Crime scene: The Eternal Wave
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The eternal wave |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Wiedemann & Berg Television on behalf of Bayerischer Rundfunk |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 1096 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | May 26, 2019 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andreas Kleinert |
| script |
Alex Buresch , Matthias Lease |
| production | Kerstin Nommsen , Simone Ruff |
| music | Daniel Michael Kaiser |
| camera | Johann Feindt |
| cut | Vera van Appeldorn |
| occupation | |
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The Eternal Wave is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk is the 1096th Tatort episode and was broadcast on May 26, 2019 in the program Das Erste . The Munich investigator duo Batic and Leitmayr are investigating their 81st case.
action
The wave rider Mikesch Seifert and his much younger friend Robert Kraut use the Eisbachwelle , an artificially created rapids with a half meter high standing wave , on Munich's Prinzregentenstrasse for a nightly surf session. On the way home by bike, Mikesch is stopped in the Englischer Garten by a junkie who wants a medicine from him. In the subsequent scuffle, Mikesch is seriously injured with a knife. This and Franz Leitmayr were close friends in the early 1980s; the three of them spent a summer on the Atlantic Ocean in Portugal with the Dutch woman Frida de Kuyper . But Mikesch is not very enthusiastic that the "wild Franz" from back then is now a police officer, and shortly after his visit to the hospital, Mikesch secretly disappears from the clinic, although the deep wound is still life-threatening. Batic and Leitmayr try to find him, but neither his friend Robert nor the slightly confused Heinrich supposedly know where Mikesch is hiding.
In the meantime, two dead junkies are discovered in Munich who were apparently in contact with Mikesch. Leitmayr does not want to believe that his former friend could have anything to do with drugs, because he used to be abstinent and never even drank alcohol. After the autopsy, it is clear that the two junkies each died of an overdose of an active ingredient that is used for pain plasters. Insiders cook or chew these patches to get the drug. Since such plaster packs were also found in Mikesch's apartment, it is clear that there is a connection. The amount of active substance found in the bodies of the dead cannot be explained by the plasters found, because it is too high for that. Research at the manufacturer reveals that the plaster packs originate from a shortage of production and the dose of the active ingredient was many times too high, so that they should therefore be destroyed. Before that happened, the corresponding pallets had disappeared from the factory premises. Since Mikesch's friend Robert works there as a temporary worker, the investigators are following up on this lead. But this one has also gone underground in the meantime. Together with Mikesch, he wants to sell the active ingredient from the patches to a dealer. To do this, they painstakingly boil out all the packs and bottle the result. However, the dealer Reja also discovers that someone wants to do business in "his area" and he demands the material. Mikesch can hold the man off until evening and hopes to have settled the deal by then and to have disappeared from Munich. But Mikesch also wants to help his daughter Maya and give her 50,000 euros to study medicine in Wroclaw, as she cannot study in Germany without a waiting semester because of the numerus clausus . When Mikesch tells Robert that he cannot go abroad with him immediately, the latter freaks out and there is a traffic accident in which Robert is seriously injured. The agreement with the buyers of the liquid active ingredient is also broken and Mikesch is forced to accept the dealer's offer. However, this leads to an argument and the men hit and kick the injured man, whereupon his wound bursts open again and begins to bleed profusely. Batic and Leitmayr join in, but Mikesch flees again while the police officers are stopped by an exchange of fire with the dealers. Leitmayr calls Mikesch, who is sitting in a tram, but the latter does not tell him where he is, although his strength is noticeably dwindling. He also throws his cell phone out of the window. So he is finally found too late: A hearse drives up to the final stop of the tram and Leitmeyr identifies the dead Mikesch.
background
The film was shot on 22 days from August 7, 2018 to September 10, 2018 in Munich; there was also a day of shooting in Portugal.
Stylistically, the constructive flashbacks to the Ménage à Trois in Portugal are reminiscent of François Truffaut's film Jules and Jim .
The music in the film was composed by Daniel Michael Kaiser . The record that Leitmayr finds and plays in the turntable in Mikesch's apartment is the album Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd - you can hear excerpts from the titles Have a Cigar and Wish You Were Here .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Die Ewige Welle on May 26, 2019 was seen by 8.85 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.1% for Das Erste .
Reviews
The film service awarded two stars out of five and assessed the film as inconsistent. The youth revelations about Leitmayr would “never credibly fit into the series dramaturgy”. The "wild change between seriousness and comedy" is "poorly compensated for by some theatrical highlights."
“The“ Tatort ”from Munich is a wonderfully stoned wave ride into the valley of botched dreams. And who would have thought that Inspector Leitmayr was once a beach boy? [...] And all of this can be consumed in hammock mode without any great demands, but smiling happily, a welcome break from the European election drama. "
"[...] a stylishly staged tragedy in which coming to terms with the past and grief work are closely related. The plot follows the mentality of the main role of the episode, it runs correspondingly erratically, and the tension results from the compassion for this dream dancer [...] It is a good idea to ascribe a wild past to Gaulocke Leitmayr, but you don't really want to believe it. "
The author Marion Löhndorf expressed herself in the NZZ as not convinced of the film and headlined: “Crimes can be so boring”. In relation to the memories that are told in flashbacks, she judged that with each change to the past mode, "only unimaginative and sentimental images" appeared, "which scrape at the embarrassment and in the end transfigure the whole thing."
Web links
- Crime scene: The eternal wave in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Die Ewige Welle on the ARD website
- The eternal wave in the crime scene fund
- The eternal wave at Tatort-Fans.de
- BR press kit on the film
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatort: The Eternal Wave at crew united
- ↑ Christian Buß: Poetic Surfer "Tatort" from Munich: Under the pavement the beach . In: Spiegel Online . May 24, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 30, 2019]).
- ↑ Sidney Schering: Primetime Check: Sunday, May 26, 2019. In : quotemeter.de . May 27, 2019, accessed May 27, 2019 .
- ^ Tatort - The Eternal Wave. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Oliver Junge: Don't surf your life. In: FAZ.net . May 26, 2019, accessed May 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Rainer Tittelbach: Finally moving something. In: tittelbach.tv . May 26, 2019, accessed May 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Marion Löhndorf: «Tatort» from Munich: Crimes can be so boring , in: NZZ from May 26, 2019, accessed on May 28, 2019
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