Crime scene: the scream
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Scream |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR Maran film |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 776 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | October 17, 2010 on First German Television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gregor Schnitzler |
| script | Harald Göckeritz |
| production |
Sebastian Hünerfeld Sabine Tettenborn |
| music |
Mathias Neuhauser Michael Meinl Manu Kurz |
| camera | Cornelia Wiederhold |
| cut | Saskia Metten |
| occupation | |
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The Scream is a television film from the crime series Tatort with the Ludwigshafen investigator duo Lena Odenthal ( Ulrike Folkerts ) and Mario Kopper ( Andreas Hoppe ). It is the 776th Tatort episode and a SWR production in collaboration with Maran Film . The episode was broadcast for the first time on October 17, 2010 on First German Television .
The focus is on clarifying the killing of a child who was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Odenthal gets into an inner conflict because she is suspecting an innocent person and destroying his life.
action
The Fichtner family spends a weekend in an amusement park. When the couple go to eat something in the evening and then come back to the hotel room, their seven-year-old daughter is not there. The search on the leisure area brings the certainty: Sandra is dead. Presumably she was suffocated and then deposited in the water of the torrent. Since her panties are missing, abuse cannot be ruled out.
As the first suspects, Odenthal and Kopper interview Tom Heye, who also visited the amusement park this weekend and has a criminal record for child abuse. The idea of being targeted by the police again makes the criminals who have been purified in themselves nervous. Since he is entangled in contradictions with his testimony about his alibi, Heye is interrogated at the presidium. He is reluctant to admit that he likes the presence of children. So he was alone in the amusement park. For example, a house search is carried out on him, which shows his still existing pedophile tendencies. Nevertheless, he only lives it out in his imagination, without harming anyone. But Odenthal has no choice but to inform Tom's girlfriend, who then breaks off the relationship with him, which Odenthal in turn regrets, because Tom is obviously innocent and she is trying to save the relationship between the two of them because it is not their fault want to have ruined his life.
However, due to a testimony, the investigators also focus on the mother. Their behavior is also strange. Kopper does not rule out that she herself suffocated her child and then carried it to the torrent. Becker also finds traces of Sandra's blood on Ruth Fichtner's clothes. She claims that Sandra had a loose tooth that bled often when brushing her teeth. The situation is increasingly overwhelming. One psychologist does not consider it impossible that she killed her child and is now suppressing the whole thing. She also argues with her husband more and more often and thinks she hears her daughter's laughter, sometimes also her scream in the night.
The lawyer Werner Rahn is interviewed, who was also a visitor to the amusement park and was recorded by the surveillance cameras late in the evening. When Kopper visits him, he is about to get married. He claims he went for a walk alone last night but he did not see a child. For Kopper he is suspicious because he finds it very strange when a man spends the night alone in an amusement park the day before his wedding. He observed him the next day and observed an argument with Jarek Tasev, whom Kopper had seen at Rahn's wedding, as he danced with the bride. As he learns, Rahn is extremely jealous of Tasev, because he had been with his wife Mirjam since childhood and thought that he would marry her - and now she has married a German.
Kopper looks through the hotel's guest list again and finds that Jarek Tasev was also present at the amusement park that weekend. He was then summoned and Rahn was interrogated again. After thorough questioning, Rahn finally admits that there was a girl after all. Tasev ambushed him in the park and explained that Mirjam was his wife and he would not release her. Suddenly Tasev had drawn a knife and wanted to attack him. When the girl stood there in the middle of the night and screamed when she saw Tasev with the knife, he attacked the child with the knife. She kept screaming and never stopped. So that the screaming would finally end, he had covered her mouth. And then she stopped moving.
background
The film was produced by Südwestrundfunk in cooperation with Maran Film under the working title Schlaflos and shot in Ludwigshafen, Baden-Baden , Karlsruhe and in the Tripsdrill adventure park .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Der Schrei on October 17, 2010 was seen by a total of 8.48 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22.9 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv writes: “'Der Schrei' [is] a thriller that primarily raises questions, that makes everything a bit 'strange' so that he can save himself with three to four suspects over the 90 minutes without that boredom arises. In this 'crime scene' one is more or less only dealing with smoke candles and emotional signals for the audience […] than with real human dramas in which one can participate. That doesn't automatically make it a bad movie, but it does make it a 'blender'. At the latest, the resolution of the case will make it clear. Much has been done [...] about very little. Then you are almost there - and have a good chat at this appealingly staged 'crime scene'. "
Swantje Dake at Stern.de criticizes: “The imagery of the 'crime scene' seems helpless. Clouds of fog in the amusement park and a pale picture from which the colorful balloons stand out are supposed to breath mysticism into the 'crime scene'. [...] These stagings seem just as hard-working as the incidental actions that add clichés to the 'Tatort' episode. "
The critics at Bild.de judge soberly: “Roller coaster, Ferris wheel and a dead girl on the wild water course: More than eight million viewers watched crime scene inspector Lena Odenthal (Ulrike Folkerts) on Sunday as she investigated in an amusement park. The atmosphere is extremely gloomy, the pictures disturbing. "
Barnabas Szöcs at Merkur-online.de gives an appreciative judgment: "The performance of the author and director in subtly working through the sensitive topic is impressive."
At Moviesection.de, Thomas Ays awards all five possible stars and thinks that the entire cast of actors performed well. In this crime scene “everyone involved let off steam mercilessly: Director Gregor Schnitzler used the great script to put on a sometimes very atmospheric staging that shows everything from horror scenes to tension-laden sequences. Screenwriter Harald Göckeritz, on the other hand, took advantage of the opportunity that presented himself to make great use of several aspects of the story [...] so that the viewer is forced to switch between them again and again. [...] 'Der Schrei' has become an impressive, impressive and coherent 'crime scene' that can be seen more than just from several points of view. "
The critics of the TV magazine TV-Spielfilm write about this crime scene: “A bit overloaded, but elegantly staged. [Conclusion:] A real thriller with good actors. "
Web links
- The cry in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of The Scream on the ARD website
- The scream at the crime scene fund
- The scream at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 19, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 20, 2014.
- ↑ Swantje Dake Lahme roller coaster ride with suspects on stern.de, accessed on March 20, 2014.
- ↑ Crime scene “The Scream”: Too much horror for a crime thriller? on bild.de, accessed on March 20, 2014.
- ↑ Barnabas Szöcs review of the crime scene: The perpetrator in our head on merkur-online.de, accessed on March 20, 2014.
- ↑ Thomas Ays : Tatort - The Scream (TV). In: Moviesection. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on July 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 20, 2014.
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