Crime scene: fire devil

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Fire devil
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Desert media for NDR
length 85 minutes
classification Episode 872 ( List )
First broadcast April 28, 2013 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Özgür Yildirim
script Markus Busch
production Björn Vosgerau
Uwe Kolbe
music Christoph M. Emperor
Julian Maas
camera Matthias Bolliger
cut Sebastian Thümler
occupation

Feuerteufel is an episode of the television crime series Tatort from 2013. The NDR film introduces Wotan Wilke Möhring as the new main character of the detective chief inspector Thorsten Falke. He is supported by Petra Schmidt-Schaller as Detective Inspector Katharina Lorenz. The investigative team Falke and Lorenz is completed by Sebastian Schipper as chief detective Jan Katz. The investigation locations of the new team are in northern Germany. The first case is about car arson foundations in Hamburg . The scriptwriter was Markus Busch , the director Özgür Yildirim . The film premiered in a Hamburg cinema on April 24, 2013 and was broadcast on German, Austrian and Swiss television for the first time on April 28.

action

Once again, a car burns on the street at night in an affluent Hamburg district. A woman dies who apparently slept in the car. Chief Detective Thorsten Falke takes over the case. Since his old friend Jan Katz, to Falkes' great displeasure, has switched to the back office, he has to work against his will with the young and attractive inspector Katharina Lorenz, a trained lawyer from the fire department. The investigation has been slow and the concerned citizens are assembling their own vigilante groups. Leaflets are distributed and the autonomous Hamburg scene is accused.

Ruben Schaller, the arsonist, filmed his crime on his cell phone. The shot shows the victim desperately calling for help in the car. This video falls into the wrong hands, and Schaller is now being blackmailed. To get his cell phone back with the recording, he threatens Mirko Hansen, who took it from him, with a cutter and injures him so badly that he almost bleeds to death.

Since the dead man's husband, Jürgen Mintal, offers a bounty to find the perpetrators, the police are under increased pressure. The investigators conduct surveys in the relevant known districts and find a trace of the stabbed Mirko Hansen. Meanwhile, the increasingly panicked Ruben Schaller threatens Jürgen Mintal to take back the bounty, otherwise he would "kill him". Falke looks around Hansen's apartment and meets a young person who knows that Hansen had a fight with him about Schaller's cell phones. The latter is just about to set fire to Mintal's house when Falke and Lorenz arrive. Schaller is shot and taken for interrogation. The video has since been deleted and so there is no evidence. In addition, Schaller's girlfriend gives him an alibi for the night of the crime. In a cross-examination with Schaller and Mintal, it comes to light that Mintal had seen the accident. While Schaller, who had pulled the woman out of the car, made the emergency call at the nearest telephone booth, Jürgen Mintal had his wife, who had long been depressed and addicted to alcohol, covered her mouth until she was suffocated.

background

The shooting took place under the working title Fire over Flottbek from July 10 to August 10, 2012 in Hamburg and the surrounding area. Desert Medien GmbH, a subsidiary of Desert Film , produced the film on behalf of NDR . Two films are planned annually with the new investigators around Wotan Wilke Möhring, which will take place in different locations in northern Germany.

A few weeks before his actual introduction as an investigator, Möhring made a brief appearance in the Tatort Willkommen in Hamburg in a scene with Til Schweiger , who in turn was introduced as the new Hamburg inspector. Schweiger's first case was filmed after Feuerdufel , but it was broadcast earlier.

The title Sympathy for the Devil of the Rolling Stones from 1968 can be heard as a ringtone from Chief Detective Thorsten Falke .

reception

The first broadcast of Tatort: ​​Feuerteufel on April 28, 2013 reached 10.0 million viewers in Germany and a market share of 27.7% for Das Erste ; in the group of 14- to 49-year-old viewers it was 3.45 million viewers with a market share of 24%.

The press rated the film and the new team of investigators largely positive. A partially "illogical plot" was criticized, which still leaves room for improvement for future consequences. The comparison was made several times with Til Schweiger's less well received Tatort debut Willkommen in Hamburg , which also played in Hamburg a few weeks earlier. In the viewer ranking of the website Tatort-Fundus.de, Feuerteufel took a place in the middle of the field a few days after the broadcast with 394th out of 885.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nordic humor instead of bombs. Sueddeutsche.de of April 25, 2013
  2. ↑ NDR press release on the film ( online ; PDF 1.7 MB)
  3. ↑ Crime scene: Fire devil in the Hörzu check , accessed on April 28, 2013
  4. ↑ Aaron Clamann: Spectators celebrate Wotan Wilke Möhring. RP Online , April 29, 2013, accessed May 14, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : "Tatort" episode "Feuerteufel" in the first: The man for healthy toughness , Edo Reents, April 28, 2013
  6. ↑ "Tatort" wins the day. In: Stern.de of April 29, 2013.
  7. ^ Press comments on the crime scene: "Better than Til Schweiger". In: Website of the Augsburger Allgemeine from April 29, 2013
  8. ↑ Ratings for the episode Feuerteufel (872, Falke) , tatort-fundus.de, accessed on May 3, 2013
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