Crime scene: exile!
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Exile! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) Studio Hamburg film production |
| length | 84 minutes |
| classification | Episode 483 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | October 28, 2001 on First German Television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Bohn |
| script |
Felix Huby based on an idea by Chris Brohm |
| production | Kerstin Ramcke |
| music | Hans Franek |
| camera | Rainer Gutjahr |
| cut | Marcel Peragine |
| occupation | |
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Exile! is a TV film from the crime series Tatort on ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk under the direction of Thomas Bohn and first broadcast on October 28, 2001 in the Das Erste program. Chief Detective Jan Casstorff, played by Robert Atzorn , is investigating his first case.
action
A tragic incident occurs on a ship belonging to the Hamburg shipping company Vorbeck. Three stowaways from Africa are killed by a fumigation system in the hold.
Shortly afterwards, Rüdiger Voss, the former chief engineer of the Vorbeck shipping company, is stabbed to death and thrown into the Elbe. When the water police discovered the body, the detective inspectors Casstorff and Holicek were notified. With a noticeable tattoo, they can identify the victim relatively quickly. So the investigators learn that the deceased should make a statement to the Maritime Administration in the near future . Holicek and his colleague Jenny Graf are investigating further and also find out that the victim recently met two unknown men in a strip club.
During his investigation, Commissioner Casstorff involuntarily meets his ex-wife Judith Vorbeck, who has recently returned to Hamburg and has taken on legal advice in her father's shipping company. Casstorff is annoyed when he meets the mother of his son, because in the past she had not considered it necessary to ask about her child even once. Fifteen years ago, she had left her husband and child and also her home in Hamburg for career reasons.
In an upcoming court hearing by the Hamburg Maritime Office, it will be clarified whether the death of the three Nigerians on board the Vorbeck shipping company was actually an accident, or whether there was possibly a murder order to get the politically persecuted refugees out of the way. According to a Russian sailor, the captain Volker Wanden is said to have caused the accident on purpose. The unknown murderer, who, after Rüdiger Voss, is now also ambushing Volker Wanden, whom he stabbed, is very likely to agree.
Casstorff's colleague Jenny Graf is doing research in the immigration office and comes across Toye Munir, the brother of two of the men who died, who was expelled from Nigeria a few years ago and has lived in Hamburg since then. When she wants to question him, he runs away, but is thrown to the ground by Casstorff. The knife he is carrying turns out to be the murder weapon. He admits the act and is convinced that his compatriots were deliberately gassed. But he does not reveal where he got this information from.
Jens Dekker, the inspector of the Vorbeck shipping company, has been supplying submachine guns to Nigeria illegally for years. When Judith Vorbeck finds out, he simply explains to her that the shipping company is completely involved. He even demands hush money so that Judith Vorbeck informs her ex-husband about it. Casstorff is certain that Dekker, since he supplied the Nigerian regime with weapons, was instructed by there to prevent the three opponents of the regime from fleeing into exile. Dekker is arrested and Casstorff manages to convince Toye Munir to break his silence. So he now charges Dekker that he had the information about what happened on board the ship from him and that Voss and Wanden are responsible for it. Inadvertently, he became Dekker's henchman, as he was able to eliminate those who knew about his illegal business.
To prove Dekker the killing order, Casstorff uses a ruse. He has him brought to Munir's cell, who immediately threatens him massively, so that Dekker confesses everything in his fear of death.
Production, background
The film was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk and shot in Hamburg and the surrounding area.
With this crime scene episode, Chief Inspector Jan Casstorff ( Robert Atzorn ) and his team, which consists of Eduard Holicek ( Tilo Prückner ) and the young, ambitious junior police officer Jenny Graf ( Julia Schmidt ), replace Hamburg investigators Stoever and Brockmöller after 16 years. Casstorff, who was left by his mother shortly after the birth of his son Daniel, has little understanding that Judith Vorbeck, who has been back in Hamburg for two months, did not even try to contact Daniel. His son, in turn, resents him for having so little time for him and is toying with the idea of going into exile for a year on a student exchange in the USA! When Casstorff tells him how sad such a statement makes him, Daniel says that the exile was just a stupid joke. Christian Vorbeck tells his daughter that it is time for her to finally take care of her son and that she not only used Jan Casstorff, he was the only man she had ever really loved.
Exile was dubbed twice because the first versions contained a derogatory statement about the then incumbent US President Bush . The medical profession also protested against what they considered to be a disrespectful and derogatory statement against medical professionals.
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Exile! On October 28, 2001, it was seen by a total of 9.24 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
Tilmann P. Gangloff praised the new investigator for Kino.de and wrote: “Jan Casstorff is not a commissioner like many others. He has a gift: no matter how obstinate a suspect is during interrogation, Casstorff cracks him. Atzorn plays Casstorff as a person who is visibly calm, but who also knows about his mistakes. Many atmospheric Hamburg images repeatedly emphasize the cosmopolitan character of the location and the Hanseatic spacious rooms. ”For tittelbach.tv , his criticism read as follows:“ 'Exile!' was at the premiere in 2001 after 16 years the first 'Tatort' from Hamburg without the legendary Stoever / Brockmöller alias Krug / Brauer, but this one episode was enough to establish Robert Atzorn at least as a worthy successor. Convincing the character drawing of the hero, his private environment and also Tilo Prücker & Julia Schmidt proved to be good assistants. Visually, 'Exil', in which three Africans perish in the harbor, was more than what Commissioner Bienzle's inventor Felix Huby suggested as an author. "
The Berliner-by-choice also judged this crime scene positively and wrote: “With Casstorff's debut, the imagery of the Hamburg Tatort [sic] has moved ten years forward; has become faster, more extroverted - and above all, darker. The formal style is roughly what you would e.g. B. introduced it at about the same time at the NDR sister crime scene in Hanover when Charlotte Lindholm started in 2002. Fluent, but with reduced color. The pictures are, however, a lot more concise where Casstorff investigates or where the sun rises over harbor cranes. Casstorff shows edge, the bulky name suggests it and his first 'Tatort' keeps the immanent promise. In contrast to the three mentioned, highly broken-looking colleagues from the latest cut, it is still very compact. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave this crime scene a rather mediocre assessment and said: "Atzorn's first of fifteen cases: realistic, hit-free, but too lame." Overall, however, it was a "passable entry for [a] Hanseatic predator."
Web links
- Crime scene: exile! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Exile! on the ARD website
- Exile! at the crime scene fund
- Exile! at Tatort-Fans.de
- Crime scene: exile! Information from diethelm-glaser-net
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b exile! Production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on April 5, 2015.
- ↑ Exile! at tatort-fans.de, accessed on April 5, 2015.
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Film review at kino.de, accessed on April 5, 2015.
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Series "Tatort - Exil". Huby & Bohn ensure that Robert Atzorn gets off to a good start as crime scene inspector at tittelbach.tv . Retrieved September 8, 2017.
- ↑ After 9/11 was made serious in HH film criticism at derwahlberliner.wordpress.com, accessed on April 5, 2015.
- ↑ Exile! Short review at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on April 5, 2015.
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