Crime scene: The Trippler
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | The trippler |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SFB |
| length | 87 minutes |
| classification | Episode 451 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | August 20, 2000 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Michael Lähn |
| script | Danuta Harrich-Zandberg , Norbert Sütsch |
| music | Andreas Bick |
| camera | Wolf Siegelmann |
| cut | Nicola Undritz |
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The Trippler is a television film from the crime series Tatort on ARD and ORF . The film was produced by the SFB and first broadcast on August 20, 2000. It is the sixth and last joint case of the investigative duo Hellmann and Ritter and the 451st crime scene episode. Hellmann and Ritter have to solve the death of a little girl. From the next case onwards, Ritter and his new colleague Felix Stark will investigate .
action
Sixteen-year-old Melanie Karsten is supposed to take care of her ten-year-old sister Susi, but she wants to visit her boyfriend instead. Susi, who is at home alone, meanwhile opens the door for a man, she seems to be familiar with him and shows him her new bike in the basement. When the lights go out, he kills the child. When Melanie comes home, she finds the door to the apartment open and cannot find her sister, around the same time the elderly Mr. Wesel from the neighborhood, who is only called "The Trippler" in the neighborhood because of his pace, is filming the children the playground, but is chased away by the parents of the children playing. Shortly afterwards, Melanie finds Susi strangled in the basement, the detective chief inspectors Robert Hellmann and Till Ritter meet the desperate father Thomas at the crime scene. He tells the officials that he has been widowed for two years, he was in his hardware store at the time of the crime and Melanie has contacted him. Hellmann and Ritter hear how Thomas blames his daughter Melanie for her sister's death. From the fact that Susi went into the basement with her murderer, the officers conclude that she must have known him. Hellmann and Ritter learned from pathology the next morning that there was no sexual abuse. According to the father's statement, Melanie and Susi wanted to go to the cinema together at the time of the crime.
The officers learned from caretaker Planke that shortly after the crime, Wesel had come out of the house and that he had filmed the children playing, as he had done before. Hellmann and Ritter seek out Thomas and Melanie Karsten, the daughter does not talk to her father, she is also closed to Hellmann, but he finds out from a photo in Melanie's room that she has a boyfriend. Thomas tells Ritter that Melanie, despite being banned, met with her clique, who are a thorn in his side. Shortly afterwards, Hellmann and Ritter also received a reference to the "Trippler" Wesel from their neighbor Svoboda. The officers are now looking for Wesel, who admits that he is constantly filming the neighborhood with his camera, at the time of the crime he secretly claims to have been in front of the Karstens but not in the house. Wesel, a former teacher who takes psychotropic drugs, is taken to the police station along with his extensive video collection. Thomas observes the officers from the window and concludes that Hellmann and Ritter had arrested the "Trippler". In the meantime, his daughter asks him where he was that afternoon. Melanie had tried in vain to call her father in the shop, who claims to have only left the hardware store briefly. Hellmann and Ritter found out that in Munich, where Wesel worked as a teacher, Wesel had been investigated several times for molesting children. Wesel claims to have "only" filmed them, he protests his innocence, the officers send him home.
Thomas Karsten is meanwhile convinced of Wesel's perpetration, but does not believe in a just punishment for him and seeks revenge. Melanie sneaks onto Wesel's houseboat and takes a video cassette of herself and her boyfriend from a hiding place. Wesel suddenly appears and confronts her. He shows her a photo of a little girl and tells Melanie that she is dead like Susi and that scared Melanie runs away. At Susi's funeral, Thomas swears revenge on the grave. When he sees Wesel immediately afterwards, who is secretly filming the ceremony, he attacks him and has to be held back by Hellmann and Ritter. Ritter later learns from an employee of Karsten that after her mother's death, Melanie slipped into a clique that consumed alcohol and other drugs . She also tells Ritter that she took the call from Melanie after finding Susis, Thomas Karsten had not been in his hardware store for about an hour. Wesel speaks to the frightened Melanie in front of her house and hands her a video cassette with recordings of her sister. Later Thomas visits Wesel and wants to throw him out the window, but at the last moment he thinks about it. Hellmann learns from people in Melanie's clique that their friend Jost Stollberg was not one of them, he is in prison for raping a girl from the clique, he was friends with Wesel and produced porn videos with teenagers together with them. Meanwhile, on a visit to detention, Melanie confesses to her boyfriend that she made the anonymous report to the police that brought him to prison. Melanie Stollberg also tells that Susi's murderer, whose feet she saw when leaving the cellar, wears the same shoes as Stollberg, she had not reported this observation to the police.
