Crime scene: Meta
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Meta |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 1048 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | February 18, 2018 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Sebastian Marka |
| script | Erol Yesilkaya |
| music | Thomas Mehlhorn |
| camera | Willy Dettmeyer |
| cut | Carsten Eder |
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Meta is a television film from the crime series Tatort , which first aired on February 18, 2018. It is the 1048th episode in the series and the seventh case of the Berlin team of investigators Rubin and Karow . The film in the film lets the crime shown play out on four cinematic levels and refers to it in the title.
action
The traditional opening credits are already part of the film and use shadows of people sitting down to indicate that it will be shown in the cinema.
Inspector Robert Karow is sent a young girl's severed finger. It turns out that the dead woman, a 14-year-old prostitute, had been preserved in a rental warehouse for a year .
At the same time, the film Meta starts at the Berlinale , in which a detective receives the severed finger of a young girl and finds her body in a rental warehouse. This Berlinale film also shows a film that anticipates the murder case. Even during the premiere of Meta , Rubin and Karow (as well as the inspectors in Meta ) question the director, who apparently knew about the murder case and was later found dead in the course of Karow's investigation. The actions of the three films partly coincide and partly contradict each other.
The commissioners can identify Peter Koteas, who wrote the screenplay for Meta , as the murderer of the girl and her pimp. Before the film premiered, Koteas had volunteered and killed himself in custody. Karow suspects, however, that Koteas wanted to leave traces of his supposed client Dierke, an alleged employee of the secretly still active organization Gehlen , through the film .
Unlike Rubin, Karow is convinced that the meta film plot is factual. He finds out that there is a real Dierke who is an official in the Federal Ministry of the Interior. He follows this trail and comes across an illegal brothel in which minors prostitute themselves and in which Svenja also went shopping. The prostitutes were filmed there having sex with prominent clients in order to make them vulnerable to blackmail. Karow succeeds in having a conversation with the young prostitute Jodie. Jodie is observed and found murdered a few days later. Karow now penetrates the brothel and finds out from the DVDs sorted and labeled in the pimp office that Dierke was a customer of this brothel. He is surprised by one of the pimps and seriously injured in an exchange of fire in which he kills the criminal. Whether there was actually a secret service conspiracy and the Gehlen organization still exists, or whether Kotea had other motives for his act, remains open. Dierke's suicide, reported in the media after the brothel was “blown”, also suggests a connection, but does not explicitly prove it.
At the end of the crime scene, there is another switch to the cinema where the crime scene is shown. Two people approach the director while the credits are running on the screen.
background
The film was shot from February 14, 2017 to March 16, 2017 in Berlin , including in Kreuzberg, Karlshorst, Schöneberg, Prenzlauer Berg, Wilmersdorf and on the red carpet of the 67th Berlinale . The final scene of the crime scene demonstration was shot in the Babylon cinema . The director Sebastian Marka has a cameo in this final shot .
With the date of the first broadcast on February 18, 2018, ARD placed the film in the week in which the 68th Berlinale took place in 2018 .
The film contains several references to the classic film Taxi Driver , from which a few short scenes have also been incorporated into the film.
reception
Reviews
Elmar Krekeler from Die Welt was enthusiastic and headlined: “The Berlin crime scene has never been so cool ”. The “intelligent” and “sustainable” film is “one that has to be seen. Absolutely."
“This wonderfully faded, but coherent construction also works because the twisted reflections of reality and fiction create a paranoia scenario that ignites excellently in the lonely Wolf Karow, who is sickly in love with himself. [...] A man with whom you don't know whether he should be assigned or promoted. "
The film service awarded four out of five possible stars and judged the story to be a “cleverly developed film-within-a-film scenario that does not digress into the surreal, but rather preserves the boundaries between fiction and reality. The ambitious staging impresses with a precise drawing of the milieus and types as well as an inventive film music. "
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Meta on February 18, 2018 was seen by 10.23 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 27.3% for Das Erste .
Awards
- Grimme Prize 2019 - Special
"Grimme-Preis Spezial to Erol Yesilkaya (book) and Sebastian Marka (director) for the playful handling of the Tatort format and embedding it in a cinematic context at Tatort: Meta (Wiedemann & Berg Television for RBB)."
Web links
- Crime scene: Meta in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the action by Meta on the ARD website
- Meta at the crime scene fundus
- Meta at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatort: Meta at crew united
- ↑ a b TV Spielfilm , issue 4/2018, page 43
- ↑ The cool new Berlin Tatort , welt.de, accessed on February 19, 2018
- ↑ Christian Buss: Crime of art. The "Taxi Driver" cleans up the "Tatort"! Spiegel Online, February 16, 2018, accessed on February 16, 2018 : "Rating: 9 out of 10 points"
- ^ Tatort - Meta. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime Check: Sunday, February 18, 2018.quotemeter.de , February 19, 2018, accessed on February 19, 2018 .
- ↑ a b 55th Grimme Prize 2019. Special for Erol Yesilkaya (book) and Sebastian Marka (director) for Tatort: Meta (Wiedemann & Berg Television for RBB). In: Prize Winners. Grimme Institute, accessed on February 26, 2019 .
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The Muli (2015) | Corrosive (2015) | We - Your - You (2016) | Darkfield (2016) | Amour Fou (2017) | Let your name be Harbinger (2017) | Meta (2018) | Animals of the Big City (2018) | The good way (2019) | The Afterlife (2019) | The Perfect Crime (2020)