Crime scene: really die once

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title To really die once
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
classification Episode 965 ( list )
First broadcast December 6, 2015 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Markus Imboden
script Claus Cornelius Fischer
Dinah Marte Golch
production Martin Choroba
Johanna Teichmann
music Martin Probst
camera Martin Farkas
cut Susanne Hartmann
occupation

To really die once is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk is the 965th episode of the crime scene and was first broadcast on December 6, 2015 on ARD's first program. The Munich investigator duo Batic and Leitmayr are investigating their 71st case.

action

Michaela Danzer dies of a gunshot wound in a single-family home in Munich, and the police find her partner Daniel Ruppert seriously injured and unconscious. The first suspicion falls on the husband, who is separated from her, but he cannot be found. Their son, the six-year-old Quirin, has also disappeared. Quirin shows up shortly afterwards, traumatized and barefoot, but physically safe at a local hospital.

When Daniel Ruppert was treated for the gunshot wound, it was discovered that he had suffered a serious gunshot wound several years ago. The investigation uncover another family drama. Years ago Daniel Ruppert had economic difficulties and was facing ruin. So he made the decision to kill his family out of existential fear, as he could not have endured the shame in the small town of not being able to feed his family any more. Actually, he just wanted to leave his life himself, for fear that his family would not be able to survive without him, guided by this paradoxical protective instinct, he turned the gun on his wife and son. When he tries to shoot his daughter Ella, however, he does not have the heart and forces her to leave the house before he tries to shoot himself. This suicide attempt fails, he survives, is arrested and his daughter grows up in a foster family without any contact with him. From now on she calls herself Emma.

Emma is now 20 years old and works as a zoo keeper at Hellabrunn Zoo. There she meets her father, which causes the pain and horror of her childhood to break out again despite therapy and medication. She decides to visit his partner and to confront him about the extended suicide by which she lost mother and brother. She is accompanied by her martial arts teacher Lissy Berger, with whom she has a relationship. Surprised by the unexpected visit, Ruppert lets his daughter into the house. When Emma's bag falls to the floor, her father sees the gun that she stole from the zoo. Her father grabs her, but Lissy rushes to her aid and fires a shot at Daniel Ruppert. When Michaela Danzer hears the shot and enters the kitchen, Lissy shoots her in a riot act. It is only when Emma and Lissy have left the house that Emma realizes that Quirin is a child in the house. Lissy orders her to disappear and unceremoniously takes the boy to a hospital, where she drops him off and he is found and looked after by the clinic staff.

But Emma cannot let go of the thought of Quirin, because she sees her own fate reflected in him. So she gets Quirin out of the hospital and hides with him in the zoo. The next day she makes her way to a lake on the edge of the forest. She adds a large amount of her medication to the lemonade she brought with her to kill Quirin and herself. Ultimately, however, she does not have the heart to take the boy's life and orders him to run away. In a tragic way she contributed to the fact that her fate happened to him too. The inspectors Leitmayr and Batic can find Emma, ​​unconscious, floating in a rowboat on the lake. However, the resuscitation attempts of the paramedics are unsuccessful.

Lissy decides not to take responsibility for the death of Michaela Danzer or the non-fatal shot at Daniel Ruppert herself, but states that Emma fired the shots.

background

The film was shot from April 14, 2015 to May 16, 2015 in Hellabrunn Zoo and in the city of Munich. The scene, which immediately follows the title sequence and shows zebras in reduced-color images in Hellabrunn Zoo, happened by chance during the shooting. Scriptwriter Claus Cornelius Fischer commented on this scene: “Personally, I think it's very good because for me it symbolizes the turmoil and restlessness of the leading actors.” This scene is underlaid with music by Martin Probst, who said: “I wanted something »Small«, as unspectacular as possible, with a minimal cast and at the same time able to radiate warmth on the one hand, but also - together with the right images - to trigger real horror on the other. "

According to information provided by Bayerischer Rundfunk, the recordings that take place in the hospital were not shot in a clinic, but in a building that was selected as a suitable backdrop for the hospital setting. The body of water seen towards the end of the episode is the Osterseen , where the privately owned Gut Schwaig was filmed.

