Crime scene: monsters

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title monster
Country of production Germany
original language German
classification Episode 1119 ( List )
First broadcast February 2, 2020 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Torsten C. Fischer
script Jürgen Werner
production Sonja Goslicki
music Warner Poland ,
Wolfgang Glum
camera Theo Bierkens
cut Dora Vajda
occupation

Monster is a television film from the crime series Tatort , which was first broadcast on First on February 2, 2020. It is the 1119th episode in the crime scene series and the 16th case of investigators Faber and Bönisch , the 15th with Dalay, of which the fifth with Pawlak.

action

A young woman crouches next to a murder victim with a knife - apparently she is the murderer. She only wants to surrender if she can speak to Inspector Faber.

While Faber, Bönisch, Dalay and Pawlak are starting the investigation, Pawlak's private apartment is broken into, his wife is violently drugged and his daughter Mia is kidnapped. Shortly afterwards, the six-year-old is offered for abuse on the Darknet as the highest bidder . Markus Graf, Faber's adversary for a long time, tells him over the phone that he is holding Mia in his power and calls him to a private meeting on the roof of a skyscraper. There he calls on Faber to commit suicide in order to save Mia. Graf escaped arrest because Faber sprained his ankle in pursuit. On the run, Graf kills a security guard.

The arrested alleged murderer turns out to be Evelyn Kohnai, who was sexually abused as a child and, like Mia, was sold by a child trafficker. The murder victim is one of her former tormentors, whom she fatally injured with a prepared scalpel. Graf had helped her to take revenge on her tormentors.

In their search for Mia, Dalay and Pawlak track down a customer of the murdered man in a former bakery and rescue an apparently abused child. With a list, Bönisch, Dalay and Pawlak receive further information from the arrested person that is helpful for the eviction of the child trafficking ring. During interrogation by Faber, Evelyn recognizes the place where Mia is being held. Based on their description of the location, Dalay and Pawlak can localize the place and find Mia and another accomplice of the child trafficking ring, Thomas Becker.

Meanwhile, Faber and Bönisch track down Graf. He hides his hands in a briefcase with a gun and a photo in it. When he does not take his hands out of his briefcase and there is a risk that he will pull the gun, Bönisch shoots him.

background

The film builds on the events of the episode Forever Yours , in which Faber has to recognize the murderer of his family in Markus Graf. After Graf's conviction, he managed to escape rabies and he has been hunted by Faber ever since.

The forester's lodge Heckhaus in Much served as the backdrop for the hiding place of Jan Pawlak's daughter

The film was shot from February 19, 2019 to March 20, 2019 in Cologne and Dortmund. The scenes around the forest house in which Jan Pawlak's daughter is being held were filmed in the forester's house in Much , which had already served as the home of Commissioner Sophie Haas in the series Murder with a View .

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Monster on February 2, 2020 was seen by 7.74 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 23.9% for Das Erste .

Reviews

"There are quite a few weaknesses in this" crime scene "; The fact that, for example, Commissioner Pawlak, who was struggling with the kidnapping of his daughter, is allowed to take over central parts of the investigation, puts a strain on plausibility. But director Thorsten C. Fischer [...] always creates atmospherically and psychologically consistent scenes despite a few problematic shoots in the plot. "

- Christian Buß : The mirror

The film service rated the film with three out of five possible stars and rated it as an intense, but somewhat spectacular crime thriller in which the plot about Graf was "somewhat clumsily connected" with a "gripping story about child abuse and revenge, who discreetly relies on associative montages instead of exploiting the brutality. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Scene of the crime: Monster at crew united
  2. ↑ Sidney Schering: Prime Time check: Sunday, 2 February 2020. Quotenmeter.de , 2020, accessed in 2020 .
  3. ↑ Christian Buß: My life with the monster. In: Der Spiegel . January 31, 2020, accessed February 2, 2020 .
  4. Jump up ↑ Crime Scene - Monster. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
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