Crime scene: death is our whole life
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Death is our whole life |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
X Films Creative Pool for Bayerischer Rundfunk |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 1021 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | April 30, 2017 on Das Erste , SRF 1 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Philip Koch |
| script |
Holger Joos , Erol Yesilkaya (idea) |
| production | Michael Polle |
| music | Sebastian pill |
| camera | Jonas Schmager |
| cut | Dirk Göhler |
| occupation | |
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Death is our whole life is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk was broadcast on April 30, 2017 on Erste and SRF 1 . In the 1021st crime scene episode, the Munich inspectors Batic and Leitmayr investigate their 75th case. Death is our whole life attacks the scene of the crime: The truth in which the perpetrator was not found, revisited and is understood as a continuation of this episode.
action
A murder takes place in Munich for no discernible motive. Just like in the previous crime scene episode The Truth by Batic and Leitmayr, there is no connection between perpetrator and victim. But this time the victim survives and there is some evidence of a perpetrator. The suspect is Klaus Barthold, a museum employee. He is caught because a surveillance camera recorded the crime.
When Barthold was supposed to be transferred to another correctional facility at the beginning of the trial six months later, an incident occurred during the transport of prisoners, in which Leitmayr and Batic decided to take part at short notice, and in the end there were several deaths. Ivo Batic is then seriously injured in hospital. Leitmayr has to submit to an internal committee of inquiry. Gradually, he is reminded of the day of the prisoner transport (and so the television viewer also learns what actually happened that day) .
The minibus used to transport the prisoners broke down on a country road. Meanwhile, Barthold expresses the need to go to the toilet. Leitmayr and the judicial officer Merzer accompany him and move a few meters away from the car. At this moment Batic receives a call, which the second officer (Steinmann) does not go unnoticed. Steinmann suspects Batic of having unfair motives for this surprising escort and asks aggressively about the caller. There is a scuffle between the two. Judicial officer Merzer intervenes, visibly overwhelmed and aimlessly, and shoots when Batic, who has emerged victorious from the scuffle, approaches her to demand her pistol aimed at him. The insecure shooter hits her colleague in the back. Then she points the gun at Batic, who then flees into the adjacent forest. Shortly before, Leitmayr had moved a few hundred meters away from the scene of the crime, out of sight, because he wanted to check an unknown car stopped 100 meters away, but which only contained adolescents smoking weed. He hears the shots and walks back to the prisoner transporter, but the two judicial officers have already got in and have Barthold with them too. The three flee in the van while Leitmayr takes care of Batic.
Batic leads his colleagues to an old paper mill, where the inspectors meet Merzer and Steinmann and Barthold unnoticed. The two men are sitting on the floor in front of a wall in the factory. The officer is seriously injured. Batic and Leitmayr talk to each other and agree that Leitmayr should take care of the two men. Batic moves away to find the magistrate. Leitmayr tries to keep the seriously injured officer alive until reinforcements come, but he dies. Leitmayr takes Barthold into the interior of the hall to tie him up there. From there, the inspector observes how the officer returns, finds her dead colleague and hysterically searches for Barthold. Meanwhile, unnoticed, Barthold pulls a long wire pin and rams this Leitmayr into his thigh. In the subsequent scuffle, Barthold Leitmayr stumbles into a pit, where he remains lying unconscious. He himself flees and is noticed by Batic, who quietly chases him into the factory building with his gun drawn. However, Barthold disarms him with the blow of a heavy iron bar when Batic comes around the corner of the small side entrance behind which he was ambushing him. This triggers a shot (which probably caused Leitmayr to wake up) . With presence of mind, Batic, lying on the ground, kicks his pistol away with his foot.
