Crime scene: dark paths
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Dark ways |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 586 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | January 16, 2005 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christiane Balthasar |
| script |
Thorsten Näter Susanne Schneider |
| production |
Doris J. Heinze Martina Mouchot Kerstin Ramcke Studio Hamburg film production |
| music | Johannes Kobilke |
| camera | Markus Hausen |
| cut | Claudia Wontorra |
| occupation | |
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Dark Paths is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk and broadcast for the first time on January 16, 2005. It is about the crime scene episode 586. In her 6th case, detective chief commissioner Charlotte Lindholm ( Maria Furtwängler ) from the LKA Hannover , disguised as a lecturer, investigates among police students in Hann. Münden, where one has to mourn a death.
action
Gerd Lähner, a police student at the Lower Saxony State Police School in Hann. Münden , is found dead after a training mission. Detective Chief Inspector Charlotte Lindholm is entrusted with the initial internal investigation. The commissioner speaks to the coroner, who explains that the death was caused by a directly attached weapon. Due to the high gas pressure, an FX weapon profile is also fatal. Lähner had no chance. The corpse also had fresh bruises all over the upper body. With the distribution pattern shown, a fall can be excluded. At the same time there is an anxious and excited mood among the police students. Shortly afterwards, Lindholm arrives at the school and is introduced to Kreuzkamp by its director. Present are the responsible public prosecutor, Chief Inspector Pieper, Chief Criminal Inspector Döring, trainer of P1, to which the dead man belonged, and - to Lindholm's great surprise - State Secretary Tobias Endres, with whom the inspector has recently been together. He was sent by the Interior Minister and is supposed to watch the investigators. The matter should be kept under lock and key for a few days, no external information, asks Endres. Lindholm is supposed to pretend to be a lecturer to the students and investigate undercover. The Commissioner does not like this proposal. Nevertheless, shortly afterwards she is faced with the class that Gerd Lähner also attended. Without further ado, she suggests a practical exercise and has the Lähner case simulated. The students simulate the situation of fleeing bank robbers with a hostage. Some of the students are so beside themselves that the inspector breaks off and ends the class for the time being. Shortly thereafter, she tries to talk to Sandra Wiegand, who seemed particularly concerned to her. The dead man was her boyfriend until two weeks ago, then Gerd fell in love with someone else. With reference to the severe abuse shortly before Lähner's death, the inspector wants to know who was so angry with the young man. Sandra replies that everyone was mad at him because he always messed with everyone. The action was not planned and somehow got out of hand. The young woman admits that she, Bronner, Grammert and Wels were involved, while Reins was just a gawker. Certainly none of them shot. She wanted to help Gerd because she felt sorry for him after all, but the others moved her away. She rules out suicide.
Gerd Lähner was an excellent student, the best of his year. In response to Lindholm's question about various references that classmates would have received because of him, Kreuzkamp replied that after all, one can expect the students to feel committed to the truth. Shortly afterwards, when the inspector wanted to look around Lähner's room, she met his instructor Döring, who gave her a flimsy explanation. Towards evening Lindholm sees the students Grammert and Bronner suspiciously tampering with a computer. Once again, in this situation she feels deprived of the resources that are otherwise available to her. In the school kitchen, Lindholm meets the cook Lisa, who was there when she was studying. She tells her that Lähner said in a dispute between the students that the others did not deserve to be in such a school and threatened to report her to them. They believe that it has something to do with the "Diamant", that it is a fine ship restaurant on the Weser . Together with Endres, the inspector enters the exclusive "Diamant" without having told her friend about her actual motives. When he asks why they are here, she only replies: "We do what you have ordered me to do." It quickly becomes apparent that roulette is being played illegally in a back room . Grammert and Bronner are also currently on the ship, discover Lindholm on a surveillance screen and inform the managing director Sellner. The result is that the commissioner is attacked and goes overboard and Endres jumps after her. When the ship was searched at a later date, there was nothing to suggest an illegal gaming club. However, it is also evident that Sellner is not kosher.
