Crime scene: liquorice
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | licorice |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Molina movie |
| classification | Episode 1107 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | November 3, 2019 on Das Erste , SRF 1 and ORF 2 |
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| Director | Randa Chahoud |
| script | Thorsten Wettcke |
| production | Jutta Müller |
| music | Eike Ebbel Groenewold |
| camera | Kristian Leschner |
| cut | Jürgen Winkelblech |
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Licorice is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced by WDR is the 1107th Tatort episode. The first broadcast took place on November 3, 2019 on the German channel Das Erste , the Swiss channel SRF 1 and the Austrian channel ORF 2 . The investigator duo Thiel and Boerne is investigating in its 35th case.
action
The well-known market master Hannes Wagner is found dead in his apartment the morning after his 40th service anniversary. He was poisoned with potassium cyanide , which he consumed with liquorice . The police first take a close look at the candy market stall owned by the Dutchman Cornelius Bellekom. He had given the liquorice to Hannes Wagner for the anniversary, but a motif is not visible. Another trail leads to a local liquorice factory. Its owner Monika Maltritz was once Boerne's great love. As a boy, Monika's mother Heide wanted to hire him to tutor Monika in mathematics, but shortly afterwards, Heide was found hanged. The authorities assumed suicide because of a suicide note. But Boerne doubted it even then and still does. Monika only recently lost her market stall and is now facing bankruptcy.
During the investigation of Hannes Wagner's office, Thiel and Nadeshda find a secret room full of files: Over the past few decades, the market master had created dossiers on all kinds of personalities in Münster and thus blackmailed a large number of people. It turns out that Monika's son is dating Jill, the daughter of the Dutch candy seller. However, the son lives with Monika's ex-husband, who works in the same old people's home in which Monika's father Harald lives and Thiel's father sells marijuana products. Monika is arrested because she was present at the anniversary celebration of Hannes Wagner on the evening of the murder and has a strong motive because of the market license that Wagner withdrew. However, she claims that she cannot remember the evening.
While Monika is in custody, another poison attack is carried out on the market: Several people behave conspicuously after they have unwittingly ingested ecstasy - infused smoothies . More ecstasy will be found in the market stall of the Dutch Bellekom. His daughter Jill confesses to the attack in order to create an alibi for her friend's mother and get her out of prison. She had made sure that Monika's license to market was revoked by exposing rats in their factory so that Jill's father got the free space in the market. In the meantime, however, she had fallen in love with Monika's son and now felt guilty.
Boerne suspects Monika's ex-husband Bernhard as the murderer of Hannes Wagner and Heide Maltritz. At that time, shortly after Heide's death, Bernhard had pushed the young Boerne with his face into a vat full of hot liquorice and thus triggered a persistent liquorice trauma in Boerne. He had Heide Maltritz exhumed and found traces of potassium cyanide on her too, which confirmed his suspicions. Monika's father Harald helps him to secretly investigate the old people's home, and he finds potassium cyanide in Bernhard's locker . He notifies Thiel, but after the police have examined the locker, Thiel finds Harald Maltritz as a murderer. His wife Heide wanted to leave him at the time and had therefore written a farewell letter. After Harald had recently seen a television interview with Hannes Wagner, he realized that he was Heide's lover at the time and had to die too.
Finally, Boerne and Thiel try to treat each other's trauma: Boerne eats a plate full of liquorice, while Thiel transforms a glass of Boerne's expensive red wine in Korea by diluting it with cola .
background
The film was shot from March 12, 2019 to April 12, 2019 in Münster and Cologne. The premiere took place on October 24, 2019 in the Münster Cineplex in the presence of actors and a film team.
reception
Reviews
“Director Randa Chahoud - who was involved in the radical joke ' Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot ' more than ten years ago - manages to free the crime-drug-comic mixture over long distances from the usual Münster purr and turn it into a good number of revolutions stage. A pleasantly drinkable cocktail made from MDMA, THC, Cola, wine and liquorice, which may even awaken contradicting memories of youth in the audience. Knock that shit away! "
“Licorice is also the sticky gum that holds this film and its ramifications together so that they can be enjoyed. Boerne and Thiel squeal less than usual and do not lose themselves in slapstick as often, but without completely renouncing both. The book by Thorsten Wettcke is consistent and so is the direction by Randa Chahoud, who once directed the great scifi satire 'Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot'. "
Audience rating
The first broadcast of liquorice on November 3, 2019 was seen by 12.64 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 34.5 percent for Das Erste .
Web links
- Crime scene: licorice in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of liquorice on the ARD website
- Licorice at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Crime scene: liquorice at crew united
- ↑ Manfred Schwegmann: Münster crime scene “Licorice” celebrates its premiere. New case for investigators from Münster / Axel Prahl and Christine Urspruch in the Cineplex. In: Culture. Alles Münster, October 25, 2019, accessed on November 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Christian Buß: Drugs "crime scene" from Münster. Cannabis, cola red wine and the full roar of licorice. In: Culture. Spiegel Online , November 1, 2019, accessed on November 2, 2019 : "7 out of 10 points"
- ↑ Cornelius Pollmer: Licorice holds everything together. In: Media. Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 3, 2019, accessed on November 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime check: Sunday, November 3, 2019.quotemeter.de , November 4, 2019, accessed on November 4, 2019 .
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