Crime scene: tough dogs

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Tough dogs
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Maran movie
length 87 minutes
classification Episode 534 ( List )
First broadcast June 1, 2003 on Das Erste
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Director Thomas Bohn
script Thomas Bohn
production Kerstin Ramck
music Hans Franek
camera Rainer Gutjahr
cut Inge Bohmann
occupation

Tough Dogs is a television film from the crime series Tatort . It first aired on June 1, 2003 on Das Erste . In his fifth case, chief detective Jan Casstorff ( Robert Atzorn ) and his colleagues Eduard Holicek ( Tilo Prückner ) and Jenny Graf ( Julia Schmidt ) are about an escaped sex offender and a pedophile ring in the Hamburg neighborhood .

action

When he was on vacation, his colleague Holicek went to the detective chief inspector Jan Casstorff to tell him that the prostitute tormentor Roman Born had fled while he was outdoors. Casstorff, who arrested Born at the time, does not want to break off his vacation. That changed, however, when two feminicides occurred in the Hamburg red light district . The victims were strangled with pantyhose without prior torture. So they could well have fallen victim to Born, whose past deeds were the same. Schöndauer, their pimp, turns up at the place where the women were found and reports that another prostitute, Monika Bach, has been missing since the morning. The strongly suspect Born must now be found at all costs.

Casstorff seeks out the therapist Simon Ruder, with whom Born was during his free time. The inspector's allegations, however, bounce off Ruder, who is convinced that his therapy has hit Born and that he is cured. The tide turns when Roman Born is found hanged in a park at dawn. Ruder, who has eavesdropped on the police radio, appears at the location and signals that he is blaming himself if he was wrong. The forensic investigation shows that Born was accompanied by a man. Casstorff's colleague Jenny Graf found that recordings from a surveillance camera installed at the place where Born disappeared show Schondauer's henchman Jojo, who forced Born into a rental car.

Extensive investigations in the neighborhood indicate that Schöndauer has something to do with child trafficking . This would also explain the fear of the prostitute Sana Condelescu. She stated to the police that she had spoken to Schondauer's girls Monika and Pia, the two murdered people, about Schondauer's pedophile ring. Monika and Pia would have asked him to pay them a full severance payment, otherwise they would have to go to the police. Casstorff, Holiczek and Graf are now opening up the connections. Born was the ideal straw man for Schöndauer to eliminate the women who were traitors in his eyes. When Schöndauer is standing in front of his club "La Savina" and he is about to surrender, a vehicle races towards him, which is controlled by Ruder, who wants to compensate for his mistake by killing the pimp and hit man who he is for Born declared cured to murder again.

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast, this Tatort episode was followed by 6.29 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 24.3%.

criticism

TV Spielfilm judged somewhat disappointed: "Dramaturgical therapy would certainly have done the somewhat heavily overloaded story very well." Conclusion: "Tough dogs, but not a real bite."

Kino.de took a different view and said, “Hamburg, which is cool anyway, shows itself from its coldest side in this 'crime scene' [...]. The pictures [are] almost colorless, trees and bushes are not adorned with green leaves, and the booming techo music ensures that the visual discomfort also spreads acoustically, hardly a friendly word disturbs [ e] the sadness. Nevertheless, the film 'Tough Dogs' grabbed one of the films from the very first moment ”. About Robert Atzorn as Jan Casstorff it was said that he had adapted to the “hostile atmosphere” and that he was rarely seen as “so unwelcoming”. Regarding the private level of the commissioner, "whose son turns out to be a cuckoo's egg", it was of the opinion that the story with his ex (Nina Petri), who had once let him down, was "long gone". The conclusion, however, was: "A strong 'crime scene', cool but gripping."

The TV magazine Prisma pointed out that for the 'Tatort'-experienced director Thomas Bohn this was "already the fifth case with Commissioner Casstorff alias Robert Atzorn as the main character" and that he had three more cases out of a total of until 2007, when Atzorn announced his resignation 15 turned.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: Tough dogs at tatort-fundus - data, accessed on July 22, 2016.
  2. ^ Tatort: ​​Tough Dogs at tvspielfilm.de (with 20 film creators), accessed on July 23, 2016.
  3. ^ Tatort: ​​Tough Dogs at kino.de. Retrieved September 9, 2017.
  4. ↑ crime scene - Hard Dogs adS prisma.de. Retrieved September 22, 2017.
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