Crime scene: In the blind spot
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | In the blind spot |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
X Films Creative Pool |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 1051 ( List ) |
| German-language first broadcast |
March 11, 2018 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Philip Koch |
| script | Katrin Bühlig |
| production | Michael Polle |
| music | Michael Kadelbach |
| camera | Jonas Schmager |
| cut | Friederike Weymar |
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In the blind spot is a television film by Philip Koch from the crime series Tatort . That of X Filme Creative Pool for Radio Bremen produced post was on 11 March 2018 First aired. In this 1051st crime scene episode, the Bremen inspectors Lürsen and Stedefreund investigate their 37th case.
action
The pensioner Horst Claasen killed his demented wife in need of care. The Bremen investigators Inga Lürsen and Nils Stedefreund investigate the circumstances of the killing and the question of whether it is about murder or actually about a failed double suicide. As they pursue it, the full extent of the tragedy is revealed to them. Horst Claasen actually made provisions for his old age. But his wife's illness, which they had tried as long as possible to cope with their own resources, had drained all of her savings. They had not received a level of care from the care fund at an initial assessment and he did not want to burden his son, who was just getting by himself. Without further ado, he had bought a double burial site with the last of his money and also deposited the burial costs. The dog was registered in the shelter and after Claasen suffocated his wife with a heavy heart with a pillow, he took all the pills that he had saved especially for it. Before he fell asleep, he phoned the police to prevent their bodies from going undetected for a long time. Little did he know that they found him too quickly and that he was now in the hospital. When Lürsen and Stedefreund bring the news of his mother's death to his son Sven, he reacts confused, because he had no inkling of the mother's illness or the father's desperation. However, he also suffered from his father's allegations that he had not got his life "on the line" until today. Nevertheless, it pains him to find his father so helpless and desperate in the hospital. There is no longer any reconciliation, because the old man now manages to take his own life in the clinic.
Lürsen and Stedefreund meet with expert Carsten Kühne, who had an appointment with the Claasens in the morning to assess the need for care. Kühne states that he was wondering why no one answered him, but with his deadline pressure he couldn't wait any longer. He referred the investigators to the nursing service, which Claasen allegedly had his wife visit twice a day and which is why he should actually do the assessment. Lürsen later meets Kühne again on the hospital grounds and witnesses how he is being massively attacked by Oliver Lessmann. He had just complained to Kühne about the nursing service that he had arranged for his wife. In his opinion the nurse was absolutely unqualified and Kühne should have her checked out. Before there were any results, Lessman's wife had to be taken to the clinic as an emergency.
The next day, Carsten Kühne is fished dead from the Weser . He was apparently slain and then thrown into the water. The later autopsy shows that the victim was alcoholized, but there is clearly a third-party fault. For Lürsen and Stedefreund it is actually clear that Kühne's death must have something to do with his work as an appraiser. Therefore, they take a closer look at his last customers. Ms. Akke Jansen takes care of her demented mother Thea and looks visibly overwhelmed on Lürsen. Jansen reports that the reviewer did not approve her upgrade on his last visit. In order to ensure the care of her mother, she absolutely needs more money, which she is now denied. Meanwhile, Stedefreund seeks out Oliver Lessmann, who had complained about Kühne to the nursing staff the day before. Lessmann blames Kühne and “his” nursing staff for the current condition of his wife, who needs intensive care after a car accident and in his opinion the nurse was not qualified enough for it. Accordingly, the investigators scrutinize the care service and find out that it is already well known for billing care services that have not been provided. The director Darja Pavlowa denies having had an agreement with Kühne so that he could get her "customers", but for the investigators the facts speak for themselves. The colleagues from the economic department can provide evidence of the accounting fraud after they have carried out a financial check at the nursing service. It clearly emerges that neither Claasens nor Akke Jansen provided any care services, but that the care service and the person to be cared for had divided the reimbursements from the care insurance. In the case of the ventilator Lessmann, the supply was only provided by a trained assistant, but the expensive specialist staff was billed. Lürsen thinks it is possible that Carsten Kühne wanted to withdraw from the collaboration and that he therefore had a clash with Darja Pavlowa.
A crucial clue is found when DNA traces are found on Kühnes Boot. They lead to Sven Claasen, who, like his father, is about to poison himself with pills. He admits to having met with Kühne because he wanted to talk to him again and he would consider him complicit in the death of his parents. Kühne fell during the argument and, since he stopped moving, threw him overboard.
background
The film was shot in Bremen and Bremerhaven from August 22, 2017 to October 21, 2017.
reception
Reviews
“Death, however alone we seem to face it, is always a social event. And as such, the filmmakers consistently stage it in their 'Tatort'. Author Katrin Bühlig and director Philip Koch have the ability to illuminate explosive substances up to the pain threshold in their ambivalence. […] Your crime drama about final questions and things leads the viewer in a challenging way to the social question: How do we want to die? How can it be organized so that human dignity is not forcibly carried out in its last stage? "
Abendzeitung-muenchen.de judged briefly and aptly: "A successful socio-political crime scene where the issue is far more important than the solution to the case - realistically and close to the people." "The oppressive Bremen crime scene [...] uncomfortable subject matter sober and without artistic gimmicks. Nothing is glossed over - we sit shocked in the front row of a documentary crime thriller about the emergency and abuse in care, which shakes us up and raises our awareness. "
Volker Bergmeister from Tittelbach.tv wrote: The 'Tatort - Im toten Winkel' [...] relies less on the usual suspense elements of a crime thriller, it portrays rather soberly, almost documentary, people who are cared for by relatives at home. encounter physical and economic limits. [...] An unusual 'Tatort' from Bremen, more drama than crime. A film between anger and helplessness.
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Im toten Winkel on March 11, 2018 was seen by 10.21 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 27.9% for Das Erste .
Web links
- Crime scene: The blind spot in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Im toten Winkel on the ARD website
- In the blind spot at the crime scene fundus
- In the blind spot at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Crime scene: In the blind spot at crew united
- ^ Christian Buß: Bremen "Tatort" about nursing crime. How do we want to die? In: Culture. Spiegel Online , March 9, 2018, accessed on May 25, 2018 : "8 out of 10 points"
- ↑ The unvarnished truth about care at abendzeitung-muenchen.de, accessed on March 13, 2018.
- ^ Postel, Mommsen, Brix, Schaad, Katrin Bühlig, Philip Koch. A completely different fear at Tittelbach.tv , accessed on March 13, 2018.
- ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime check: Sunday, March 11th, 2018.quotemeter.de , March 12th, 2018, accessed on March 12th, 2018 .
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