Crime scene: Hydra
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hydra |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
WDR Colonia Media |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 931 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | January 11, 2015 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nicole Weegmann |
| script | Jürgen Werner |
| production | Sonja Goslicki |
| music |
Florian van Volxem Sven Rossenbach |
| camera | Michael Wiesweg |
| cut | Claudia Wolscht |
| occupation | |
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Hydra is a television film from the crime series crime scene of ARD , ORF and SF .
The film, produced by Colonia Media on behalf of WDR , was first broadcast on television on January 11, 2015; The film premiered on November 15, 2014 at the Lünen Cinema Festival . It is the 931st episode in the crime scene series and the fifth case of investigators Faber, Bönisch, Dalay and Kossik , played by Jörg Hartmann , Anna Schudt , Aylin Tezel and Stefan Konarske . During the investigation into the murder of a neo-Nazi , the Dortmund team came across an informant among the police's own ranks.
action
Kai Fischer, the head of the Dortmund neo-Nazi scene, is found murdered in the Phoenix-West steelworks. Kai Fischer's heavily pregnant wife Tanja suspects that Jedida Steinmann, the head of the “Stand up” counseling center against right-wing violence, was involved in the crime. Tanja suspects a motive in the fact that Steinmann's husband was also the victim of an assassination attempt in which Frau Steinmann not only lost her husband, but also suffered a miscarriage from a kick in the stomach. Kai Fischer was suspected of the crime at the time, but could not be convicted because evidence alone was not sufficient for a conviction.
Jedida Steinmann is questioned and protests against having anything to do with the murder of Fischer. The police investigations concentrate on Fischer's “comrades”, as there could be a motive for crime in the context of internal power struggles. Nils Jacob and Stefan Tremmel would come into question for this, although they can show an alibi. The investigations are proving to be dangerous for Commissioner Nora Dalay: she doesn’t mince her words and behaves unusually aggressive, as she detests racism. A little later, she is attacked by a right-wing radical group, with a swastika sprayed on her stomach. Among the perpetrators, Dalay recognizes Tobias Kossik, the brother of her partner Daniel Kossik, who, however, tries to have a moderating effect on the main perpetrator. Daniel is then suspected by his colleagues of wanting to protect his brother and thereby deliberately hindering the police investigation. When the incidents surrounding the Steinmann murder were checked again, Bönisch suspected that the neo-Nazis had an informant with the police. None of his colleagues like the idea that Kossik could be “a rat”. In order to rehabilitate himself, he tries to get information from his brother about the next actions of the neo-Nazi group. This succeeds and an attack on Jedida Steinmann can be successfully repelled. Those involved are brought for interrogation and it turns out again that the neo-Nazis have an informant in the presidium who provides them with information. Prosecutor Matuschek announced that he had been asked by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution to recruit Fischer as an undercover agent. If Nils Jacob, Fischer's deputy, had found out about it, that would be a motive for murder. His apartment is searched immediately, and the murder weapon with which Kai Fischer was shot is found. Jacob claims, however, that the gun was slipped on him.
The case appears to be resolved, but Faber has doubts. He investigates the reason for the unusual choice of the crime scene and comes to the conclusion that Fischer must have always met with his informant on the premises of the old steel mill. Bönisch finds a photo on Fischer's cell phone that shows him in a familiar pose with her colleague Police Chief Inspector Hans Krüger. So it is clear that he is "the rat". Faber wants to speak to him and learns that he has gone to the crime scene again, supposedly to clarify something. When Faber arrives there, he finds Kruger with gun in hand. In a conversation he makes it clear to his colleague that it is not worth judging yourself. Krüger gives the reason for the murder of Fischer that he acted out of desperation. Fischer wanted to know the name of a new witness from Krüger because he neither wanted to work as an undercover agent nor to go to prison. But Krüger Fischer could not say the name of the witness, otherwise it would have been immediately clear that he had passed the information on.
Production and Background
The crime scene Hydra was filmed from March 11, 2014 to April 10, 2014 in the former Phoenix-West blast furnace plant in Dortmund-Hörde and in Cologne .
Private matters of the commissioners: Nora aborted the child she was expecting from Daniel, which sealed the separation of the two. Martina Bönisch asks Daniel, who has withdrawn into himself, whether he thinks that it was easy for Nora to do this according to the motto: “One baby more or less?” It should be food for thought. When Nora says to Daniel that she blames herself, but still it was the right decision not to have the child, he replies: "Maybe for you."