Hellmann and Ritter visit Thomas and confront him with the fact that he was not in his shop at the time of the crime, he claims to have met a new woman with whom he secretly meets so that his children would not notice. Later in the detention center, the officers learned from the prison psychologist that Stollberg had an exit on the evening of the crime, albeit in her company. They question Stollberg, who denies that he is friends with Wesel, he only felt sorry for him, and Stollberg completely denies the production of porn videos. The officials meanwhile learn that Thomas was actually with his girlfriend at the time of the crime. Hellmann and Ritter visit Wesel and confront him with the charge of pornography with minors. He denies the allegations, but the officers find a video on his houseboat and arrest him. Wesel claims to have lent his camera to Jost Stollberg, he had no idea what kind of films he shot with the camera. Meanwhile, desperate Melanie, who is now convinced that her boyfriend killed her sister in revenge for the complaint, ran away from home and left her father with a goodbye message. Thomas immediately informs Hellmann, he suspects that his daughter wants to commit suicide. Since Melanie's clique always meets at the Schlesisches Tor subway station, the officers rush there. Hellmann can save her at the last moment, when Melanie is about to throw herself in front of an approaching subway. Melanie hands over her video of Stollberg to Hellmann on the way home.
At home, Melanie confides in her father and tells him about her suspicion that Stollberg killed Susi because he did not see Melanie. When she continues to tell her father that the murderer wore the same shoes and that Stollberg knew Susi's favorite song, Thomas assures his daughter that he will find out the truth. Hellmann and Ritter are puzzling over what Melanie was trying to tell them with the Stollberg video. They find out that Stollberg had visited his mother's grave when he went out, the cemetery is in the immediate vicinity of the Karstens house. Hellmann finds out in a self-experiment that Stollberg could have committed Susi's murder in the twenty minutes on his mother's grave. They suspect that the prison psychologist had left Stollberg alone to the grave. Meanwhile, Stollberg uses an interview for his rehabilitation outside the prison to escape. The prison psychologist confirms Hellmann and Ritter's assumption that Stollberg asked them to be alone at the grave. Meanwhile, Stollberg seeks Melanie, who calls Hellmann, scared. He and Ritter rush to the Karstens apartment. Stollberg tries to break open the door. When the officers arrive, he escapes, pursued by Hellmann. Thomas can park him in front of the house, draw a gun and prevent Stollberg from escaping with a shot in the leg. He holds his gun to Stollberg's head and asks him why Susi had to die. Stollberg asserts that he didn't want to kill the little one, that he wanted to see Melanie, that Susi voluntarily showed her her bike and then suddenly screamed when the light in the basement went out that he had suffocated her. The Trippler is meanwhile released, he had nothing to do with the videos. He had always filmed Suzy because she reminded him of his own deceased daughter.
production
The crime scene Der Trippler is a production on behalf of the SFB for Das Erste . The film was shot in Berlin . When it was first broadcast on August 20, 2000, Der Trippler had 8.42 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 29.06%.
criticism
TV Spielfilm rated the film positively and commented on “Socially critical drama with nuances”.
Web links
- The Trippler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The trippler in the online film database
- The trippler in the crime scene fund
- The trippler at Tatort-Fans.de
- Summary of the plot of Der Trippler on the ARD website
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatort: The Trippler at tatort-fundus.de
- ↑ The Trippler tv feature film
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