Crime scene: things that still need to be done
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Things still to be done |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Wiedemann & Berg on behalf of the RBB |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 850 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | November 18, 2012 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claudia Garde |
| script | Jörg Tensing , based on an idea by Natja Brunckhorst |
| production |
Quirin Berg , Max Wiedemann |
| music | Colin Towns |
| camera | Philip Peschlow |
| cut | Claudia Wolscht |
| occupation | |
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Things That Still Need To Be Done is a TV movie in the Tatort crime series. The report produced by Wiedemann & Berg Television for RBB was broadcast for the first time on November 18, 2012 on ARD's first program. It is the 27th case of the Berlin commissioners Ritter and Stark .
action
Christoph Gerhard, an unemployed chemist who works as a manufacturer of a synthetic drug called "Heaven", dies of an overdose in his Berlin apartment. His body is found quickly because he had alerted the police shortly before his death. Since Gerhard's computer with the formula for the designer drug, which continues to be sold as hair dye on the Internet, has disappeared, the officials assume murder. The drug investigator Melissa Mainhard is at the side of Commissioners Ritter and Stark in their investigations. Mainhard is a single mother of two daughters. Noe, her younger daughter, is caring and sensible, the older Anny, on the other hand, threatens to slide into the drug environment through her boyfriend, the young dealer Tom Hartmann. After a fit of weakness in the police headquarters, Mainhard is brought home by Ritter. Neither her colleagues nor her daughters know that she is terminally ill. She has terminal cancer and her morphine patches are of limited use. She wants to go on vacation with her daughters one last time. But first she still has to do a few things that she wrote down on a piece of paper.
Ritter and Stark finally arrest Tom Hartmann, who was last seen at the crime scene. During the interrogation that followed, he asserted that Gerhard was already under drugs when he was with him to get supplies for his customers. When it comes out that Tom is Anny's boyfriend, Mainhard no longer wants to investigate the murder because of bias. Tom, who is released from custody after his interrogation, is suspected of having murdered the drug courier Kaminski when he, like Gerhard, is found dead after an overdose. Tom now wants to flee abroad with Anny, but to the relief of her mother, she prefers to return home. After Tom was arrested again, Mainhard went to the swimming pool with Noe and Anny. When she almost drowns in pain there, her daughters learn that she has cancer.
During his second interrogation, Tom admits that he stole Gerhard's computer and sold the recipe for “Heaven”. The buyer was Heiner Schädlich, who is the lawyer for Gerhard's business partner Dirkgler. Tom, who is no longer a possible murderer for Ritter and Stark, is then placed under witness protection. But only a short time later he is hospitalized with an overdose. Meanwhile, Ritter and Stark receive an audio file from Gerhard's emergency call to the police. When the commissioners listen to the file on the go, Stark recognizes Melissa Mainhard's cell phone ringtone. Mainhard, who had known for a long time that Tom was Anny's boyfriend, had given Gerhard, Kaminski and Tom an overdose to protect their daughters from the drug environment before she died of cancer. Now she also wants to hunt down Heiner Schädlich, the new mastermind of the drug trade. For this purpose, she pretends to be a security guard and thus gains access to Schädlich's office. There she is arrested by Ritter and Stark. However, Stark, who did not escape the fact that Ritter fell in love with Mainhard during the investigation, suggests that Mainhard not be held accountable for her actions. She should spend the few weeks that she still has to live with her daughters. Before Mainhard goes on the long-planned vacation with her daughters, she crosses the last note on her list. Shortly after she left the house with Noe and Anny, colleague Weber called Ritter: Schädlich died of an overdose in his house.
background
Things that still have to be done , a production by Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion on behalf of RBB and Degeto Film , was created as a Tatort contribution to the ARD theme week "Living with Death", which ran from November 17 to 23 2012 extended. The idea for the film came from Natja Brunckhorst , who in 1981 played the role of the drug addict Christiane F. in Bernd Eichinger's Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo . The shooting took place from June 12th to July 11th 2012 in Berlin .
When it was first broadcast on November 18, 2012 in Das Erste , the audience rating was 8.41 million, corresponding to a market share of 22%. In the advertising-relevant target group of 14 to 49 year old viewers , 2.98 million viewers and a market share of 18.6% were achieved. In Austria, 545,000 viewers and a 16% market share were achieved.
The audio description of the film, spoken by Uta Maria Torp, was nominated in 2013 for the German Audio Film Award in the television category.
Reviews
For Bettina Schulte from the Badische Zeitung , things that are still to be done was a “brilliantly played and superbly filmed mixture of milieu study and psychological chamber play - at the expense of any criminalistic and constitutional logic.” According to Holger Gertz from the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the film is “ [s] rather well played ”. There is "[no] a miserable ending", but instead a murder and "many questions". When asked whether a crime scene was allowed to do that, Gertz said: "But yes."
"A haunting everyday psychogram and a damn good crime thriller from the Berlin synthetic drug scene," also praised Swantje Karich from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . The star found that Jörg Tensing's script required patience - because “only in the last scene does it become clear to the viewer which things still had to be done by whom”. However, the portrayal of Ina Weisse is the reward. In her role as a “cancer patient between courage and despair” she gave “this crime scene a touching twist”.
TV Spielfilm said that at the end of the film “a polyphonic 'How please ??' from German TV rooms ”, but the thriller is“ entertaining ”anyway - especially since the“ commissioners [grow beyond themselves and all service regulations] ”. It is a "[k] rause story", but it is "excitingly told". Detlef Hartlap from Prisma came to the conclusion that the "fascination of this episode [...] comes from Ina Weisse and Leonard Carow". "The latter plays like the next Schweighöfer," said Hartlap.
Web links
- Things that are yet to be done in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of things that are still to be done on the ARD website
- Things that still need to be done in the Tatort fund
- Things that still need to be done at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b cf. tittelbach.tv
- ↑ cf. tatort-fans.de
- ↑ «Tatort» secures daily victory on quotenmeter.de
- ↑ Medienforschung ORF on mediaresearch.orf.at, November 18, 2012.
- ↑ scene: things that are yet to be done in the Hörfilm database of Hörfilm e. V.
- ↑ 11th German Audio Film Award 2013
- ↑ Bettina Schulte: Things that would rather not have been done . In: Badische Zeitung , November 20, 2012.
- ↑ Holger Gertz : Shortly before the end . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 18, 2012.
- ↑ Swantje Karich: She keeps her secret until the bitter end . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 18, 2012.
- ↑ Crime scene: Things that still need to be done ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Stern , November 15, 2012.
- ↑ cf. tvspielfilm.de
- ↑ cf. prisma.de
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