Crime scene: dog days

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Dog days
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	WDR
length	89 minutes
classification	Episode 973 ( List )
First broadcast	January 31, 2016 on Das Erste
Rod
Director	Stephan Wagner
script	Christian Jeltsch
music	Irmin Schmidt
camera	Thomas Benesch
cut	Susanne Ocklitz
occupation
Jörg Hartmann : Peter Faber Anna Schudt : Martina Bönisch Aylin Tezel : Nora Dalay Stefan Konarske : Daniel Kossik Sybille J. Schedwill : Greta Leitner Anne Ratte-Polle : Judith Stiehler Dirk Borchardt : Paul Stiehler Patrick Mölleken : Jonas Stiehler Maren Eggert : Eva Dehlens Sinje Irslinger : Melanie Dehlens Leonard Klemm : Leon Dehlens Ralf Drexler : Max Dehlens Ronald Kukulies : Peter Lech, police psychologist Verena Altenberger : Secretary Tony Harrison Mpoudja : warehouse worker Jesse Albert : Pit

Hundstage is a television film from the crime scene crime series by ARD , ORF and SRF , which was first broadcast on January 31, 2016. It is the 973rd episode in the crime scene series and the eighth case of investigators Faber, Bönisch, Dalay and Kossik .

action

On the way back from the psychologist, to whom Faber has to go after his colleague Kossik's complaint , he rescues a woman, Judith Stiehler, from the harbor basin of the Dortmund harbor . A second person is dead in the water with a gunshot wound. The identity of the deceased, the entrepreneur Max Dehlens, creates a connection for Martina Bönisch to an old missing person case in which she had investigated 14 years earlier: At that time, Dehlens' son disappeared without a trace and could not be found again. Eva Dehlens, the dead man's widow, immediately confronts Bönisch with accusations when she brings the news of her husband's death.

Faber and Bönisch find out that there is a connection between Judith Stiehler and the Dehlens: The mentally unstable Eva Dehlens believed that she recognized her missing child in Judith Stiehler's son. A witness accuses Judith Stiehler of having shot Max Dehlens, which she denies. She met him at the harbor, he was shot down and fell into the harbor basin, and then she jumped into the water while trying to save him. The forensic scientist confirms that Stiehler could not have shot because the shot was fired from a greater distance. It turns out that Jonas is actually the missing son of Max and Eva Dehlens.

Faber and Bönisch simulate the situation at the port and put themselves in the roles of those involved. This is how they find out what really happened: Max Dehlens, who did not assume that Jonas was actually his missing son, wanted to give Judith Stiehler money so that she can go into hiding with Jonas and give Eva Dehlens calmness with her suspicions about Jonas. Eva Dehlens found out what her husband was up to and shot him when he met Stiehler to hand over the money at the port; later she bribed the eyewitness.

background

The crime scene Hundstage was filmed from June 23, 2015 to July 24, 2015 in Dortmund and Cologne.

reception

Reviews

The film received a rating of nine out of ten points at Spiegel online . Critic Christian Buß said that the small parts in the sequences, despite the rapid assembly, “consistently follow the dynamics of the interaction” and show “what happens when we recognize each other when we meet other people. Glances and dialogues, here they act as a plot accelerator. "

Judith von Sternburg said in the Frankfurter Rundschau : "'Hundstage' develops a story in a very elegant way, which one really shouldn't take too seriously, but in which abysses open up." The film service judged the film as a thriller, who connects the investigators' personal nightmares "credibly" with the crime story.

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Hundstage on January 31, 2016 was seen by 9.34 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 24.0% for Das Erste .

Web links

• Dog days in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Summary of the plot of Hundstage on the ARD website
• Dog days at the crime scene fund
• Dog days at Tatort-Fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Crime scene: Dog days at crew united
2. ^ Christian Buß: Heat "crime scene" from Dortmund. Truth drips from every pore. Spiegel Online, January 29, 2016, accessed on May 18, 2019 : "9 out of 10 points" 
3. ^ Judith von Sternburg: The Disci and the crazy heat. In: TV review. Frankfurter Rundschau, January 31, 2016, archived from the original on February 1, 2016 ; accessed on May 18, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Crime scene - dog days. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .  
5. ↑ Christian Rupp: Primetime check: Sunday, January 31, 2016.quotemeter.de , January 2, 2016, accessed on May 18, 2019 . 

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