Crime scene: the campaign

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The campaign
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company
SWR
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 304 ( list )
First broadcast March 5, 1995 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Thomas Bohn
script Thomas Bohn
music Alexander Bubenheim
camera Real Estate Rentz
cut Gudrun Bohl
occupation

The campaign is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The episode was produced by Südwestrundfunk under the direction of Thomas Bohn and first broadcast on German television on March 5, 1995. It is the 304th episode of the crime scene and the 7th episode with the Ludwigshafen investigator Lena Odenthal ( Ulrike Folkerts ), in which she has Stefan Tries ( Ben Becker ) as an assistant.

action

At the police station, Inspector Lena Odenthal is approached by a worried mother. Silke Tennenbaum misses her seven-year-old son, but Odenthal points to the officials responsible. A short time later she has to find out that this case falls within her department, because the boy is found dead in a forest. Together with her new assistant, Stefan Tries, whom the inspector knows well from a previous case, she has to solve the child's death.

Silke Tennenbaum is determined to find her son's murderer. As the head of a well-known advertising company, she is convinced that she can catch the perpetrator in five days. To do this, she is starting a massive campaign and is putting all other orders on hold.

Odenthal and Tries contact their colleague Paul Gauert von der Sitte , because they suspect a sexually motivated act. The inspector notices a drawing in Mike's nursery that confirms her acceptance. As a busy business woman, Silke Tennenbaum had far too little time for her son, so Odenthal suspects the motive for the deed in the mother's environment, especially since she reacts excessively. Through their private advertising campaign with radio announcements, TV spots, posters and even a private detective agency, the action degenerates into a modern manhunt. Even a reality show is planned, since private sponsors can be found who want to use the whole thing for their product advertising. Through the research of the private investigators, the former criminal Hans Holters comes under suspicion of murder. The media hype leads to a prejudice of the man, which in the end leads to Holters suicide.

Meanwhile, Lena Odenthal, with the help of Paul Gauert, comes across a sex video that shows little Mike Tennenbaum as the main character. After intensive and meticulous research, assistant Tries can find out the location of the video, which leads the investigators to an apartment that belongs to Meier-Brecht, Silke Tennenbaum's partner. When Odenthal tries to confront him, he explains to her that with these video recordings he only wanted to fill the emotional emptiness that Mike's mother had created in him. He denies having made these films for commercial purposes or even killing the child. But with the help of a manipulated photo, Odenthal Meier-Brecht manages to make a confession. He claims to have loved the boy, but when he began to turn away from Meier-Brecht and an argument broke out, the situation escalated and he killed the boy in affect .

background

The film was produced by Südwestrundfunk in 1994 .

Ulrike Folkerts is supported by Ben Becker, who in 1991 already played the role of Stefan Tries in the Odenthal episode Death in the Chopper .

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast on March 5, 1995, the episode Die Campaign was seen by 8.99 million viewers in Germany, which corresponded to a market share of 25.02 percent.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm find this crime scene only mediocre and say: "A bit exaggerated, but quite exciting lesson about the 'truth construction' of the media."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for Tatort: ​​The Campaign . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. a b The audience rating campaign at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on September 16, 2015.
  3. TV Spielfilm : The film review campaign at TV Spielfilm , accessed on September 16, 2015.