Crime scene: Angel of the Night
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Angel of the night |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR , Maran Film |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 662 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | April 9, 2007 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Jahn |
| script | Susanne Schneider |
| production |
Uwe Franke , Ulrich Herrmann |
| music |
Marco Meister , Robert Meister |
| camera | Christoph Feller |
| cut | Angela Springmann |
| occupation | |
as well as Jamie Crawford-Walker , Ronald Spiess and Thomas Höhne | |
Angel of the Night is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film with Eva Mattes as chief detective Klara Blum was produced by SWR and Maran Film and was broadcast for the first time in Germany on April 9, 2007. This 662nd episode in the crime scene series is the 11th case of Klara Blum and the 7th case of Kai Perlmann . In it they have to solve the murder of a pet shop owner, which the sleepwalking son has presumably observed.
action
The owner was found shot in the Heller pet shop and many of the animals were released. The often sleepwalking son Manuel has probably observed something, but he is disturbed. Blum does not rule out that the child could have shot because they obviously have blood on their feet. The son knows the animals very well and takes care of them until his older brother, who has just taken over an animal transport, is back. So that the boy is self-sufficient, Blum leaves him in the care of the housekeeper Erika Sendel. However, it turns out that Heller has just given her notice without notice, which also raises suspicion on her. According to her, her boss changed a lot after the death of his wife and became more and more unbearable.
Andreas Heller's alibi is questionable because there is evidence that a call was made with his cell phone from Baden-Baden , so that he too could have been in Constance at the time of the crime. He admits that he was not in Cologne , as he said at the beginning , but already in Baden-Baden, where he stayed in the casino until midnight . However, he does not mention that he has extreme gambling debts and is therefore under pressure.
Since Blum does not want to leave Manuel with the housekeeper or with his brother until all suspicions have been cleared, she takes care of the child herself. The child psychologist supports this approach in order to protect the boy from further psychological stress. Blum places Manuel with a friend and has him put under hypnosis to find out more about the night of the crime. However, she does not receive any specific information.
Perlmann scours through the victim's computer data and comes across secret accounts in Switzerland and possible illegal animal trade. Heller had tried to cover the costs for the private treatment of his wife, who was suffering from cancer. A phone trace of Andreas Heller's conversation leads to Goran Semjonicic. Heller claims to know him from the casino and owe him a large sum of money.
Late in the evening, Blum observes how Manuel is on his own again several times. She pursues him and is able to follow him to a hiding place in which there are cages with protected animals that his father bought illegally. Fearing that something might happen to "his" animals, Manuel secretly calls his brother to meet him. But Semjonicic also appears because he wants to be involved in the lucrative pet shops. Manuel leads the two of them to a hiding place in an old castle ruin, but all the cages there are now empty. While Semjonicic threatens Manuel with a gun so that he can tell where the animals are, Blum appears, who has already been looking for Manuel and could guess where he has gone. She explains that she arranged for the animals to be brought to the Zurich Zoo. Semjonicic is arrested, but has nothing to do with Heller's murder.
Unexpectedly, Erich Sendel announced at the presidium that he shot Heller because he had treated his wife in the most unworthy manner. After the police found a button on his bus driver's uniform at the scene, he was forced to act. But Blum finds out that it was not Erich Seidel but his wife who committed the crime. With his confession he wanted to protect her out of love. Erika Sendel says that Heller treated her worse than his animals for 15 years, and then he gave her notice on the evening of the crime. So she went to Heller's gun safe, got the revolver and shot him.
background
The filming of this scene crime took place in Konstanz and around Konstanz under the working title Sleep, baby, sleep instead.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of the Engel der Nacht crime scene on April 9, 2007 (Easter Monday) was seen by a total of 6.02 million viewers in Germany. This achieved a market share of 17.00%.
Reviews
The Angel of the Night crime scene is judged by Franz Solms-Laubach on Welt.de as follows: “The film is definitely worth watching. It is a quieter kind of crime scene that takes a lot of time to characterize its protagonists. Sometimes maybe a little too much time. But that's no problem. The film avoids any shrill tone and therefore falls out of the usual crime thriller framework. Especially from the usual crime scene frame, which unfortunately all too often tries to exaggerate boring stories with showmanship. "
Feridun Zaimoglu at Zeit.de comments on the film with the words: "Scenes of astonishing simplicity flicker across the screen when Commissioner Blum investigates between lizards and rodents."
At Stern.de , Kathrin Buchner judged this episode critically: “Tarantula, armadillo, chimpanzee, snakes - the Lake Constance crime scene was quite a pleasure. Only the representatives of the human race behaved really wildly: gamblers, black marketeers and manically jealous people determined the plot of the crime thriller. "
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv sees the film as “solid, [but also] anemic, low-tension & in places boring. Apart from the prelude, which Jahn skilfully designed with thriller elements, and the visually alienated flashbacks, the staging is completely inconspicuous. ”He states:“ The Lake Constance crime scene - Angel of the Night lives almost exclusively from the relationship between the maternal inspector Blum and the Witnesses. [...] In addition to the child actor Henry Stange and a few directing ideas, an 'Tatort' off the shelf. ”The critics of the TV magazine TV-Spielfilm judge:
"Children, animals, no sensations - a shame!"
Web links
- Angel of the Night in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Engel der Nacht on the ARD website
- Angel of the night at the crime scene fund
- Angel of the night at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Working title and audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 11, 2014.
- ↑ Franz Solms-Laubach From sleepwalkers and women understanders on welt.de, accessed on January 12, 2014.
- ↑ Feridun Zaimoglu Film review: Angel of the Night on zeit.de, accessed on January 12, 2014.
- ↑ Kathrin Buchner A little boy as a reptile whisperer on stern.de, accessed on January 12, 2014.
- ↑ Rainer Tittelbach Tatort - Angel of the Night on tittelbach.tv, accessed on January 12, 2014.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 12, 2014.
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