Crime scene: home game
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Home game |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 559 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | February 29, 2004 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Jauch |
| script | Orkun Ertener |
| production |
Doris J. Heinze Studio Hamburg film production |
| music | Stephan Massimo |
| camera | Busso from Müller |
| cut | Claudia Wontorra |
| occupation | |
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Heimspiel is a TV film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk under the direction of Thomas Jauch and first broadcast on German television on February 29, 2004. It is the 559th crime scene episode and the fourth case of Chief Detective Charlotte Lindholm , special investigator at the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office .
action
"Gerlitz AG", a Lüneburg pharmaceutical company for vaccines, is repeatedly the target of environmental activists due to genetic research projects. One day the head of the company, Klaus Gerlitz, is attacked by another vehicle on the street. After his car rolls over, he can get to safety relatively unharmed. Strangely enough, the masked perpetrator provides help and pulls the chauffeur out of the car just before it explodes. Before more observers arrive, he disappears.
After this incident, Chief Detective Charlotte Lindholm is requested to take over the case. The pharmaceutical company does not trust the local authorities and would therefore like support from the LKA, a "home game" for Lindholm, as she grew up in Lüneburg. After a questioning by Klaus Gerlitz, Lindholm comes to the assumption that the attack may not target the senior boss, but his son. That would explain why the assassin stopped his action. Shortly afterwards, a ransom demand for two million euros arrives. An “action alliance” whose members live on a farm that has just burned down comes under suspicion. Through a former school friend, Lindholm manages to get in touch with some of the members. They state that they do not use any violence in their actions, but there are two of them who have a private account with "Gerlitz AG". However, since one of them is currently in custody, he is no longer the perpetrator, but his girlfriend Sonja Bertram could be involved in the blackmail.
In the meantime, Klaus Gerlitz is kidnapped by strangers despite personal protection. Lindholm meets Rolf Jacobi at "Gerlitz AG", whom she knows from earlier and who works for Klaus Gerlitz as a personal advisor and head of security. Together with him and with Belinda Utzmann from the Lüneburg criminal police, she supervises the transfer of money, which is supposed to be done by Gerlitz's son. The kidnapper gives instructions over the phone and Lindholm tries to catch the kidnapper with her people. Rolf Jacobi is injured by a shot and the ransom is taken from the perpetrator. After he notices that the money has become unusable due to a paint carton, he demands the sum again.
After the failed action, Lindholm should hand over the case to the state security. She tells her boss, Richard Poll, that she has evidence that Gerlitz's son is behind the kidnapping and that the action group is only used as a distraction. However, she cannot convince Poll and is officially not allowed to investigate further. But she is sure that Stefan Gerlitz deliberately let the ransom delivery fail because he doesn't “want” his father back. On the one hand he was kidnapped himself as a teenager and his father refused to pay a ransom in order not to give room to blackmailers, on the other hand he has different goals in "Gerlitz AG" than his father and knows that he would never approve these projects for him. She confronts him with these facts and he admits it.
Lindholm now finds out that her former colleague Rolf Jacobi is behind the kidnapping. To find him, she follows in the footsteps of the second ransom delivery, which ends at an amusement park. There she can arrest Jacobi and free Klaus Gerlitz.
reception
Audience rating
The film was seen by 8.74 million viewers when it first aired on February 29, 2004, corresponding to a market share of 23.3 percent.
criticism
The critics of TV Spielfilm point with the thumbs up, but they say: "Overconstructed, but the ladies shine."
Lars-Christian Daniels from wiewardertatort says: "'Heimspiel' has many weaknesses and very few strengths." "Lindholm's fourth 'Tatort' mission, which despite the sporty crime title has nothing to do with physical exercise, rarely causes sweat in the audience forehead. This is less due to the fact that the obligatory opening match is missing and therefore no murderer has to be caught, but rather because Orkun Ertener (Fathers) hopelessly overloaded his script with private disruptions and nipped any emergence of tension in the bud. "
Web links
- Crime scene: Home in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Heimspiel on the ARD website
- Home game at the crime scene fundus
- Home game at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatort: Heimspiel at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on September 22, 2015.
- ↑ TV Krimi.Ihr fourth case leads Charlotte Lindholm of Lüneberg. Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on September 22, 2015.
- ↑ Tatort: Hexentanz at wiewardertatort.blogspot.de, accessed on September 22, 2015.
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