Scene of the crime: free passage

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Clearance
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Maran Film on behalf of SWR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 913 ( List )
First broadcast June 9, 2014 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Martin Eigler
script Martin Eigler and Sönke Lars Neuwöhner
production Sabine Tettenborn ,
Nils Reinhardt
music Johannes Kobilke
camera Andreas Schäfauer
cut Martina Butz-Kofer
occupation

Freilang is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution was produced by Maran Film on behalf of Südwestrundfunk . It was first broadcast on German television on June 9, 2014. It is the 14th case by the Stuttgart team of investigators, Lannert and Bootz , in which they have to investigate the unclean machinations of law enforcement officers in a Stuttgart prison in connection with a murder.

action

A woman, Irina Meinert, is found murdered in her apartment. DNA traces of her ex-husband Holger Drake are found on the victim , but he has a credible alibi because he is imprisoned in the Zuffenhausen JVA , where he has to spend a few more years because he murdered his ex-wife's lover.

Prosecutor Álvarez finds a similar case in the files, in which the murder of a brothel owner two years ago remained unsolved because the alleged perpetrator was also incarcerated in the same institution at the time in question. Since the investigators suspect irregularities in the security personnel, Chief Detective Lannert is instructed to smuggle himself into the institution as a mole by taking on the vacancy of a prison officer. Chief Detective Bootz is investigating in the meantime in the vicinity of the guards. A brothel in Stuttgart serves as the secret meeting point for the two of them, where the two investigators meet at certain times and discuss things in a back room.

After a good two months of work as the new correctional officer Peter Seiler , Lannert was able to build trust in his colleague Carsten Scheffler, but he is repeatedly screened by Schultz, who is also a law enforcement officer and Scheffler's father-in-law. Schultz is regarded as the spokesman for the security team at the cell block and has a particularly trusting relationship with a few colleagues, as well as with some inmates, including Holger Drake. Lannert's attempts to get hold of it are repeatedly prevented by Schultz. This is supported by the head of security, Andreas Franke, who is respectfully called The King by the guards and inmates , who sees himself as a secret prison director. He holds the prison director Dr. Wilkens briefly with information and presents the six-year-old institution as a model prison.

One evening Schultz is called into the cellar during the evening shift and Lannert secretly follows him. Scheffler lies there as if lifeless, and the Franconian who is already there blocks Lannert. He instructs him to move away and remain silent. The next day, Scheffler is found hanged in a nearby forest, everything points to suicide. Scheffler is known to have had alcohol and marital problems. Bootz goes to Scheffler's widow, but she seems only moderately surprised by the bad news, as does the present Schultz, her father.

Finally Franke begins to gradually put Lannert's loyalty to the test in order to be able to accept him among his confidants. Lannert has to sit idly by a punitive action by inmates who beat up inmate JellyBelly while doing sports in order to give him a lesson. Lannert provides this to Director Dr. Wilkens as a sports accident and normal hardship when playing football. Franke is impressed. He shows that he approached Barbara Scheffler a good year ago and made her his lover, with the knowledge and approval of Schultz and Carsten Scheffler. For his silence and his cooperation, Lannert receives money, which he finds in an envelope in his locker .

Meanwhile, Bootz suspects that Barbara Scheffler knows more than she admits and urges her to talk. When Franke found out about this, he arranged for inmate Bulkin, a two-time murderer, to be secretly "released", who visited Barbara in her apartment in the evening, masked, and beat her up as a warning to remain silent. Although the connections are obvious to the investigators, prosecutor Álvarez cannot do anything as she still lacks the evidence that can be used in court. So Lannert and Bootz decide to use Barbara as a decoy to blow Frankes and Schultze's system. She agrees. She lets Franke know that she will unpack. The latter then organized that Bulkin should strike again in two days and this time finally silence Barbara. This time Lannert is supposed to enable the secret "free passage" during his evening shift. He informs Bootz, who is organizing the surveillance of Barbara's house with a police force. But the next day, during Lannert's evening shift, Drake is surprisingly sent out on "outdoor play", one day early. Lannert tries in vain to contact Bootz. Thereupon he tries to persuade Schultz to end the operation, since his daughter is in danger, but he replies that Franke often changes his plans at short notice to make sure that nobody betrays him. He then anesthetizes Lannert with a taser and locks him in an empty cell.

Bootz, to whom Lannert was only able to send a few empty SMS messages as a warning , makes his way to Franke's house, because the King is Holger Drake's real target. The murderer enters the Frankes house masked, but is caught and shot there by Bootz. Then Franke appears and shoots the wounded Drake to silence him. But now the evidence is sufficient, and Franke is arrested, as is Dr. Wilkens and Schultz, who previously outed Lannert to the inmates as police officers and wanted to leave them to them. Just as Lannert is about to be beaten up by a group of inmates, Bootz shows up with a police force and saves him.

Franke and Schultz, together with a group of sworn law enforcement officers, had built a system of dependencies, bribery and extortion within the prison by releasing murderers who did paid jobs “outside” and then returned unnoticed. Their prison sentence served as an alibi and they received perks such as prostitutes , drugs or sick leave for their services . Franke kept Barbara Scheffler as a lover. This and the unclean machinations of the group put such a strain on Carsten Scheffler's conscience that he committed suicide in the prison cellar. To cover this up, Franke's people hung him up in the woods. Schultz wanted to stop all of this and therefore organized Holger Drake's release to get rid of Franke.

background

  • The Zuffenhausen correctional facility shown in the film is fictional. The prison scenes were shot in the Rosdorf prison .

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Freilang on June 9, 2014 was seen by 6.42 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 23.2 percent for Das Erste .

Reviews

At Frankfurter Allgemeine , Marco Dettweiler criticizes and finds: “ With his calm direction, Martin Eigler gives the viewer plenty of time to deal with the ailing structure of a correctional facility. He rarely makes use of well-known prison clichés. The depiction of everyday prison life is largely realistic. This is also due to the well-cast supporting roles. In this way, Hans-Heinrich Hardt shows how one can present convincingly with reduced facial expressions. "

Thomas Gehringer from tittelbach.tv calls this crime scene smart and entertaining. He writes: "For a long time, the tension is not based on speed and dynamics, but on precise observation and a skilfully staged network of relationships inside and outside the prison universe."

At Spiegel Online , Christian Buß finds : “Shortly before the big summer break, the 'crime scene' is really scary again.” […] “Mess in Swabia: you almost get the impression that those in charge at SWR wanted the particularly staid 'crime scene' of the Make up for the past. In the last episode with Lannert and Boots there was already a certain new hardness, now there is a testosterone-fueled, but also coherent prison shocker. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Data on the crime scene episode release on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on June 11, 2014.
  2. ↑ quotas for Tatort episode clearance on noz.de, accessed on June 11, 2014.
  3. ↑ Marco Dettweiler: Today a king, tomorrow a murderer at FAZ.net , accessed on February 4, 2016.
  4. ↑ Thomas Gehringer: Richy Müller, Klare, Knaup, Martin Eigler. A clever, entertaining prison "crime scene" film review called up at tittelbach.tv.
  5. ↑ Christian Buß : Prison "Tatort" from Stuttgart: Mess in Schwabenland at spiegel.de, accessed.
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