Crime scene: hunger for love
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Love hunger |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Northern German Radio |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 658 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | March 11, 2007 on First German Television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Bohn |
| script | Rafael Solá Ferrer |
| production | Kerstin Ramcke |
| music | Jan Kazda |
| camera | Clemens Messow |
| cut | Inge Bohmann |
| occupation | |
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Liebeshunger is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk under the direction of Thomas Bohn and broadcast for the first time on March 11, 2007 in the program Das Erste . It is the crime scene episode 658. For the detective chief inspector Casstorff ( Robert Atzorn ) it is the thirteenth case in which he is investigating.
Commissioner Casstorff has to solve the murder of a prostitute with whom he himself had an affair years ago.
action
Karin Freiberg works as a freelance prostitute. One day, after making love, she is found dead in her “service” apartment, which she shares with a Christiane Wolf. Inspector Casstorff is shocked when he realizes that he knows the woman and that he himself had a brief relationship with her years ago.
Forensic science does not have it easy to find clues to the perpetrator, since countless DNA traces are found. The survey of neighbors and roommates in the apartment building, in which she was not very popular due to her job, hardly gives any clues. Only one neighbor claims to have observed that she seemed to have a closer relationship with a man, whom she therefore takes to be the friend of the dead. Casstorff succeeds in finding Jürgen Meinert as a friend of Karin Freiberg. He is the former work colleague of Freiberg's husband and does not speak well of Joachim Freiberg. He even thinks he's the killer. In his opinion, he would have driven his wife to this profession.
Commissioner Holicek receives information about an off-road vehicle that has recently been parked in the parking lot in front of the apartment building. As the driver, he succeeds in locating Mirko Schäffler and his friend Dragan. Both are arrested and interrogated but do not admit anything and since there is no evidence of the crime, they have to be let go. Christiane Wolf also does not testify against the thugs who are obviously blackmailing prostitutes for protection money and who already have a relevant criminal record.
Casstorff has suitors determined in the red-light district who are into unusual bondage games. He comes across Phillipp Kochbeck, who admits to have been with the victim on the day she died. He would have left her handcuffed alive in bed, but he left the door open for someone to free her. But he wouldn't have put a blanket over her face. The caretaker Kowalski is suspected of suffocating Karin Freiberg, because his DNA was found on the ceiling under which the victim was suffocated.
Ultimately, Commissioner Casstorff can convict the twelve-year-old son of the victim. Felix Freiberg claims to have recently found out what his mother has been working as for two years. He wanted to find her in the apartment and found her tied up and gagged in bed. So he pulled the covers over her head so as not to have to look at her and left. He hadn't wanted her to die in the process.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Liebeshunger on March 11, 2007 was seen by a total of 7.04 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 18.70 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
Manuel Weis judges this crime scene as one of the most exciting crime thrillers in the ratings meter and writes: “With the new crime scene from the north, the NDR has achieved a great success. In any case, the episodes with Robert Atzorn in the role of Jan Castorff were all exciting and cleverly implemented. In 'Liebeshunger' the creators were able to go one step further. The arc of suspense remains constantly high during the entire runtime - the viewer is literally captivated by the events. "
Franz Solms-Laubach at welt.de is of the opposite opinion and says: “It doesn't take long for a fairly experienced TV viewer to know who the killer is. And one only wonders why the investigators take so long to do this. This is all the more annoying since the stuff the story is made of sounds so promising. But the script is just too transparent. Interesting marginal characters do appear, [...] but after the first quarter of an hour the film looks a bit like what a record sounds like if it is played too slowly. Slow motion instead of fast motion is the motto here. Instead of quick cuts and exciting action, only indolence and northern German serenity. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm also gave this crime scene only a medium rating and say: "The resolution has rarely been so absurd".
Web links
- Crime scene: hunger for love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of love hunger on the ARD website
- Hunger for love at the crime scene fund
- Love hunger at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Love hunger , accessed on August 3, 2016.
- ↑ Manuel Weis: Tatort - love hunger at quotenmeter.de, accessed on August 3, 2016.
- ↑ So many whores in crime and no sex appeal at welt.de, accessed on August 3, 2016.
- ↑ Prostitution is not only found in the St. Pauli neighborhood. Short review at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on August 3, 2016.
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Exile! (2001) | Hazard! (2001) | The Passenger (2002) | Undercover (2002) | Tough Dogs (2003) | Rental property (2003) | Death Gang (2004) | Lost Daughters (2004) | A feeling of happiness (2005) | Single-handedly (2005) | Fire Fighters (2006) | Shadow Games (2006) | Hunger for Love (2007) | Investigative (2007) | Bye Bye (2008)