Crime scene: child's play

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Child's play
Country of production Austria
original language German
Production
company		 ORF
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 261 ( List )
First broadcast August 16, 1992 on ORF
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Director Oliver Hirschbiegel
script Peter Zingler
production Rudolf Nemeth
music Jürgen Knieper
camera Wolfgang Koch
Laszlo Fekete
cut Hilde Ohandjanian
occupation

Kinderspiel is an Austrian television thriller from 1992. The script was written by Peter Zingler and directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel . It was the total of 261st crime scene episode and the fifth case of Chief Inspector Fichtl ( Michael Janisch ) as the main investigator, but only eight of the nine episodes were from the official crime scene series, his first case was a crime scene sequence of the ORF, the first broadcast in Austria and only shown once in Germany on Hessischer Rundfunk on television. Fichtl and his team are dealing with a gang of young thieves and investigating the people behind them.

action

A group of foreign children who are not criminally responsible for commercial robbery of older women in downtown Vienna. In the meantime, Fichtl and his team listened to a haunting lecture by the American criminologist Haller on the rise in juvenile delinquency in the USA and Europe. When Fichtl and his new assistant, Inspector Susanne Kern, walk across the Prater with their guest from Austria and Haller and Fichtl are sitting in a ride, Kern is attacked by the youth gang. When she holds the child who tried to snatch her handbag, another member of the group, Istvan, stabs her with a syringe allegedly prepared with HIV, whereupon a large part of the gang is able to escape, but Haller succeeds in finding one of the boys, Mirko , catch. It will only be known in six months whether Kern was actually infected with HIV, her ID card and her weapon were stolen by the gang. The gangster Mangold, on whose behalf the gang is on the move, beats Istvan because he is putting the continuation of the theft at risk. As Fichtl and his team got stuck with the interrogation of Mirko, Haller took over. One of Mangold's henchmen, Carlo, poses as the boy's father and picks him up from the security office before Haller can get anything out of him. Dr. Meanwhile, Putner sends Kern home because she was on sick leave.

The next day the gang is sent on a thief tour again, Mirko and Istvan are supposed to stay in hiding for the time being. Since Istvan needs money to be able to emigrate to the USA, he is frustrated about it. He tells his friend Joole that if he were sent back to Hungary he would blow up the whole gang. He knows who the boss is, he saw him settling accounts with Mangold. Carlo secretly overhears everything and informs Mangold about the boy's knowledge. Meanwhile, Putner orders that Fichtl and Haller should work together, Putner also has raids carried out on the foreigners' focus areas, Fichtl is unhappy with both measures, but Putner says it is "child's play" to find the gang. In the meantime, Kern has identified Istvan as the syringe trigger in the file. She has had a service weapon and ID again given to her and wants to catch the perpetrators on her own. Putner meanwhile has a raid carried out on the Central Pub run by Mangold. There he meets the businessman Ostjek, who he knows, who, like Mangold, asserts that he does not know anything about the gang of children. Ostjek is a right-wing populist party friend of Putner. Fichtl visits his informant once again, the petty criminal Fredi Pöckl, but he does not want to tell him the children's fence.

At the behest of the gang's boss, Istvan and Mirko, Carlo manages to return to the orphanage in Budapest, in exchange two other children join the gang. Heller can find out where the young people can be found through a rabid questioning of a small entrance window; Kern receives the same advice from Pöckl in the Prater. While Fichtl, Haller and Hollocher leave the central office without any results, Kern later observes how Carlo dragged Joole into the bar, who had embezzled money in a break-in. Pöckl, who is also in the restaurant, informs Fichtl. When Carlo tries to bring Joole to Mangold, he escapes, but is picked up by Kern in front of the headquarters. Fichtl and his team meet Mangold and Carlo, who claim that they do not know Istvan. Fichtl has the safe welded on by Pöckl in Mangold's office. In the safe, Fichtl finds various stolen goods as well as Kern's weapon and ID card. Joole takes Kern to the gang's hiding place, where he learns that his friend Istvan has been brought back to Budapest, and he takes Kern there. Meanwhile, the killer Karras receives the order from the mastermind of the gang to kill Istvan, who is able to escape him in a forest. Fichtl and his people take up the hiding place of the gang because of a tip from Carlo, there they learn from Mika that Istvan was brought to Budapest and Kern and Joole followed him. Fichtl, Hollocher and Haller also travel to Budapest without permission. The next morning Putner unintentionally gives his party friend Ostjek, who is the mastermind of the gang, the information that Fichtl and his people are on their way to Budapest. He telephones with Karras, who tells him that Istvan has escaped, Ostjek orders that he find him and kill him. Kern and Joole drive to the orphanage, where Kern observes that Fichtl, Hollocher and Haller also arrive there.

Joole learns from another orphan that Istvan was taken by Karras, who overhears the conversation. Joole explains to Kern that he now knows where Istvan is, but that he has to go there alone. Meanwhile, Fichtl tries to get something out of the alleged pastor Janosch, who runs the home, neither he nor any of the children want to have seen Istvan. Kern appears at Fichtl's and tells him that Ostjek has just arrived. He claims to fund the orphanage from charity. Karras follows Fichtl and his team and keeps an eye on them. Joole goes to Istvan and urges him to go to Kern with him and tell her everything, she would help them. Joole then visits Kern and the other officers and informs them about the meeting point with Istvan that evening. In the nightclub where the meeting is arranged, Istvan sees not only Joole and Kern, but also Karras, and escapes. Karras pursues Istvan and is about to shoot the boy, but Haller can kill him first. However, Istvan can no longer be rescued, the injured boy falls to his death from the pillar of a Danube bridge. As he dies, he can tell Kern that the syringe was clean and that he did not infect it with HIV.

Audience and background

The crime scene children's game reached 12.81 million viewers when it was first broadcast on ARD, which corresponds to a rate of 48.2%. The film received the Adolf Grimme Prize in 1993 . Screenwriter Peter Zingler plays a supporting role as the burglar Fredi Pöckl.

criticism

TV Spielfilm rated the film positively and said: "Aged crime thriller with current problems".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Child's Play"
  2. ↑ "Child's Play"
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