Crime scene: suffering like an animal
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Suffer like an animal |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
RBB |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 610 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | October 16, 2005 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Uwe Janson |
| script |
Ilse Biberti , Scarlett Kleint |
| production | Jürgen Haase |
| music | Oliver Biehler |
| camera | Hagen Bogdanski |
| cut | Florian Drechsler |
| occupation | |
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Suffering like an animal is a television film from the television crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . It is the thirteenth joint case of the Berlin investigator duo Ritter and Stark . The RBB produced the film under the direction of Uwe Janson and was shown for the first time on October 16, 2005 in Das Erste .
action
In the Institute for Experimental Molecular Medicine, the head of Prof. Eugen Jähnicke is found dead on the dissection table of the animal pathology department of his institute. The cause of death is a mystery, but there are tons of cannulas, probes, tubes and electrodes stuck in his outstretched body.
The commissioners Till Ritter and Felix Stark state that the victim may have been slain with an ax and then presented on the table to set an example. They look around Jähnicke's office and find a couple of lovebirds lying dead in their cage. In the wastepaper basket, Stark discovers a torn letter to a Claudia whom he wanted to encourage to come to his wedding, which was supposed to take place the next day. Thus, Ritter asked Dr. Claudia Knobba, who is employed at the institute as head of the animal experiment series and would be promoted to head of the institute after Jähnicke's death. She claims to have always got on well with the professor, but she doesn't particularly like his bride, Sandra Mangold. They first have to inform the commissioners of the death of their fiancé, which visibly shocked them. She states that there were always problems with animal rights activists. As a result, Jähnicke's stepdaughter Caroline comes under suspicion, who had a massive argument with him at the institute shortly before his death because she is against any kind of animal testing. Another suspect is Ingo Kaiser, who loudly suspected the professor of stealing his beloved cat Manou for animal experiments. Suspicions against the institute of experimenting with stolen pets from private individuals are strengthened when Stark's neighbors' little dog disappears.
Ritter catches Sandra Mangold while she is deleting computer files in Jähnicke's sealed office. He finds out that she is on the board of the pharmaceutical company Novofact, which awards the contracts to the institute. The Novofact company is in turn involved in a drug scandal in which Jähnicke's institute carried out the test series and which is why the public prosecutor has initiated an investigation.
The forensic doctor has meanwhile found out that Jähnicke was not killed, but poisoned. The head wound was just from an argument with his stepdaughter who pushed him away. The side effects of the drug that poisoned the victim leaves anyone who comes in contact with nausea, and the birds would have died as well. The trail leads to the trainee Volker Bensch, who the investigators noticed the morning after the murder due to an extreme nausea. Bensch is in love with Caroline, but when she catches him catching animals off the street, he kidnaps her and locks her up. He assures her that he only wants to protect her because he saw her when she was late at the institute that evening. When he wanted to look, her father was lying dead on the floor and he then "tidied" him up a little. He did that for her. Using cell phone tracking, Ritter and Stark can find Bensch and free Caroline. They learn from her that her father drank mineral water that evening, with which the birds came into contact. The investigators then examine Jähnicke's office and discover punctures on the water packaging. In the end it turns out that the housekeeper Margarete Baier poisoned the water because she wanted to secure Caroline's inheritance, which would have been lost through the wedding. After all, she would have promised Caroline's mother to look after the child.
background
Suffering like an animal was produced on behalf of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg under the working title Die Unzertrennlichen . The shooting took place in Berlin.
reception
Audience ratings
7.91 million viewers saw the episode Leiden like an animal in Germany when it was first broadcast on October 16, 2005, which corresponds to a market share of 21.80 percent.
criticism
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm think this crime scene is a: "Sad case for a funny team."
Web links
- Crime scene: suffering like an animal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of suffering like an animal on the ARD website
- Suffering like an animal in the crime scene fund
- Suffer like an animal at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Filming locations and audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on September 23, 2014.
- ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on September 23, 2014.
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