Crime scene: beautiful Mona is dead
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | The beautiful Mona is dead |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 861 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | February 3, 2013 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ed Duke |
| script | Wolfgang Stauch |
| production | Uwe Franke |
| music | Tamás Kahane |
| camera | Andreas Schäfauer |
| cut | Angela Springmann |
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The beautiful Mona is dead is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film with Eva Mattes as chief detective Klara Blum was produced by SWR . It premiered on November 30, 2012 at the Filmschau Baden-Württemberg and was broadcast for the first time in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on February 3, 2013. It is the 861st episode in the crime scene series.
action
After a party in the club house of the local football club, the car of the village beauty Mona Seitz is pushed off the road by an off-road vehicle, so that it crashes over a steep embankment to the shore of Lake Constance . When the police find the blood-smeared car the next morning, there is no trace of Mona. There are grinding marks towards the lake, where Mona's dress is also found. The Chief Detective Inspectors Klara Blum and Kai Perlmann will soon have two main suspects. Fritz Schönborn, Mona's childhood sweetheart, had a relationship with her again behind the backs of both spouses. It turns out that this has been going on for two years and that Mona Fritz has loaned a lot of money that he should invest for a future together. But Fritz lost all of his savings in banking. The other suspect is Mona's husband Christian, who does not agree with the way his wife lives and who found out on the evening of his surprising financial ruin (caused by Mona's “business”).
When he met Christian, Fritz told him about the love affair with Mona and that she had secretly broken off a pregnancy, even though she and Christian had tried to have a baby for years.
In search of further clues, Inspector Blum discovers cigarette butts and Fritz Schönborn's door key on the way from the parked vehicle back to the clubhouse. Since Mona is said to have asked for the money back at the party - otherwise she would have wanted to inform Fritz's wife about the extramarital relationship, he followed her and finally pushed her off the street. Since, according to the traces, he did not descend the embankment afterwards, he cannot be responsible for the further course of the crime.
Blum and Perlmann therefore assume that Mona is still alive. They are now wondering who might also have an interest in their disappearance and in covering up the circumstances of the crime. The investigators suspect Birgit Schönborn, who is actually holding Mona prisoner. In this way she tries to prevent her husband from being convicted in order to - like him - for the sake of her daughter to maintain the already ailing marriage. Shortly before the police can locate the hiding place, they release Mona. She then returns home, where she meets Christian, who shoots her shortly before the police arrive.
Reviews
“One cannot accuse this 'crime scene' of mendacity. But the general badness may at least be more interesting on Sunday evenings. "
"After just a few sequences, this remarkable crime scene on Lake Constance is no longer a thriller, but a floating philosophy about the hardship of getting older, about the sticky fingers of the province - and the desperate attempt to wriggle out of its grip."
“Double floors as far as the eye can see: The 'crime scene. The beautiful Mona is dead 'shows how good a thriller can be. (...) finally another reason to turn on the 'Tatort'. "
Web links
- The beautiful Mona is dead in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of The beautiful Mona is dead on the ARD website
- The beautiful Mona is dead in the crime scene fund
- The beautiful Mona is dead at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filmschau Baden-Württemberg: The beautiful Mona is dead ( Memento from February 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 31, 2013
- ^ Judith von Sternburg: Two cigarettes at once. February 3, 2013, accessed February 3, 2013 .
- ↑ Holger Gertz: Locked in the life cage. Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 3, 2013, accessed on February 3, 2013 .
- ↑ Heike Hupertz: At Lake Constance, life's dreams fall into the water. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 31, 2013, accessed on January 31, 2013 .
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