Crime scene: the last patient
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The last patient |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 778 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | October 31, 2010 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Friedemann Fromm |
| script |
Astrid Paprotta ; Processing: Friedemann Fromm |
| production |
Daniela Mussgiller (NDR) Dagmar Rosenbauer |
| music | Edward Harris |
| camera | Klaus Eichhammer |
| cut | Vessela Martschewski |
| occupation | |
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The last patient is a television film produced by NDR from the crime series Tatort , which first aired on October 31, 2010 on Das Erste . It is the 778th episode in the television series. It is her 17th case for Chief Inspector Charlotte Lindholm ( Maria Furtwängler ) from the LKA Hannover, who is investigating in Hanover and the surrounding area . The fate of disadvantaged children who are placed in foster families, where they are in turn hurt, is discussed. The corrupt and inhuman approach of a social worker in interaction with the foster parents also makes the case almost unbearable for the commissioner. To make matters worse for Lindholm is the fact that her roommate Martin Felser has moved out of the shared apartment without prior notice.
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Chief Detective Charlotte Lindholm is informed by her boss, Detective Director Stefan Bitomsky, with the case of Dr. Silke Tannenberg was entrusted, in whose practice a fire was set in which the general practitioner was killed. As Lindholm only learned some time later, Bitomsky had a relaxed relationship with Dr. Tannenberg. The medic had left Bitomsky a message on his mailbox urging him to call him back. Bitomsky told Lindholm that he had deleted the message because he had no idea that it would become important. He got to know Tannenberg playing squash when she helped him with a herniated disc . When Lindholm asks him the exact wording of the call, he reacts irritably. He would have been home at the time of the crime and listened to music so that it would be clear once and for all. His wife could confirm that. When Lindholm replies that she really didn't want to know, he replies, but that's exactly what she wanted to know. In a later conversation Bitomsky tries to justify himself and his relationship with Tannenberg before Lindholm. He loved his wife, he didn't know that such a thing could happen, but Silke was there, listened, and was patient in a special way.
At Bitomsky's request, the LKA is involved in the case, which is being dealt with by Chief Detective Anja Dambeck. Initial investigations show that Tannenberg has repeatedly taken in himself. She had created video diaries in which she told the camera everything that moved it. One trace leads to the architect Jörg Sallwitz. He says that he admired her patience, that she simply listened, that was how they started a conversation and that she continued these conversations regularly in the period that followed. They stopped because Tannenberg wanted more.
After Lindholm had already made the acquaintance of Tim König when she helped him when he kicked his bike as a teenager, she met him again in front of Silke Tannenberg's practice, in front of which he lit a light. The Commissioner takes the slightly retarded youngster home with her when she realizes that he wanted to sleep in front of the house on the street. Tim says there is no way he wants to go back home. Later he shows her that the doctor had petted him. When Lindholm looks at more of the video diary entries on her laptop, Tim reacts emotionally. He cannot answer your question about why he was with the doctor. A little later there is a dramatic incident because Tim has lit a fire on the floor in the nursery. Charlotte reacts violently out of concern for her son and yells at Tim, who then runs away. She tries to follow him, but is prevented from doing so because David suddenly stands in the street, who has been chasing his mom, and is almost hit by a car. At about the same time, Tim gets into a car after he doesn't want to and says that he doesn't have to follow any instructions because he now has a friend with the police, but he gets into a car that drives away with him.
As the investigation shows, Tim lives in a foster family with the Vollmers, who have four children in permanent full-time care. Social worker Werner Selzer from the youth welfare office tells Lindholm that Tim's biological parents are both alcoholics. When Tim is found shortly afterwards killed in a garbage dump, the inspector makes bitter reproaches. The boy was dead because he saw the perpetrator or something that he was not allowed to see and now he is lying here just because she had not followed. Tears well up in her eyes. The commissioner is certain that Tim was killed for the murder of Dr. Tannenberg saw. Silke Tannenberg died of a broken neck .