The three remaining meet now and the justice officer threatens to shoot both of them. She points her gun at Batic and shoots him when suddenly a female voice can be heard. It is Ayumi Schröder, the wife of the first victim. Since she has a close relationship with Inspector Batic, she shoots the officer so that she does not kill Batic. Schröder finally wants to find out from Barthold why he killed her husband on the street for no reason. Barthold provokes Ayumi Schröder so strongly that she gives in to her thirst for revenge and shoots him. Batic doesn't want Ayumi Schröder to go to prison because she is supposed to be there for her son. So he wipes her fingerprints on his gun, takes it in his own hand and pleads with her to leave the scene immediately. Ayumi Schröder actually leaves and Leitmayr finds Batic a little later, surrounded by the corpses of the officer and Bartholds.
Since ballistics only finds Batic's fingerprints on his service weapon and also clearly shows that both Merzer and Barthold were shot with this weapon, Batic is the main suspect. He admits the killing of the two. But Commissioner Leitmayr and Kalli Hammermann track down the truth and find out that Ayumi Schröder, who is in Germany, must also have been at the crime scene. He also concludes that it must have been she who phoned Batic at the car and who first gave him the clue as to where the judicial officers were on the way with Barthold.
In the questioning of Leitmayr by a three-person disciplinary committee of the internal investigation, Leitmayr defends himself steadfastly against the accusation of his friend and colleague. But the evidence that Batic's fingerprints alone were found on the murder weapon seems overwhelming. Batic would probably be sentenced to imprisonment, his life's work would be destroyed, Leitmayr tries to make this understandable to his colleague in a dialogue. But Ayumi Schröder turns in unexpectedly and confesses that she bribed the two judicial officers with a large sum of money so that she could meet with Barthold. Batic's innocence is proven, but the relationship of trust between the two long-term colleagues Batic and Leitmayr has been shaken.
In the end, both of them sit on a park bench and Leitmayr talks to a silent Batic because he still doesn't understand his actions. He answers one of his questions with a Japanese proverb (German: "A lie is sometimes the better truth"), which he had previously heard from Ayumi ( he knowingly lied to this ) . Of course Leitmayr doesn't understand this and asks, but only receives a succinct “Nix!” Answer from Batic before he gets up and presumably goes to his questioning. Leitmayr silently watches Batic hobbling away.
background
The film was shot from September 13, 2016 to October 14, 2016. The paper mill in Dachau , which was closed in 2007, served as a backdrop for the key scenes.
reception
Reviews
“Can a quarter of a century of joint investigations end like this? You can let commissioners get lost in a routine; this is regularly demonstrated in the Ludwigshafen crime scene . The Munich directors do it differently, their gray-headed pair of investigators is their trump card, because the audience is touched when something breaks between two people who have rocked everything together for so long. "
"Highly exciting and so skilfully told in splinters and repetitions that you actually can't say anything about the plot in advance."
For the film service , the film is an “impressively perfectly staged crime thriller”. Sometimes he shoots "with hard to believe turns over the target", but captivates "consistently as an exciting departure from the crime monotony."
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Death Is Our Whole Life on April 30, 2017 was seen by 7.27 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 24.1% for Das Erste . When it was repeated on March 24, 2019 during prime time , the television film was able to reach another 5.99 million viewers in Germany.
Web links
- Crime scene: Death is our whole life in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Death is our whole life at the crime scene fund
- Death is our whole life at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tatort: Death is our whole life at crew united
- ^ Stephanie Fischer: First case for Miroslav Nemec. TV commissioner presents his first crime novel. KIR Munich, accessed April 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Holger Gertz: If it has to be, then in a wheelchair. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . April 28, 2017. Retrieved April 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Matthias Hannem: Carry on when it hurts. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. April 30, 2017. Retrieved October 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Crime Scene - Death is our whole life. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Timo Nöthling: Prime Time check: Sunday, April 30, 2017. In: Quotenmeter.de . May 1, 2017, Retrieved May 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Niklas Spitz: Primetime-Check: Sunday, March 24th, 2019. In : quotemeter.de . March 24, 2019, accessed March 25, 2019 .
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