Crime scene: purgatory

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title purgatory
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 970 ( list )
First broadcast January 3, 2016 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Christian Alvart
script Christoph Darnstädt
production Siegfried Kamml
Christian Alvart
music Martin Todsharow
camera Jakub Bejnarowicz
cut Dirk Gray
occupation

Purgatory is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The first broadcast took place on January 3, 2016 in the first and was commissioned by the NDR . It is the fourth case of the investigative duo Nick Tschiller and Yalcin Gümer , played by Til Schweiger and Fahri Yardım .

action

In terms of content, Purgatory is directly linked to the episode The Great Pain .

Heavily armed criminals storm the Tagesschau studio in Hamburg in front of the camera and take several hostages. They pretend to be Chechen Islamist rebels and demand the surrender of Firat Astan. A crisis team is being formed in the State Criminal Police Office under the direction of Interior Senator Constantin Revenbrook. Astan, on the run after the murder of Tschiller's wife, is tracked down and arrested by Tschiller. Crisis team leader Revenbrook insists that Astan be handed over to the hostage-takers under all circumstances and that the hostage-taking should not be ended by access by the mobile task force. Tschiller agrees to bring Astan to the requested transfer point, but goes into hiding with it.

Tschiller's colleagues Gümer and Kallwey find out that there are connections between Revenbrook and the hostage-takers, who are not Chechens but members of the Russian mafia . Astan leads Tschiller to his “savings book”, which is contractual documents with which Revenbrook Astan's criminal cartel transferred shares in the privatized port of Hamburg . The hostage-takers are not concerned directly with Astan, but with these contractual documents, namely that Astan does not torpedo the sale of the port to a Russian consortium. Astan mentions that there is a video showing Revenbrook with an underage forced prostitute. The LKA officer Kallwey confronts the Interior Senator that the LKA has this incriminating video and calls on him to resign. Revenbrook then commits suicide. A little later, Astan reveals that there is no such video.

After Revenbrook's death, the hostage-takers end their hostage-taking, the MEK can bring all hostages unharmed to safety. Astan tries to escape, but is arrested again by Tschiller. He refrains from killing Astan, although Astan provokes him. He duly hands the arrested Astan over to his superiors and threatens him to be extradited to the Turkish judiciary.

reception

Reviews

Michael Hanfeld , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , was of the opinion that the film was “playing a daring game with reality” - we now know “why ARD postponed the crime scene with Til Schweiger”. Tschiller and Astan are on a “crazy odyssey” while they are “talking to men”. "With part four, the Tschiller-Astan saga, as which the" crime scene "with Til Schweiger was designed from the start, enters the stage of Hollywood-style exaggeration."

Ulrich Feld , Frankfurter Neue Presse , on the other hand, was enthusiastic and asked who would have expected "After the half-baked The great pain, such a strong continuation". Die hard was said to have been "skillfully varied". "You can't believe your eyes: You haven't seen an action film so cleverly designed and superbly implemented in a long time."

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Purgatory on January 3, 2016 was seen by 7.69 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 19.9% ​​for Das Erste .

background

The film was shot in Hamburg from September 19, 2014 to December 1, 2014.

The broadcast of the film was scheduled for November 29, 2015, but was postponed due to the terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 in Paris .

The film was not shown to the press in advance, the NDR justified this by avoiding spoilers .

Tagesschaussprecherin Judith Rakers plays herself in the film: At the beginning of the film, she is about to present the daily news when the studio is stormed. At the end of the film, Tagesthemen moderator Thomas Roth can also be seen briefly.

The Director's Cut , published on DVD or Blu-ray, is about a minute and 41 seconds longer than the TV version.

Trivia

Disappointed by the low ratings and negative criticism in the press, Til Schweiger vehemently defended the crime scene on his Facebook page , where he praised the director, Christian Alvart , among others . The entry, which was peppered with various swipes, once again met with broad media coverage.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Taking hostages in the "Tagesschau". faz.net. January 3, 2016, accessed January 4, 2016.
  2. ^ "Purgatory": The big hit. fnp.de. January 4, 2016, accessed January 5, 2020.
  3. ↑ Sidney Schering: Primetime Check: Sunday, January 3, 2016.quotemeter.de , January 4, 2016, accessed on January 4, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Crime scene: Purgatory at crew united
  5. ↑ Out of respect for Paris victims: ARD postpones Schweiger “crime scene” with an assassination plot at meedia.de, accessed on November 16, 2015.
  6. ↑ Katharina Riehl: Schweiger- "Tatort", part two. "Tatort", top secret. Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 3, 2016, accessed on January 4, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Comparison of the two versions on schnittberichte.com, accessed on February 23, 2016
  8. ↑ Til Schweiger: Christian Alvart, what did you do ?! Retrieved January 25, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Andrea Diener : Into the punctuation inferno with the critics! , faz.net, January 4, 2016, accessed February 3, 2016
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