrapped in plastic film under branches in the nearby forest. After her return with Public Prosecutor Bux and the forensics department, everything is gone. Blum does not get any further with Edgar, although it is not clear whether he sometimes simulates his simplicity. Edgar's brother, the hotel owner Wolfgang Rodammer, comes to his aid and tells Blum that he has taken Edgar's index cards and knife.
Photographer Singer gives Blum a picture of a strange boy who wanted to earn some extra money with him, but has not been seen for days. Blum is finally allowed to examine Edgar's index cards by a court order, but finds out that only the irrelevant is written on them. In Jakob Leeb's front yard, she finds the boy's body in the foil, completely openly. He was apparently killed by a cut in the throat such as that used in slaughtering animals. Since Leeb is a butcher in a Jewish community, the prosecutor's question of guilt has been clarified. Blum manages to get Leeb to look at the boy's corpse in forensic medicine. He explains why it is not a shaft cut. Finally there is a reference to the dead boy whose parents are still on vacation in Corsica and who bought expensive clothes and a Rottweiler without her permission .
Witness statements and the forensic medical report relieve Leeb, who receives threatening phone calls at home and feels observed on the way. Blum learns from Singer that Edgar has a dog phobia and was brought to the institution as a child because of animal cruelty. She comes to Edgar's campsite at night with the Rottweiler and is able to get him to confess. His brother took the body away and placed it in the front yard and arranged the further suppression of evidence and forgery of documents.
reception
Audience ratings
The German premiere of Der Schächter on December 7, 2003 was seen by a total of 7.12 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 20.40 percent.
Reviews
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm rate: "Difficult case with hasty conclusions."
Web links
- Crime scene: The slaughterer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Der Schächter on the ARD website
- The butcher at the crime scene fund
- The butcher at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on July 30, 2016.
- ↑ Resentment towards Jews complicates Klara Blum's investigations Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on July 30, 2016.
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