Tatort: ​​The good way

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The good way
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Real Film Berlin on behalf of the RBB
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 1093 ( List )
First broadcast May 5, 2019 on Das Erste
RBB
Rod
Director Christian von Castelberg
script Christoph Darnstädt
production Sibylle Stellbrink
music Eckart Gadow
camera Bjorn Knechtel
cut Dagmar Lichius
occupation

The Good Way is a television film from the crime series Tatort , which was first broadcast on May 5, 2019. It is the 1093th episode in the series and the ninth case of the Berlin team of investigators Rubin and Karow . A routine mission for disturbance of the peace ends in bloodbath.

action

The Berlin patrolmen Harald Stracke and Sandra Ehlers are called to a nightly disturbance of the peace . Toly Rubin, the son of inspector Nina Rubin, is also part of the internship. At the behest of Stracke, who suspects drug dealers in the apartment, the three break into the apartment. Apartment owner Yakut Yavas suddenly fatally shoots Ehlers in the chest, Stracke in the leg and Rubin in the chest. Stracke also shoots and kills clan member Mussat Al-Tari, who is busy with drugs at the table. Tolja Rubin is the only one wearing a protective vest and luckily gets away with the horror. He knows Yakut Yavas from before and identifies him as a shooter, while Stracke claims that Yavas was not the shooter. One of the two is not telling the truth. Karow believes Rubin and has a search for Yavas, who has fled his apartment. It also seems strange to Nina Rubin that Stracke, as an experienced police officer, has dared such a risky assignment with an intern.

Soon it turns out that the Lebanese Yavas as an undercover agent working for the DEA. His contact considers it unlikely that he should have simply shot at police officers. According to Karow's investigation, the course of the firefight does not match at all, because according to Tolya Rubin's account, the killed Mussat Al-Tari aimed his weapon at Yavas, but he did not shoot him, but apparently targeted the policewoman. Stracke, on the other hand, did not fight against Yavas, who had just shot him, but against Mussat, who was sitting in the other room.

During their investigation, the inspectors Nina Rubin and Robert Karow learn that Sandra Ehlers shot Stracke's son a year ago during a nightly mission in self-defense. Nevertheless, the two were still on patrol together and got on very well, which Rubin and Karow found suspicious. Karow knows that Stracke had found out about Yava's work as an informant. He suspects that Stracke could have blackmailed the Lebanese with this knowledge. A "small" consideration for keeping his clan unaware of the betrayal. Karow has the emergency number checked and Yavas actually reported the disturbance himself. When the investigators wanted to confront Stracke, he recently left the hospital at his own risk. But you meet him at home. Stracke continues to assert that Yavas did not shoot and that Tolya was wrong, because Lebanese people look very similar to one another.

Rubin and Karow try desperately to find the motive, which is why Stracke had wanted to get rid of Sandra Ehlers in this drastic way, when, according to his wife, she was like a daughter to them and had filled up the empty space of her son a little. However, Verena Stracke also describes her husband's colleague as "sick" because she has recently been pushing herself more and more into her life. But she and her husband would only have themselves and no more space for a third person, which is why her husband wanted to be transferred to another department.

Even if Stracke gives the "strong one" in front of his colleagues, the events are very painful for his psyche. Since the death of her son, his wife can no longer do without sleeping pills. He loves his wife very much and knows that she would not overcome another stroke of fate. When Yavas is found dead, the investigators suspect that Stracke was the culprit, but cannot prove this. To lure him out of the reserve, inform him that they have discovered his big secret. Not Ehlers, but he had (accidentally) shot his son. In order not to have to tell his wife that, Ehlers had offered him to take the blame. So she was able to bind her strip partner to her and had threatened to tell his wife the truth if he did not withdraw his transfer.

Stracke sees himself convicted and no longer a way out. He and his wife were already on the right track . He dissolves a lethal amount of sleeping pills in water to kill himself, but he hesitates and does not drink the glass. Later, his wife unwittingly drinks the deadly cocktail. He himself meets with Tolya again and kidnaps him to the playground where he shot his son. He wants to dissuade Tolya from becoming a police officer and describes many of the terrible missions he had during his service. When the commissioners arrive, Stracke points his gun at Tolya, whereupon he is shot by Nina Rubin. That Stracke provoked a suicide by cop only becomes clear when Karow discovers that Stracke's pistol was not loaded and the magazine was empty.

When you want to notify your wife, the lights are still on, but nobody opens the door.

In a subplot, coroner Dr. Nasrin Reza left the team because she could no longer endure Karow's attitude, with whom she had an affair, and quit.

background

The film was shot under the working title Streets of the Night from October 9 to November 8, 2018 in Berlin .

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Der gute Weg on May 5, 2019 was seen by 9.41 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.8% for Das Erste .

Reviews

Christian Buß from Spiegel Online assessed: “This hardboiled 'crime scene' unfolds a good pull over stretches […]. The dialogues come out like a slap in the mouth, the characters act firmly, the action turns corners at a rapid pace. But at some point, and that is the problem, there will be a little too many corners. Everyone is known to everyone in this Berlin, in the plot one unfortunate coincidence follows the other. "

In the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Holger Gertz wrote : “The police officers, that is one of the film's strengths, are shown in their human complexity. Demanded and overwhelmed, too poorly paid and therefore vulnerable. Peter Trabner is a broken police chief worth seeing, the longing for early retirement is always tangible and understandable. And yet the piece by far lacks the force of the police call back then, also because it becomes common towards the end. "

Thomas Gehringer judged for Tittelbach.tv : “'The good way' [...] addresses the grueling everyday life of the police with a classic crime story and a strong main character [...]. Christoph Darnstädt's script offers surprising twists, even if not every detail seems conclusive. The mother-son conflict between Commissioner Rubin and her son Tolya, who as a police intern almost became a victim himself, is also excitingly integrated. And Karow is getting really bad here. An equally dense and dark, atmospherically convincing crime tragedy from Berlin. "

Claudia Reinhard wrote for the FAZ : “Christian von Castelberg stages it in no-frills scenes, he relies on the actors and the pointed dialogues. [...] The strings of the crime plot stretch through the humming big city backdrop to tell the big things in a small way, the social drama in the personal catastrophe. The Berlin 'Tatort' is getting better and better. "

background

The film was shot in Berlin from October 9, 2018 to November 8, 2018 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin “Tatort” loses its familiar face. In: Focus Online . April 12, 2019, accessed March 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Tatort: ​​The good way at crew united
  3. ↑ Manuel Weis: Primetime check: Sunday, May 5, 2019.quotemeter.de , May 6, 2019, accessed on May 6, 2019 .
  4. ^ Christian Buß: Berlin "Tatort" with hip-hop interludes. The rapper, your friend and helper. Spiegel Online, May 3, 2019, accessed on May 3, 2019 : "Rating: 6 out of 10 points"
  5. ↑ Holger Gertz: "Tatort" from Berlin. Mileus study, freshly made. In: Media. Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 3, 2019, accessed on May 3, 2019 .
  6. ^ Thomas Gehringer: Becker, Waschke, Trabner, Darnstädt, von Castelberg. Grueling everyday police life accessed on Tittelbach.tv on April 1, 2020.
  7. ↑ Claudia Reinhard: Berlin-Tatort: ​​This is not our city. Why are people lying here? FAZ Online, May 5, 2019, accessed on May 5, 2019 : "The Berlin" Tatort "is getting better and better."
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