Again the Commissioner steps in front of the class, saying that they want to talk about interrogation technology and what is important. It is the task of the interrogating officer to understand the motives of the accused. Only then is it possible to gradually weaken it in order to remove the ground from it. This is called a weakening of the resistance energy. The same also applies to witnesses who lie because they want to protect themselves or because they are indifferent, which is sometimes even worse. Unless you are dealing with a habitual abuser, the abuser will have trouble justifying his actions to himself after he has committed his act, so he will look for reasons why he had the right to commit his act. That brings you back to the Lähner case. Why did Lähner deserve to die? Because he always wanted to be right? Because he put his morals above others? Because he got them reprimanded, dumped someone? Would that explain why he was beaten up in a cowardly way? In addition to black and white, there are a lot of shades of gray, explains Lindholm and continues: “But not for you. If you have chosen this profession, then you have clearly chosen a side. ”Have students write down exactly what they know about this incident and think about what they would rather keep to themselves and why, out of naivety or cowardice. Bronner asks whether the lecturer is even allowed to play such games with them. “It's not a game, I'm investigating a murder case,” is Lindholm's answer.
In a conversation with Sandra Lindholm learns that Lähner had threatened to blow up the illegal gaming club and that he had started a relationship with Döring's wife. When asked, Döring said that his wife was the one who made him quit and teach at the SEK . Since then, things have gone from bad to worse between the two of them. He thinks his wife was looking for something from Lähner that she thought she had lost, that the boy was just a projection screen for her.
Shortly afterwards, there were arrests and interrogations in rapid succession. Lindholm speaks to Grammert. She points to his cousin Birgt Wels, who is very knowledgeable about computers and who helped them to restore the data that he had deleted from the hard drive. Excerpts from the Cevis bank were found there: vehicle data, color, type, address of the owner. You buy cheap accident cars, preferably expensive middle and upper class cars, better still total write-offs, then you scrap them without deregistering them, steal the same models in new and you have a new car with clean papers. This is called scrap hairdressing. But you need someone who can tell you where to find the relevant cars. Someone with access to the Flensburg card index . You slipped into it like that, says the young man. In response to Lindholm's question, no, for God's sake no, they would not have killed Lähner. He's a police officer. “You haven't been a policeman for a long time,” replies the inspector. A phone call bursts into the interrogation that Olaf Reins had been fished dead from the Weser, probably with a broken neck.
A mission with all available forces is scheduled. Döring wants to be there. He runs into Sellner and throws him an iron bar, then threatens him with his gun. In response to Sellner's finding that he killed Lähner, he indirectly admits this and says that he must now defend himself against him because he attacked him with a deadly weapon. Lindholm intervened and explained to Döring that he had no real weapon and that the actual mission had already started in the early evening. They found enough to convince Sellner to work with the police. Döring is indignant. Reins saw him in action and wanted to talk to him because he did not want to betray him, his idol, says Lindholm. Döring tries desperately to save his skin and to present everything as he would like to see it, his protective claims are becoming increasingly absurd. Lindholm energetically orders him to be calm at last, enough. "You are making a huge mistake," is his answer. When saying goodbye to Kreuzkamp, the commissioner looks thoughtful. She kept wondering if they could have prevented the boy's death. Maybe it was a mistake to go undercover. Kreuzkamp replies that he should say that he has known Döring for twelve years.
Background notes
The shooting took place from September 7th to October 8th, 2004 in Hann. Münden and the surrounding area.
The inspector's private information: When Martin comes into his apartment, the kitchen looks chaotic, and shortly afterwards he learns that Charlotte has cooked. When he wants to bring her breakfast to bed, he meets Tobias Endres. Martin cleverly plays over the situation and also puts away Charlotte's hidden hint that she would like to be alone with Tobias. While the two are still turtling in bed, their cell phones ring and the planned weekend together in Italy will not work because a mission calls. When Tobias later settled in Hann. Münden reports to Charlotte that in order to spend the evening with her, she is still angry about his instruction to have to investigate undercover and replies somewhat curtly that she is tired. Later he turns up in her room at the police school, which she doesn't think is a good idea, but then gives himself up to him. As they both crawl out of the Weser, Endres says what exactly they were looking for on the ship. Charlotte's nerves are tense. She cries. Tobias takes her in his arms and wants to know whether each of her assignments ends like this, because he doesn't want to have to worry about her until she retires. Because with them, that's just beginning, isn't it? Confused, but also happy, Charlotte replies: "Do you really mean that?" "Yes!"
