Crime scene: the tenderness of the monster
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | The tenderness of the monster |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWF |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 282 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | October 31, 1993 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Hartmut Schoen |
| script | Hartmut Schoen |
| music | Detlev Schmelzenbach |
| camera | Hans-Jörg Allgeier |
| cut | Gudrun Bohl |
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The Tenderness of the Monster is a television film in the crime series Tatort from 1993. Directed by Hartmut Schoen , who also wrote the book. Ulrike Folkerts plays Ludwigshafen commissioner Lena Odenthal for the fifth time . This time she is dealing with a psychopathic escapee who tries to kill her because of his arrest by her.
action
Hans-Martin Carsdorff, a former celebrated actor, is sitting in a closed psychiatric clinic after the murder of his girlfriend. He manages to escape when he manages to take a knife and a syringe and use them to threaten a nurse. When he arrived in freedom, he hijacked a bus and used the passengers as hostages. Carsdorff contacts the police, he wants to take revenge on Lena Odenthal, because she once stopped and convicted him. The police are tracking the bus and when they find it, most of the hostages, including the nurse, are unharmed. Carsdorff is on the run. Odenthal views video material from therapy sessions in the clinic, where Carsdorff gets lost in tirades of hate and thoughts of revenge against Odenthal. A former actress is also afraid of Carsdorff and no longer stays at home for safety reasons. Shortly thereafter, the police found a 78-year-old woman dead in her apartment, she was beaten to death and everything points to robbery and murder. When her somewhat confused neighbor Beckermann is questioned, he suspects two elderly men to have committed the murder. The forensic investigation shows that the traces on the corpse are not identical to the rest of the ones in the apartment.
Carsdorff meanwhile hides in an attic and tries on various items of clothing that he finds there. Disguised as an old woman, he follows Odenthal into a supermarket, bumps into her and cuts a wound in her arm. The pursuit ends however without result, Carsdorff is able to escape again. In the evening he visits the chairman of his fan club, who should get him money and lend him her car. Beckermann, meanwhile, confesses to have stolen from the dead woman, but he asserts that he has already found the woman dead and merely taken advantage of the situation. He repeats that the two old men killed the woman, these are now on the run. For security reasons, Odenthal temporarily moves in with an old colleague. However, she noticed that Carsdorff was watching and following her there too. Therefore, her superior wants to have her transferred to the LKA to bring her to safety. The police are meanwhile able to find the two fugitive men while they secretly sleep in an old swimming pool. One of the men, old Pößmann, finally confesses to having killed the old woman. He was jealous because something was looming between the woman and his companion Werner Sawitzky and he was afraid of being alone again and having to return to the old people's home.
Carsdorff travels to Odenthal after Berlin, where she is supposed to accompany fans to a football game as part of her LKA work. There he succeeds in disarming her on the edge of the game and briefly bringing her under his control. But Odenthal is able to escape through the catacombs of the Olympic Stadium, whereupon he pursues them. It cuts through to a subway shaft, but the stations are closed because of the late night time, so it cannot get out of the subway system. She tries to get help over the telephone, but Carsdorff tracks her down at that moment and cuts the line. He announced that he would kill her and then commit suicide using the power line. Finally he fakes his suicide in order to lure her out of the guard house in which she was holed up and brings her into his power. In the morning he gets on the first subway with her. However, the passengers are all police officers who free Odenthal and arrest Carsdorff.
Audience rating
The tenderness of the monster reached a total of 9.30 million viewers when it was first broadcast on October 31, 1993, corresponding to a market share of 28.4%.
reception
TV Spielfilm noted that it was a matter of "slightly nostalgic thrills".
Web links
- The tenderness of the monster in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Crime Scene: The Tenderness of the Monster in the online movie database
- Summary of the plot of Die Zärtlichkeit des Monsters on the ARD website
- The tenderness of the monster in the crime scene fund
- The tenderness of the monster at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Approval for Tatort: The Tenderness of the Monster . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2009 (PDF; test number: 118 688 V).
- ^ William Turner: Tatort 282 The tenderness of the monster. September 2, 2016, accessed March 27, 2018 .
- ^ Tatort: The tenderness of the monster at tatort-fundus.de. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
- ^ Tatort: The Tenderness of the Monster at TV Spielfilm.de. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
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