Crime scene: endgame

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Endgame
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Radio Bremen (RB) Degeto
length	89 minutes
classification	Episode 500 ( List )
First broadcast	May 20, 2002 on First German Television
Rod
Director	Ciro Cappellari
script	Britta Stoeckle
production	Annette Strelow
music	Alexander Hoe
camera	Sorin Dragoi
cut	Elke Schloo
occupation
Sabine Postel : KHK'in Inga Lürsen Oliver Mommsen : KHK Nils Stedefreund Eric Baokye : Jesiah Kumono, player FC Bremen Florian Heiden : Florian Hinderksen, striker FC Bremen Michael Brandner : Dirk Hinderksen, President FC Bremen Nina Franoszek : Christine Hinderksen Anne Kanis : Kathi, Florian's friend Axel Pape : Gregor Baumann, manager Uwe Rohde : Detlev Günther, trainer Thierry van Werveke : Hänschen Schmidt, groundskeeper Cornelia Schmaus : Landlady Camilla Renschke : Helen Reinders Christoph Krix : Sven Müller, coroner Hubert Mulzer : Dr. Heitmann Igor Jeftić : Vlado Ina Holst : Mrs. Zeh Winfried Hammelmann : Detective Assistant Karlsen Marie-Helene Echard : Mrs. Baumann Mulanet Assiminew : Player Leonard Nigro : Player Martin Granata : Player Shaban Rhamani : player Zarifou Ayeva : player Andreas Rosenbauer : Andreas Herzog : Player FC Oberneuland Arnd Zeigler : stadium announcer

Endspiel is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Radio Bremen under the direction of Ciro Cappellari and broadcast for the first time on May 20, 2002 in the program Das Erste . For Chief Detective Inga Lürsen ( Sabine Postel ) it is the 7th case in which she is investigating, and for Detective Stedefreund ( Oliver Mommsen ) it is the 2nd case that he has to solve together with Inga Lürsen.

action

The coach Detlev Günther is found dead in the shower room of the amateur club FC Bremen. Chief Inspector Lürsen and her partner Stedefreund are called to the site, which is very likely also the crime scene.

Shortly before the promotion to the next higher division, this is a hard blow for the club. Günther was a very authoritarian coach and had problems with the colored players in particular, who didn't want to subordinate themselves so easily. Jesiah Kumono is quickly suspected of having had a massive argument with the victim the day before. According to other players, he wanted to dismiss Jesiah, which would be a massive turning point for the native Ghanaian . On the other hand, the coach himself did not have a good standing in the club and the president was considering dismissing him. Lürsen has the impression that the whole climate within the team, which seems to be made up of different nationalities, is not very harmonious. Accordingly, the coach with his racist attitude was not popular with any of the players, especially since he forced them to perform at their best with a special motivation technique.

Stedefreund finds out that Florian Hinderksen, the club president's son, is homosexual and suspects that the coach found that out and put him under pressure. When the fiber traces found on the victim match those on Hinderksen's jersey, Lürsen and Stedefreund arrest the footballer. Shortly before, he had told his friend Jesiah that he wanted to confront the trainer on the evening of the crime. He went to see him in the shower to explain that he shouldn't let Jesiah go. The trainer had provoked him because of his homosexuality so that he hit him against the wall in an affect, whereupon he sustained fatal injuries.

background

The film was produced by Radio Bremen and Degeto under the working title Freistoss and shot in Bremen, Verden (Aller) , Oyten and the area around Bremen. The football scenes were shot with the support of Werder Bremen and FC Oberneuland .

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Endspiel on May 20, 2002 was seen by a total of 5.63 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 18.40 percent for Das Erste .

criticism

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv finds this crime scene simply boring and writes: “The anniversary 'Tatort - Endspiel' is anything but a highlight in the crime thriller league. A moderately staged film with a socially critical impetus and a pale Inga Lürsen. Unfortunately Sabine Postel is in no way inferior to her figure. It's good that at least Mommsen's Stedefreund is gaining in stature. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV-Spielfilm rated this crime scene as mediocre: "After a great start, everything muddled up in politically correct platitudes." Conclusion: "A lot of ambition, hardly any tension: own goal."

Web links

• Crime scene: final in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Summary of the plot of Endspiel on the ARD website
• Endgame at the crime scene fund
• Final at Tatort-Fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Endgame production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 5, 2015.
2. ↑ Tatort: ​​Endspiel filming locations from Internet Movie Database , accessed on March 5, 2015.
3. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff: Tatort - Endspiel film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 5, 2015.
4. ^ Tatort: ​​Endspiel Kurzkritik at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 5, 2015.

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