Crime scene: mother's love

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Motherly love
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 86 minutes
classification Episode 527 ( List )
First broadcast March 23, 2003 on Das Erste
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Director Züli Aladağ
script Feo Aladağ ,
Züli Aladağ
production Anke Scheib
music Mark Polscher ,
Georges Delerue
camera Busso from Müller
cut Andreas Wodraschke
occupation

Mother's love is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and directed by Züli Aladağ was broadcast on March 23, 2003 on ARD's first program. It is the 23rd case of the Cologne investigation team Ballauf and Schenk and the 527th crime scene sequence.

action

Maria Wagner, daughter-in-law of the wealthy chemical entrepreneur Heinrich Wagner, secretly gives birth to a child and places it in the baby hatch of a hospital. Except for her sister-in-law, Julia Wagner, nobody knew about her pregnancy. Shortly afterwards, the nurse Monika Kleiber is found dead and the baby has disappeared. Her colleague, Erika Hauser, knows about a dispute between the victim and her ex-boyfriend Bernd Schiffer. Her new friend Oliver Peter, who works as an emergency doctor in the hospital, is questioned and confirmed that Monika had problems with Bernd Schiffer. This would have crossed borders again and again, from telephone terror to massive threats. The review of his alibi, however, leaves him as a perpetrator.

Meanwhile, Maria Wagner is being taken to hospital by her husband after he found her unconscious in her apartment. When Andreas Wagner has to find out from the emergency doctor that his wife has just given birth, he is confused and runs aimlessly through the city. Ballauf and Schenk are notified of the incident and question Maria Wagner. She cannot explain who should have abducted her child. When she is released from the clinic, she wants to talk to her husband, but he is devastated. He suspects that his own father had a relationship with his wife and threatens to shoot him. Shortly afterwards, the police received a call from Heinrich Wagner that his son had just shot himself. Obviously, something is wrong with this alleged suicide, because the dead person also has a bullet in the knee area, which is quite unusual for suicides. Therefore Heinrich Wagner is arrested. Forensics can only prove traces of smoke on the victim's hand. From this, the investigators conclude that Andreas Wagner actually shot himself. He wanted it to appear like his father murdered him. For Ballauf and Schenk it is obvious that there is a lot going on in the Wagner house. You talk to Maria Wagner and she admits that her father-in-law is the baby's father and that she wanted to spare the child this shame. That's why she would have given it away. Her marriage had been problematic for a long time, and since she and her husband sleep separately, she was able to keep her pregnancy a secret. The information that her sister-in-law knew about the birth prompts the investigators to visit her. They find out that she had a baby daughter who was killed in an accident two years ago. She states that she couldn't accept that her sister-in-law wanted to give away her baby. She followed her to the hospital to get the child back. The nurse did not want to give it to her at all and in the scramble she fell unhappily. She didn't want to hurt anyone. At the request of her sister-in-law, she recently put the baby back in the flap.

In the shadow of this tragedy, Heinrich Wagner is also found drowned in his pool. It quickly turns out that he was drowned in the bathtub and only then brought into the pool. Katharina Wagner admits to the commissioners that she killed her husband because it was his fault that her son is now dead.

background

Mother's love was produced by Colonia Media on behalf of the WDR . The shooting took place under the working title Babyklappe in Cologne and Bonn .

The screenplay comes from the Turkish director Züli Aladag and his wife Feo. In the episode she plays the role of Julia Wagner, daughter of the patriarch Heinrich Wagner.

The music comes partly from the French composer Georges Delerue . He wrote this music in 1963 for the film The Contempt .

reception

Audience ratings

When it was first broadcast on March 23, 2003, the episode Mutterliebe was seen by 8.97 million viewers in Germany, corresponding to a market share of 25.30 percent.

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv says: “'Mother's love' [...] is a film that will cause discussions due to its chamber play-like staging and its gloomy tone as well as its topic. […] For the viewer, Claudia Michelsen creates a symbol of extreme loneliness, played very intensely. But the other actors - mostly theater experienced - are in no way inferior to her in their quiet suffering. The question of the perpetrator inevitably takes a back seat. 'The focus is on the characters who are connected to one another on a psychological level,' says Züli Aladag. He is interested in understanding a tragic family history. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm judge: "A sensitive, chamber play-like tragedy."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Location and audience rating at fundus.de, accessed on October 16, 2014.
  2. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : "Tatort - Mother's Love" series. tittelbach.tv , March 23, 2003, accessed October 16, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on October 16, 2014.
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