After a bath in the Weser, there is a knock on Charlotte's door in the morning. Martin is standing outside. When she asked what he was doing here, he rumbled off that it was a great reception. At night a complete stranger calls him who found her handbag with his phone number in it on the Weser. He calls her, just the mailbox, no callback. He calls the police in various hospitals, nothing. He'll soon go insane, sit in his car, drive half the night, she'll open the door for him and seriously ask what he's doing here. Charlotte is touched and Martin also has her bedclothes with him, since he had expected that she would be in the hospital and still not like someone else's laundry. When Martin sees Tobias, he can half-mumble: "Is he always with you now?" When Tobias, when they are alone again, says that Martin is sensitive like all guys in love, Charlotte thinks it's nonsense. At the end of the film, Charlotte says to Tobias, who invites her to a cute little hotel, better not, but then she can't resist and gets into his car.
Charlotte's former instructor Kreuzkamp wants to know who was responsible in Charlotte's time for the never-cleared theft about which she had refused to give evidence at the time. "Today he is one of the best investigators we have in Lower Saxony, they should have fired him," is her answer. Kreuzkamp with a slight smile that it was hard work at the time to convince the staff that they would give her a second chance. "They have? … Hmmm".
DVD
This Tatort episode appeared on November 18, 2010 on the Tatort anniversary box 40 years of Tatort, which also contains the consequences of heart failure (singer and Dellwo) and one corpse too much (Thiel and Boerne).
reception
Audience rating
When it was first broadcast, the film was watched by 8.24 million people and achieved a market share of 21.4 percent.
criticism
TV Spielfilm gave a thumbs up, gave one of three points for humor, ambition and action, two for tension and summed up its judgment with the following words: "Calm, likeable and realistic."
Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv found that the idea of having Tobias Endres (Hannes Jaenicke) at Lindholm's side was a good one. The director Christiane Balthasar found the right notes "for the sometimes rough, sometimes tender relationship of the unequal couple". But the story of the crime thriller is also convincing. Gangloff certified the Lindholm Tatort episodes that the "careful eye for details without question contributed to the fact that Furtwängler established himself among the top teams of the 'Tatort' series after relatively few films [... ] . "
However, Helge Hopp from the Berliner Zeitung was of the opinion that the “new figure constellation” was the “real nuisance” of the film. “In addition to the notoriously unmotivated roommate Martin [now] another guy must be included in the scripts for better or (unfortunately) spoilage.” This also means that “the view into the milieu of the insecure youngsters who will soon be right as sovereign as possible remains and should embody order, too indecisive, the weak-chested story gets bogged down between all the torn, hardly deepened narrative strands. "
For the TV magazine prisma, it was an "exciting 'crime scene' episode that provides an interesting insight into the training of the police".
Web links
- Crime scene: Dark paths in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tatort: Dark Paths at DasErste.de
- Tatort: Dark Paths at tatort-fans.de
- Tatort: Dark Paths at tatort-fundus.de
Individual evidence
- ^ "Tatort - Dark Paths" with Maria Furtwängler: filming in Hannoversch Münden at presseportal.de. Retrieved April 5, 2014.
- ↑ Anniversary boxes Tatort: Dark Paths ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2014 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. at tatort-news.com. Retrieved April 5, 2014.
- ↑ Tatort: Dark Paths at tatort-fundus.de. Retrieved April 5, 2014.
- ^ Tatort: Dark Paths at tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved April 5, 2005.
- ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff: series "Tatort - Dark paths" in tittelbach.tv. Retrieved April 5, 2014.
- ↑ Helge Hopp: Murder in Hannoversch Münden Lost: NDR "Tatort" with Commissioner Lindholm In: Berliner Zeitung, January 15, 2005. Retrieved on April 5, 2005.
- ^ Tatort - Dark Paths at prisma.de. Retrieved April 5, 2014.
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