Crime scene: life against life
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Life against life |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR Studio Hamburg |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 792 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | February 27, 2011 on First German Television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nils Willbrandt |
| script | Nils Willbrandt |
| production |
Marcus Mende Torsten Götz |
| music |
Stefan Will Marco Dreckkötter |
| camera | Jens Harant |
| cut | Lars Jordan |
| occupation | |
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Leben gegen Leben is a television film from the crime series Tatort produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and broadcast for the first time on February 27, 2011 in the program Das Erste . It is the 792nd episode of the crime scene and the fourth case of Chief Inspector Cenk Batu ( Mehmet Kurtuluş ).
In this case, Batu was given the task of breaking up a ring of organ dealers who are carrying out illegal transplants in Hamburg.
action
Chief Inspector Batu returns from his trip to Turkey and Uwe Kohnau welcomes him with a new assignment. He is said to go undercover into a ring of organ dealers to find out where illegal transplants are carried out in Hamburg. He is smuggled in as a courier driver and receives his duties from Martin Tremmel. He is supposed to bring the living organ donors to their destination and is handed over to the street girl Amelie and given a rough route. He should get the exact destination by mobile phone on the way. When he tries to start a conversation with Amelie to take her fear away, she grabs his steering wheel. He loses control of the car and ends up in the ditch, where he briefly loses consciousness. Amelie takes the chance and flees with Batu's wallet and credit cards.
Batu's clients are now suspicious, but he can convince Robert Feldmann, to whom he was supposed to deliver the girl in Hamburg, that the accident was really just a mishap. Amelie is now back in Hamburg, where she comes from. Feldmann expects Batu to find her again immediately. He is also given the task of picking up a family from the train station that he believes the young daughter could be an organ transplant user. So he hopes to be able to find the illegal operating site soon. But initially he only takes the family to a lonely villa in a wooded area for a preliminary talk. He manages to secretly take photos of the people present. He notices that the mother obviously has scruples because she does not know where the organ comes from that her daughter Sarah is supposed to have.
Uwe Kohnau is now trying to locate the collection point after Batu's advice, where Feldmann is holding other children as potential organ donors. He succeeds in first freeing a boy. Like Amelie, he comes from Hamburg and was on the way to Romania with her. They were both captured and kidnapped. He knows that Amelie still has a father here in town, with whom she lived before she fled. Batu then seeks out Amelie's father to find out where his daughter is. He finds her in the basement of the house where she was hiding.
Batu takes Amelie into his apartment and explains to her that he is a journalist and that she shouldn't be afraid of him. She trusts him and he hides her with his friend Erdalan Özdemir and his sister. Kohnau wants Batu to hand the girl over to Feldmann so that he can plan an access when they have reached the location of the transplant. Batu is skeptical because Amelie is still a child after all. But he has no choice but to agree to Kohnau's plan, because Feldmann puts him under massive pressure. He brings Amelie, who is equipped with a hidden transmitter, to an agreed location and hands her over to Feldmann. From then on he can only follow her secretly over the radio signal. The path leads to an empty insurance building. However, this is so extensive that he is afraid that he will not be able to help Amelie in time. But he manages to find the girl again before the organ removal and to save it.
With the help of Batu's secret photos of those present in the villa, their identity can be established and they can be held legally responsible. It is also possible to find the whereabouts of other kidnapped and captured children and to free them.
background
The film was shot by Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hamburg and the Hamburg area. The world premiere took place on October 6, 2010 at the Hamburg Film Festival.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Leben gegen Leben on February 27, 2011 was seen by a total of 6.83 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 17.90 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv writes: “The fourth 'crime scene' around the undercover investigator Cenk Batu is also far removed from the 'Where-were-you-yesterday-evening' crime novels in terms of dramaturgical and genre aesthetics. 'Life against life' is built like a thriller. ”He judges the title hero:“ You can see striking masculinity, maybe even the Turkish macho. This actor develops his charisma in long scenes. [...] Looking into his face is 1000 times more exciting than rushing through the scenes with him like at the beginning of 'Life against Life'. "
Niels Kruse at Stern.de approves of this “excellent thrill-seeker”: “The new Hamburg 'Tatort' is more of a thriller than a traditional Sunday evening crime thriller. The fourth case of Commissioner Cenk Batu is convincing with beautiful pictures and just a few words. You don't have to like the modern style - but you can. "
Jürgen Kaube sees it a bit more soberly at faz.net and writes: At this 'crime scene' “the tension is limited. In the end, a bit of technology and coincidence helps, [...] but such small improbabilities don't bother a film that, right down to the supporting roles - Godehard Giese brilliantly wicked as a henchman, his mirror image Mario Irrek no less than a viciously neglected father - is incredibly well staffed. You think more about the characters than about their actions. "
Christian Sieben at rp-online.de approves: “The Hamburg 'Tatort' with Mehmet Kurtulus is developing into the showpiece of the ARD series. In 'Life against Life', the audience saw a lonely, flogging and desperate wolf, whose special charm is reminiscent of the cult figure Horst Schimanski. "
The critics atquotemeter.de appraise the stylish and atmospheric staging and say: “A successful fireworks display of explosive topics, great acting and the important and previously little discussed problem of criminal organ trafficking, which is also an increasing problem in Europe. [...] Once again, Mehmet Kurtulus has managed to put his figure in a different context, to develop its character further and to depict the ever-present conflict between morality, law and mandate [...] in a truly unkitchy, yet touching way. "
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm judge this crime scene: “The case dissolves the boundaries between wrong and right and suggests that the whole world is a moral gray area. Batu, emotionally engaged, without exuding dismay, turns out to be one of the most multifaceted investigative characters in the series in his fourth case - unfortunately it was over after episode six. [Conclusion:] Far from all crime thriller templates. "
Web links
- Life against life in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of life against life on the ARD website
- Life against life in the crime scene fund
- Life against life at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 30, 2014.
- ↑ Crime scene: life against life. In: Zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on September 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Premiere on Internet Movie Database , accessed March 30, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 30, 2014.
- ↑ Carsten Heidböhmer: Gegen den Wind on stern.de, accessed on March 30, 2014.
- ↑ Jürgen Kaube: There will be no corpse on faz.net, accessed on March 30, 2014.
- ↑ Christian Sieben: Cenk Batu - Last Horst Standing on rp-online.de, accessed on March 30, 2014.
- ^ The critics: "Tatort: Leben gegen Leben" on quotenmeter.de, accessed on March 30, 2014.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 30, 2014.
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