Crime scene: Pauline
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Pauline |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 640 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | September 24, 2006 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Niki Stein |
| script | Martina Mouchot |
| production | Kerstin Ramcke |
| music |
Jacki Engelken , Ulrik Spies |
| camera | Wedigo von Schultzendorff |
| cut | Barbara Hennings |
| occupation | |
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Pauline is a television film produced by NDR from the crime series Tatort , which was broadcast for the first time on September 24, 2006 in the ARD Das Erste program. It is the 640th episode in the series. Chief Commissioner Charlotte Lindholm ( Maria Furtwängler ) from the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office is confronted in her 9th case with the inexplicable death of a 12-year-old girl.
action
In a small village near Jesteburg , twelve-year-old Pauline Kandis helps her sister Nele's friend, Sven Forthmann, look after the horses on his horse farm . When Sven catches Pauline showering, he sends her away. Pauline runs away furiously and forgets to take her jacket with her. In the evening, the entire village community meets at a fire brigade ball to celebrate. When Nele and Sven want to leave, they offer Pauline to take her with them. But she wants to stay longer and instead goes dancing with Moritz Siebenborn, a boy from the village. At dawn a man sits crying outside by a river. The dead Pauline lies in his arms.
Chief Detective Charlotte Lindholm drives to the village in the morning to investigate the case. She is informed about the victim by officer Katharina Lichtblau at the local police station. Pauline's godfather Guntram Schollenbruch found her dead by the river. Actually, the grandfather should have picked up his granddaughter from the fire brigade ball. Pauline lived with her sister Nele on a farm with her father Bruno. Marta, the girls' mother, moved to Jesteburg two months ago.
The first examinations by the coroner reveal that Pauline was killed by a blow in the head. She was not sexually abused , but she was no longer a virgin either . Lindholm goes to the Siebenborn family to talk to Moritz. The boy is not home. Instead, his father Hans explains to her that he went home with his son that night. Since he was drunk himself, however, he did not pay attention to whether Pauline was present, in any case he did not see her. Meanwhile, Nele Kandis rides her bike to her boyfriend Sven's horse farm. There she discovers Pauline's jacket. Sven explains to her that Pauline occasionally helped him with his work and he thinks Pauline had a crush on him. Nele becomes suspicious, not knowing anything about it, and expresses the suspicion that he could have something to do with Pauline's death and possibly sexually abused her. Sven slaps his girlfriend in the face. In the evening Lindholm seeks a conversation with the Kandis family. When she asks her grandfather why Pauline did not call him to be picked up, he leaves the room. Nele tells the inspector that Pauline has often been to Sven Forthmann's without her knowledge.
Lindholm stays with the police officer Lichtblau and her family. When she is about to go to bed, Lichtblue's husband, the village pastor, is standing in her guest room and tries to ensnare her, which she does not like. The next day, Lindholm drives to the place where Pauline was found. She notices that the current of the river leads to the sandbank on which Pauline was lying. She walks a little uphill until she discovers a small handbag between some stones. To find out whether it is Pauline's bag, she drives back to the Kandis family farm. In the barn she finds her grandfather, who has apparently hanged himself. When Sven Forthmann reaches the court, Bruno Kandis hits him. Forthmann runs away, but is stopped by Nele. She discovers scratches on his hand. He leaves the court without explanation.
On the basis of her knowledge of the river, Lindholm has the forensics department search Pauline's location again. She suspects that the girl fell into the river further up and that Guntram Schollenbruch misrepresented the location. However, the forensic investigation found only one pebble at the site, which is not found anywhere else in the area. Meanwhile, forensic medicine in Lindholm is informing about foreign DNA traces under Pauline's fingernails. Then she sets out to get samples for comparison from the villagers. It starts with the main suspect, Schollenbruch, and also confiscates his computer. At the Siebenborns, she learns that Moritz is about to go to boarding school. She asks Moritz about the night of the crime. The boy gives her the same answers as his father. Finally, she asked him and his father to give her a sample of saliva. When Lindholm reached the police station in the evening, Sven Forthmann was already waiting for her and was ready for interrogation. He says that Pauline only helped him on the farm with the horses. He too gave the Commissioner a sample of saliva, albeit hesitantly. Lindholm noticed the scratches on his hand. Forthmann claims that these came from one of his animals.
Back in Hanover, the commissioner had the idea that the pebble that the forensics department had found on the river could be the murder weapon. She then calls the coroner to tell him about her suspicion. He explains to her that the pebble was only able to trigger the fatal injury to Pauline's head in conjunction with a slingshot, which leads Lindholm to suspect that the perpetrator is Moritz Siebenborn. Meanwhile, Policewoman Lichtblau received a fax with the results of the search from Guntram Schollenbruch's computer. Schollenbruch apparently had contact with underage girls. Through a trick, Lichtblau is locked in the sobering cell of the police station by her daughter Laura. Laura has an intellectual disability and thinks it's a game. Meanwhile, Nele Kandis and Sven Forthmann meet to say goodbye, as Nele wants to go to Hamburg to study. Sven reveals to his girlfriend that he is afraid of being mistaken for Pauline's murderer because Pauline scratched him and thus his DNA could be found under her fingernails. Nele doesn't get on the bus to Hamburg. In the police station, Bruno Kandis found the fax with the information about Guntram Schollenbruch. Since Lichtblau is still locked up, he can easily take her service weapon and take it to Schollenbruch. Released by Sven Forthmann, light blue can prevent Bruno Kandis from shooting at Schollenbruch. Moritz's mother finally confesses to Lindholm that her son killed Pauline. When Moritz arrives at home and discovers the inspector, he runs away. Lindholm manages to catch up with him, but Moritz is now aiming at her with his twin . In the end, he takes the gun down and confesses what he did.
production
Filming for this episode began on November 22, 2005 and ended on December 22, 2005.
The episode Pauline is available on DVD at ARD Video .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Pauline on September 24, 2006 was seen by a total of 9.36 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 27.3% for Das Erste ; In the group of 14 to 49 year old viewers , 3.12 million viewers and a market share of 20.7% were achieved.
criticism
“An unspectacular, almost inconspicuous image design (Wedigo von Schultzendorff) ensures that the excellent actors in particular come into their own. Since the production design (Maximilian Johannsmann) consistently dispenses with bold colors, the autumn story inevitably looks joyless. "
“The name Niki Stein and the extraordinary script got the actors of the first guard 'bite'. When do you see Corinna Harfouch as an ex-farmer who has to make ends meet as a cleaning lady? The theater actor Martin Wuttke, whose taciturn bankruptcy farmer is only allowed to really explode once, is terrific. Always a safe bet when it comes to intensive, credible play: Johanna Gastdorf, Wotan Wilke Möhring and Anna Maria Mühe. And in the end this 'crime scene' also delivers what the staff and cast promise. "
Award
Maria Furtwängler received the German Television Award 2007 in the category “Best Actress” for the episodes of the crime scene Pauline and Das namenlose Mädchen .
Web links
- Crime scene: Pauline at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pauline at the crime scene fund
- Pauline at Tatort-Fans.de
- Crime scene: Pauline at DasErste.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Crime scene: Pauline ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at ardvideo.de. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
- ↑ quotemeter.de : «Tatort» almost wins against ProSieben blockbuster , accessed on February 10, 2012.
- ^ Film review on Tatort: Pauline. kino.de, November 9, 2005, accessed February 8, 2013 .
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Furtwängler, Harfouch, Wuttke, Mühe: What a child death does to a village! kino.de, September 24, 2006, accessed February 8, 2013 .
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