Crime scene: scars

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title scar
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 985 ( list )
First broadcast May 1, 2016 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Torsten C. Fischer
script Rainer Butt
production Sonja Goslicki
music Fabian Römer and Steffen Kaltschmid
camera Theo Bierkens
cut Benjamin Hembus
occupation

Scars is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The WDR directed by Torsten C. Fischer Post produced on May 1, 2016 First aired. In this 985th crime scene sequence, the Cologne commissioners Ballauf and Schenk determine their 66th case.

action

The doctor from the Congo , Dr. Patrick Wangila was stabbed to death leaving the clinic where he worked at night. The evidence suggests a relationship act. Therefore, Ballauf and Schenk initially targeted the investigation with the widow Vivien Wangila. But the victim's brother, Théo Wangila, is also behaving a bit conspicuously. Little by little, new traces appear and also a lot of inconsistencies. The death of a Congolese asylum seeker a few days earlier, which Ballauf and Schenk initially only marginally interested in, increasingly puts the case in a completely different light. When they look again at the woman in forensic medicine, Dr. Roth found scars from massive abuse. Even a baby must have been cut out of her stomach. Miss Dr. Schmuck can tell the commissioners a little more about the woman's past, because she is active in a group that brings war refugees to Germany and looks after them. When the Congolese woman died, Dr. Wangila was called to the asylum seekers home as an emergency doctor. Her roommate, Cecile Mulolo, has since disappeared and Ballauf and Schenk are looking for a possible witness. They know that she, too, has experienced severe abuse and is still traumatized, which makes the search difficult. In doing so, they discover that Théo Wangila also wants to find the woman. During a visit to Dr. Schmuck discover the people they are looking for in their house and learn that Cecile Mulolo and her friend Wangila have recognized as one of their tormentors from the Congo. They fled from him in a panic, resulting in a fatal fall.

As an office assistant to the two chief inspectors, Tobias Reisser can confirm the involvement of Wangila and his brother Théo in war crimes in the Congo through his research. You belong to the head of a group that fled to Germany in order to continue their criminal activities from here. A statement by Cecile Mulolo would endanger her continued work and so Théo Wangila tries to get the woman into his power. He succeeds, but the commissioners can free them in time and arrest him. In the end, Dr. Jewellery. When she learned that she had brought war criminals into the country with the Wangilas, she was of the opinion that this was the only way to protect Cecile Mulolo and said: "Somebody had to kill him."

background

The film was shot from April 8, 2015 to May 11, 2015 in Cologne and the surrounding area. The images showing the hospital and its park and water areas were recorded in and at the Dormagen district hospital in Hackenbroich . This hospital was already used as a backdrop for the episode Murder is the best medicine by Münster investigators Thiel and Boerne from 2014.

In the scene where Théo Wangila late at the refugee home visits had been accommodated at the Cecile Mulolo, the music is Your Heart Is As Black As Night of Melody Gardot in 2009 to hear. When Théo Wangila meets friends in the Kituba bar, the track Tony Wood by Tony Allen Feat. Kuku from 2014.

Just before Cecile Mulolo is scared of Ballauf in the kitchen, she looks on television of a video of the poem The Mousetrap by Christian Morgenstern , whose protagonist can finally enjoy the new home without him. '

"Company car" from KHK Schenk

This time the two chief inspectors use a " 1986 Jeep Grand Wagoneer " with a license plate for historic vehicles for their official trips .

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Scars on May 1, 2016 was seen by 9.20 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.8% for Das Erste . This is "strong, but not outstanding", the dpa classified the audience values.

In Austria, 649,000 viewers were reached, an average reach of 9% and a market share of 33%.

In Switzerland, 495,000 viewers over the age of three watched the first broadcast of the episode, giving it a market share of 25.1%. In the group of 15- to 59-year-old viewers, 253,000 viewers were counted and a market share of 21.3% was measured.

