Crime scene: dog life

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Crime scene: dog life
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 563 ( List )
First broadcast April 12, 2004 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Manfred Stelzer
script Nina Hoger
production Sonja Goslicki
music Lutz Kerschowski ,
Danny Dziuk
camera Peter Przybylski
cut Bernd Schriever
occupation

Hundeleben is a television film from the crime series Tatort . It is the 27th case of the investigative team Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk and the 563rd crime scene episode. The report produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Colonia Media was broadcast for the first time on April 12, 2004 on Das Erste .

action

The wife of the retirement home resident Kehl dies after the responsible doctor Dr. Rose Lang of the "Abendrot" retirement home did not respond to the emergency call from the couple's room. She had amused herself in the laundry room and so could not hear the emergency call that came in in the ward room. Mr. Kehl is accordingly angry, after all, he has spent the last fifty years with his wife, and now they have simply let her die.

Right now, Freddy Schenk is also delivering his grandmother to the retirement home against her will. That same evening, Rose Lang was found slain in the park of the old people's home. Ballauf and Schenk determine and question the staff without receiving any useful information. The only witness seems to be the victim's dog, which Schenk is now taking care of. However, when he nibbles on Ballauf's car seat out of boredom, the dog is supposed to go to the shelter. But Schenk is not able to do it, especially since the zookeeper encourages him that if the dog should have seen the perpetrator, he should react aggressively to him.

Investigators see themselves in Dr. Lang's apartment and find a copy of the death certificate of a recently deceased resident of the nursing home. She put a question mark on the cause of death. When asked about this, the boss of the old people's home reacts quite abruptly and weighs it down. The nursing staff is also annoyed to be questioned all the time. They can hardly manage their care quota even without these disorders. Investigators therefore suspect that they may illegally administer drugs to residents to calm them down. Should Dr. Long figured this out, it could well be a motive for murder. So they apply for the exhumation of the resident who died before Mrs. Kehl. When the next resident dies a short time later, Schenk doubts whether it was the right thing to do with his grandmother.

Ballauf and Schenk receive information about a dispute that Dr. Long had with a stranger. They take the discovery of headlight glass in front of the old people's home, which is not a very common type of car, so important. The owner is quickly identified: Thomas Kahane, a windy businessman who is known for his violence and whose wife works in the “Abendrot” nursing home. But Tatjana Riegelsberger, one of the nurses, is also a suspect because her husband and Dr. Long cheated. Strangely enough, the last residents also all died in their service time.

The autopsy of the exhumed corpse actually reveals an overdose of a drug. Obviously someone helped to transport uncomfortable residents into the afterlife. Ballauf and Schenk immediately go to the old people's home, where Tatjana Riegelsberger has just given a demented resident a sleeping pill, visibly overwhelmed. By getting there in good time, they can prevent another resident from being murdered. Tatjana Riegelsberger admits that she has actually helped a little lately, because she "can no longer bear all of this."

While Ballauf and Schenk simulate whether they are also Dr. Long could have killed, they hear the dog barking. He followed Schenk to the old people's home and barks at Mr. Kehl, who is standing in a corner of the room, scared. He claims that his wife was the only person who still meant anything to him, and Dr. Lang just let her die. He is arrested with Tatjana Riegelsberger. Schenk surprises his grandma by renting her an apartment and that she no longer has to stay in the old people's home.

background

The film was shot from May 5, 2003 to June 5, 2003 in Cologne and the surrounding area. Among other things, the Nikolauskloster near Jüchen was the setting for the senior citizens' monastery "Abendrot". The idea and template came from Nina Hoger and Hardy Sturm, with Nina Hoger also writing the script herself.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Hundeleben on April 12, 2004 was seen by 7.83 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22.4 percent for Das Erste .

Reviews

Torsten Wahl from the Berliner Zeitung judges rather cautiously: “The criminal case is soon pushed into the background and neglected by the motive of 'living in an old people's home'. The conditions there seem exaggerated, after all, Anneke Kim Sarnau shows an impressive performance as an overwhelmed carer. On the other hand, the older actors usually seem under-challenged, their characters often childish.

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv , on the other hand, writes appreciatively: “The qualities of this 'crime scene' may sometimes be at the expense of the final thriller suspense, but many scenes from 'Hundeleben' are so instantaneous and intense that even the biggest crime fanatic in between murder and Should forget manslaughter. "

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm judge as follows: “Compliments to Nina Hoger for her screenplay debut: The case about the normal madness of the nursing emergency is exciting, humorous, and he takes his subject seriously. [Conclusion:] In tune with the times: The old guys still do it! "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NGZ-Online - Schenk and Ballauf looking for a murderer , accessed on October 23, 2016
  2. ↑ a b Filming locations and audience ratings on fundus.de, accessed on August 29, 2014.
  3. ↑ Torsten Wahl "Which retirement home are you from?" Retrieved from berliner-zeitung.de on August 29, 2014.
  4. ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on August 29, 2014.
  5. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on August 29, 2014.
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