Crime scene: no escape

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title No escape
Country of production Austria
original language German , Serbian
Production
company
ORF
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 827 ( list )
First broadcast February 5, 2012 on Das Erste , ORF, SF
Rod
Director Fabian Eder
script Fabian Eder , Lukas Sturm
production Konstantin Seitz , Burkhard Ernst
music Roman Kariolou
camera Fabian Eder
cut Ingrid Koller
occupation

No Escape is a television film from the crime series Tatort . It is the 27th case of the Austrian investigator Moritz Eisner and the third case of the Eisner / Fellner investigative team. The contribution produced by Austrian Broadcasting was first broadcast on February 5, 2012.

action

In the parking lot of a shopping center in Vienna , the driver of a cleaning crew is seriously injured by a shot. The two perpetrators recognize that the victim (a student assistant) is not the person they are looking for and kill him with the words: "You were in the wrong place at the wrong time." Then they drive to the address of the actual target person, Josef Müller, who is in bed with the flu. Müller, who took his wife's name, was a member of a Serbian nationalist militia responsible for numerous war crimes during the Bosnian war . He deserted from this militia and, as a renegade confidante, was targeted by the “veterans” of the group who went into hiding in Vienna, because his knowledge and his records represent a danger to them. Müller manages to escape from the attackers; he turns himself in to the police, revealing his true identity.

In the meantime, Interpol has got involved in the investigation that Müller, whose real name is Mirko Gradić, is looking for because of his role in various war crimes . Müller and his family are housed in a safe house , which is known to the assassins. The assassins murder the policemen guarding the house, but are partially eliminated by Müller / Gradić. The two assassins Zeljko Jovanovic and Rajko Stelic, who were also involved in the fire attack and who also murdered the student at the beginning, were stopped by a police roadblock while they were fleeing. While one of the police officers deployed there receives a radio message from the control center, his colleague, who recognizes the perpetrators who are to be searched for during the vehicle inspection, is murdered. Rajko Stelic, who was injured by Müller / Gradić, is left dying at the roadblock. After his identity has been established, the crime scene investigators go to his father, who reports on his son's career.

Based on the information given to the investigators by the father of the killed Rajko Stelic, Zeljko Jovanovic is successfully arrested in the cafe that is used by the Tiger militia as a meeting place. When he starts a firefight with the police with an assault rifle taken from the weapons depot there, he is shot by Eisner.

In this phase of the investigation, the investigators realize that the only remaining point of attack for the cornered and increasingly brutal militia veterans - after Müller / Gradić was taken into security custody - are his wife and son. In the meantime, at the instigation of the pediatrician Dr. Salic admitted to a clinic. There Eisner and Fellner succeeds in setting a trap for the killer Radovan Jurkic, who is disguised as a doctor, the number two in the Tiger militia with the battle name "The Butcher", and in an attempt to murder Müller / Gradić and his son to arrest.

It now explains why all the assassins among the “veterans” of the Serbian militia who are persecuting Müller / Gradić always know about his stay - including the one in the supposedly safe safe house . The pediatrician Dr. Salic, who treated the Müller couple's son, who was also sick with flu, several times and thus incidentally got information about the family's current residence.

After Radovan Jurkic was arrested, the threat was thought to be over. However, in the meantime, Dr. Salic takes the son Max hostage to himself and wants to leave the hospital with him in his arms. When he runs into Eisner, Fellner and Müller / Gradić, he threatens the child with a fatal injection, whereupon Müller / Gradić identifies him as Mladen Ivesevic, the “saint”, founder and commander of the “Sveti Tigar” militia and wanted Major war criminal.

Eisner makes him surrender in a showdown in a duel of nerves when he announces with gun at the ready that he will not let him get away, even if he does something to the child.

The ending remains open, because during the end credits , after Eisner and Fellner left Müller / Gradić with his family in the hospital, two men enter the ward who were seen earlier in the episode when they were shadowing mother and son Müller Müller / Gradić fled to the police.

background

The shooting of No Escape took place from February 16, 2011 to March 19, 2011 in Vienna and the surrounding area. Fabian Eder took over both camera and direction and was also involved in the script. For a while, the number of 15 bodies represented the highest number of victims in crime scene history.

According to Eder, the template for the script was in particular Željko Ražnatović (called Arkan ) and his freischar Srpska dobrovoljačka garda , called "Arkans Tiger" ( Serbian Arkanovi Tigrovi ).

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of No Escape on February 5, 2012 was seen by a total of 7.66 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 20.8% for Das Erste ; In the group of 14 to 49 year old viewers , 2.37 million viewers and a market share of 15.8% were achieved.

In Austria, 955,000 viewers and a 29 percent market share were achieved.

criticism

“There is war in Vienna. A Serb who kept records of the mass extermination in the Balkan War is on the death list of a group of Serbian national war criminals. However, 'No Escape' cannot do without sham. The flu is going on in Vienna and is causing an Eisner in a bobble hat and a lot of sweat on the forehead. The 27th Krassnitzer 'crime scene' is straightforward, full of thrills, has impressive action scenes and doesn't forget about psychology. Krassnitzer and Neuhauser are a top duo. "

- Rainer Tittelbach : tittelbach.tv

“In contrast to Hans-Christian Schmid's painfully precise legal drama 'Sturm', which is about the grueling work that a prosecutor at the International Court of Justice in The Hague has to convict Serbian war criminals, this 'crime scene' remains at the Surface of the often years, if not decades long, investigations into matters of genocide. Four authors were involved in the script (including Lukas Sturm), many aspects of the topic are only touched on, others are too bold in the foreground. [...] Nevertheless, director Fabian Eder succeeds in creating a permanent mood of uncertainty in this political thriller, skilfully staged as a classic killer thriller: There is no family, no apartment, no fortress in this 'crime scene' in the icy-over city of Vienna that could offer protection from the wolves of Serbia. The Balkan War, it is not over here yet. "

“'No Escape' has a lot to do with cinema (director and camera Fabian Eder). It is a rapidly told story where the idea of ​​ethnic cleansing comes across a world whose imagination is insufficient to imagine all the atrocities. And where the police and Interpol as well as the audience grow dim when more and more photographs of corpses and war criminals in hiding hang on the wall in the control center, until there is no more free space. And it's a wonderfully energetic television film when each of the characters praises their own remedy for the rampant flu epidemic - but all of them are sick except for the not so new assistant Bibi Fellner (every time even better: Adele Neuhauser), who gives her patients plenty Pouring fruit brandy in hot lemon juice. But she herself refrains from any schnapps, even after she has survived the never-ending hail of bullets from a Kalashnikov and celebrated her rebirth with a clear conscience. Instead, she says laconically at one point that she can no longer take it. We hope so. "

- Freddy Langer : FAZ.net

Web links

Individual evidence

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