Crime scene: Happy Birthday, Sarah

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Happy Birthday, Sarah
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Maran Film on behalf of SWR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 888 ( list )
First broadcast December 1, 2013 on Das Erste , ORF 2 , SRF 1
Rod
Director Oliver Kienle
script Wolfgang Stauch
production Nils Reinhardt ,
Sabine Tettenborn
music Heiko Maile
camera Jürgen Carle
cut Barbara Brückner
occupation

Happy Birthday, Sarah is a TV movie from the crime series Tatort . The contribution was produced by Maran Film on behalf of Südwestrundfunk . Directed by Oliver Kienle . The first broadcast on German, Austrian and Swiss television took place on December 1, 2013. It is the 13th case of the Stuttgart investigation team Lannert and Bootz , in which they have to solve the murder of a social worker this time.

action

Andreas Haber, social worker in the children's and youth center "Klaus 'Haus", is found dead in the girls' toilet. Someone pushed his head into a toilet bowl and flushed it until he drowned there.

Lannert speaks to Sven Vogel, the head of the facility. He wants the house to be able to be opened again quickly for the young people, as they can find a hold here. In front of the door, Bootz meets Sarah Baumbach, who is noticeable for her extremely aggressive behavior. He goes after her and can talk to her. She lives with her sister because her father is in prison and her mother is being treated in the psychiatric ward.

Lannert learns from the social worker that Sarah made hints that Andreas Haber had molested her. The evidence suggests that Sarah is definitely a possible perpetrator. During the interrogation, she says that Haber sexually coerced her and admits that she killed Haber with a baton. The baton is secured and Sarah's fingerprints are found on it. Nevertheless, the investigators doubt, since they consider it unlikely that a girl will be able to use the strength to commit the act in the form in which it took place. Since Sarah is only thirteen and therefore not yet of criminal age, the prosecutor has to set her free.

Despite Sarah's confession, Lannert and Bootz continue to investigate, as it remains to be clarified whether it was self-defense or murder. To find out more, Lannert works on a temporary basis in Klaus' house. He comes across the shady machinations of Frank Schöllhammer. He is the son and rich heir of the founder of the foundation, who brought the Klaus' house into being, and makes it a pleasure to open his house and pool to the visitors of the youth club with a grand gesture. This leads to the assumption that Schöllhammer is creatively channeling the foundation money intended for the youth center into other channels and that Sven Vogel and Andreas Haber found out about it and got into a dispute.

Lannert and Bootz are able to convince Sarah to talk to them again. They explain to her that they think she is covering someone. They also offer her the opportunity to move into a flat share to get away from her sister and her violent boyfriend. Sarah admits that she didn't kill Haber after all, but doesn't trust the police and evades their care. However, Lannert and Bootz are able to follow her trail and find out that she has been meeting Sven Vogel in a hotel for a long time.

So it turns out that Haber had also noticed this and asked Vogel to leave Sarah alone, otherwise he would be forced to report this to the youth welfare office. Vogel then killed Haber and Sarah took on the murder out of love for Vogel. Since she is only 13 years old, she cannot be held criminally responsible. At one last meeting with Vogel at the hotel, Sarah points a gun at him. Lannert and Bootz can get her to give up a few seconds before her 14th birthday.

background

The shooting took place under the working title child soldiers in Stuttgart, Baden-Baden , Rastatt and Karlsruhe . Bootz's daughter Maja is not played by Johanna Janssen in this episode, but by Miriam Joy Jung. The following titles were used as background music:

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Happy Birthday, Sarah on December 1, 2013 was seen by 9.34 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.0 percent for Das Erste .

Reviews

Volker Bergmeister from tittelbach.tv thinks this crime scene: “offers an entertaining, ambitious mixture of social drama and crime thriller entertainment. […] Fresh, fast-paced, music-heavy and well balanced […], the story […] is lively and carries on to the finale. And the 17-year-old leading actress Ruby O. Fee is a real find. "

Jenny Jecke at Moviepilot.de criticizes Happy Birthday, Sarah with the words: “The last thrillers from Stuttgart could not always convince qualitatively. The new crime scene compensates for that. […] [Even if] some plot threads […] fall by the wayside unfinished. On the whole, however, we are dealing with a convincing crime thriller that benefits in particular from the talented young actress Ruby O. Fee. […] Waterproof is the case in Happy Birthday, Sarah! Definitely not. In the course of the crime scene, some tracks are laid out with all the obviousness, which are then swept off the table quite lazily or simply no longer mentioned. After all, it is never a good sign when characters who are thought to be of vital importance disappear in the middle of the film and are never to be seen again. [...] Apart from that, the crime scene offers entertaining entertainment, which loses some of its dynamism after the first half hour, but instead sensibly integrates the private life of the newly separated Bootz into the action. "

At Filmstarts.de , Lars-Christian Daniels awards three out of five possible stars. He believes that this crime scene “is entertaining over long distances, but for a real thriller, the story, which follows the tried and tested Sunday evening scheme, lacks more courage and fresh ideas.”

Jens Szameit at web.de praised the episode and judged that the director Oliver Kienle “[succeeded] in creating a tense 'Tatort' with a harmonious atmosphere, good pace and a remarkable heroine: a precocious fruit, played fabulously by the young actress Ruby O. Fee. "

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm said that the director had succeeded in creating a “dense social drama” and wrote: “Youth on the brink. Tragic and gripping. "

Awards

Ruby O. Fee received for her role in the crime scene: Happy Birthday, Sarah to Jupiter in 2014 as Best National Actress and Günter-Strack Television Prize .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Data on the Tatort episode Happy Birthday, Sarah on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 12, 2014.
  2. ↑ Playlist ( memento from November 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on daserste.de, accessed on February 9, 2014.
  3. ↑ Volker Bergmeister film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 9, 2014.
  4. ↑ Jenny Jecke: Stuttgart wishes a Happy Birthday, Sarah! at moviepilot.de, accessed on February 9, 2014.
  5. ^ Lars-Christian Daniels film review on filmstarts.de, accessed on February 9, 2014.
  6. ↑ Jens Szameit “Happy Birthday, Sarah” is a brilliant piece on web.de, accessed on February 9, 2014.
  7. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 9, 2014.
  8. ↑ TV stars Ruby O. Fee and Charly Hübner win the Jupiter Award.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release from Hubert Burda Media from March 12, 2014@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hubert-burda-media.de  
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