Crime scene: dark field

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Dark field
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Eikon Media GmbH
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 1003 ( List )
First broadcast December 11, 2016 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Christian von Castelberg
script Stefan Kolditz
production Ernst Ludwig Ganzert
music Eckart Gadow
camera Bjorn Knechtel
cut Julia Karg
occupation

Dunkelfeld is a television film from the crime series Tatort , which was first broadcast on December 11, 2016. It is the 1003rd episode in the series and the fourth case of the Berlin team of investigators Rubin and Karow .

Chief Inspector Robert Karow tries in a life-threatening solo effort to get to "Hakari", who is said to be responsible for the death of his partner Gregor Maihack.

action

Chief Inspector Robert Karow accompanies key witness Andi Berger to a hearing at which he wants to testify where the cell phone video is hidden showing the death of Karow's former partner Gregor Maihack. Karow hopes to finally be exonerated because he is still accused of this murder. But on the way to the prosecutor, Berger is shot in the car by the passenger of a motorcycle. Karow tries desperately to elicit the information from the dying person, but apart from one: "... you have always seen it ..." he can no longer learn anything from him. Rubin, who actually took a day off because she wanted to celebrate her son's bar mitzvah , leaves the family celebration to help her colleague. Before Rubin arrives at the crime scene, however, Karow single-handedly searches for the video and is told that it is in an amulet that Maihack's widow would wear. He gives this information to Rubin by telephone, who then wants to see Christine Maihack. As soon as she arrives, she witnesses Christine Maihack being kidnapped. A pursuit on her part fails because she is incapacitated with a taser . The kidnappers contact Karow on their cell phones and request the video from him in exchange for Christine Maihack. They know that he had a relationship with her years ago and that she will therefore be important to him. Karow pretends to agree to the deal, but in the end refuses to give them any information about the hiding place of the video. Without further ado, they take him under their control and torture him.

Rubin quickly finds out that Karow was also kidnapped. However, she hesitates to inform the prosecutor because she now suspects that he is a traitor. The fact that the key witness was picked up in a simple limousine, that hardly anyone knew the route and that Public Prosecutor Hemrich was at the scene of the crime before the incident team made her think. She also suspects that he has already manipulated investigation files into the Maihack case in the past, for which there are some indications. She takes her intern Anna Feil into her trust and together they research Hemrich's past. They find out that he was good friends with the current building senator Karsten Scholz, Ahmed Kermal and Ridvan Ansari in a youth rowing team. In 2014, through the advocacy of the building senator, Kermal acquired a site on which Gregor Maihack was shot a day later. Ridvan Ansari is known to have built a drug cartel and was allegedly shot in 1999. But when Rubin and Feil compare photos, they find out that Ansari is not dead, but has acquired a new identity. He now appears as Ahmed Kermal and all the major projects he carries out as an alleged building contractor are for the sole purpose of laundering drug money.

Karow realizes that Christine Maihack is in cahoots with the kidnappers and that the alleged kidnapping was only intended to get him to reveal the hiding place of the video. When they don't get what they want, Karow's fate seems to be sealed. Christine Maihack then leaves the place unmolested and packs her things because she was invited by Ridvan Ansari alias Ahmed Kermal to travel. When her necklace with the amulet falls to the ground, she discovers the chip with the video. When she has to watch how Ridvan Ansari shoots her husband in cold blood, she decides to take revenge. On the one hand, she reveals to Commissioner Rubin where Karow is being held so that she can free him; on the other hand, she meets with Ridvan Ansari, stuns him with a stun gun and lets him drown in his swimming pool .

At the end, Rubin personally handcuffs the public prosecutor and has him taken away. Because on the video that she had watched, one could see how the three old friends had met and Hemrich condoned the murder. He had recognized Gregor Maihack, who was also with the group as an informant, and had to fear that he would reveal himself.

background

The film was shot from June 8, 2016 to July 8, 2016 in Berlin-Schöneberg , Berlin-Kreuzberg and in Plänterwald .

The rabbi who plays in Dunkelfeld is also a rabbi in real life and comes from Schleswig-Holstein .

reception

Reviews

Martina Stöcker from rp-online.de said: “You have to be a very big 'Tatort' fan to keep track of the ongoing story if there are more than half a year between the episodes. The flashbacks in the film don't help and seem a bit clumsy. "

“Fortunately, when things get really bad, there is always a nail lying around in the sand that can still be used to open the handcuffs. And if that doesn't work with the nail, then you just have to bite off your torturer's earring. "Simon Strauss from the Frankfurter Allgemeine saw this episode so laconically, but also said:" Nevertheless, you stay with it and become trapped - not by the reasonably spectacular plot, but rather from the split personalities of the two main characters. ”“ Although the script (Stefan Kolditz) did not envisage any interaction between the two, in the end they succeeded in developing a relationship - even if it initially resulted in two slaps in the face. "

“The action is fast-paced, but you don't really know where it's going. The figures are driven, but their being driven lacks direction. So they rush with heavy psychological and sociological baggage through a city that they no longer understand. The script […] simply charged them too much, and the director […] hardly comes to the stage to help them to balance the mass of information through this violent course. "

- Christian Buss : Spiegel Online

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Dunkelfeld on December 11, 2016 was seen by 8.36 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 23.7 percent for Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Crime scene: Dark field at crew united , at crew united, accessed in 2016.
  2. ↑ Martina Stöcker: The crime scene: Dunkelfeld finally clears up Karow's secret at rp-online.de , accessed on May 9, 2017.
  3. ↑ Simon Strauss: He puts everything on one card at faz.net, accessed on May 9, 2017.
  4. ↑ Christian Buß: "Tatort" torture from Berlin. Capital thriller. Spiegel Online, December 9, 2016, accessed on December 9, 2016 : "Rating: 2 out of 10 points"
  5. ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime check: Sunday, December 11th, 2016.quotemeter.de , December 12th, 2016, accessed on December 12th, 2016 .
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