Crime scene: light and shadow

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Light and shadow
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 416 ( List )
First broadcast July 4th, 1999 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Wolfgang Panzer
script Wolfgang Panzer
production Sonja Goslicki
music Filippo Trecca
camera Edwin Horak
cut Claudio Di Mauro
occupation

Licht und Schatten is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film, produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and directed by Wolfgang Panzer , was broadcast on July 4, 1999 on ARD's first program. It is the 8th case of the Cologne investigative team Ballauf and Schenk and the 416th crime scene sequence.

action

Late in the evening Sonja, Freddy Schenk's daughter, knocks on Ballauf's door and asks for accommodation. Before he knows it, his colleague is already in his apartment to pick him up for a case. He reprimands him because he had switched off his cell phone and he now has to come in person to pick him up. So he doesn't even let Ballauf have his say and therefore doesn't find out that Sonja is with him.

On arrival at the site, the forensic doctor explains the case to you: Dr. Robert Muster was hit by two large-caliber rifle shots and fell into his swimming pool, in which he was found dead. On the wall of the house someone wrote the word: “Kindermörde” [sic!] In large letters. Since he was a well-known gynecologist who advocated and performed abortions, this allegation seems understandable. Rüdiger Muster, the victim's son, shows Ballauf various threatening letters that no one has wanted to take seriously until now.

Lissy Pütz researches and comes across various groups and associations of anti-abortionists. You could well be responsible for the murder. In particular, the organization, which is headed by Hans Landdorf as President, arouses the investigators' attention. Landdorf, known as an art collector and wealthy citizen of Cologne, is interviewed and says that he wants to uphold the moral rules of society. Neither he nor any of his club members is radical. On the contrary, a murder would be very harmful to his club. But the investigators find out that Landdorf with Muster has an old bill open because he allegedly betrayed him to the medical association after actively euthanizing a seriously ill boy .

Ballauf can determine a Dieter Funke as the cause of the color attack on Muster's house. This admits the spray action. He would have been caught by Muster that evening and had to flee. So he couldn't finish the last letter. Ballauf can learn that Funke's girlfriend killed herself after an abortion years ago. When he spoke to Funke again, he told him about a similar case that happened three months ago. Sonja Peltzer fell from a bridge to her death after an abortion that Muster performed. That was the reason for him to get involved in the club.

Between the investigations, Ballauf finds the opportunity to talk to Schenk about his daughter, whom he is still desperately looking for. The conversation is difficult, however, because Ballauf has promised Sonja not to reveal her. She wants to solve her problems on her own and is therefore looking for Dr. Muster on where she meets his son Rüdiger. Since the father can no longer help her, he wants to stand up for her. At first he lets her live in his parents' house because she doesn't want to go back home at any cost.

Schenk finds out that Muster's marriage was not as harmonious as the victim's wife portrays it. Apparently he had a serious relationship with an employee and was about to file for divorce. Since Anna Muster has no alibi for the time of the crime, Schenk wants to arrest her. She unexpectedly tries to kill herself beforehand. The investigators find a written confession and the murder weapon, which Anna Muster has prepared as a precaution. Because of the high recoil force of the rifle, Ballauf doubts the woman's confession. Apparently she wants to protect her son who, as it turns out, is basically responsible for the abortion and death of Sonja Peltzer, as he was her boyfriend and the father of her unborn child. Ballauf confronts Rüdiger with Muster, who indirectly admits to having committed the murder. Sonja went to his father without his consent: he wanted the child himself. Ballauf suggests that he may have also helped his girlfriend's suicide. Before he knows it, Muster knocks him down and flees. Ballauf then notifies Schenk by mobile phone so that he can intercept samples. The fugitive is already in the process of gaining free travel with Sonja Schenk as a hostage. After a chase through town, patterns can be made. Schenk offers himself as an exchange hostage and can talk to Muster, so that Sonja has to listen to her father too. During the conversation, which Schenk is indirectly addressing to his daughter, Muster can shoot the gun out of his hand and he is arrested. Only now does Schenk come out as the father of Sonja - his Sonja, whereupon Muster asks that she keep the child.

background

Licht und Schatten was produced by Colonia Media on behalf of the WDR . The shooting took place under the working title Der Profi in Cologne and the surrounding area.

The director Wolfgang Panzer is also active as a writer in this episode and wrote the script based on the idea and template by Klaus-Peter Wolf . The producer and director of numerous Tatort episodes, Hans-Werner Honert, can be seen in a supporting role .

reception

Audience ratings

When it was first broadcast on July 4, 1999, the episode Licht und Schatten in Germany was seen by 6.46 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 25.08 percent.

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm judge: “The Cologne commissioners [...] spoil the good story with their constant hyperbole. The topic is convincing, the team unfortunately not. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Location and audience rating at fundus.de, accessed on October 19, 2014.
  2. ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on October 19, 2014.
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