Crime scene: War marks
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | War marks |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 424 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | October 10, 1999 on First German Television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nina Grosse |
| script | Harald Göckeritz |
| production |
Ulrich Herrmann Sabine Holtgreve |
| music |
Biber Gullatz Eckes malt |
| camera | Real Estate Rentz |
| cut | Gudrun Bohl |
| occupation | |
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War Traces is a television film from the crime series Tatort with the Ludwigshafen investigator duo Lena Odenthal ( Ulrike Folkerts ) and Mario Kopper ( Andreas Hoppe ). It is the 424th Tatort episode and a SWR production . The episode was broadcast for the first time on October 10, 1999 on First German Television .
Investigators must solve a murder committed by a man desperately looking for his wife.
action
Tom Salsa, cameraman and photographer, is called to a meeting by the Yugoslav Damir Kovac. Kovac wants to know where his wife is from Salsa. When the latter speaks disparagingly about her, Kovac pulls a gun and shoots Salsa. He transported him in his car near an asylum seekers' home and threw him into a pit there. Then he drives into town and threatens Anja Hausmann because he really wants to talk to her father. But he's still on business. So he goes away without having achieved anything.
Lena Odenthal and colleague Kopper investigate and try to interview the residents of the asylum seekers' home, but have little success there. They know about the victim that he was mostly out with the war correspondent Peter Hausmann. The journalist is currently researching the war criminal "Drago" who is said to have gone into hiding in Germany. When they inform him of the death of his colleague, he takes it calmly.
Odenthal receives a tip from asylum seeker Franklin. He had watched the perpetrator. In return for his work, he expects a permanent residence permit. He only knows the man as a doctor and he can often be found in the "Cafe Istanbul". Odenthal looks around there and when the doctor sees her, he takes flight. Odenthal is injured in the pursuit, and he escapes her. She goes back to the cafe to find out from the regulars who the doctor is and where he lives, but the men are stubbornly silent. She only learns from the landlord that he is very popular with the people and that he has been looking for his wife since he was in Germany. The assumption that he could be a war criminal in hiding moves the landlord to tell Odenthal his name. His name is Damir Kovac.
The investigators find out that Hausmann and Salsa founded a company called "Globe-Pictures" through which they sell documentaries that they shot while they were reporting. The sale takes place via an internet platform. There Damir Kovac recognized his wife on one of the films and then urged Tom Salsa to tell him where his wife was. He also presses Hausmann, because he said he ought to know something about his wife. He manages to get him to come to the “Cafe Istanbul” so that he can answer his open questions.
Odenthal is certain that Damir Kovac is not "Drago" and she succeeds in convicting him as the murderer of Tom Salsa based on a surveillance camera. However, she has still not been able to find his whereabouts. Since he is a devout Muslim, the investigators try to find him in the house of prayer, which they succeed. He lets himself be arrested without resistance, but asks to be allowed to go to the “Cafe Istanbul” for a short time. Odenthal and Kopper accompany him and meet Peter Hausmann in the cafe. However, Kovac cannot give any satisfactory answers to Kovac's questions about his wife. Hausmann states that he only bought the recordings himself. At Kovac's insistence, he admits to having been in the room next to the room where his wife was raped in front of the camera. Still, he didn't know where his wife was now and whether she was even still alive.
background
The film was produced by Südwestrundfunk and shot in Ludwigshafen, Mannheim and the area around Baden-Baden . Dominique Horwitz can be seen in the role of Peter Hausmann, who plays here with his daughter Miriam.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of War Traces on October 10, 1999 was seen by a total of 7.57 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22.07 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
At Moviesection.de, Thomas Ays only gives two out of five possible stars and says, “Action sequences seem amateurish, unrealistic and clumsy and the story, which undoubtedly seems important and correct, has some bitter lengths that are difficult to ignore. It is so tragic because the idea behind it is valuable and the topic moves back into the consciousness of the audience. "
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm write about this crime scene: "Captivating story and uncomfortable questions."
Web links
- War traces in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of traces of war on the ARD website
- Traces of war in the crime scene fund
- Traces of war at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 23, 2014.
- ↑ Thomas Ays : Tatort - War Traces (TV). In: Moviesection. Archived from the original on June 26, 2015 ; accessed on August 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 23, 2014.
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