Crime scene: echo sounder
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | echo sounder |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Radio Bremen |
| classification | Episode 998 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | October 30, 2016 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Claudia Prietzel , Peter Henning |
| script | Peter Henning, Christine Otto |
| production |
Roland Mühlfellner , Christina Christ |
| music | Andreas Weiser |
| camera | Kay Gauditz |
| cut | Friederike Weymar |
| occupation | |
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Echolot is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The by Radio Bremen , directed by Claudia Prietzel and Peter Henning contribution was produced on 30 October 2016 First aired. In this 998th crime scene episode, the Bremen inspectors Lürsen and Stedefreund investigate Lürsen's 34th case.
action
Vanessa Arnold had a fatal accident with her car on a country road at night. She was the co-founder of the Bremen start-up company "Golden Bird Systems" and had invested many years with three friends in the development of a digital assistant that could now make young entrepreneurs rich with the product launch.
Bremen inspectors Lürsen and Stedefreund are investigating the accident - the steering wheel lock on the vehicle was engaged and the airbags had not opened. It is also unusual that there are no signs of skid marks at the scene of the accident.
In the course of the investigation, the other founding members are initially suspected of having committed a crime, as each of them can be assumed to have an interest in Vanessa's death.
Ultimately, however, it turns out that the computer program that keeps Vanessa virtually alive and has access to the control electronics of various vehicles caused the accident. Since it was programmed to evaluate the events in its environment, the program recognizes a danger for itself when it realizes that (the real) Vanessa has sold the program core and thus gives an external body the opportunity to use the computer program to change and also to delete completely. From a programmed self-protection, the software made the changes to the electronics of the vehicle in which the real Vanessa subsequently had a fatal accident.
For the investigators, there is a circular reasoning who is responsible for the accident and death: the computer program that is responsible for the death, or the programmer, in this case Vanessa herself, because when she was still alive, she had inserted the necessary programming lines leading to the fatal accident himself into the computer program.
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 Filming and performance locations |
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The film was shot on 22 days from April 5, 2016 to May 5, 2016 in Bremen.
The film title Echolot is intended to reflect the parallel to the digital world . Just as the echo sounder reflects waves that hit an object, people nowadays expect a reaction to the signals that they send to the social network. Quote Claudia Prietzel: “The crime scene 'Echolot' tries to sound out the digital echo. We watch how the digital world affects life. Is the digital signal recorded, does it disappear into the vastness or is it quickly and violently accepted? Just as the echo sounder explores the depths of the sea, we sound out the depth of the connection between humans and the digital world. "
The traffic accident in rural marshland seen at the beginning of the episode was recorded on April 6, 2016 in the blockland near the Waller Feldmarksee not far from the Waller landfill. Lürsen and Stedefreund pass the Bürgermeister-Smidt-Bridge over the Weser on the way to the offices of Golden Bird Systems. A former Kaffee Hag building in the Europahafen in Bremen's Überseestadt was used as the backdrop for this office space . In addition, the Schlachte with the Teerhof Bridge was used as a backdrop. Further recordings were made at Bremen Airport .
One of the software developers is listening to the music track Liquid State from 2012 by Muse through his headphones . The song Lili Marleen by Lale Andersen from 1939 is sung, hummed or used as a ringtone several times. In addition, a photo montage can be seen as a poster showing a black and white photo of Adina Vetter with a top hat and cigarette, which is based on a scene by Marlene Dietrich in the role of Amy Jolly from the 1930 film Morocco .
For the fictitious software company Golden Bird Systems, the website goldenbird.ai was set up especially for the ARD theme week , which shows the postal address of Radio Bremen in the imprint.
Before it was first broadcast on October 30, 2016, the episode was shown in Bremen on October 22, 2016 in the presence of actors and makers of the film.
The audio description for the film was spoken by Sarah Giese.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Echolot on October 30, 2016 was seen by 8.51 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 23.6% for Das Erste . In the group of 14- to 49-year-old viewers , 2.37 million viewers and a market share of 20.6% were achieved, which means that the episode was only beaten by 160,000 viewers for the broadcast of The Voice of Germany .
In Austria, 537,000 viewers were reached, giving ORF 2 an average reach of 7% and a market share of 18% .
In Switzerland, 404,000 viewers over the age of three watched the first broadcast of the episode, giving SRF a market share of 20.7%. In the group of 15 to 59 year-old viewers, 209,000 viewers were counted and a market share of 18.0% was measured.
Reviews
Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv sheds light on the acting achievements and says: "An interesting role is played by [...] Vanessa's little daughter Lilly (Emilia Pieske), with whose help Prietzel and Henning show how easily the next generation will interact with artificial intelligences . For the girl, Vanessa's lifeless body is nothing but an empty shell; her mother's soul has been preserved thanks to Nessa. [...] Especially thanks to the child figure, 'Echolot' might meet the expectations of the 'Tatort' regular audience more than Stein's HAL , which was significantly more SciFi-heavy. "Tilmann P. Gangloff:
Also TV movie says, "you wonder [...] that after HAL yet another crime scene episode picks up in virtual worlds" and notes that "the startup companies with chandeliers and velvet armchairs [...] as authentic as the residential community in the Dokusoap Berlin - Day & Night ”works.
