Crime Scene: Heart Failure (2004)

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Heart failure
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MR
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 575 ( List )
First broadcast October 17, 2004 on Das Erste
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Director Thomas Freundner
script Stephan Falk ,
Thomas Freundner
production Liane Jessen
music JJ Gerndt
camera Armin Alker
cut Stefan Blue
occupation

Heart failure is a German television film from the ARD crime series Tatort . The case of the Hessischer Rundfunk from 2004 with the Frankfurt investigators Dellwo and Sänger deals with the issues of growing old and loneliness and has been awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize , among other things .

action

The morning after going to the opera together with her peer Alexander Nilgens, the elderly Elisabeth Anuschek is found dead in her apartment. Although the emergency doctor diagnosed a natural death, the inexperienced detective Springstub, in exceeding her competences, arranges an elaborate stripe light topometry to clarify the cause of death. Meanwhile, Chief Detective Dellwo finds the mummified corpse of another old woman while chasing a handbag robber in an unlocked apartment . Here too, after a superficial examination, a doctor determines a natural cause of death.

The questioning of Ms. Anuschek's neighbors only shows that people have little to do with each other and don't know each other. According to the criminal investigation, the woman was suffocated with a fur coat. Your cleaning lady notices that Ms. Anuschek's savings are missing. The suspicion of a crime also arises in the case of the mummified corpse, Mrs. Eisenblätter, who had been lying dead in her apartment for eleven months without being noticed. Since her money has also disappeared, investigators assume that the two cases are related. After unsuccessful research in Ms. Eisenblätters residential area, a senior citizen said to Dellwo that single old women formed the "army of the invisible".

In the Anuschek case, it turns out that her son tried to incapacitate his mother and she hid her money from him. Alexander Nilgens comes under suspicion after a hat from his fur shop is found on the second body. Also wanted is the drug addicted handbag thief Jerry, who showed Dellwo the way to the second body. However, after he is caught and his bad condition is revealed, Jerry's involvement in the murders appears unlikely.

Singer and Dellwo found further suspected cases among the numerous deaths that were succinctly documented as heart failure . Another murdered elderly woman is found in the Bahnhofsviertel. The lonely woman was in contact with Charlotte Sänger shortly before. Singer, who has already been emotionally attacked by the murder of her own parents, is then withdrawn from the case and comes into conflict with her superior because she disregards this order.

A new lead emerges when it becomes known that the murder victims were members of a reading group . The initially arrested driver of the reading circle is soon relieved, as he had only recently been employed there. His predecessor, the business administration student Michael Rost, is caught and confesses during interrogation how he got the old ladies' money and then killed them. He hopes for mitigating circumstances, since he only killed old people and not children.

background

The shooting took place in March and April 2004. The first broadcast of the film on October 17 was the ARD's most successful fictional program in 2004 with 9.34 million viewers . The total market share was 26.5%, among 14 to 49 year olds the market share was 21.5%. Between 2005 and 2009, heart failure was repeated eleven times in the television programs of the ARD broadcasters involved in the crime scene and on ORF .

It is the fifth case of the Frankfurt crime scene investigators Dellwo and Sänger and already the second crime scene episode entitled Heart Failure . The first came from Saarland Broadcasting from 1989.

criticism

Michael Seewald praises the film in the FAZ : “In the episode 'Heart Failure' […] the difficulty became easy and the easy difficult, paired biting social criticism with pointed joke and high acting skills. The 'Tatort' from Frankfurt was conventional in the best possible way. […] Jörg Schüttauf plays this Led Zeppelin-loving police officer full of world and self-doubt with that disarming charm that Götz George as Schimanski only displayed in his best moments. Because Dellwo's defenseless honesty seems much more real than George's, the former 'investigator' Schüttauf could easily be called the better Schimmi - if he had needed it. […] The script also gave Andrea Sawatzki the opportunity to develop her talent with imaginary or real psycho caprioles. Armin Alker's camera fell particularly in love with her [...] The parade of first-class actors ends with the last two suspects. […] Jan Erik Stahlberg […] was allowed to give the unmoved, murderous reading circle driver so much coldness to the heart that even Dellwo came to tears. A 'crime scene' at the highest level. "

Christian Buß wrote in the taz : “This is how this 'crime scene' of the Hessischer Rundfunk once again integrates sociological and forensic considerations into a story that tells of life and death in the financial metropolis with existential gloom. [...] Stephan Falk (book) Thomas Freundner (director) built these grueling official procedures into a case that was not boring for a second and which the investigators [...] were increasingly demanding personally. [...] 'Heart failure' is usual tough stuff from Frankfurt: a kitsch-free study about aging and loneliness in the big city. "

For Judith von Sternburg from the Frankfurter Rundschau , Andrea Sawatzki in particular contributed to the success of the film: “It is thanks to [the] Commissioner [...] that the spread of the private sphere in the crime scene is once again considerable, but not a problem. Secondly, it is due to all the other actors who play so plausibly, and to a director (Thomas Freundner) who lets play so plausibly that heart failure becomes a story of life. [...] The book [...] sweeps over all the wonderfully intricate solutions and comes up with an icy ending, told in peace. "

Prisma online judges the film as worth seeing : “'Tatort' veteran Thomas Freundner [...] staged the best contribution to date about the young Frankfurt investigator duo with this particularly precarious case. This is not just about solving the case: The whole thing makes you think. "

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: heart failure . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ "Grimme-Tatort" from the television film department of HR. In: Blickpunkt: Film (online) from March 18, 2005, accessed on May 14, 2015
  3. ↑ Weekly winner: "Tatort" with over nine million viewers. In : quotemeter.de , accessed on May 14, 2015.
  4. ^ Tatort Fundus: Heart Failure , accessed April 8, 2010
  5. ↑ Michael Seewald, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 19, 2004, quoted from the press review of the Tatort fund , accessed on April 6, 2010
  6. ↑ Christian Buß , Die Tageszeitung of October 16, 2004, quoted from the press review of the Tatort fund , accessed on April 6, 2010
  7. ^ Judith von Sternburg, Frankfurter Rundschau of October 16, 2004, quoted from the press review of the Tatort fund , accessed on April 6, 2010
  8. ^ Prisma: Tatort - Heart Failure , accessed November 26, 2015
  9. ↑ Crime scene: heart failure (ARD / HR). In: Grimme Preis. Retrieved August 23, 2019 .
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