Crime scene: fat dogs

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Fat dogs
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 841 ( List )
First broadcast September 2, 2012 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Andreas Kleinert
script André Georgi
production Sonja Goslicki
music Daniel Dickmeis
camera Johann Feindt
cut Gisela Zick
occupation

Fat Dogs is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced by WDR was broadcast on September 2, 2012 on ARD's first program. It is the 55th case of the investigative team Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk and the 841st crime scene episode.

action

Lissy Brandt, the former Ballauf und Schenk employee, is overjoyed to pick up her husband at the airport, who is returning home from Afghanistan with a troop of Bundeswehr soldiers . The reunion should be celebrated with friends, but Sebastian's son Constantin doesn't want to be there. Sebastian himself doesn't feel like celebrating either after all the atrocities he had to witness in Afghanistan.

The drug courier Amina Rahimi has also arrived in Germany with her brother Milad as a body packer . You are on the train to Cologne. Unexpectedly, one of the drug-filled condoms bursts and she has trouble showing her brother alive at the delivery point. Milad is already unconscious and since he is no longer of any use, he is brutally shot by a man. Amina has to watch it and now, as a witness of the act, also fear for her life. While fleeing, she lost the address of her accommodation. She wanders around Cologne and tries to get rid of her "cargo".

Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk are called to the location of a corpse the next day. It is the Afghan body packer who has been gutted. A found train ticket from the airport to Cologne Central Station causes the investigators to question the train crew of the train in question. They learn that the man was with a woman. He was acting very conspicuously and appeared to be drunk. With the help of the passenger lists and surveillance recordings from the airport, a video can be made of the wanted person so that the investigators know what she looks like and that her name is Amina Rahimi.

The forensic doctor quickly finds that the victim was a drug courier. It is clear to the investigators that the second courier has to be found quickly if he is to survive, because the contents of the stomach are a ticking time bomb. The first lead leads to the businessman Rüther, who wants to create an alternative to drug trafficking with his foundation "Pro Afghanistan". When asked about Amina Rahimi, he says that she works for him as an interpreter. It is noticeable that Rüther's foreign offices are right next to the German soldiers' camp.

Ballauf and Schenk are convinced that some returnees from the Afghanistan mission are involved in the drug trade. So Lissy's husband is also targeted by the manhunt, since Sebastian Brandt was apparently also called with the dead man's cell phone. When they visit him, he is with Thomas Klages and Matthias Jahn, two other returnees. You admit to know the Rahimi siblings from Afghanistan, but that doesn't mean anything. Nevertheless, the investigators have Sebastian's cell phone monitored. Lissy is also disappointed with her husband, who obviously had an affair with Amina Rahimi in Afghanistan.

Amina finds Sebastian, who wants to take her to a doctor immediately. On the way he is ordered to a meeting point by cell phone and drives there with Amina. She now has obvious problems with the bodypacks. Arriving at the specified destination, he meets his comrade Matthias Jahn, who kidnapped Sebastian's son and forces him to shovel a hole. Sebastian asks him to let Constantin go in exchange for Amina. He knows that the drug dealers are behind him and are demanding their goods. Jahn admits that he had already given Amina's brother the “coup de grace”, so he wouldn't hesitate either.

Ballauf and Schenk have found out where Sebastian wanted to meet and are going there. In this way you can prevent Jahn from harming Constantin and you can also get Amina to the hospital in good time.

background

The film was shot in Cologne , at Niederrhein Airport in Weeze , in Rösrath- Hoffnungsthal and the bunker Hoffnungsthal and the surrounding area.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Fat Dogs on September 2, 2012 was seen by 8.06 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 24.4 percent for Das Erste .

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv describes the film as “strong in atmosphere” and writes with praise: “'Fat dogs' is the best WDR 'crime scene' of the last ten years. [...] A 'crime scene' that does not present the obligatory corpse within ten minutes. A 'crime scene' that packs its topic, its message, its attitude differently than one is used to from the Cologne moral and opinion investigators Ballauf und Schenk. A 'crime scene' where you as a spectator know more than the inspectors, but where you are less puzzled about who the murderer is, but rather how the political and human stories are connected. "

At Spiegel.de , Christian Buß notes with approval: “Like no other director in Germany, Andreas Kleinert takes care of the rejected and the scrapped. But no matter how rigorously he shows their fate, he always leaves them with a certain residual dignity. Like last in his elegiac male hustler crime novel 'Nacht ohne Morgen' with Götz George. The responsible WDR liked it so much that they ordered the current homecoming 'crime scene' from Kleinert. "

Lorenz Jäger from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung says: “Some people would no longer have believed the Cologne 'Tatort', with its now somewhat worn-out relationship between Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk, to have such an intensity. There is not much talk either. In return, the music selection is very good, it highlights the contrasts of the scenes and worlds; Afghanistan there and Germany here. "

Holger Gertz from Süddeutschen.de gives the following verdict: “The Cologne inspectors Ballauf and Schenk were already pretty out, one had seen enough of them as usual only with Bernd, the bread or Bill Cosby. But this is her second episode worth seeing this year. In the past, the two of them always ended up stranded at this silly mess, this time everyone is left doubting. "

Verena Kuhlmann from Stern.de judges somewhat cautiously : “The Cologne 'Tatort' builds up a lot of tension, while the investigators are on the heels of an Afghan drug association. In the end, however, he gets lost in a jumble of ambiguities and entanglement. "

Sarah Mikoleizik from Focus online sees this as similarly negative . She thinks the subject of the film is important, but then says: “The viewer almost feels like a better inspector than the investigators Ballauf and Schenk. It is simply unsatisfactory to see all of this. All in all, 'Fat Dogs' is not very effective, it just bobs around until it finally comes to the showdown and the events roll over. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Location and audience rating at fundus.de, accessed on August 31, 2014.
  2. ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Film review at tittelbach.tv accessed on August 31, 2014.
  3. ↑ Christian Buß : "Tatort" about those returning from Afghanistan: Among men at spiegel.de, accessed on August 31, 2014.
  4. ↑ Lorenz Jäger : Von hunted and disabled people at faz.net, accessed on August 31, 2014.
  5. ↑ Holger Gertz: Fremd in all aggregate states on sueddeutsche.de, accessed on August 31, 2014.
  6. ↑ Verena Kuhlmann: Confusion without resolution at stern.de, accessed on August 31, 2014.
  7. ↑ Sarah Mikoleizik: First fix and then starve at focus.de, accessed on August 31, 2014.
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