Crime scene: The return
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The return |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Radio Bremen WDR |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 939 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | March 15, 2015 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Florian Baxmeyer |
| script |
Matthias Tuchmann Stefanie Veith |
| production |
Kirsten Lukaczik Radio Bremen film production |
| music | André Feldhaus |
| camera | Peter Krause |
| cut | Friederike Weymar |
| occupation | |
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The return is a television film from the television crime series Tatort of ARD , ORF and SRF . The film was produced by Radio Bremen and first broadcast on March 15, 2015. It is the 939th episode in the crime scene series. In her 31st case, Chief Inspector Inga Lürsen ( Sabine Postel ) is caught up in a case from 2005.
action
The seven-year-old Fiona Althoff disappears without a trace in 2005. Her father is suspected of being responsible for her disappearance, and is in custody taken. After an interrogation conducted by Inga Lürsen, he hangs himself. The case was never resolved.
In 2015 a young woman suddenly appeared at the Althoff family's door and pretended to be Fiona. Silke Althoff is pleased, adoptive daughter Kathrin remains skeptical. The young woman tells Commissioners Stedefreund and Lürsen and a therapist that she was abducted in 2005 by a couple who traveled with her in a mobile home across Europe and made her a victim of sexual abuse. Stedefreund and the youth therapist of the Althoff family, with whom Jan Althoff is being treated for an eating disorder , consider the girl's statements to be credible. Lürsen, who comes under pressure from superiors and the press because of the allegedly proven innocence of the father Althoff, who died in prison at the time, remains skeptical and initiates a DNA comparison . But the DNA taken by Silke Althoff corresponds to that which was deposited in 2005 after Fiona's disappearance. Stedefreund finds a burned out motorhome with the bodies of the two people named by the young woman as her kidnappers. The autopsy reveals that both died of unnatural deaths before the fire in the mobile home, so that the alleged Fiona is suspected.
Kathrin Althoff also has doubts about Fiona's identity and convinces Lürsen to have further DNA tests carried out on objects from all family members, including a toy from the young Fiona. As a result, the young woman posing as Fiona is not the missing girl. The toy DNA, on the other hand, is identical to that of a child's corpse found near Lüneburg in 2010; the child was choked on silicone . Lürsen confronts Silke Althoff with these facts, who then admits that Fiona and the then five-year-old Jan had played with silicone glue in an unobserved moment and Fiona had ingested it, which led to death in the presence of Jan. Out of fear and to protect Jan, Silke brought the dead Fiona to the place where she was later found and reported the child as missing. Before she could solve the matter, her husband committed suicide. When Elena Groß reported as the supposed Fiona, Silke, knowing full well that it was not her daughter, responded to the traumatized Jan to take his guilty feelings about Fiona's disappearance. So that Fiona's body, if ever found, would not be identified, she had given a false DNA sample as a precaution, which she could later add to the sample of the "Fiona" that appeared.
Elena Groß and her "friend" Klaas have been working for several years according to the method of sneaking into families and forcing them to pay money. Due to her own traumatic childhood - she had lost her family to her mother's extended suicide - Elena had always longed for an intact family, which she almost found with the Althoffs. Her friend, who poisoned the two campers, kills himself before he can be arrested. Elena is taken into custody by the police.
background
The episode was filmed from September 8, 2014 to October 7, 2014 in Bremen. Among other things, the real case of a boy in the USA who successfully sneaked into foreign families several times served as a model: “… that is actually also the unbelievable: How can you take someone into your family who you know is him? cannot be. That's the fun that lies in the psychology of the characters. "
The soundtrack was u. a. the music tracks Formidable by Stromae , Heads Will Roll by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Hunger of the Pine by alt-J for use.
The episode was provided with an audio description .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Die Wiederkehr on March 15, 2015 was seen by 10.61 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 28.9% for Das Erste .
criticism
Sabine Schnarkowski from Westfälische Nachrichten praised director Florian Baxmeyer for his production “full of surprising twists and turns”, which made the episode “more than just a thriller”. “Full of sensitivity for the characters and their inner conflict”, Baxmeyer developed the plot into a “bitter family tragedy”. As a commissioner, Sabine Postel did not act in the foreground, "but convinced with her credible game". Gabriela Maria Schmeide, who was the focus of the episode and played the mother of Fiona, Jan and Kathrin, “changed impressively between the emotions”. According to Schnarkowski, "especially the female characters [...] gave the episode depth and urgency".
Detlef Hartlap , editor-in-chief of prisma , called Die Wiederkehr the "best crime scene in Bremen since ages" .
“The finished film works despite small weaknesses, and that is also due to the reliable staging by Florian Baxmeyer. He once developed a thriller style that was very modern for German television for the Hamburg undercover investigator Cenk Batu . In his now nine Bremen 'Tatorte' he often tries, if not always successfully, to bring murder, melody and experiment together. "
“'Wiederkehr' is an exciting story, great staff (Gabriela Maria Schmeide), but the twists can sometimes only be understood with a very, very good will. The piece is - a flaw of some recent episodes - heavily overconstructed in phases. "
Web links
- The return in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Die Wiederkehr on the ARD website
- The return to the crime scene fund
- The return at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Crime scene: The return to crew united
- ↑ Radio Bremen: Fact check on the crime scene “Die Wiederkehr” ( memento of the original from March 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Crime scene: The return in the audio film database of Hörfilm e. V.
- ↑ Timo Nöthling: Primetime Check: Sunday, March 16, 2015.quotemeter.de , March 16, 2015, accessed on March 16, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d e Westfälische Nachrichten : Tatort Die Wiederkehr (ARD) - tragedy instead of crime , seen, media, Sabine Schnarkowski, March 16, 2015 ( online )
- ↑ prisma : You are my new educator , Sunday at the “Tatort”, Detlef Hartlap , January 9, 2016 - January 15, 2016, No. 1/2016, p. 5
- ↑ Christian Buß: Abuse "crime scene" from Bremen. Oh daughter who are you Spiegel Online, March 13, 2015, accessed on March 15, 2015 : "An abysmal" crime scene "about caring and devastating family forces."
- ↑ Holger Gertz: Small animal with raspberry hair. In: Media. Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 15, 2015, accessed on March 15, 2015 .
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