Crime scene: homeward

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Homeward
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MDR
Saxonia Media
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 766 ( List )
First broadcast June 6, 2010 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Johannes Grieser
script Heike Rübbert
production Jan Kruse
Sven Döbler
music Jens Langbein
Robert Schulte-Hemming
camera Wolf Siegelmann
cut Esther Weinert
occupation

Heimwärts is an episode of the German crime series Tatort from 2010. The Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk film was first broadcast on June 6, 2010 on Das Erste . It is the 766th crime scene episode and the eighth case with the Leipzig investigator duo Saalfeld and Keppler . The murder of a geriatric nurse draws attention to the care shortage and the marginalized social classes: an educational story about aging with a criminal background.

action

Anna Kowski is a geriatric nurse and drives from house to house to look after the elderly. One evening she is found dead in the basement of her apartment building. Saalfeld and Keppler look around the dead man's apartment and find traces of an argument. Since she had entered the Holst family as the next appointment in the calendar, the investigators asked there. The family is very busy professionally and therefore mobile home care takes care of the demented grandpa. Marie Holst reports on a quarrel that she had observed the day before between Anna and a young man. They look for him and Keppler remembers having seen him in front of Anna Kowski's house. Daniel Bergmann states that Anna was his girlfriend. Since he is suspicious and has traces of injury, Daniel is examined by the medical officer. The traces of battle in Anna's apartment are verifiably his, but he denies having done anything to her.

Saalfeld and Keppler visit Anna's employer, Mike Breuker. He describes Anna as a reliable carer and that she was very popular with the patients because she always made time for her foster children. The investigators find that she had to work for Breuker at the minimum wage because she was not a fully trained nurse. A large amount of money and a data CD with fake health insurance bills are found in Anna's car. From this, the investigators conclude that she no longer wanted to be exploited and that Breuker may have blackmailed her with it.

A short time later, Elsa Kluge, another patient of Anna, is found dead in her house. Since she has given all of her property to Mike Breuker's nursing service, the latter is highly suspect. However, it was only through Anna's commitment that the old people had confidence in her and the care company. That again casts doubt on Breuker's perpetrator.

In contrast, the Holst family's financial situation is extremely tense. The grandpa needed care around the clock, but they cannot afford it. They do not want to sell their farm because it has been owned by the family for so long and should remain so. When Grandpa Holst has to be taken to hospital at short notice, it is discovered there that he must have been exposed to physical violence.

The situation comes to a head when Mike Breuker is attacked and critically injured in the immediate vicinity of the Holst family's farm. The emergency doctor is unable to predict whether he will get through. As it turns out, he wanted to build a new nursing home here and needed the family's property. Since Grandpa Holst had complete confidence in Anna, she managed to get him to sign over the property to Breuker. In return, he should get a free place in the new home. When Keppler wants to go to see Hannes Holst, he just comes across how he beats his father massively. As a result, Holst is said to be arrested and his wife confesses that she went to Anna that day and wanted to talk to her. Anna would have been so complacent and wanted to report her husband for the abuse. She did not manage to dissuade her from filing a complaint and during the argument Anna fell and hit her head on the floor. She also admits the attack on Mike Breuker.

From the facial expressions of Marie and Svenja Holst, Saalfeld becomes clear that Marie Holst is responsible for Anna Kowski's death, but that the attack on Breuker was perpetrated by her daughter. She had seen her mother beg Breuker not to take the farm away from them, but he had just laughed. When her mother left, she tried to talk to Breuker. When the latter mocked her too and advised her to pack her things because the excavators were coming tomorrow, Svenja took a stone in emotion and hit Breuker on the head.

background

The shooting for this crime scene took place in Leipzig and the area around Leipzig.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Heimwärts on June 6, 2010 was seen by 8.10 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.4% for Das Erste .

Reviews

The reviews of this crime scene are mostly positive. Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv praises this Leipzig crime scene and writes: “The mix of crime and drama with adrenaline rushes for the heroes is quite successful in terms of entertainment. Also varied is Keppler's involvement as a nurse against his will. Concentrated crime drama with convincing actor performances. [...] A control freak who does not have himself under control, a black sheep in the growth sector of the care service, one who does not stop at the accounts of his wards, and a family who is concerned about the mental decline of their grandfather and the rising costs for the supervision threatens to break apart [sic!] - in this manageable spectrum, the Leipzig 'Tatort' commissioners are investigating in their eighth case. [Tittelbach gives great praise to the actors:] Johanna Gastdorf quietly and nuanced as usual, Karl Kranzkowski, also one of these great actors and water carriers, Dirk Borchardt, whom one always likes to see as a puke, Joachim Tomaschewsky, whose many faced dementia sufferers gives an idea of ​​this paradoxical disease, and Nina Gummich ('The Wolves'), who makes it clear that she is one of the great talents in this country. "

At Stern.de , Sophie Albers states “that 'Tatort: ​​Heimwärts' has turned out to be a successful piece of crime television. […] It's about dementia and loneliness, feeding and drug allocation. But all of this only as far as the story really needs, which makes the difficult subject surprisingly easy to digest. [...] 'Heimwärts' does not reinvent the crime wheel, but it maintains the balance between enjoying the murder rate and personal concern for the story. The balanced juxtaposition works right down to the sounds of the background music that hold the gloomy basic tone. "

Gregor Dolak at Focus.de says: “The Leipzig 'Tatort' finds [for the problems of our aging society and the influence of the care industry] images on both sides of Hades, which - in addition to an exciting thriller - also offer a disturbing analysis of society. [...] The 'crime scene' is often accused of exchanging its thriller assignment with politically motivated social criticism. In the current 'case', at least, he delivered both with a critical urgency. "

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm judge this episode as “a well-played, intense everyday drama [if] the writer hadn't been told that a thriller had to have action. This is how it sometimes becomes gross nonsense. [Conclusion:] Aims at good topics and misses “.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Filming locations and audience ratings on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on February 13, 2014.
  2. ^ Rainer Tittelbach film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 13, 2014.
  3. ↑ Sophie Albers: Better dead than old on stern.de, accessed on February 13, 2014.
  4. ↑ Gregor Dolak dead people do not wear diamonds. at focus.de, accessed on February 13, 2014.
  5. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 13, 2014.
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