Crime scene: Oskar

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Oscar
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 HR
Degeto film
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 498 ( List )
First broadcast April 21, 2002 on First German Television
Rod
Director Niki Stein
script Niki Stein
music Jacki Engelken
Ulrik Spies
camera Arthur W. Ahrweiler
cut Carmen Vieten
occupation

Oskar is a television film from the crime series Tatort on ARD and ORF . The film was produced by HR and aired for the first time on April 21, 2002 in the program Das Erste . For the Frankfurt investigators Dellwo and Sänger this 498th crime scene episode is their first case together. The start of Charlotte Sänger's job at the homicide squad presents her with a case that goes to the heart: a dead baby is discovered and the mother is sought. She would certainly never have been found if she hadn't jumped to her death in the end out of desperation.

action

Charlotte Sänger arrives fresh from the economic department at investigative group 3 of the homicide squad in Frankfurt. She left her old job because she couldn't stand the bullying anymore. Your colleague Fritz Dellwo is so busy with his current case that he cannot really greet her. Before she can get used to it, she should go to forensic medicine for an autopsy. There she meets public prosecutor Scheer, who briefly explains the case to her. Three teenagers stabbed the cashier of a porn cinema. The situation is relatively clear and so the case can be concluded quickly and successfully. The general greeting is therefore made up briefly in the evening in the local pub. But that night, Dellwo and singer are called to a new case. A male infant was found dead in a garbage disposal facility. His mother had wrapped him in a towel and put it in a waste paper container. On the way back to town, Dellwo takes his new colleague with him in the car and tries to improve the contact between them a little. He immediately goes over to you , but his colleague remains distant. He himself also has private problems because his wife is about to leave him.

Singer starts looking for the baby's origin. A garbage collector can remember that a red, heart-shaped balloon was tied to a container, which could possibly be a clue. Scraps of paper and the EAN code of a shoe box in the immediate vicinity of the baby lead to a pregnant customer in a shoe shop. Thus, the container is secured for forensic investigation and the area around it is widely searched. Singer is convinced that the young mother, since she lovingly marked the container with a balloon, should also live within sight of it.

Since the press was informed, the young mother suddenly answers by phone. She states that she didn't want that. She doesn't understand that her child was not found. She sounds desperate and Sanger's suspicion leads her to the skyscraper near the container. There was one apartment there that they couldn't check because the tenant is in the hospital. The investigators look around there, but cannot find any clue. Singer thinks they have seen someone on the roof, but they go back to the presidium to file the case as unsolved.

Unexpectedly, a call came from forensic medicine shortly before the end of the day. The coroner reports that she has a young woman there who jumped from a high-rise and is likely to have recently given birth. A DNA comparison with the found infant is in progress.

background

The film was shot by HR in cooperation with Degeto Film in Frankfurt and the surrounding area. The film music was partly composed by Gustav Mahler based on motifs from the 2nd symphony "Resurrection".

Essential parts of the plot take place around Güterplatz, the Gallus district and the site of the former main goods station in today's Europaviertel . The development has changed significantly in some locations today. In the case of several settings at Güterplatz, for example, compared to the current state of construction (2019), Skyline Plaza and Tower 185 are missing , while the earlier facades can be seen on City-Haus I and the headquarters of Sparda-Bank Hessen . Other scenes in the quarter take place at the Galluswarte train station and in an unspecified "high-rise" near today's Lia-Wöhr-Platz . During the research in the city center, the main station and B-level can be seen, among other things , a scene takes place in the traditional shoe store Hako (closed 2014).

reception

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv approves: “Seldom has there been such a strong 'Tatort' prelude as this one from Hessischer Rundfunk. Who would have thought that after Commissioner Brinkmann, the man with the fly, accompanied us for years through musty Frankfurt everyday thrillers. "

Lars-Christian Daniels from Wiewardertatort.blogspot.de finds the crime scene, which in his opinion "is still looking for a new line and a coherent rhythm [...] [is acceptable.] The actual crime story is in 'Oskar' ' - typically for a Tatort debut - behind the introduction of the new characters, but is also rarely able to generate tension due to the almost ninety minutes, which are shortened to what feels like sixty in view of the far too long introduction. The new Frankfurt crime scene is forgiven "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm think this crime scene is a "depressing case that goes to the heart."

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Oskar on April 21, 2002 was seen by a total of 8.42 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 24.12 percent for Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on April 8, 2014.
  2. ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on April 8, 2014.
  3. ↑ Lars-Christian Daniels: That was the crime scene. at wiewardertatort.blogspot.de, accessed on April 8, 2014.
  4. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on April 8, 2014.
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