Crime scene: wedding night
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | wedding-night |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Radio Bremen (RB) Degeto Film |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 843 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | September 16, 2012 on First German Television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Florian Baxmeyer |
| script | Jochen Greve |
| production |
Bernd Bielefeld Claudia Schröder |
| music | Stefan Hansen |
| camera | Marcus Kanter |
| cut | Elke Schloo |
| occupation | |
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Wedding Night is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Radio Bremen and broadcast for the first time on September 16, 2012 in the program Das Erste . For Chief Detective Inga Lürsen ( Sabine Postel ) it is the 26th case in which she is investigating, and for Detective Stedefreund ( Oliver Mommsen ) the 21st case that he has to solve together with Inga Lürsen. This 843rd crime scene episode leads the investigative team to a village wedding that suddenly turns into a hostage drama.
action
Inga Lürsen and Nils Stedefreund are invited to a wedding celebration in the country. In the evening Stedefreund goes for a walk with Paul. Before he knows it, the dog runs into the forest and he has trouble finding it again. In the meantime, two armed and masked men storm into the party. At first everyone thinks that the bride should be kidnapped according to old tradition, but it quickly turns out that the men are serious and act very brutally. All guests must lie on the floor and hand in jewelry, purses, and cell phones. Lürsen is appalled and wonders what to do. After all, she's a police officer. So she offers the hostage takers her help, which they also use. When Schröder, the groom's father, becomes defiant, the gangsters lock him in a room. A short time later he is dead at the end of the cellar stairs. The gangsters deny that they were responsible for his death.
Some of the wedding guests think they know one of the gangsters and bother him. Thereupon he, Wolf Koschwitz, takes off his mask and declares that he wants to find the murderer of his girlfriend Carola. He is certain that someone from society committed the murder for which he was convicted and imprisoned for nine years. In order to rehabilitate himself and to get clarity about Carola's death, he wants the real killer to report now. All guests could then leave. The interrogation turns out to be difficult because the entire wedding party comes from the village and some of them are friends and stick together. Maybe someone silenced Schröder so that he wouldn't reveal the killer he probably knew.
While the wedding party is under pressure and increasingly panicked, Stedefreund is still looking for Paul. In doing so, he slips into a ditch, initially getting stuck with his good suit pants before they slip away completely into the water. Freezing and with bare legs, he chases on after Paul. Back at the car, he is annoyed to find that the car keys are in his pants. Only at second glance does he notice that something is wrong with the party. A look through a crack in the window closed with roller blinds makes it clear to him that someone is serious. He tries to get help on his cell phone, but has no network. Then he looks for the nearest homestead to phone from there. Since he is standing in front of the house owner in his underpants, it is difficult for him to convince her that he is a police officer and wants to get help. But when she notices that her phone line is down, her doubts are dispelled. Provided with a pair of trousers, Stedefreund runs to the street, stops a car and can finally alert the police. With the help of snipers, the police besieged the restaurant and opened fire. The perpetrators then demand a ransom in order to buy time. Simon, who is only interested in prey, secretly escapes through an underground passage, where Stedefreund intercepts him and puts him out of action. Wolf, on the other hand, wants to continue convicting the real perpetrator.
During the nerve-wracking interrogation marathon, Carola's mother, who is also among the wedding guests, slowly began to have doubts about Wolf Koschwitz's guilt. This is how the truth comes to light bit by bit. Rieke confesses to having had a motorcycle accident with Carola under the influence of drugs, but that doesn't convince Wolf. He is certain that Hans Strache, Rieke's father, is the culprit. Scared to death, he confesses that Carola was not dead after the accident, but that he drowned Carola in the water after Rieke had called for him to help. He took this chance because he was afraid that Carola would reveal that he had illegally obtained a building permit with her help. Then he put them in the forest, removed all traces of the accident and, with Schröder's help, laid the wrong track to distract from himself and Rieke. Since Hans Strache feared that Schröder would collapse, he pushed him down the stairs.
background
The film was shot by Radio Bremen and Degeto Film in Bremen, Weyhe - Melchiorshausen and the area around Bremen. With this episode, the Bremen Tatort celebrated its 15th anniversary.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Wedding Night on September 16, 2012 was seen by a total of 8.95 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.00 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
The reviews are mostly negative, as the crime thriller lacks tension and logic. Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv writes: “The initial idea is good, the implementation weak. The script & direction couldn't cope with the challenges of a mass chamber play. Dramaturgically, little is right in this anniversary 'crime scene' from Bremen. 'Wedding night' is neither exciting nor plausible as a drama and at the finale it means for the audience: Crime foreigners ashamed! "
Dieter Hoß at Stern.de says: “The Bremen 'Tatort' for the 15th anniversary could have been a mind game, but it remained harmless. [...] Despite the claustrophobic constellation, there is no nerve-tearing mind game, no intensity. The figures simply remain too woodcut-like, their conflicts from the past too superficial. "
Holger Gertz from Süddeutschen.de says: “The 'Tatort' describes quietly and sometimes laconically a milieu, but it also wants to be a threatening intimate play, he seeks the middle between Detlev Buck and Michael Haneke, but he doesn't find it. Inspector Lürsen keeps the clear head so typical of northern lights, while the gangsters get nervous, the relationships between the hostages are poisoning each other. Creaks lurk at temples, ice buckets fly, blood flows. However, tension is just a word. You don't feel it. "
T-online.de gives a sobering rating: “Complete catastrophe. There is no other way to describe the staging of the [...] Bremen 'Tatort: Wedding Night'. This crime thriller had absolutely nothing to offer in terms of drama, thrills or sophisticated police work. With a lot of effort and strain, he pulled himself there without tension and not even the repeated plunge into slapstick style increased the entertainment value of the story. "
Jakob Biazza at Focus online does not see the whole thing very positively and says that the whole crime scene "looks terribly constructed, because the characters are terribly superficial and the story is consistently untrustworthy."
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate this crime scene a little more positively: "Slightly grotesque, but fast and exciting."
Web links
- Wedding night in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of the wedding night on the ARD website
- Wedding night at the crime scene fund
- Wedding night at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on April 1, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on April 1, 2014.
- ↑ Dieter Hoß: Cold Case in the Landgasthof on stern.de, accessed on April 1, 2014.
- ↑ Holger Gertz: He wants the truth on sueddeutsche.de, accessed on April 1, 2014.
- ^ "Tatort": The slap on a Bremen wedding night on t-online.de, accessed on April 1, 2014.
- ↑ Jakob Biazza: First the pants are lost, then the sense on focus.de, accessed on April 1, 2014.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on April 1, 2014.
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