Crime scene: fetish magic
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Fetish magic |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 331 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | May 5, 1996 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thorsten Näter |
| script | Thorsten Näter based on an idea by Nicole Schürman |
| production | Studio Hamburg film production |
| camera | Dragan Rogulj |
| cut | Irmgard Hintze |
| occupation | |
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Fetish Magic is a television film from the crime series Tatort on ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk under the direction of Thorsten Näter and first broadcast on May 5, 1996. It is about the crime scene episode 331. For the chief detective Paul Stoever ( Manfred Krug ) it is the 27th case. For his colleague Peter Brockmöller ( Charles Brauer ) it is the 24th case in which he is investigating.
action
Stoever and Brockmöller are called to a knife fight in the Afro-American cultural center in Hamburg. Black Roul, one of the guests, was stabbed but no one saw anything. While Stoever looks around and inspects the sacred rooms of the voodoo priest who is there, he receives a call that calls him on a new case. The building contractor Walter Mewes was found hanged in his villa, and it remains to be seen whether it really was suicide. The grief of the dead man's wife and son is limited, so that Stoever becomes suspicious. This is compounded when he finds out that the stabbed Roul was security chief at one of Mewe's companies. When Stoever and Brockmöller looked around there, they found out that the company "Caribu" had numerous black employees and that there was great tension between the managing director Jensen and the new junior boss Gert Mewes.
Stoever and Brockmöller go to the Kulturhaus again and meet the young Robert Samland, who does manual work there during the day and has an apartment on the upper floor. From him they learn that Roul was not very popular and that he worked for some kind of secret service in his home country. In addition, the voodoo priest Gracieux Bisainthe is not the boss among the blacks, but the young and pretty Celine Martial, who works as a domestic servant for the Mewes. While Stoever and Brockmöller are secretly attending a fetish spell in the Kulturhaus, Gert Mewes suffers a fatal traffic accident. When the commissioners want to bring the sad news of the death of their son to Marianne Mewes, they are stopped by authorized officer Jensen in front of the villa. He now feels like the boss and doesn't want to let them into the house. For Marianne Mewes, her domestic help Celine Martial is to blame for everything. She would first "crazy" her husband made, then her son, and now both were dead. But it turns out that Walter Mewes the father of Celine had and during his frequent visits to Haiti with AIDS had infected what his intimate relationship to Celine and also declared his suicide.
During his research, Stoever comes across Robert Samland, who is obviously very much inspired by the religious voodoo rituals and who is secretly in love with Celine. When he confronts him, he admits he murdered Roul for repeatedly speaking badly about Celine. Roul provoked him so that he then stabbed. Stoever arrests him after his confession. The forensic investigation shows that the steering of Mewe's car was manipulated. For this act, Stoever can convict the authorized signatory Jensen. Since he was supposed to take over the company "Caribu" one day, he wanted to eliminate his competitor.
background
Fetischzauber was published as an audio book , which is spoken by actor Charles Brauer , who embodies the detective chief inspector Peter Brockmöller in this crime scene .
This time the musical contribution by Manfred Krug and Charles Brauer is Cry me a river .
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast saw 9 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 27.08 percent.
criticism
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and found: "The Waterkant version of 'The X-Files'".
Web links
- Fetish magic in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Fetish Magic on the ARD website
- Fetish magic at the crime scene fund
- Fetish spell at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: Fetish magic . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ (Tatort) Fetish Magic at Amazon.com. Retrieved December 6, 2014.
- ↑ Fetish magic. Crime scene fund, accessed on December 6, 2014 .
- ↑ Tatort: Fetish magic on TV Spielfilm (with pictures of the film)
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previous episode April 8, 1996: The girl with the doll |
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next episode May 12, 1996: The accounting |
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