Crime scene: Femicide
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Femicide |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
MR |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 526 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | March 9, 2003 on First German Television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Niki Stein |
| script | Niki Stein |
| production |
Inge Fleckenstein Liane Jessen |
| music |
Jacki Engelken Ulrik Spies |
| camera | Arthur W. Ahrweiler |
| cut | Carmen Vieten |
| occupation | |
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Frauenmorde is a television film from the crime series Tatort of ARD and ORF , which was produced by Hessischer Rundfunk . It was first broadcast on German television on March 9, 2003. On their second joint mission, Frankfurt investigators Dellwo and Sänger are looking for a voyeuristic serial killer.
action
On the train, the singer has to deal with an aggressive passenger. He threatens fellow travelers with a knife and insults them. When he tries to intimidate a small child, Singer intervenes. She is easily injured and the rowdy escapes. However, he was able to get hold of Sanger's handbag with all the papers in it. Since her cell phone was also in her pocket, she cannot receive the call for the next assignment. Dellwo is very surprised when he tries to inform her and hears a man's voice on Singer's machine, which then also says: "I killed her." Singer happens to find the place of work alone, as she takes the train to the place where she was found late at night drives by and discovers the KTU, which is already at work. She goes there and starts the investigation with Dellwo. It is a dead woman with her head, legs and hands severed. Since the head and hands are missing, identification is difficult, but Singer remembers a man who wanted to report his wife missing that afternoon and was very worried. Ingrid Karp is actually confirmed as a victim via a DNA comparison. The family lives in the Dellwos neighborhood and so Mr. Karp knocks at his house late at night because he is looking for someone to look after the children because he is supposed to come to the police. His wife's car had been found and he should report immediately.
Kruschke notes that Ms. Karp kept the logbook, but there are inconsistencies with the actual odometer reading. According to Mr. Karp, his wife was last practicing yoga, but this could not be based on the kilometers actually driven. So it turns out that Ingeborg Karp went to an hour hotel instead of yoga. Dellwo's wife Steffi, who also regularly goes to yoga classes and knows all participants well, knows that Ingeborg Karp had made a blind date via an internet portal. The course instructor Kathy Richter had given Karp a false alibi to her husband. Since she has now disappeared herself, she cannot be asked about it.
Public Prosecutor Scheer has called a Soko for this explosive case. Wimmer, a BKA senior councilor, has taken the helm and stated that FBI agent Gordon has been on the hunt for a serial killer for four years. The current murder case corresponds exactly to the pattern of the other murders and thus the Frankfurt case takes on an international dimension. Gordon, who is also present, explains six cases in which the victims were similarly mutilated and always found near major airports in all parts of the world. Now the murderer would obviously have reached Europe. He may even come from Frankfurt and travel professionally.
In search of clues to the whereabouts of Kathy Richter, the investigators look around the Richter's home and discover a hobby room with sadomasochistic articles, video wall and countless sex videos. Judge is being interrogated. He travels a lot for work and admits to having had unusual sex practices with his and other women, such as Ingeborg Karp. Most of the time they filmed the whole thing. However, there is evidence that he was abroad at the time of the last murder.
The next day, Dellwo found an envelope with a video on his doorstep. Ingeborg Karp shows this when she meets her murderer, who filmed the crime. Based on the recordings, singer thinks he knows the hotel in which the recording was made. She looks around there with Dellwo and they are sure that Ingeborg Karp must have met her murderer here. Singer gets in contact with him via the internet portal, which is saved on Karp's computer. He asks for her cell phone number and wants to contact her.
Wimmer is now investigating a steward in Frankfurt who is a possible perpetrator. The search of his home actually shows that they are on the right track. Obviously, he has observed and monitored his victims extensively. Now that he knows that the police are on his heels, he lays the wrong track and manages to order singers on a date alone. Dellwo had taken a position outside to protect her but was lured home by a mysterious phone call. The killer also kills Kruschke, who was supposed to be guarding the singer in the hotel, and lures her into a hotel room. The moment he approaches the singer, she manages to overwhelm him.
Dellwo has since found a corpse wrapped in garbage bags in his garden and fears that it is his wife. At that moment, however, Steffi Dellwo comes into the house with the dog to his relief. The body is Kathy Richter, who was also killed by the serial killer and placed in Dellwo's garden.
background
The film was shot by Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt am Main and the Frankfurt area.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of feminicide was seen on March 9, 2003 in Germany by a total of 7.39 million viewers and achieved a market share of 20.10 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
Tilmann P. Gangloff comments on this film: “In addition to the unusual story, the Hessian 'Tatort' impresses above all with the compactness of its main characters. […] Stein [has] captured the atmosphere within the 'SoKo' with its thoughtless cynicism and everyday sexism in many details in a very authentic way; this is also quite atypical for a 'crime scene' thriller.
This is no less true of the brutality of the case, which not only occasionally exceeds the limits of good taste. Also because of the sexual practices described and sometimes even visible, the film is anything but suitable for children. "
The critics of the TV magazine TV-Spielfilm believe that this crime scene depicts the "abysses of unfulfilled love." The film brings "lifelike moments, well-drawn characters and real high tension!"
Web links
- Crime scene: murders of women in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of feminicide on the ARD website
- Femicide at the crime scene fund
- Femicide in Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on April 14, 2014.
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Critique of the film on Kino.de , accessed on April 14, 2014.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on April 14, 2014.
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