Scene of the crime: The son of the desert
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The son of the desert |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Bavarian radio |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 916 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | September 14, 2014 on SF 1 , Das Erste , ORF 2 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rainer Kaufmann |
| script |
Alexander Buresch , Matthias Lease |
| production |
Uli Putz , Jakob Claussen |
| music | Martin Probst |
| camera | Klaus Eichhammer |
| cut | Dirk Göhler |
| occupation | |
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Der Wüstensohn is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The episode, produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk and directed by Rainer Kaufmann , was broadcast for the first time on September 14, 2014. It is the 68th case of the Munich investigation team Batic and Leitmayr and the 916th crime scene sequence.
The commissioners have to solve two murders that are linked to illegal arms deals. The Munich-based Prince von Kumar is a key figure who uses his immunity as a diplomat and leads a dissolute life with fast cars, wild parties and drugs.
action
The sports car of Nasir al Yasaf, the fifth son of the Emir of Kumar, is stopped by a police patrol. Since a dead person is sitting in the passenger seat, Commissioners Batic and Leitmayr as well as the public prosecutor's office are notified. Due to his diplomatic immunity , Nasir al Yasaf is not required to speak to the police. Reluctantly, he allows the investigators to ask a few questions. He stated that the dead man was his "brother" Karim and was shot after a massive argument with someone in a discotheque. The prince denies doing anything to his best friend. He was on the way to the hospital with him.
Batic and Leitmayr look around in front of the discotheque, where there are clear traces of blood. You are talking to Michaela Scheffner, a friend of the dead man who can remember three shots. Nasir al Yasaf was with her at the time.
The investigators go to the property of Nasir, whom they suspect. He is surprisingly cooperative and allows them to look around Karim's room and take his computer with them. After a short search, Batic finds a large amount of cocaine, but the commissioners are quickly put in their place by the consul general and have to leave the prince's estate without finding anything. The political and economic importance of Kumar for Bavaria makes the investigation even more difficult, as Batic and Leitmayr get no support from their superiors.
The research on the consul general Abdel Saleh leads the investigators to the carpet dealership "Der Wüstensohn", which the consul runs in Munich. In truth, however, he is only the owner on paper and the business belongs to Nasir as the backer. The prince had also let Karim study under his name in Munich so that the emir would assume that his biological son Nasir was a successful student. Thus he could pursue his amusements in peace and did not have to justify himself to his father. Karim was actually only a foster son of the emir after his parents died; nevertheless he and Nasir behaved like real brothers to each other.
Batic and Leitmayr manage to locate Ginger Ali, who was suspected by the prince of having been involved with Karim in the above. Having a fight at the discotheque. At the bureau, the accused testifies that he works as a blogger and that Karim approached him to publish documents that were secret for him, which he found in the carpet shop. But he refused; whereupon they quarreled. No sooner has Ginger Ali made his testimony than the Consul General appears and insists on letting the man go immediately. Shortly afterwards, Ginger Ali is found dead. Although everything looks like an accident and no outside influence can be proven, the investigators are sure that the prince has a hand in this. On the same day Michaela Scheffner was attacked and a USB stick was stolen from her that Karim had given her for safekeeping. According to her, there are copies of bank statements and various plans on it. The investigators then observe the carpet shop and observe that mysterious goods are being loaded late at night. Batic succeeds in stealing one of the packages. It contains a radar-based control module from Meditec. However, it is not only suitable for computer tomographs , for which it was manufactured, but can also be used for flight control systems, guided weapons, drones and the like. When Batic and Leitmayr ask Prince Nasir whether he knows that these control units have been moved via his carpet shop, he is genuinely surprised. He confronts the Consul General as to whether he knew that Karim was in the process of uncovering the illegal arms deals and whether he had to die as a result. The consul assures him that he will find those responsible. He then delivers Nasir's chauffeur over to the police. Allegedly Karim owed him; and in the argument about it, he killed him. But it is clear to Batic and Leitmayr that this cannot be true. But they have no recourse against the consul general and have to let him go.
Meanwhile, Nasir finds out that the consul general is in possession of the USB stick that Michaela was stolen from. When he asks him about it, he realizes that there is nothing he can do against him, since the consul has the full support of his father. It is clear to him that Abdel Saleh had both Karim and Ginger Ali killed. Nor can the police do anything directly against the State Secretary due to the diplomatic immunity of its business partners. Batic and Leitmayr can only ensure that it becomes public that a Munich State Secretary is involved in illegal arms deals.
background
The film was shot in Munich from March 11, 2014 to April 14, 2014.
The figure of Nasir al Yasaf is inspired by Saif al-Arab al-Gaddafi , the son of the former Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi . He lived in Munich between 2006 and 2010, studied at the Technical University and led a dissolute life.
The film featured songs by Henry Mancini , Britney Spears , Die Antwoord , Jungle, and Yasmine Hamdan . The latter made it into the German single charts with the song Aleb used in the film after it was broadcast.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Der Wüstensohn on September 14, 2014 was seen by 9.94 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 28.5% for Das Erste .
Reviews
“'Der Wüstensohn' is a film that unfolds enormous qualities without a lot of crime thriller. Criminalistically a disguised Whodunit is told, the resolution of which is becoming less and less interesting in view of this psychologically sophisticated portrait of people and lifestyle, which succeeds in generating an understanding of what is alien to our culture with the help of the universal father-son conflict. "
“Director Rainer Kaufmann ('Operation Zucker') too often loses the balance between political thriller and crime grotesque. Whenever the plot promises to be binding, he turns to blatant pun. Whenever he gets too close to the tragicomic figure of the eponymous desert son, it congeals to an ethno-cliché. Very bad: As soon as the grim, oiled Arab approaches somewhere, throaty Arab lamentations sound on the soundtrack. "
“The story could have been a problematic piece about weapons and morals, but Kaufmann and his authors Alex Buresch and Matthias Pacht tell it as grotesque. Munich à la Münster . "
Web links
- The son of the desert in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Der Wüstensohn on the ARD website
- The desert son in the crime scene fund
- The desert son at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Crime scene: The desert son at crew united
- ↑ Marina Antonioni: Gaddafi's son inspires new Munich "crime scene". Leitmayr's comeback after the assassination attempt. Focus , September 14, 2014, accessed on August 3, 2016 : "Nasir was inspired by the Gaddafi son, but with the case, one has moved away from the Gaddafi story, says the responsible BR editor Stephanie Heckner."
- ↑ Film music in the crime scene: Der Wüstensohn. Retrieved August 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Uwe Mantel: "Tatort" scratches the 10 million mark, ProSieben weak. In: DWDL.de. September 15, 2014, accessed August 3, 2016 .
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Series "Tatort - Der Wüstensohn". In: tittelbach.tv. August 9, 2014, accessed August 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Christian Buß: Munich "Tatort" about weapons deals. My papa wants tanks. In: Culture. Spiegel Online, September 13, 2014, accessed August 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Holger Gertz: At the punishment limit. Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 14, 2014, accessed on August 3, 2016 .
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