Crime scene: desire to have children
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Desire for children |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Allegro movie |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 735 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | June 1, 2009 on Das Erste , ORF |
| Rod | |
| Director | Walter Bannert |
| script | Walter Bannert, Thomas Baum |
| production | Helmut Grasser |
| music | Ludwig Eckmann |
| camera | Georg Diemannsberger |
| cut | Michou Hutter |
| occupation | |
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Kinderwunsch is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced for ORF was first broadcast on June 1, 2009. It is the 21st case of the Austrian chief inspector Moritz Eisner, played by Harald Krassnitzer .
This 735th episode in the crime scene series is about two murders and a special clinic for artificial insemination , which works with illegal means out of greed for profit.
action
Sandra Walch's body is found on the banks of the Danube. The death of the well-known investigative journalist from the Linzer Abendblatt calls Moritz Eisner to act as a special investigator. In cooperation with the Linz detective Brandstätter and her assistant Rohrmoser, they first research in the immediate vicinity of the dead. After another murder occurs in which the genetic engineer Max Biro is shot, the investigations lead to a special clinic where artificial inseminations are carried out. The investigators find out that Max Biro had called in the investigative journalist when he discovered that the clinic simply implanted foreign fertilized egg cells in the mothers in whom artificial insemination was unsuccessful even after repeated attempts. This means that the clinic was always able to show good statistics and was in great demand with childless couples who also financed their desire to have children themselves. However, the documents relating to this scandal are nowhere to be found and it is evident that someone has already searched Walch's apartment. However, she kept these documents in the locker of her fitness studio, where she found Stefan Weber, the operator of the studio, after Walch's death. In order to solve his financial problems, he blackmailed the clinic owners with it. These are located abroad and only deal with company contacts through lawyers' offices. Since the people behind them work with mafia-like methods, they do not shy away from kidnapping Weber's son in order to obtain the documents, which is why both murders happened.
After Eisner is able to catch the murderer of Max Biro - he shoots him in self-defense - he realizes that his new acquaintance, the Ukrainian pianist Maria Drenkow, is one of the criminals. However, through them he can find out where Weber's son is. Together with his colleagues in Linz, he manages to free the boy. In the exchange of fire, the murderer of Sandra Walsch is finally shot and the detective Brandstätter and her assistant Rohrmoser are slightly wounded.
background
Using the Upper Austrian capital Linz for the filming location was a long-planned project by ORF. The realization was linked to the fact that Linz became the 2009 Capital of Culture . The author Thomas Baum comes from Linz. The film was shot in the gynecological clinic and in the port of Linz.
reception
Reviews
"It is certainly not the most sophisticated ORF crime thriller, but one that makes its inspector exciting again," said Uwe Ebbinghaus in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .
Kathrin Buchner at stern.de felt that the crime scene had "turned the explosive topic of 'artificial insemination' into an outrageous robber pistol with no meaning or understanding". Too many storylines would prevent “identification with individual people and fates”. “The doctors reel off empty phrases from men on a procreation strike and the promotion of happiness for childless couples. What it can mean when hundreds of families discover that their test tube babies are not of their own flesh and blood is only hinted at in a single scene. ”Also for the almost grotesque ending that ends in a“ superfluous showdown on a Ukrainian ship ” , she only has negative criticism.
Rainer Tittelbach also comes to a similar conclusion at tittelbach.tv and presents this film as “criminological and psychological” as “narrow food”. So the "little bit of non-binding social criticism (artificial insemination as a growth industry), a lot of talk about a dramaturgical nothing" would result. He also noticed mishaps when editing and said: "At the level of the characters, absolutely nothing was right."
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Kinderwunsch on June 1, 2009 was seen by 6.20 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 19.90 percent for Das Erste .
Web links
- Fertility in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of the desire to have children on the ARD website
- Desire for children in the crime scene fundus
- Desire for children at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Production note at tatort-fundus.de. Retrieved August 25, 2013.
- ↑ Uwe Ebbinghaus: Suspicious pregnancy gymnasium, faznet. June 1, 2009.
- ^ "Tatort" criticism at stern.de. Retrieved August 25, 2013.
- ↑ Rainer Tittelbach: A lot of action, little substance and logic was sacrificed to the effect , tittelbach.tv, accessed on August 25, 2013.
- ^ Desire for children in the crime scene fundus
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