According to Claus Cornelius Fischer, the script was developed over a period of three years and is based on several actual incidents of extended suicide with the participation of children. During the production, an alternative ending was considered, with the provision for the father to die. It was unclear whether Emma or Lissy should fire the fatal shot. During the filming there was a lot of discussion about how the film should end up until the end. Eventually the decision was made that the father should survive his gunshot wound again. The homoerotic bed scene between Lissy and Emma was originally not intended by the screenwriter Claus Cornelius Fischer and goes back to an idea of ​​the director Markus Imboden.

Emma's illness is a post-traumatic stress disorder ( ICD-10 F43.1).

During and after the first broadcast, Bayerischer Rundfunk offered a live chat with trauma expert Dr. Ulrike Schmidt and the screenwriter Claus Cornelius Fischer.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of once really dying on December 6, 2015 was seen by 9.63 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 27.1% for Das Erste . No other show was able to attract more viewers that day.

In Austria, 541,000 viewers were reached, an average reach of 7% and a market share of 17%.

In Switzerland, 427,000 viewers over the age of three watched the first broadcast of the episode, giving it a market share of 21.5%. In the group of 15 to 59 year old viewers, 226,000 viewers were counted and a market share of 18.7% was measured.

Reviews

“'Die once really' is the title of this tricky 'crime scene', which in its searching gesture represents the exact opposite of the bulging panorama look of the previous Oktoberfest crime thriller . [...] The filmmakers [...] tell their crime drama in a complicated flashback network, there is no moral edification, no simple answer. "

- Christian Buß : Spiegel Online

“The story is told conventionally, with flashbacks and nightmare sequences. The case analyst Christine Lerch (Lisa Wagner) still seems a bit incorporated into the ensemble, and the fact that a father calls his child 'Snow Maiden' is somewhat artificial and weird. On the other hand, there is also a man who burns out the grill for his neighbor: Bavarians know what that means, non-Bavarians will learn. "

- Holger Gertz : Süddeutsche Zeitung

In the first few seconds of the episode, Christian Schmidt from the Westfälische Nachrichten saw a parallel to the previous episode Borowski and the return of investigator Klaus Borowski's silent guest , because both episodes began with dark scenes. "Despite the atmospheric music, the episode was not a thriller, but a family drama," said Schmidt. "One would have liked to know more about its background, and some editing was confusing" , Schmidt admitted, but at the same time admitted, "on the whole, however, the episode convinced with its variety of suspects and the unusual resolution" .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Holger Gertz: In deep despair. Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 4, 2015, accessed on December 4, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Crime scene: really die once at crew united
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Bayerischer Rundfunk : Live chat with trauma expert Dr. Ulrike Schmidt and the screenwriter Claus Cornelius Fischer , December 6, 2015
  4. ↑ The first : Video: Extra on the "Tatort: ​​Once really dying": the "Zebra song" ( memento of the original from August 13, 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. , December 6, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.daserste.de
  5. ↑ Sidney Schering: Primetime check: Sunday, December 6th, 2015.quotemeter.de , December 7th, 2015, accessed on December 7th, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Two "Tatort" in front , media / people, dpa , December 8, 2015
  7. ↑ Medienforschung ORF , data from Sunday, December 6, 2015
  8. ↑ a b Swiss radio and television : SRF 1 - December 6, 2015 ( memento of the original from January 1, 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. , Mediapulse TV panel - German-speaking Switzerland, Overnight, people three years and older, accessed on December 11, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.srf.ch
  9. ↑ Christian Buß: "Tatort" on extended suicide. A zombie named Snow Maiden. Spiegel Online, December 4, 2015, accessed on December 4, 2015 : "Rating: 6 out of 10 points"
  10. ↑ a b c Westfälische Nachrichten : crime scene: once really dying (ARD) - confusing cuts , media / seen, 7 December 2015
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