Crime scene: the woman on the train

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The woman on the train
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 84 minutes
classification Episode 460 ( List )
First broadcast December 17, 2000 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Martin Gies
script Axel Götz
production Sonja Goslicki
music Joe Mubare
camera Thomas Etzold
cut Vera van Appeldorn
occupation

The woman in the train is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film, produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and directed by Martin Gies , was broadcast on December 17, 2000 on ARD's first program. It is the 15th case of the Cologne team of investigators Ballauf and Schenk and the 460th crime scene sequence.

action

Commissioner Freddy Schenk is given leave by the police psychologist. In a past case he shot and killed the Russian mafia boss Alexij Schwarz in order to save Ballauf's life. In order to find peace again, he should relax for a few days. His wife and children are already waiting for him in Belgium. Schenk was traveling by train to Brussels when a young woman climbed into his compartment in Aachen . The blonde has a leg in plaster and introduces herself as Britta Reimann. She asks Schenk to fetch medication for her from the locker at the next train station because she is not that good on foot. The train only stops there for a few minutes. When Schenk comes back to his compartment, the woman has disappeared. Confused, he looks in the bag he has picked up and finds a large amount of drugs there. Before he can report his find, two colleagues from the drug investigation appear. They arrest Schenk and bring him back to Cologne. His home is searched on suspicion of dealing in drugs, and a large amount of cash and other drugs are found there. Nobody believes the story of the woman on the train, and even the possible witness Tim Dorfmann, who was sitting with him in the compartment, cannot exonerate Schenk. Before he knows it, he finds himself in custody.

Ballauf tries to find evidence of Schenk's innocence and does some research. He asks Tim Dorfmann again and his colleague Marie Tramitz. Although the young woman is not blonde, he asks her and Dorfmann to come to the presidium, where Schenk immediately recognizes the woman as Britta Reimann. However, she denies knowing Schenk, and Dorfmann also finds it absurd that she should be the woman from the train. The investigator suspects a conspiracy against himself, and since nobody but Ballauf believes him, he fled.

Drug investigator Assenbacher keeps coming up with new evidence that speaks against Schenk, and Ballauf is having a hard time finding evidence to the contrary. Schenk is convinced that Dorfmann is behind the conspiracy and wants to confront him. He makes an appointment to get him to tell the truth. When he appears at the agreed meeting point, he finds Dorfmann slain. Again everything speaks against him, because the crime scene detective finds Schenk's cell phone at the crime scene.

Schenk meets alone with Marie Tramitz. She explains to him that she has forged the plan for revenge and that he should pay for everything. He shot Alexij Schwarz and thus stole her beloved husband. He has to pay for that. Schenk counters by saying that they received a phone call and that Schwarz was obviously betrayed. The caller spoke German. Without further ado, Tramitz leaves the room and drives to her new boyfriend, Oliver Berthold. She is sure that he let her husband out of the way this way in order to have her to himself. She confronts Berthold and then stabs him.

Schenk, who followed Tramitz in a taxi, can put them out of action with an aimed shot. He wants to take her to the hospital, but she wants him to let her die so that she “can go to her husband”. He spontaneously agrees if she admits beforehand that he is innocent. She made a confession on her cell phone, which Ballauf recorded. In it, she explains that she put the drug on Schenk and also had Dorfmann killed. Schenk still takes her to the clinic, where a doctor announces that she will survive.

background

The woman in the train was produced by Colonia Media on behalf of WDR . The shooting took place in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Aachen .

In this episode, Tessa Mittelstaedt succeeds Lissy Pütz ( Anna Loos ) as Franziska Lüttgenjohann , who left the Ballauf and Schenk team for private reasons.

reception

Audience ratings

When it was first broadcast on December 17, 2000, the episode Die Frau im Zug was seen by 7.73 million viewers in Germany, corresponding to a market share of 21.04 percent.

criticism

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv writes: “The screenwriter Axel Götz cleverly forges a plot from which there seems to be no escape for the rough cop with a heart. Only the viewer knows that Freddy was set up; but the evidence speaks against him. Like the classic Hitchcock hero, he has no choice but to investigate himself. […] Director Martin Gies tells the story without any antics or frills. "

However, the critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm judge: "Inconsistencies spoil the fun."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Location and audience rating at fundus.de, accessed on October 13, 2014.
  2. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on October 14, 2014.
  3. ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on October 14, 2014.
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