Crime scene: urban warfare
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Urban warfare |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 729 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | April 13, 2009 on Das Erste , ORF , Schweizer Fernsehen |
| Rod | |
| Director | Florian Baxmeyer |
| script |
Johannes W. Betz , Peter Braun |
| production | Kerstin Ramcke |
| music | Jakob Grunert |
| camera | Marcus Kanter |
| cut | Nikolai Hartmann |
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House warfare is the 729th episode in the crime series crime scene . It was produced by NDR and premiered on April 13, 2009 on Erste . Directed by Florian Baxmeyer , the script is by Johannes W. Betz and Peter Braun . Chief Detective Commissioner Cenk Batu ( Mehmet Kurtuluş ) has to investigate SEK officers in his second case and is also involved in a kidnapping case.
action
In the Hamburg SEK, some colleagues sell insider knowledge and military material abroad. Kohnau instructs Batu as an undercover agent to uncover the people behind it. Batu initially refuses to investigate colleagues, but is then persuaded to do so. He quickly succeeds in making contact with Lars Jansen, one of the suspected SEK officers. In the end he is even recruited by Jansen for the illegal business. So that he can improve his salary, he should also act as a trainer in the Middle East.
While Batu is convinced that he has almost completed his mission, the men are called to a mission with a hostage situation. The alleged kidnapper, Zoltan Didic, has not taken any hostages and is not making any demands. Instead, he tells Jansen, who is on site as a sniper, that he is holding his wife and daughter prisoner and that their lives are threatened by a time bomb. Then Didic takes his own life in front of everyone. Jansen was seriously injured in a car accident shortly afterwards. With the last of his strength, he explains to Batu that old accounts from the time of the Kosovo war are still open between him and Didic . Didic blames Jansen for the death of his wife and son and for that he now wanted to get revenge.
Batu sets out to save Jansen's family. He informs his superior Kohnau, who is initially against it. He fears that Batu's cover could be blown and that he endangers his actual mission - after all, neither the suspects nor the people behind them have been found - but he helps him. Both are now trying to find the abductee. In the Jansen's home there are traces of blood and a large gift box containing a Polaroid photo and a cell phone with a video message from Didic. He wants to give Jansen the chance to save his family, which he himself was not granted. The trail leads from one clue to the next. In the end, he calls on a Stephan Istjevic to be killed before he would kill Jansen. However, Batu recognizes Istjevic as the man from whom Jansen recently received an envelope with money for his "special services". So it is clear that Didic also wanted to get revenge on Istjevic by inciting him and Jansen on each other. After all, Istjevic is indirectly complicit in the death of his family because of his dealings with the SEK men. Batu manages to convince Istjevic to help him find the two abductees. On the way to the hiding place, however, Batu loses the trail that Didic left. But with astute reflection he finds her again and is able to save Jansen's wife and daughter.
In all of this, Batu has not forgotten his actual assignment and is sure that Istjevic is not the only one behind the scenes. Horst Strelsky, the SEK operations manager, can also be transferred via a recall tracking.
background
The production company Studio Hamburg shot the crime scene episode Häuserkampf from November 18 to December 17, 2008 in Hamburg and the surrounding area. The hostage-taking by Didic is shown excerpts in the Police Call 110 episode Between the Worlds .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Häuserkampf on April 13, 2009 was seen in Germany by a total of 5.86 million viewers and achieved a market share of 18.4% for Das Erste .
criticism
The criticism of the WAZ aimed at the fact that, since the instructions for this "duel with a dead person" are given by mobile phone, the devices determined the crime story more than in any other crime scene . "The episode turns into a nerve-wracking scavenger hunt."
The Mitteldeutsche Zeitung read: “Here you see Commissioner Batu in the worst fix of conscience an undercover police officer can get into. He lets his boss Kohnau - again played dull and slightly bizarre by Peter Jordan - reluctantly put him on a colleague who is said to be involved in all kinds of dark business. And so it happens that the whole film 'tends to strike a (a) dark, elegiac tone' and Kurtulus as Batu often [stands] in detailed recordings like a brooding Hamlet ”.
The editor Carin Pawlak from the online editorial team of Focus judged:
“A complex case in which every subordinate clause counts. Burglary, theft, destruction of evidence and: 'fooling superiors', as the superiors say. He also says: 'Fucking Turk', this Uwe Kohnau, the boss of Cenk Batu. Peter Jordan plays it wonderfully as an office chair warmer with involuntary excursions into the world beyond the time clock. "
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv summarized his criticism as follows:
“Cenk Batu continues to break new ground. No corpse in the first five minutes, no Whodunit, no conventional investigation. The second film 'Häuserkampf' is more of a thriller than a classic crime novel. Batu is constantly stuck in the personal contradiction, to abuse the trust of the milieu in which he goes for his investigations. "
Web links
- Urban warfare in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- House warfare in the online film database
- Summary of the plot of house warfare on the ARD website
- House fighting at the crime scene fundus
- House fighting at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filming data on the crime scene fund
- ↑ Quota for initial broadcast on the Tatort fund
- ↑ The crime scene "Häuserkampf" vibrates with tension , on derwesten.de, accessed on November 21, 2013.
- ^ The NDR experiment at mz-web.de, accessed on November 21, 2013.
- ↑ Der Streber-Türke on focus.de, accessed on November 21, 2013.
- ↑ scene criticism from Tittelbach at tittelbach.tv., Accessed November 21, 2013.
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