Crime scene: the golden age

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The golden age
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 1120 ( List )
First broadcast February 9, 2020 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Mia Spengler
script Georg Lippert
production Bjoern Vosgerau
Uwe Kolbe
music Marc Fragstein
camera Moritz Schultheiss
cut Linda Bosch
occupation

The golden age is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The by NDR contribution was produced on February 9, 2020 First aired. It is the 1120th episode in the series and the thirteenth case of Chief Detective Thorsten Falke , who this time is confronted with his own past as a young bouncer in the Hamburg neighborhood.

action

The underage and obviously drug addict Matei Dimescu was sent to Hamburg to kill the brothel owner Johannes Pohl. After the boy stabbed Pohl several times, he hurries away, but forgets his jacket at the scene and also loses his cell phone, on which the return ticket to Bucharest is saved.

The LKA investigators Falke and Grosz are informed that the victim is the son of the former Kiez great Egon Pohl and a contract murder is suspected. Since there are surveillance cameras at the crime scene, the investigators know that they have to look for a youngster. Falke also discovers Michael Lübke, a Pohl employee, who apparently was the first to discover the dead person, anonymously notified the police and then disappeared from the scene.

First, Falke and Grosz seek out Egon Pohl, who handed over his Kiez empire to his son five years ago. He himself suffers from increasing dementia and is in a nursing home. Here Falke now also meets Michael Lübke, whom he knows from his earlier days as a doorman in the Hamburg neighborhood. Lübke was his trainer at the time and was responsible for its safety at Pohl for almost 30 years. Today he only washes his car, but still feels loyal to the family.

While Falke and Grosz are looking for the client for the murder, which they suspect to be in the Albanian hookah bar operator Krenar Zekaj, Lübke also sets out to find the murderer on their own. He found Dimescu's cell phone at the scene of the crime and, based on the messages stored there, can track him down in his hostel, a hostel. However, he does not bring himself to shoot the boy, but takes him home with him first. Although Dimescu only speaks a little English, a relationship of his own develops between the old and the young.

Both Falke and Lübke are convinced that Pohl's closest competitor, Krenar Zekaj, is responsible for his death. For some time now, Zekaj has wanted to take over Pohl's posh brothel “Love-Dom” and has come up with a few ideas for it. For Lübke, the Pohls are like his own family and so he doesn't want to accept the death of Johannes Pohl so easily. But he is too old for a direct campaign of revenge. That is why he trains Dimescu accordingly. He shows him the correct way to use a weapon and the route he has to take to get to Zekaj.

Falke and Grosz find out in the meantime that Egon Pohl's daughter didn't like her brother either. Carolin had renounced her father's business and preferred to make a name for herself in the charity industry, but she was still dependent on the family's financial contributions. However, Johannes recently "turned off the money", whereupon one of her protégés committed suicide because his scholarship was no longer possible. The investigators are therefore certain that Roman Kainz, the managing director of the "Love-Dom", Carolin had found someone who should solve her problem. They arrest the two and start looking for the boy, from whom they found out that he is on the road with Lübke. On the basis of clues, they assume that Lübke is preparing an execution together with Dimescu. Falke wants to dissuade his old friend at all costs and rushes to Zekaj's shisha bar, where he suspects him and the boy. But Falke is too late. Lübke decided at the last moment not to sacrifice Dimescu, but to do it himself. When Lübke appears in the shisha bar with a gun, Zekaj's people immediately open fire and shoot him. Lübke had only shot Zekaj in the leg and staged his own execution with it. In doing so, however, he created a basis for the police to take action against Zekaj and his people. The arriving SEK arrests Zekaj's people and Grosz can also find the shy boy who saw everything.

background

The film was shot in Hamburg from April 25, 2019 to May 28, 2019. The premiere took place at the Hamburg Film Festival on September 29, 2019.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Die goldene Zeit on February 9, 2020 was seen by 8.70 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 24.0 percent for Das Erste .

Reviews

For Tittelbach.tv , Thomas Gehringer said: “In her remarkable 'Tatort' debut […], director Mia Spengler stages the Hamburg entertainment district with intense images of the original location and tells of everyday life, change and generational change without romanticizing human trafficking and prostitution. In addition to lively, touching characters, there are of course one or the other cliché and a moderately original crime story. "

Christian Buß from Der Spiegel : “That's the crazy thing about many Reeperbahn retrospectives: In retrospect, the pimping business is often portrayed as an honorable German craft. That is not the case in this 'crime scene' ”.

Daniele Muscionico wrote at the NZZ : “In guerrilla style - without a film announcement - the director Mia Spengler succeeds in paying homage to Hamburg's red-light district. [...] But the script by Austrian Georg Lippert is clever. "

Markus Ehrenberg from the Tagesspiegel evaluated: "This 'Tatort' (book: Georg Lippert) shows the neighborhood in a way that scares, impresses, triggers a lot of nostalgia and almost does without good-bad schemes."

At the Frankfurter Rundschau , Sylvia Staude said: “This crime scene [takes] time for the relationship between Lübke and Matei [an old Kiezkater and a child], which has been on a murderous scene for a long time. The two have no chance, but they take advantage of it. ”The evening newspaper found the crime scene“ because of its grandiose supporting characters ”very“ convincing ”. "Bogdan Iancu as the youthful murderer Matei Dimescu and Michael Thomas as the abandoned Kiez man Michael Lübke play a great game of distance and closeness, hatred and friendship, mortal enemies and team players."

Sidney Schering of Quotenmeter.de said: This crime scene "is neither a regret about the eponymous golden age, nor a sigh of relief, but a distanced observational, shoulder-twitching inventory." "Something is sobering to the effect but that the script sometimes the investigators figures little plausible obtuseness seals to keep the case going. A stronger focus on other characters would have been desirable here, so as not to focus too much on the progress of the investigation, or better thought-out reasons for the mistakes made by Falke and Grosz. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: ​​The golden age at crew united
  2. ^ Tatort: ​​The golden age. In: Program. Filmfest Hamburg, accessed on October 12, 2019 : "Nominated for Hamburg Producer Award for German TV Productions"
  3. ↑ Laura Friedrich: Prime Time check: Sunday, 9 February 2020. Quotenmeter.de , February 10, 2020 accessed on 11 February 2020 .
  4. ↑ Thomas Gehringer: Wotan Wilke Möhring, Franziska Weisz, Georg Lippert, Mia Spengler. St. Pauli 3.0 at tittelbach.tv, accessed on May 19, 2020.
  5. ↑ Christian Buß: "Tatort" about neighborhood legends. The last lude. In: Culture. Der Spiegel, February 7, 2020, accessed on February 9, 2020 : "Rating: 8 out of 10"
  6. ^ Daniele Muscionico: «Tatort» from Hamburg: A little neighborhood nostalgia is allowed. In: Feuilleton. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 9, 2020, accessed on February 9, 2020 : "three settings later, the simple friend-foe scheme breaks down"
  7. ↑ Markus Ehrenberg: On the day when Eisen-Lübke died. Looking for a lost time. In: Media. Der Tagesspiegel, February 8th, 2020, accessed on February 9th, 2020 : "A soulful crime thriller with all the harshness"
  8. ↑ Sylvia Staude: The crime scene "The golden age": When people liked to whistle the rules at fr.de, accessed on May 19, 2020.
  9. ↑ Critique of the Hamburg crime scene: Die Goldene Zeit: Crime of the minor characters at abendzeitung-muenchen.de , accessed on May 19, 2020.
  10. ↑ Sidney Schering: Review of the film at quotenmeter.de , accessed on May 19, 2020.
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