Crime scene: Janus
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Janus |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
MR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 564 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | April 18, 2004 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Klaus Gietinger |
| script | Klaus-Peter Wolf |
| production | Lili Kobbe |
| music | JJ Gerndt |
| camera | Armin Alker , Dominik Schunk |
| cut | Carmen Vieten |
| occupation | |
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Janus is a German television film from the ARD crime series Tatort . In the case of the Hessischer Rundfunk from 2004 with the Frankfurt investigators Dellwo and Sänger , it is about the murder of a school psychiatrist and about suspects with various mental illnesses. It is the 564th crime scene episode and the fourth case by this team of investigators.
action
Charlotte Sänger and Fritz Dellwo attend the funeral of Charlotte's parents, who are victims of a violent crime. From the funeral they are called to a boarding school, where Dr. Wick, the school psychologist, was found murdered. She had been killed with five stab wounds, each of which would have been fatal. Singer spontaneously volunteers to appear undercover as the new school psychologist in order to advance the investigation. Teachers and students are appalled at the news. One of the students who studied with Dr. Wick took care of the garden, suspects Mr. Wick who treated his wife badly and threatened her. Dellwo goes to see Mr Wick, who is not very surprised and cool. He is currently renovating the house with his new partner Claudia Schönfeld, a former patient of his wife. He talks derogatory about his dead wife and her patient and suspects the rapist Karl Lichti, who is known to the police and who is also with Dr. Wick was under treatment.
Dellwo goes to see Lichti, in his apartment he finds a lot of secretly taken photos of Dr. Wick, he had also photographed his previous victims before the crime. When Dellwo tries to arrest him, he is knocked down by Lichti. Fromm then no longer considers the use of singers in school necessary, but she wants to continue because she believes she will find the perpetrator in school. She informs Fromm that patient files have disappeared, but Lichti's file is still there. In the evening, Singer and Dellwo, who has since moved in with Singer, talk about the case. The two of them come up with the idea of going through Lichti's pictures because, if he is not the killer himself, he could have photographed him by accident. The officers put two young men in the apartment, but they claim that they are interested in Lichti's photos simply because they are equally excited. While singers are the relatives of the patients of Dr. When Wick asked who committed suicide during treatment, Claudia Schönfeld went to Dellwo and confessed that they lied to him about the alibi. Mr Wick drove to his wife that evening to get paint for the renovation. However, he states that his wife was still alive at the time.
Anne Walter, a student, visits singers at school because she is worried about her classmate Daniel, who is depressed and has problems with his father. In conversation, however, it emerges that she is in love with the teacher Felix Klär and dreams of a future with him. She is jealous because she thinks he and Charlotte have grown closer. Meanwhile, Lichti goes to school and wants to enter the school. He took the teacher Michaela Metzner hostage for a short time and was then able to escape from school. She tells Dellwo that Lichti wanted to go to the school principal's office, Seidenstricker. Seidenstricker, in turn, turned to Anne Walter, who had observed that Seidenstricker Dr. Wick had molested him. He fears that Anne might have told Sänger something, but she assures that she has not told her anything about it. During the night, Lichti breaks into Singer's bedroom to ask her to continue therapy in the middle of the night. When he realizes that Singer is a cop, he tries to overpower her. With the support of her new roommate Dellwo, she can overwhelm Lichti. During interrogation he denies the murder of Dr. Wick and accuse silk knitters. That same night, singer is called to school, Anne stands on the roof of the school and threatens to throw herself down.
Anne wants to die because life seems pointless to her, she feels ignored and not respected by everyone. Singer can get Anne to come down from the roof and take her home with him. Instead, Lichti is taken out of custody by his clever defense lawyer. Singer speaks to Felix Klär, she confronts him with the fact that he is a patient of Dr. Wick was, he has mental health problems and burns himself. His name was anonymized in the files under the pseudonym "Janus". Klär enjoys the love of students like Anne Walter, he enjoys manipulating students. When students commit suicide because of him, he delights in the power he had over them. Dellwo and his team have meanwhile also found out that Klär had committed suicides at his previous school and went to school. Klär locks himself in the room with the singer and brings them under his control. He admits Dr. Killing Wick for trying to admit him to a mental hospital. Klär threatens singer with a knife and escapes with her from school. Dellwo and Fromm follow her, and by ringing bells they can understand the escape route of the two. Dellwo telephones Klär, he suggests Klär that he wants to shoot himself to save the singer, Charlotte then creates an accident. When the officers arrive at the scene of the accident, Klär and Sänger have disappeared.
Klär has hung singers on a rope in the forest and is enjoying their desperate agony. Suddenly Lichti appears, he shoots Klär because this Dr. Wick had killed. Dellwo and Fromm arrive shortly afterwards and can cut singers away at the last moment.
background
The total market share was 23.9%, 8.28 million viewers saw the first broadcast.
criticism
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate this crime scene as “a lot of soul-watching, unfortunately too little crime”.
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatort fund: Janus , accessed on November 22, 2014
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on November 22, 2014.
Web links
- Janus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Janus in the online film database
- Summary of the action by Janus on the ARD website
- Janus at the crime scene fund
- Janus at Tatort-Fans.de
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Oskar (2002) | Femicide (2003) | Evil (2003) | Janus (2004) | Heart Failure (2004) | Where's Max Gravert? (2005) | Vacancy (2005) | The last race (2006) | Hunter's Day (2006) | Between Us (2007) | Before it gets dark (2007) | The early farewell (2008) | Sisters of Arms (2008) | The Dead Chinese (2008) | Neuland (2009) | Architecture of a Death (2009) | Because they're bad (2010) | At the end of the day (2010)