Crime scene: Kassensturz (2009)
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Cash drop |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR and Maran Film GmbH |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 720 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | February 1, 2009 on First German Television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lars Monday |
| script |
Stephan Falk , Lars Monday |
| production |
Sebastian Hünerfeld , Sabine Tettenborn |
| music | Ulrich Sinn |
| camera | Cornelia Wiederhold |
| cut | Martina Butz-Kofer |
| occupation | |
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Kassensturz is the 720th episode of the crime series Tatort and a SWR production in cooperation with Maran Film GmbH . It was first broadcast on February 1, 2009 on First German Television . It is the 37th joint case of the Ludwigshafen investigator duo Lena Odenthal ( Ulrike Folkerts ) and Mario Kopper ( Andreas Hoppe ). In this episode you are dealing with the abysses of the labor market in the low-wage and discounter sector, whose brutal world and psychological pressure drive people to the point of murder.
action
Boris Blaschke is found dead in a garbage dump. Odenthal and Kopper question his boss and she knows that he was at the area manager meeting until evening and that he drove away after a phone call. Nowak is his successor in looking after the Billy branches.
Odenthal and Kopper meet the detective Kampmüller, who takes photos from a car. He tells them that Blaschke had hired him to watch his employees. He also organizes bogus thefts in the branches to test the employees to see whether they are paying attention.
None of the Billy employees is really sad about Blaschke's death, because he constantly pushed his failures on their backs. You are in the process of organizing an employee representative body to better protect yourself. When submitting the application, however, only Gisela Dullenkopf dares to speak. As a result, she is terminated the next day under a pretext by Nowak.
Blaschke's company car cannot be found and is advertised for a search. An expert from the trade inspectorate explains the "functioning" of the discount discounters to the investigators and they are horrified: Detectives for surveillance, cameras, worst working conditions, fistfights, meanness, allegations, sick reports that are not tolerated, intimidation and so on. Odenthal and Kopper ask Nowak to give them a list of the employees of Blaschke's branch. Gisela Dullenkopf, who no longer works for Billy, is visited by them and questioned. She tells them that her son Jan, who also worked for Billy and was fired, killed himself. Kopper finds out that he was in love with his colleague Beate Schütz and she knows that he jumped to his death because of Blaschke. Beate is questioned and told that Blaschke was also keen on her and harassed her. Jan had noticed and had a fight with Blaschke. He was then fired.
Blaschke has secured himself on all sides and collected a lot of material about colleagues and employees. Tuned speedometer dials, manipulated inventories and so on, which could speak for a planned blackmail. During a questioning it turns out that Nowak followed Blaschke on the evening of the crime and so he is questioned immediately. He admits that he looked for the documents in Blaschke's apartment, but did not murder him. Odenthal introduces a young woman who is helping herself to the garbage cans. She learns from her that two days ago the container was exceptionally locked, which suggests that Blaschke may have been "disposed of" here.
The autopsy reveals that the victim was slain with two different objects. The car is finally found too, but apart from a few unknown fingerprints there was nothing that could be used. A first comparison test of the prints leads to the branch manager Hannelore Freytag. The investigators confront her with the facts and she confesses that Blaschke came back to the branch late in the evening. He wanted to know where the employees meet in order to organize for the planned works council election. Blaschke got so angry and started to beat her that she took the next best rod and slammed it. Then she would have thrown it in the container, which she could never do alone. So it turns out that Thomas, who wanted to pick up his girlfriend Beate that evening, just came and wanted to help Hannelore Freytag. So he hit her tormentor with an awning pole, helped throw him into the container and then hid his car.
background
Kassensturz was filmed under the working title Nullkasse in Ludwigshafen, the area around Ludwigshafen, Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden.
reception
Audience ratings
When Kassensturz was first broadcast on February 1, 2009, 8.78 million viewers followed the program, which corresponds to a market share of 23.8 percent.
criticism
At stern.de we read that with every purchase decision we make, no matter how banal , it affects the conditions in our society: whether chickens live in battery cages or people work like in a penitentiary. This gives everyone the opportunity to think about what we are buying where and at what price.
“Hardly any" crime scene "is as valuable as this one. Because no report, no matter how well done, can introduce the viewer so deeply into the fate of tortured employees, it can move them so emotionally. And the next time you get a queasy feeling while shopping in the cheap market around the corner and you wonder why the goods can actually be so cheap, every penny for this "crime scene" was well invested. "
At tittelbach.tv we get to read a little about the processes in the background and Rainer Tittelbach says that the film has its particular strengths in the way it portrays the environment. In addition, the story is as realistic as we are in the case of Lidl & Co. Have to hear enough from the media.
"" Kassensturz "offered a solid Whodunit with some insights into the psychology of the Hartz IV Society. The resolution alone turned out to be somewhat arbitrary. "
As so often, TV Spielfilm gives its assessment in a short and concise sentence:
"Evil milieu study, close to reality"
Awards
Stephan Falk and Lars Montag received the ver.di TV Award 2010 for the script for Tatort: Kassensturz and were nominated for the German TV Award 2009 in the “Best Book” category.
Web links
- Kassensturz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Kassensturz on the ARD website
- Kassensturz at the crime scene fund
- Kassensturz at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kassensturz at the crime scene fund, accessed May 2, 2013
- ↑ Stern.de is hardly a Fieser , accessed May 2, 2013
- ↑ no routine crime thriller at tittelbach.tv , accessed May 2, 2013
- ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on May 2, 2013.
- ↑ Winner of the ver.di TV Prize 2010 ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 19, 2013.
- ↑ ARD “Tatort” wins ver.di television award 2010 , DPA report from July 3, 2010 at Focus.de, accessed May 19, 2013
- ↑ German Television Award : Nominated 2009 , accessed on May 19, 2013.
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