Crime scene: HAL
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | HAL |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 991 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | August 28, 2016 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Niki Stein |
| script | Niki Stein |
| music | Jacki Engelken |
| camera | Stefan Sommer |
| cut | Barbara Brückner |
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HAL is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The by Südwestrundfunk Post produced the 991. Tatort episode and was on 28 August 2016 First erstgesendet. The Stuttgart investigator duo Lannert and Bootz is investigating its 19th case.
action
February 2017: A child discovers the body of a woman in the Neckar . The Commissioners Lannert and Bootz start the investigation. They find out that the dead woman is the drama student Elena Stemmle and that she had two part-time jobs: she worked as a prostitute for the escort service of the online service Love Adventure and was also a test subject for the company BlueSky based in Stuttgart.
The commissioners have a video showing the murder of Elena. Loaded the video to BlueSky developer David Bogmann since it after the Lannert and Bootz current information on a used by him address IP to the Internet on a Darknetplattform uploaded and then on a swap meet for snuff video was released. Bogmann is called for interrogation and initially denies having known Elena. Further investigations show, however, that Bogmann knew Elena and had booked her in a hotel under a false name on the evening of her death.
Bogmann is developing a security program of the same name for the IT company BlueSky, which works in a distributed manner , learns and acts autonomously with artificial intelligence and is widespread, in particular already running in the background on many smartphones without the knowledge of the user. The managing director Mea Welsch and the data scientist Bogmann are increasingly losing control of their software, the system monitors Bogmann, Welsch and everyone around them and manipulates data. When the computer system finds itself affected by Lannert and Bootz's investigations, it monitors and interferes with their investigations. Among other things, it paralyzes the commissioner's official vehicle.
Bogmann feels increasingly persecuted by BlueSky and tries to shut down the system. When that doesn't work, he breaks into the server room to destroy the system with his sporting weapon. BlueSky triggers an alarm and reports the existence of another person - a cleaning lady - in the server room, whereupon the operations management orders to storm the server room. Bogmann is shot and later succumbs to his injuries.
Bogmann's superior Welsch then admits to the commissioners that he has lost control of BlueSky and shows the investigators that the incriminating video is a computer-generated fake. Lannert and Bootz manage to get a recording of the actual murder of Elena from BlueSky, which proves that Elena is suffocated by her boyfriend out of jealousy after meeting Bogmann .
background
The film was shot from January 26, 2016 to February 26, 2016 in Baden-Baden , Stuttgart and Karlsruhe . A former company building, the future town hall of Meißenheim, served as the location for the headquarters of the software company.
The film title refers to the science fiction classic 2001: A Space Odyssey , in which the fully automatic computer system is called HAL . Similar to the classic film, the computer system tries to turn off and ultimately kill anyone who wants to turn it off. Other elements such. B. the opening sequence and the closing scene quote this film:
- The song little Hansen .
- A match cut , in which a thrown stick is cut into a flying clay pigeon .
- Name similarities: David Bogmann -> David Bowman, Elena Laiskis (the victim) -> Elena (Soviet scientist).
- The BlueSky program welcomes David Bogmann almost as much as HAL David Bowman in the 2001 film.
- Clearly audible breathing sounds (when trying to destroy the system).
The chapters of the film are named after works by Franz Kafka : "Die Verschollene" (in Kafka " Der Verschollene "), " Before the Law ", " The Trial ", " The Metamorphosis ".
The film, released in 2016, is set in 2017 and therefore in the future.
reception
In the blog netzpolitik.org , Anna Biselli pointed out that the crime scene offers a lot of material for network policy discussions. Although he is playing in the near future (2017), many of the political aspects are already a reality: "While the investigators of the Stuttgart police were still inexperienced in cyberspace, their LKA colleagues have already discovered the surveillance instruments for themselves."
Reviews
“Big Data in Little Stuttgart. With this 'crime scene' about real and virtual reality, author and director Niki Stein is less interested in investigation and computer-related details. Rather, he is concerned with the general question of how people steer technology. And technology for people. For example, how does desire change when satisfaction is available in every fine gradation? Which images do we trust when we no longer know who produced them? Where does the control end, where does the manipulation begin? "
“The film is an experiment, more science fiction than crime thriller, Stein tells in chapters, and he delves deeply into various topics from snuff videos to big data. He philosophizes about shot servers and the unwillingness of American security agencies to cooperate. [...] Anyone who gets involved will be drawn into the story, the camera is remarkable, and of course the subject is very big: Who knows what about me, about us, about everything? "
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of HAL on August 28, 2016 was seen by 7.43 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 23.7% for Das Erste .
Web links
- HAL in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the story of HAL on the ARD website
- HAL at the crime scene fund
- HAL at Tatort-Fans.de
- How is a crime scene created using the example of HAL from the Planet-Wissen series
Individual evidence
- ↑ Crime scene: HAL at crew united
- ↑ Ulrike Derndinger: “UFO” in Meißenheim will be the new town hall and “Tatort” location. Badische Zeitung, February 9, 2016, accessed on August 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Hans Spengler: Meißenheim: Südwestrundfunk turns Stuttgart "Tatort". Badische Zeitung, February 23, 2016, accessed on August 30, 2016 .
- ↑ "Böse Machine" - Interview with director Niki Stein in TV Spielfilm , issue 17/2016, page 8f.
- ↑ Anna Biselli: Netzpolitischer Tatort-Check: Retention of data, inventory data query and algorithm control , netzpolitik.org from August 29, 2016, accessed on August 30, 2016.
- ↑ Christian Buß: Stuttgart "Tatort" about artificial intelligence. People, technology, disaster. Spiegel Online, August 26, 2016, accessed on August 8, 2018 : "Rating: 8 out of 10 points"
- ↑ Holger Gertz: Why are you turning me off? Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 26, 2016, accessed on August 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime Check: Sunday, August 28, 2016.quotemeter.de , August 29, 2016, accessed on August 8, 2018 .
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