When Sallwitz was interrogated again, it turned out that he knew Selzer from the youth welfare office. He explains that Tim cleaned for him and other families, the foster father got the money for it, and he refers to the pensioner Ewald Klausner. Lindholm finds out that Tim was sexually molested by both men and that they approached him naked. Klausner says succinctly that Tim could have said no. The Commissioner now also knows what Tim meant by saying that he had to follow instructions. His foster father marketed him. An autopsy of Tim reveals that he had been mistreated for a long time; there are bite marks on his body, impressions from belt buckles and penetration in the anus area. Lindholm learns from Sallwitz that he and Tim have been to Dr. Tannenberg left because he found mistreatment on the boy's body. Tim told him that he would have to go back to the home if he didn't follow instructions and that he wasn't actually allowed to talk about it. Sallwitz admits that he loves boys' bodies, Selzer offered him not only Tim, but other boys as well. As it turns out, Vollmer knew that his foster sons had been abused, but used the justification that because of his unemployment everyone should have provided for the family income. Tim felt obliged to do so. Vollmer wants to commit suicide with his family, but this can be prevented. When Lindholms asked Fabian, Tim's foster brother, why they hadn't resisted, he only uttered: “What do you know, that's all better than coming to the home.” Fabian admits that Dr. Tannenberg, after seeing Tim's abuse, wanted to go to the youth welfare office . He and his foster father set fire to their practice because they wanted to prevent it. The doctor fell and was dead. But they could never have harmed Tim.
Tim was caught and killed by Selzer at the bus stop, where he liked to be. When Lindholm threatens him that she will make sure that everyone in prison will find out that he is a child molester, Selzer loses his composure and calls her a "stupid bitch". Then the commissioner, whose nerves are already strained to the breaking point, attacks him hard.
Production and Background
The episode was released from May 5 to June 4, 2010 in Hanover and the surrounding area under the working title Schrei nicht! turned.
Private: In this episode, after visiting her mother with David, Charlotte finds on her return that her roommate and friend Martin has cleared his room and is gone. There is a letter for her on the table. When she dials his number, all she gets is his mailbox. She reacts angrily and defiantly at the same time. After her son ran after her and was in danger on the street, she also blamed Martin for that, because if he had been there it would not have happened - according to her logic. When she talks to her mother about it, she takes Martin's side, to Charlotte's displeasure, and tells her that Martin had only thought of her for far too long. At the end of the case, Charlotte speaks deeply sadly on Martin's mailbox and draws the conclusion: "I wasn't a good friend to you, I'm sorry!"
The Commissioner repeatedly feels annoyed by the High Commissioner Anja Dambeck, who is involved in the case and who seems to effortlessly combine work, child-rearing and household chores, as well as a functioning relationship.
reception
Audience ratings
When the film was first broadcast on October 31, 2010, it had 8.79 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 25.1 percent.
criticism
The program magazine Gong spoke of a "dark and twisted staged film" and gave five out of six points, which corresponds to the rating "very good". The program magazine Hörzu, however, found that the story was "confused" and spoke of an "acceptable" film. TV Spielfilm gave one of three points for claim and action, two for tension, pointed the thumb up and judged: “A dark criminal case about moral courage, loneliness and abuse.” The conclusion was: “Very serious, increasingly gripping film. “The WAZ assumed that Lindholm's roommate Martin had left her and said that“ Lindholm was pretty lost as a lone fighter and a single mother. ”[…] 'The last patient' was an“ emotionally disturbing crime scene works on several narrative levels. And since Lindholm is waiting eagerly but in vain for the return of her roommate [], Martin Felser alias Ingo Naujoks [is] surprisingly more present than seldom before despite being completely absent. "Niels Kruse from Stern.de said that" first only different ways to raise his children ”and that Charlotte Lindholm immersed in this episode in the misery of child abuse, which was an“ extremely arduous and tough journey ”. [...] The director Friedemann Fromm “finds it difficult to come to his actual topic, child abuse. [...] The actual drama, however, unfolds very late, very slowly - and also seems constructed. "
Web links
- Crime scene: The last patient in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The last patient data on the crime scene episode at tatort-fundus.de
- The last patient Tatort at daserste.de
- Tatort episode 778: The last patient at tatort-fans.de
- Scene of the crime: The last patient NDR press kit with portraits of actors and interviews about the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The last patient data from tatort-fundus.de
- ^ Tatort: The Last Patient In: Program magazine Gong No. 12 of March 14, 2014, p. 108
- ↑ Crime scene: The last patient In: Hörzu program magazine No. 12 of March 14, 2014, p. 106
- ↑ Crime scene: The last patient TV thriller from Hanover. It gets very lonely around Maria Furtwängler ... In: TV Spielfilm.de. Retrieved March 27, 2014.
- ↑ Charlotte Lindholm and 'the last patient' In: WAZ, October 29, 2010. Retrieved March 27, 2014.
- ^ Niels Kruse: Hanoverian “Tatort” The Last Club In: stern.de, October 31, 2010. Accessed on March 27, 2014.
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