Florian Blaschke judged the prisma that the result of the echo sounder is "anti-technology from every pore", "wants to discuss digitization - and fails with a crash". "What you imagine the start-up scene at Radio Bremen is so outrageous, so unworldly that you want to switch it off after a few minutes," says Blaschke as a fundamental problem of the episode from his point of view. What dialogues the screenwriters put into the mouths of the two main investigators in the face of the ARD theme week “Future of Work” “about cars that can be hacked, start-ups that reside where coffee used to be roasted, and people who join in Clinging to the business model is so culturally pessimistic in every syllable that it brings tears to our eyes ”. The "crime scene gets lost, like so many before it, in a description of the world that has never seen the world". The result is "too clumsy for a utopia", but at the same time "too absurd for 2016".
The dpa correspondent Antonia Schaefer calls the episode a "game with fear of technology". “The first sequences,” says Schaefer, “symbolize the blurring boundaries between real and virtual that run through the entire sequence”. The directors have "succeeded in picking up fears and hopes associated with digital technology". The episode “portrays digital worlds as a barrier that pushes between the generations”. Schaefer compared the content of the episode Echolot with the episode HAL broadcast at the end of August 2016 .
For Susanne Poitz from the Westfälische Nachrichten , the episode in which the investigators “dive into realms that are foreign to them” had “too many parallels” with the episode HAL and “that was angry, especially since the Bremen episode adhered to the usual science clichés Fiction stories followed that deal with artificial intelligence and the question of whether humans control machines or vice versa ”. While “the mystery of whether the victim is actually dead” could “initially create tension” , this effect quickly “fizzled out” and the result “drifted into a seemingly constructed event”.
“This 'crime scene', with which ARD usefully heralds a themed week on the 'future of work' this Sunday, brings up all sorts of internet folklore, but there are exciting moments in the dialogues that concern the question of what of us remains digital if we have been assigned analogously. "
“The crime scene with the title 'Echolot' comes from Bremen this week, the film is part of the ARD theme week on the future of work - and tells an almost identical story to the episode from Stuttgart on August 28th. The plot is so similar that you could easily mistake 'Echolot' for an early remake if you didn't know that both films were shot earlier this year - and you didn't suspect that the reason for the duplication was probably less to be found in the art of quotations is as in the federal structure of public service broadcasting. Because what cares Bremen about what Baden-Württemberg is doing? "
Web links
- Echo sounder in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the action of Echolot on the ARD website
- Echosounder at the crime scene fundus
- Echolot at Tatort-Fans.de
- Goldenbird Systems. (No longer available online.) In: goldenbird.ai. Radio Bremen, archived from the original on November 6, 2016 ; Retrieved on March 6, 2017 (Internet presence of the fictitious software company Golden Bird Systems for the ARD theme week ): "Nobody understands you better than a virtual assistant with your personality."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Crime scene: echo sounder at crew united
- ^ Tatort: Echolot at tatort-fans.de, accessed on October 31, 2016.
- ^ N24 : Bremen blue light in the blockland shooting start for crime scene "Echolot" , Bremen, dpa / lni, April 6, 2016
- ↑ Radio Bremen : Action im Blockland ( memento of the original from November 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (3:02 min.), Buten un inside , Katja Runge, Henning van Lil, April 6, 2016
- ↑ The First : The Work of Production Designer Frank Godt (3:45 min.), Accessed on November 1, 2016
- ↑ a b c Postel, Mommsen, Prietzel, Henning. Virtual Reality is an exciting part of crime thriller at tittelbach.tv, accessed on October 31, 2016.
- ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung : Die "Tatort" -Fledderei - "Echolot" from Bremen: Pretty digital , Tim Schleider, October 30, 2016
- ↑ goldenbird.ai: Imprint ( Memento of the original dated November 6, 2016 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. , accessed November 1, 2016
- ↑ Radio Bremen : Tatort preview in Bremen: "Echolot" has attracted hundreds of visitors ( memento of the original from November 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , October 22, 2016
- ↑ Crime scene: echo sounder in the audio film database of Hörfilm e. V.
- ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime Check: Sunday, October 30, 2016.quotemeter.de , October 31, 2016, accessed on October 31, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Meedia : Total / 14 to 49 years , Top 20: the TV ratings for Sunday, October 30, 2016, accessed on November 1, 2016.
- ↑ Medienforschung ORF , data from Sunday, October 30, 2016
- ↑ a b Swiss radio and television : SRF 1 - October 30, 2016 (PDF), Mediapulse television panel - German-speaking Switzerland, Overnight, people three years and older, accessed on November 1, 2016
- ↑ a b c d e prisma : Technophobic from every pore , Sunday at the crime scene, Florian Blaschke , October 29, 2016 - November 4, 2016, No. 43/2016, p. 23
- ↑ a b c d e Westfälische Nachrichten : Playing with fear of technology: In Bremen's “Tatort”, artificial intelligence is measured against the instincts of the inspectors. Antonia Schaefer, media, October 29, 2016.
- ^ A b Westfälische Nachrichten : Tatort: Echolot (ARD) - Too many parallels. Susanne Poitz, Media, October 31, 2016.
- ↑ Christian Buß: "Tatort" about artificial intelligence - me and my smiley. In: Spiegel Online - Kultur. October 28, 2016, accessed on October 28, 2016 : "7 out of 10 points"
- ↑ Katharina Riehl: "Tatort" Bremen - The pitfalls of artificial intelligence. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. October 28, 2016, accessed on October 28, 2016 : "The plot looks a bit stupid in part two [...]"
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