Crime scene: The cowardice of the lion

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The cowardice of the lion
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Cinecentrum Hannover for NDR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 924 ( list )
First broadcast November 30, 2014 on Das Erste
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Director Marvin Kren
script Friedrich Ani
production Dagmar Rosenbauer
music Johannes Lehninger
Peter Schütz
camera Armin Franzen
cut Lars Jordan
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The Cowardice of the Lion is an episode of the TV crime series Tatort from 2014. The film was produced for Norddeutscher Rundfunk and first broadcast on television on November 30, 2014. It is the fourth case of Chief Inspector Thorsten Falke and Inspector Katharina Lorenz and the 924th crime scene episode.

The first performance of the crime thriller took place at the Hamburg Film Festival on September 28, 2014, and this crime scene was nominated for the “Hamburg Producer Award for German TV Productions”.

action

The federal police officers Thorsten Falke and Katharina Lorenz go to Oldenburg to arrest the passport forger Faisal Azim and, if possible, to investigate the smugglers in the background. While they are still discussing, an Iraqi man happens to run into a police check at a motorway service station after he has just picked up his fresh passports. A Syrian mother and her two children are found in the car the Iraqi was traveling in. Both children were hidden in the trunk and when opening the little girl can only be taken dead out of her brother's arms.

Falke's mission to arrest Faisal Azim is successful. During interrogation he tries to find out the names of the smugglers to whom he regularly delivers the false passports. The incident is convenient for him at the motorway service station, since the passports are likely to come from Azim's workshop and Falke may be able to get to the human traffickers this way. When Falke tries to come into contact with little Ali and his mother, he hears from the conversation that Ali's mother had closed her mouth to little Alisha at the border so that they would not be discovered. The child suffocated and she put it in the trunk where her brother didn't want to leave her alone and lay down with her.

In the meantime, Lorenz is looking for the German-Syrian Ahmad Shuk, with whom Faisal Azim had been talking on the phone remarkably often recently and who could therefore be one of the people behind it. Before she can locate him, he is found dead. Apparently he was massively tortured, but the cause of death was a swallowed piece of apple. The analysis of the data from Shuk's cell phone leads to the Syrian doctor Nagib Massud and to Raja Hoffmann, Azim's girlfriend, who is also friends with Nagib Massud and his wife Lydia. The investigators found out that these people are coming together here in Oldenburg to form a small Syrian community and are getting as many compatriots as possible out of the danger of war from their old homeland. Nagib Massud recently brought his brother Harun to Germany. However, this should be lured into a trap here. Since he had worked as a prison doctor in Syria and Raja's father died there, she wanted to avenge him and hired Ahmad Shuk as a killer. The plan failed because Harun had seen through the matter and got ahead of his murderer. When Ahmad Shuk tried to find out the name of his client, he tortured his victim, which explains to the police the evidence of the use of force on the corpse.

When Falke tried to arrest Harun, he aimed himself with a pistol shot.

background

Some shooting took place in Oldenburg and the surrounding area in April 2014 , including on the former Oldenburg air base and on the parking lot in front of the former state parliament building and the Oldenburg state ministry . The opening scene in which Oldenburg is mentioned was shot in Hamburg's Münzviertel on Högerdamm.

Cinecentrum Hannover produced the film on behalf of NDR .

Brigitte Kren, who played the role of forensic doctor Dr. The mother of the director is Marvin Kren.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Tatort: ​​The Cowardice of the Lion on November 30, 2014 reached 9.18 million viewers in Germany and a market share of 26.1 percent for Das Erste .

criticism

Thomas Gehringer from tittelbach.tv rated this crime scene as “The complex case is a family and refugee drama, tragic, but not entirely gloomy. The investigator duo is brilliant: the federal police officers come closer without everything being shown or played out. The cast with Navid Negahban, the Abu Nasir from 'Homeland', is a minor coup, and the idea for the criminal case is strong. But the book is overloaded and the production doesn't quite keep what it promises to the end. "

Holger Gertz ( Sueddeutsche.de ) assesses slightly cautious: “The storylines are sometimes more confused than intertwined; the case is overloaded. Lots of great people [...] anyway, or perhaps because of that, the whole thing seems over-ambitious. Lots of names, relationships, people who don't really get close, like in the drone drama a few months ago. "

Spiegel Online judges: “Escape, torture, terror - this 'crime scene' bursts into the current raging asylum debate. And shows that Syria is not as far away as some people believe. ”“ The withdrawn figure drawing [is particularly positive]. You rarely see that in crime novels in a migrant milieu, where everyone is very nice or very angry, where everything is wonderfully colorful or black and black, depending on the point of view of those responsible. A clash of cultures seems far away here, the characters are grounded in the local society and economy. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Die Feigheit des Löwen Filming locations and ratings on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 19, 2015.
  2. ↑ Thomas Gehringer: Politically current case that makes it crackle between Möhring & Schmidt-Schaller, film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 19, 2015.
  3. ↑ Holger Gertz: Wotan as Womanizer at sueddeutsche.de, accessed on March 19, 2015.
  4. ^ ARD Sunday crime thriller: The new Möhring "Tatort" in the quick check at spiegel.de, accessed on March 19, 2015.
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