Faber tries to get closer to Bönisch as he is still confronted with the imprisoned perpetrator who has his wife and daughter on his conscience. When she asked if he was chasing after her, he replied evasively that he was just trying not to freak out.
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Hydra on January 11, 2015 was seen by 9.11 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.0% for Das Erste .
Awards
At the 2015 German TV Crime Festival , two special prizes were given to Jörg Hartmann for “outstanding performance” and Jürgen Werner for the script.
Reviews
“Those responsible for this 'crime scene' [...] use fine sensors to trace the current trends on the right-hand side. The new alliances between neo-Nazis and soccer hooligans or the confusing system of symbols of the ' Autonomous Nationalists ' appear here as well as xenophobia in the cloak of bourgeois concern, as it is evident in the Pegida movement and its Monday demonstrations. A 'crime scene' that demands the utmost attention. At least at the beginning. Because unfortunately this view of the complicated, shifting emblematics in the light to dark brown Borussen district is not maintained throughout the entire 'Tatort' episode. [...] The V-Mann problem, which is touched upon at the end of this neo-Nazi crime novel, is also traced with a very thick pen. The episode Odin's Rache , staged in 2004 by Berlin Calling director Hannes Stöhr for WDR and Cologne's 'Tatort', remains unmatched when it comes to examining the schizophrenic aspects of this topic. Still, no TV thriller has waded this deep through the brown swamp for a long time. "
“The fact that it never becomes too much, that the close contact with the characters never becomes uncomfortable, is thanks to the care with which the characters are drawn. The director Nicole Weegmann and the camera team around Michael Wiesweg provide the right scenery, a coherent visual language and an effortless development of the story. "
“As was the case last in Auf Ewig Dein , the Dortmund 'Tatort' quartet is in top form again in Hydra . […] It is an ideal story for actors who interpret their roles (psycho) physically. […] Their roles are small, but the impression left by Valerie Koch, Natalia Rudziewicz and Emily Cox, who above all let their faces do the talking. "
Holger Gertz from Süddeutsche pointed out that it was "a rarity in German crime novels" that the actions build on each other, which is the case with the Dortmund team. “Kaputtnik Faber, who was annoying at first and who cut his desk short and small, has now grown into a halfway stabilized tormentor who [sees] deeper than others. Because his gaze is still a glimpse into the abyss. ”Gertz continued:
“Even if the catchphrase Pegida does not appear in Dortmund's 'Tatort': Hydra is a hot topic and plays in the neo-Nazi milieu. And the manic Inspector Faber uses all the senses. […] A few overloaded dialogues, but the character Faber is worth switching on. No good, no bad, he wants to solve the case. An unsentimental inspector who uses all the senses. Looks like it smells bad. And speaks in such a way that it sounds like iron rubbing against iron. "
Web links
- Crime scene: Hydra in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Crime scene: Hydra at filmportal.de
- Summary of the plot of Hydra on the ARD website
- Hydra at the crime scene fund
- Hydra at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oliver Junge: They always come down. At the sixth “crime scene” from Dortmund, everyone involved is in free fall . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 2, 2015, p. 16.
- ↑ Crime scene: Hydra at crew united
- ↑ Dennis Weber: Primetime Check: Sunday, January 11, 2015.quotemeter.de , January 12, 2015, accessed on January 12, 2015 .
- ↑ Archive. In: fernsehkrimifestival.de. Cultural Office of the State Capital Wiesbaden, accessed on May 16, 2020 .
- ^ Christian Buß: Neo-Nazi "Tatort" from Dortmund. BVB , brown-yellow. Spiegel Online, January 9, 2015, accessed January 11, 2015 .
- ↑ Silvia Fleck: «Tatort» from Dortmund. The fabulous Faber. In: television. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, January 11, 2015, accessed on January 11, 2015 : "Faber is fabulous!"
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: "Tatort - Hydra" series. Hartmann, Schudt, Tezel, Konarske, Nicole Weegmann. Constant pressure in the boiler. Tittelbach.tv, December 13, 2014, accessed on January 9, 2015 .
- ↑ Holger Gertz: middle right. In: Media. Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 15, 2015, accessed on October 15, 2015 .
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