Reviews

Detlef Hartlap , editor-in-chief of prisma , is of the opinion that with the episode Scars , the crime scene is returning to “its origins” and is “not even old-fashioned”, but is “a rock-solid crime thriller with two investigators who find out facts in less exciting detailed work pile on facts ". The "extremely conservative episode" relies on the investigators' "persistent rooting" and dispenses with "really spectacular scenes" such as "car chases" because "after all these years of service, the inspectors Ballauf and Schenk are no longer available for action". “The viewer learns something about the self-sacrificing work with refugees”, in particular he learns “about their fears and panic attacks, and what burns deep in their souls, worse than any scar on their skin”. Hartlap sums up, "the textbook-like and good-humane nature inherent in this topic is avoided by the film, albeit just a little, in favor of a strong plot."

The scene of the scars is opened "a little scary" with "quick cuts", writes the German press agency . The episode “tackles a current and at the same time explosive topic”, because “as usual with the Cologne people, the script [...] does not save on social criticism - but the story also takes a surprisingly courageous turn”. On the one hand “it's about dealing with refugees in Germany”, on the other hand “Ballauf and Schenk [...] get an insight into the individual fates of refugees”. Thelma Buabeng in the role of Cecile Mulolo "succeeds impressively in making this woman's fear visible". At the same time, however, the episode shows that “not all refugees are just victims”.

The crime scene "was a shocking example of the cruel wounds that torture inflicted on people in civil war countries," wrote Iris Janda from Westfälische Nachrichten . The title-giving opening scenes are underlaid with "threatening music that increased to the abrupt end" . "This impressive introduction paved the way for a case with numerous suspects" , praised Janda, "the resolution remained open until the end" . "However, the investigation seemed confusing at times due to the many traces," admitted Janda. "Thanks to a surprising twist, the case took on tension and increased into a threatening final scene that showed that torture can also take place in Germany" .

“Torsten C. Fischer directed the mine crime thriller, who is now also staging 'Scars' as a thriller with a geopolitical twist. The book for the current episode is by Rainer Butt […]. Now the two filmmakers find Schenk and Ballauf for the 'Tatort' veterans - the 20th anniversary of service is approaching! - a strong style: journalistically illuminating, but consistently gloomy in the lighting design. "

- Christian Buß : Spiegel Online

“In this piece by Torsten C. Fischer (book: Rainer Butt) there is talk and talk and a lot of talk, everything underlaid with Schenk's heavy office humor. [...] Despite all the questions, it takes forever to finally find out who the nice doctor actually was. A very average crime scene. And the topic of refugees is more a means to an end: relevance should once again cover up the weaknesses of a story. "

- Holger Gertz : Süddeutsche Zeitung

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Crime scene: scars at crew united
  2. ↑ RP Online : Cologne "Tatort": The Scars of the Persecuted , Cologne, Martina Stöcker, May 1, 2016
  3. ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime check: Sunday, May 1, 2016.quotemeter.de , May 2, 2016, accessed on May 2, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : “Tatort” as always in front , media / quotas, dpa , May 3, 2016
  5. ↑ Medienforschung ORF , data from Sunday, May 1, 2016
  6. ↑ a b Swiss radio and television : SRF 1 - May 1, 2016 ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), Mediapulse TV panel - German-speaking Switzerland, Overnight, people three years and older, accessed on May 6, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.srf.ch
  7. ↑ a b c d prism : Doctor Wangila's last way , Sunday at the “Tatort”, Detlef Hartlap , April 30, 2016 - May 6, 2016, No. 17/2016, p. 5
  8. ^ A b c d e Westfälische Nachrichten : The mysterious death of two refugees: The new Cologne "crime scene" tackles another explosive topic on Sunday , Medien, Deutsche Presse-Agentur , April 30, 2016
  9. ↑ a b c d Westfälische Nachrichten : Tatort: ​​Scars (ARD) - Threatening conclusion , media / seen, Iris Janda, May 2, 2016
  10. ↑ Christian Buß: Refugee "crime scene" from Cologne. The Congo is everywhere. In: Culture. Spiegel Online , April 29, 2016, accessed on April 29, 2016 : "8 out of 10 points"
  11. ↑ Holger Gertz: "Kongo Kongo Kongo - there was something". Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 29, 2016, accessed April 30, 2016 .
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