Tatort: ​​Love, a strange game

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Love, a strange game
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 1022 ( List )
First broadcast May 21, 2017 on Das Erste , ORF 2 , SRF 1
Rod
Director Rainer Kaufmann
script Katrin Bühlig
production Thomas Klimmer
music Verena Marisa
camera Klaus Eichhammer
cut Vera van Appeldorn
occupation

Love, a strange game is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk is the 1022nd Tatort episode and was first broadcast on May 21, 2017 on Erste , SRF 1 and ORF 2 . The Munich investigator duo Batic and Leitmayr is investigating its 76th case.

action

Verena Schneider is found dead in the garage entrance of her apartment. After being hit on the temple, she was suffocated with a soft object. The first lead leads to her partner, the architect Thomas Jacobi, as the neighbors report a loud argument shortly before the crime and the victim's employer knows that she wanted to separate from Jacobi, even though she was three months pregnant. Gradually it turns out that Jacobi has a complicated network of love relationships with a number of women. This would give him a serious motive for the crime, as would any of these love affairs. The most conspicuous behavior is Nicole Büchner, a very close friend of the victim, who also belongs to Jacobi's “ harem ”. After Dr. Andrea Slowinski, another of his mistresses, is found murdered, Jacobi comes under increasing suspicion. However, the latter still protests his innocence and encourages the investigators to protect the other women, since in his opinion a “madman” is up to mischief here. Unexpectedly, Jacobi himself finds a trace of his assistant Anna Marie Fritsch. She has long been in love with her boss and admits that she and Dr. Andrea Slowinski wanted to talk. This has escalated and in the affect she killed the woman. However, she has a safe alibi for the period of Verena Schneider's death. Ultimately, Batic and Leitmayr Max Heimerl, a neighbor of the victim, can convict this act. He had to live with his wife and four children in a much too small apartment in Munich, where it is becoming increasingly difficult to find affordable and appropriate living space. So he took the chance and killed his neighbor in order to be the first applicant to get to the more spacious apartment.

background

The film was shot from July 26, 2016 to August 25, 2016 in and around Munich. The film music used was composed especially for the crime scene by Verena Marisa and is not available in stores. The two songs were sung by Françoise Hardy . "Ein Fenster wird hell" is her own composition, while "Oh oh cheri" was composed by BL Trammell, JR Setti and G. Guenet.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Die Liebe, a strange game, on May 21, 2017, was seen by 8.74 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.1 percent for Das Erste .

Reviews

“Even in the Munich 'Tatort', the relationships are not always as clear as they seem. Of course, there is a cruel egoism in the architect's I-make-you-happy attitude, but at the same time people are shown who have found a model in polyamory to live out their needs and longings. Love always hurts a little. "

- Christian Buß : Spiegel Online

“ In the previous case of Batic and Leitmayr, their health and even their friendship were almost ruined. Only three weeks later everything has healed, so when it comes to programming, ARD is once again particularly sensitive at the start. Inspector Batic has fallen in love, his battered body is ready for anything. A comeback, like the one that Lazarus last made. "

- Holger Gertz : Süddeutsche Zeitung

The critic Julian Miller atquotemeter.de assessed: This crime scene “is content [...] with the ornate exercise of whatever, in the context of which he can at least break through the most crappy basic structures.” “The exhausting thing about this film is the schizophrenia of his ambition: He wants to be catchy, but also bulky; above all, easily accessible, but at the same time pretend to be intellectual. "

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said: “The author Katrin Bühlig [succeeds] in turning a supposedly simple Whodunit into an extremely entertaining crime thriller with all kinds of relational and ironic added value. Sex, relationship, love, and jealousy are ubiquitous; Unlike in Munich, jokes are made at a high level. And because the main character in the episode is interesting, the thriller stays that way. A typical Rainer Kaufmann film: playful, unobtrusive, light, at the same time close, close to the characters & very closed. "

Trivia

The main suspect Thomas Jacobi drives a Jensen Interceptor in the film .

The issue (relationship of trust between the commissioners, internal investigation completed or not, Ayumi ...) from the previous crime scene is not taken up again. This already happened at the 916th crime scene ( Der Wüstensohn ), where a critically injured Leitmayr at the end of the 910th crime scene ( at the end of the corridor ) “does his job again” as if nothing had happened.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: ​​Love, a strange game at crew united
  2. ↑ Information on the film music accessed at daserste.de .
  3. ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime check: Sunday, May 21, 2017.quotemeter.de , May 22, 2015, accessed on May 22, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Christian Buß: Munich "crime scene" about polyamory. Mr Multi-Multi-Lover. Spiegel Online, May 19, 2017, accessed on May 19, 2017 : "Rating: 8 out of 10 points"
  5. ↑ Holger Gertz: "Are you really pulling together with her now?" Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 19, 2017, accessed on May 19, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Julian Miller: Film review at quotenmeter.de, accessed on November 14, 2017.
  7. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Nemec, Wachtveitl, Feifel, Katrin Bühlig, Rainer Kaufmann. Too many construction sites Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on November 14, 2017.
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