Crime scene: passed out
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Faint |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
WDR |
| length | 87 minutes |
| classification | Episode 911 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | May 11, 2014 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Jauch |
| script | Andreas Knaup |
| production | Sonja Goslicki |
| music | Stephan Massimo |
| camera | Clemens Messow |
| cut | Dagmar Lichius |
| occupation | |
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Fainting is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced by WDR was broadcast on May 11, 2014 on ARD's first program.
action
On the way home, Max Ballauf witnessed a fight at the newly built “Rathaus” subway station in Cologne . Two young people beat a man lying on the ground, while passengers bystanders watch. Without hesitation, Ballauf intervenes, but a punch in the face makes him go down. As he gets up again, a bump hits him that puts him on the platform just as a subway pulls into the station. He can just duck away and disappears under the train, which comes to a stop with emergency braking. Ballauf remains largely uninjured.
Prince prosecutor commissions Freddy Schenk to investigate. Ballauf as a person directly affected, however, is not officially allowed to participate. Support can be found in the new, IT-savvy colleague Miriam Häslich, who supports the investigative team as assistant and successor to the late Franziska Lüttgenjohann .
The victim, the music student Manuel Sievers, dies a short time later in hospital as a result of serious physical injuries. The perpetrators cannot be identified at first because the surveillance cameras in the subway station were made “blind” with spray paint cans. Finally, Kai Göhden, who has had multiple criminal records, is found as a suspect. The further investigation leads to his former classmate Janine Bertram. During the interrogations, both unanimously accuse Manuel, who had started to molest Janine immorally, after which Kai came to her aid and they acted in self-defense . Investigators are shocked by the cold feeling of the suspects, but the evidence is insufficient and they have to be released back into the care of their parents, which Kai savored triumphantly. His father, Herbert Göhden, is a single parent and has long had no control over his son's debauchery, as he admits with resignation. Janine's parents, Elisabeth and Gerolf, are outwardly dismayed, but it soon becomes apparent that the family idyll is a mere facade. During the after-work beer, Gerolf admits to Ballauf und Schenk that his daughter was already "bad" as a child and was raised as a princess and overprotected by her mother, who never wanted to admit it.
A photo of Ballauf soon appeared in an Internet blog , showing him on the platform and, together with a defamatory comment, suspected of having started the drunken brawl himself. The investigation by Miriam Häslich leads to the author of the photo, the law student Adrian Hamstetten, whose mother is a judge and is also good friends with Prince's prosecutor. When his alibi is checked, the surveillance video of a parking garage is found, in which the trio can be seen together a short time after the crime. Janine's fingerprints are also found on Manuel's violin, which he was hit with.
Janine, who sees herself cornered, now accuses her father of molesting her sexually for two years as well, and uses this as an explanation for why she defended herself so against the sexual approach of the victim. Although Ballauf and Schenk have strong doubts about this version, their mother believes them and continues to support them, but their father, who had even given up his promising career as a teacher in order to devote himself more to his daughter, seems to have heard of the allegations and broken by his wife's behavior. An official medical report later confirmed that Janine's allegations were fictitious.
Finally, the IT experts at KTU can restore a deleted video from Adrian's mobile phone. It becomes clear that Janine instigated her two friends to do the crime . Using a counting rhyme , she and Manuel selected any passerby whom she provoked until Kai knocked him to the ground while Adrian recorded everything with his cell phone camera. It also becomes clear that Janine pushed Ballauf in front of the subway and that her lust for murder has no tangible reason.
While Kai remains in custody in view of his previous convictions and the intense involvement in the crime, Janine and Adrian are transferred to their parents' custody until the start of the trial according to juvenile criminal law . Ballauf and Schenk are visibly outraged that mild penalties can also be expected. When they recapitulate the apparently closed case at the chip shop, they are called to the house of the Bertram family, where it comes to a terrible finale: In an act of vigilante justice , Gerolf Bertram killed his daughter Janine.
background
The film was shot from August 27, 2013 to September 26, 2013 in Cologne.
The criminal lawyer Henning Ernst Müller sharply criticized the presentation of the investigative measures and juvenile criminal law . It is "taken a clear position against law and order" and made " propaganda against the rule of law ".
After the first broadcast on Das Erste, the program Günther Jauch followed , the content of which dealt with the plot of the crime scene. This show reached 5.96 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 11.8 percent.
reception
Reviews
“Right down to the smallest supporting role, this 'crime scene' is superbly cast with unconsumed actors. Above all, Felix von Manteuffel should be mentioned, who plays the father of the perpetrator Janine Bertram. The book grants him unique scenes, moving monologues and a barely comprehensible finale: outstanding - like so much in this once again strong, highly relevant 'crime scene' from Cologne. "
“In the Cologne district it seems to be finally over with the all-understanding routine. In January, the two investigators were harassed by the clever assistant Franziska , an act of brutal force, which for reasons of youth protection could only be broadcast after 10 p.m. In March Schenk and Ballauf descended into a family grave with three dead children and shone their way through a civic tragedy with dim flashlight. It has become gloomy in Cologne's 'Tatort', the WDR is obviously following a very clear line. "
“This otherwise average crime scene becomes touching and special when the life of a young suspect is told. A princess-like being with an evil core. A liar whose cold her family has already frozen to death; late parents who didn't want anything like a child. Corinna Kirchhoff and Felix von Manteuffel are worth seeing as these parents. "
“All the prejudices of the tabloid media against too lax juvenile criminal law seem to be confirmed. [...] in an attempt to portray the gap between law and justice, between parental care and excessive protective instinct, Andreas Knaup (book) and Thomas Jauch (director) are too thick. In addition to the many inconsistencies in this “crime scene” in Cologne, Ballauf is allowed to remain on duty without psychological help after his almost fatal excursion on the subway tracks. "
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Ohnmacht on May 11, 2014 was seen by 10.09 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 28.9% for Das Erste .
Web links
- Fainting in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the act of fainting on the ARD website
- Fainting at the crime scene fund
- Fainting at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Crime scene: Fainting at crew united
- ↑ Henning Ernst Müller: The crime scene last Sunday - Propaganda against the rule of law , beck blog from May 14, 2014. Retrieved on May 14, 2014.
- ↑ a b c Fabian Riedner: Primetime check: Sunday, May 11, 2014.quotemeter.de , May 12, 2014, accessed on August 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Kai-Oliver Derks: The next bravura piece. In: Weser Courier. Bremer Tageszeitungen AG , April 29, 2014, archived from the original on May 7, 2014 ; accessed on August 22, 2017 .
- ^ Christian Buß: Cologne "Tatort" about youth violence. Mommy's little monster. In: Culture. Spiegel Online , May 9, 2014, accessed August 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Holger Gertz: No place for currywurst. Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 11, 2014, accessed on August 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Kurt Sagatz: Ballauf and the Justice Dilemma. Der Tagesspiegel, August 22, 2017, accessed on May 17, 2014 .
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