Crime scene: dark time

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Dark time
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Cinecentrum on behalf of the NDR
length	89 minutes
classification	Episode 1039 ( List )
First broadcast	December 17, 2017 on Das Erste
Rod
Director	Niki Stein
script	Judith Angerbauer and Niki Stein
production	Dagmar Rosenbauer
music	Jacki Engelken
camera	Clemens Messow
cut	Jochen Retter
occupation
Wotan Wilke Möhring : Thorsten Falke Franziska Weisz : Julia Grosz Anja Kling : Nina Schramm Udo Schenk : Richard Schramm Patrick von Blume : Prof. Gerhard Schneider Ben Braun : Benjamin Reinders Wilfried Hochholdinger : Peter Roman Sophie Pfennigstorf : Paula "Naumann" [civil: Eva Kahlbauer] Jordan Dwyer : Vincent Mark Clelia Sarto : Detective Director Luisa Salvoldi Nils Dörgeloh : State security colleague Rutemöller Tatiana Nekrasov : Schramm's secretary Katrin Andreas Anke : Storz tenant Levin Liam : Torben Falcon Niki Stein : journalist Vivian Mahler : Frauke Mark Ulrike Gawlowski, from : Katrin Wagner Aleksan Cetinkaya : Dönermann Frank Knoche : Reporter Melanie Struve : politician in TV duel Andreas Christ : Head of Operations Ebba Ekholm : SEK staff Klaus Frevert : Reporter

Dark Time is a television film from the crime series Tatort , which was produced for Norddeutscher Rundfunk and was first broadcast on December 17, 2017. It is the 1039th episode in the series and the ninth case of Chief Detective Thorsten Falke .

action

The party “The New Patriots” (DNP), which has developed from a eurosceptic professors' party to a right-wing gathering point, is on its way to the Bundestag and all state parliaments. Commissioner Falke and his colleague Julia Grosz are deployed for the personal protection of DNP top politician Nina Schramm, because she is increasingly the target of hate posts and death threats. After one of her campaign appearances, her husband's car is blown up, killing him. Shortly before, he had telephoned an old party friend and announced his departure from the party and some revelations about the DNP. The suspicion initially falls on the anti- fascist scene, as a video from their direction had previously been published on the Internet in which his wife is threatened with her murder. There is also a published surveillance video on the DNP-related Internet platform “Pride and Prejudice”, behind which the media strategist Peter Roman is, in which two black masked people can be seen attaching the car bomb. In addition, the Antifa members Vincent Mark and Paula Naumann made themselves suspicious and have now gone into hiding. During a house search, the investigators find out that Vincent created the threatening video against Nina Schramm and was covered by his mother, who, like her son, is against the DNP and considers them to be National Socialists . Vincent and Paula are temporarily staying in the apartment of Micha, a German-Russian who has a picture of Putin on the wall. When the police find out where they are and they storm Micha's apartment, the three of them flee armed and escape. During the search of the apartment, the investigators noticed that Micha was in contact with the DNP. It turns out that Paula's real name is Eva Kahlbauer and that she has been in hiding for years after carrying out several attacks on asylum seekers' homes. She had crept into the anti-fascist scene in order to raise suspicions related to the attack. Micha had been hired by Roman for the murder in order to avoid revelations about an EU money affair of the DNP. Roman is finally arrested, Eva shot and Micha escapes to Russia with Roman's help.

background

The film was shot from May 16, 2017 to June 16, 2017 in Hamburg and the surrounding area.

reception

Reviews

“This 'crime scene' measures vertically all levels of the New Right; the leads to the real political spectrum on the far right are enormous. Author and director Niki Stein has a knack for bringing a lot of reality into his complex crime novels. [...] The 'crime scene' as a mirror of political power struggles. [...] That after Commissioner Falke, the punk rocker, Commissioner Bukow, the grungy rocker among the German television commissioners, the discourse with the angry bourgeoisie is continuing, gives us hope. It can go on like this, talking to the right. "

- Christian Buß : Spiegel Online

“The episode 'Dark Time' by Niki Stein (script and direction) shows why the stories with the very popular Möhring do not come out above average. Anarchists threaten right-wing populists, a right-wing man blows his car up. So who was it? A crime thriller from the drawing board in which an outrageously flat hint is given at the beginning for the resolution. […] This crime scene is a collection of clichés. The left too unwashed, the flat share too alternative, the diabolical too diabolical, the licked licked, the good too good. "

- Holger Gertz : Süddeutsche Zeitung

“Dark Time” is not a seminar in rhetorical-analytical refutation, but it is by no means devoid of attitude. He picks up the slogans of the now democratically elected right and presents them. It is right and important that the “crime scene” takes on the subject. He avoids affirmation like cheap indignation. His figure tableau is not entirely successful. It is a pity that in the end, owing to crime conventions, conspiracy theories are reinforced, even if differently than expected. "

- Heike Hupertz : Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Dunkle Zeit on December 17, 2017 was seen by 7.87 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22.2% for Das Erste .

Web links

• Crime scene: Dark time in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Summary of the plot of Dark Times on the ARD website
• Dark time at the crime scene fund
• Dark time at Tatort-Fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Christian Buß: "Tatort" about the AfD. Your hatred strengthens our attitude. In: In the crosshairs. Spiegel Online, December 15, 2017, accessed on December 15, 2017 : "Rating: 8 out of 10" 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Ernst Corinth : A "crime scene" with the crime stick hammer , MAZ-online.de , December 15, 2017.
3. ^ Tatort: ​​Dark time at crew united
4. ↑ Holger Gertz: What happened to the rough street bull? In: Media. Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 15, 2017, accessed on December 17, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Heike Hupertz: This right-wing party looks familiar to us. In: Media. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 17, 2017, accessed on December 27, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime check: Sunday, December 17, 2017.quotemeter.de , December 18, 2017, accessed on December 27, 2017 . 

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