Crime scene: love, sex, death
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Love, sex, death |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Bavarian radio |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 356 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | April 6, 1997 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Fratzscher |
| script | Christian Jeltsch |
| production | Veith von Fürstenberg |
| music | Joachim von Gerndt |
| camera | Thomas Merker |
| cut | Karin Fischer |
| occupation | |
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Love, Sex, Death is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk was first broadcast on April 6, 1997 in the first program of ARD . It is the 16th case of the investigative team Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr and the 356th crime scene sequence.
action
The mutilated body of the patrol officer Felix Rust is found at a storage lake. Batic, Leitmayr and Menzinger first look around his apartment and find lots of prepared parking tickets, sex videos and a camera aimed at his neighborhood. The majority consists of prostitutes with whom he seems to have dated more often. A telephone number, the word "Cocoon" and an advertisement that indicates a blind date are other anomalies. Batic and Leitmayr use the blind date to look at the women who answered Rust's personal ad. The investigation in the area of the lonely and partner seekers does not bring the hoped-for success. But during further research over the next few days, they meet some of the women who have presented there again. One of them is Ira Berg. She works in a video store where Rust regularly borrows sex videos. Many of the tickets found in Rust's apartment are addressed to them. Obviously, with an apparently exaggerated sense of duty, he distributed numerous parking tickets. Preferably to pretty women, from whom he then got paid with sex services so as not to forward the parking tickets. When Leitmayr tries to question Ira Berg, she first fled. However, she can later prove an alibi for the time of the crime, as well as the toy seller Judith Homann, who had also moved into the circle of suspects and had also responded to Rust's personal ad.
Surprisingly, two women in costumes suddenly appear in Rust's apartment to do an agreed "friendship". They are shocked by the news that Rust is dead, and they state that their services are only intended to stimulate their clients and that it will never be completed. When asked about “Cocoon” they say that she is the hottest of them.
The ominous phone number in Rust's apartment belongs to a sex club in which members from higher social circles can be found. Ordinary cops like Rust are not really one of them. One of the members there is Dr. Seebaum-Lang, a psychoanalyst and sex therapist who often gives lectures and courses in flirtation. There is evidence that he also treated Judith Homann's brother Lukas after a suicide attempt. Batic and Leitmayr look around the club and among its members. Dr. Seebaum-Lang is not very happy about this and Ira Berg can also be found there. Obviously, she lives in a fantasy world, similar to what appears in her videos.
After a toy salesman who has repeatedly tried to court Judith Homann is found stabbed to death in his hotel room, a housekeeper claims to have seen a suspicious woman in the hallway. She recognizes this in a photo and it is: Ira Berg, who is now on the run. At the same time there are indications of Lukas Homann, who possibly wanted to protect his sister from the intruders of the representative. But the commissioners find out that Judith Homann disappeared years ago and when her mummified body is found in the reservoir where Rust was killed, they realize that Lukas and the woman they met as Judith are one and the same Person are. A task force is immediately sent to Homann's apartment. Batic and Leitmayr manage to overpower Lukas Homann. He now states that he wants to be a woman, but cannot bear to be touched by men. "That's why he killed her." His sister had an accident years ago and since her father hadn't believed him, he pretended she was still alive.
background
The shooting for this crime scene was carried out by Bayerischer Rundfunk in cooperation with Bavaria Film in Munich and the Munich area. The title song "Urban Desire" was composed by JJ Gerndt and sung by Eric Brodka.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Liebe, Sex, Tod on April 6, 1997 was seen by 9.62 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 29.02 percent for Das Erste .
Reviews
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm think: "A little confused, but amusingly wicked."
“Peter Fratzscher ('Wolffs Revier') staged this less lightweight contribution to the contemporary issue of the singletum (the city dwellers), which otherwise only circulates in comedies. [...] Not to be overlooked: a bit is copied in this BR-'Tatort ', especially with' Silence of the lambs . '"
Web links
- Crime scene: love, sex, death in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of love, sex, death on the ARD website
- Love, sex, death in the crime scene fund
- Love, sex, death at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filming locations at Internet Movie Database , accessed September 4, 2014.
- ↑ Love, sex, death. Crime scene fund, accessed on July 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on September 4, 2014.
- ↑ Rainer Tittelbach: Series "Tatort - Love, Sex, Death". Tittelbach.tv, April 6, 1997, accessed on July 25, 2017 .
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