Crime scene: the red shadow
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The red shadow |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Sommerhaus film production for SWR |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 1031 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | October 15, 2017 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dominik Graf |
| script | Raul Grothe and Dominik Graf |
| production | Jochen Laube and Fabian Maubach |
| music | Florian van Volxem and Sven Rossenbach |
| camera | Hendrik A. Kley |
| cut | Tobias Streck |
| occupation | |
| |
The Red Shadow is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced for Südwestrundfunk is the 1031st Tatort episode and was first broadcast on October 15, 2017 in the first. The Stuttgart investigator duo Lannert and Bootz is investigating its 21st case.
action
Christoph Heider is caught kidnapping the body of his wife from the cemetery chapel. Marianne Heider allegedly died in a bathtub accident, but Heider believes her current partner Wilhelm Jordan is guilty and wants to have her autopsied again abroad.
Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz take on the matter and find that the consequences of the German Autumn extend into the present and influence this current case. It is difficult for them to prove that Jordan actually murdered Marianne Heider in the bathtub, but they notice that Jordan is being shielded by state security. For 40 years, he has been an important source of information for the authorities investigating terrorism and who they want to protect at all costs. Only after the target person, to whom Jordan is supposed to provide information, dies in a robbery on a money truck, Jordan is found dispensable and one day found shot. For the Commissioners Lannert and Bootz it is clear that he was killed by people from the state security, but they cannot prove this.
In fictional flashbacks, consisting of archive material and game scenes, the film illustrates the two explanations common at the time: that on the night of Stammheim's death on October 18, 1977, the leading RAF terrorists Andreas Baader , Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin were murdered in the Stuttgart penal institution or that they were suicide committed.
background
The film was shot from April 19, 2017 to May 19, 2017 in Stuttgart and Baden-Baden.
The filming locations were plot 62 of the Raichberg allotment garden in Stuttgart- Gaisburg , exterior views of the Stuttgart police headquarters on the Pragsattel , the Wagenburg tunnel , Schillerstraße with the construction site Stuttgart 21 , the Stuttgart planetarium and the Bonatz building of Stuttgart main station , Hegelstraße, a view from the im The film shows the administration building in Ossietzkystraße, exterior views of the residential building at Gaußstraße 65, the academy garden at the house of the state parliament , the parking garage at the Leonhardskirche in Stuttgart and the Rems-Murr-Kliniken with parking lot in Winnenden . Instead of the L1125 at Bietigheim, the K1051 was used at Steinenbronn.
Reception and social discussion
The first broadcast was seen by 9.27 million viewers in Germany (market share 27.2%).
The journalist and RAF expert Stefan Aust condemned the crime scene episode as "RAF propaganda". With reference to the course of the night of death of Stammheim , which is also shown in the film, which deviates from the official state representation , he “cannot understand that such dangerous nonsense can be spread on public television during prime time ”.
The acting film director of the Südwestrundfunk, Manfred Hattendorf , said at the request of the FAZ that this crime scene was “not pro RAF”. He tells “of the worst social crisis in the then FRG after the Second World War. This crisis included the disturbing, controversial ways of interpreting the events in the Stammheim high-security wing. "The director Dominik Graf has" mastered how to bring the irreconcilable positions on the German autumn into conversation with one another. " without deciding on a variant of interpretation of what happened on the night of Stammheim on October 17, 1977 in the cells of Ensslin, Baader, Raspe and Möller ”. This crime scene created "conversation value beyond Sunday evening".
The day after the first broadcast, a guest contribution by Gerhart Baum (1972 to 1978 Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior) appeared. Baum called it an “unbearable mixture of reality and fiction” that “one of the most difficult, sensitive phases of German post-war history [...] was marketed as a crime scene for an audience of millions on Sunday evening by public broadcasters as a thriller”.
“[...] the filmmakers' aim in their conspiracy thriller - charged with factual documentary images - is not to act as a substitute historian for a piece of German history that has not yet been adequately illuminated. Rather, they let the RAF phantoms and V-Mann ghosts from the German autumn haunt the television autumn of the present in order to show the fragility of the peace in the Federal Republic of Germany. How can you build on a state that has never cleared up its own criminal entanglements? "
“Anyone who has nothing in common with this era of German history will be completely overwhelmed by the crime scene. We recommend that you empathize with YouTube in good time for a better understanding. Starbuck - Holger Meins , The Lawyers - A German History or, later phase, Black Box BRD . If documentaries are like that, they can't be beat. Not even from a crime scene. "
“[...] as clearly as in the most recent Stuttgart case, 'The Red Shadow', no 'crime scene' has yet drawn the entanglements of the past into the present. […] Crime veteran Dominik Graf takes up these references with his keen sense for the historical background and the weakness for cultural allusions (here on Goldoni's “ Servant of Two Masters ”). His look is neither nostalgic nor excited; even if the camera shows everything [....] "
Web links
- The red shade in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Der Rote Schatten on the ARD website
- The red shadow in the crime scene fund
- The red shadow at Tatort-Fans.de
Footnotes
- ↑ 'Raul Grothe' is a fictional name. Reports about the start of shooting named Rolf Basedow as the sole scriptwriter. See RAF in “Tatort”. In: Esslinger-Zeitung.de. dpa, April 24, 2017, accessed on October 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Crime scene: The red shadow at crew united
- ↑ Manuel Weis: Primetime Check: Sunday, October 15, 2017.quotemeter.de , October 16, 2017, accessed on October 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Stefan Aust on the new SWR crime thriller , Focus.de October 16, 2017
- ↑ FAZ.net / Michael Hanfeld October 16, 2017: crime scene with aftermath
- ↑ spiegel.de: German history is not a "crime scene"
- ^ Christian Buß: RAF "Tatort" by Dominik Graf. Beloved traitor, hated state. Spiegel Online, October 13, 2017, accessed on October 13, 2017 : "Rating: 8 out of 10 points"
- ↑ Holger Gertz: Many questions, few answers. Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 13, 2017, accessed on October 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Tobias Sedlmaier: Dominik Graf convinces with his Stuttgart «Tatort» about the German RAF trauma. In: Feuilleton. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, October 15, 2017, accessed on October 16, 2017 .
|
previous episode October 8, 2017: Hardcore |
Crime scene follow |
next episode October 22, 2017: Back into the light |
Hard on the border (2008) | On our own behalf (2008) | Deadly Camouflage (2009) | The girl Galina (2009) | Contaminated Sites (2009) | Blood Money (2010) | The Invisible One (2010) | Trench Warfare (2011) | The first victim (2011) | Pile of broken glass (2012) | Dead Earth (2012) | Game on Time (2013) | Happy Birthday, Sarah (2013) | Release (2014) | A question of conscience (2014) | The Indian (2015) | Price of Life (2015) | In the Promised Land (2016) | HAL (2016) | Traffic jam (2017) | The Red Shadow (2017) | The Man Who Lies (2018) | Anne and Death (2018) | Guardian of the Threshold (2019) | You alone (2020)