Crime scene: Perfect Mind - In the labyrinth

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Perfect Mind - In the labyrinth
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MTM Cineteve GmbH on behalf of Bavarian Broadcasting and Telepool
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 348 ( List )
First broadcast December 15, 1996 on Das Erste
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Director Friedemann Fromm
script Christoph Fromm
production Peter Herrmann
music Markus Lonardoni
camera Klaus Merkel
cut Silva Lainova-Binder
occupation

Perfect Mind - Im Labyrinth is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by MTM Cineteve GmbH on behalf of Bayerischer Rundfunk und Telepool was broadcast for the first time on December 15, 1996 in the first as the 348th episode in the series. The Munich commissioners Batic and Leitmayr are investigating their 15th case and have to solve a death that leads directly to a sect. In doing so, they are increasingly caught in a network of manipulation, fraud, distrust and spying.

action

Philipp Ems, an employee of an advertising company, is set as the decoy of the sect "Perfect Mind" on the judge Beate Helmstedt. He provokes an argument as a result of which he falls over a railing in Helmstedt's apartment and dies in the process. The shocked judge tries to get help, but the sect's total surveillance system prevents this. The phone was turned off and when she ran out into the street, the phone booth was not free. When she comes back to her apartment, the body is gone.

Batic and Leitmayr find Ems dead in his apartment, in a position recreating the accident. The investigation of the apartment leads the investigators directly to the sect and in his computer there are hidden files in which the investigators have a "profile" from Judge Beate Helmstedt; precisely the judge who has to rule on the sect's application for registration as a religious community. With this status, the sect would save millions in taxpayers' money. Since there are also various files with court documents, Helmstedt is asked about it. She is horrified and cannot explain it. When asked about Ems, she denies having known him. The public prosecutor has already had the judge's alibi checked and is sure that the sect will leave no stone unturned in replacing the highly qualified judge for such cases with an inefficient official so that the sect's application is ultimately granted.

Leitmayr gets personal contact with Em's sister Milena, who is herself a high-ranking sect member. Since she feels complicit in her brother's death, she secretly cooperates with the police. In the sect, Milena has taken over the vacant position of her brother. The sect boss Hanno Haak even wants you to join the sect leadership of "Perfect Mind". This usually includes a torturous interrogation carried out by Renz and Haak, and Milena struggles to withstand the psychological ordeal. It should serve as a decoy for Karl-Heinz Rennig, the sect commissioner of the state government and expert in the upcoming process. His wife was killed in a car accident and Milena looks amazingly like her. She suspects that Haak only brought her to Munich for this purpose and that her brother had also worked in a similar way for "Perfect Mind".

In the meantime, the forensics department has found fingerprints of his ex-girlfriend Debora Kern in Em's apartment, who is immediately suspected of murder and is interrogated. Since Ems followed the sect's order to separate, but she still loves him, she would have a plausible motive for the crime. Leitmayr puts her under so much pressure during interrogation that she tries to commit suicide. Milena thinks it is likely that the sect has made sure that Debora Kern is suspected in order to distract from the real culprit. The power of the sect becomes even clearer when Leitmayr has to recognize that his private seminar for executives, which he is currently completing, is under the direction of sect leader Hanno Haak. Too late, he realizes that the four-digit course fee was refunded to him when the investigation into the sect began. Since the public prosecutor has been informed, he wants to release Leitmayr immediately from this case. However, Batic succeeds in unmasking Jeschonnek from the forensics department that he has fabricated the evidence against Debora Kern. He also finds a bug in the public prosecutor's office, so that Leitmayr's theoretical involvement with the sect must also be doubted.

Batic and Leitmayr were informed that the sect had set up their own secret service and that they could find evidence if they searched Haak's advertising company immediately to secure the records. Since this has not gone unnoticed by the sect's surveillance system, they remove this evidence and take it outside. Meanwhile, Milena is exposed in her double game and thrown in front of a train; disguised as a suicide attempt. Batic and Leitmayr try to undo Milena's brainwashing through an abandoned cult member. In this way, the investigators manage to get to the tape of the surveillance video and the photos that Haak had taken of the proceedings in the judge's house.

With this evidence, they confront Judge Helmstedt, who is currently in the middle of the hearing in which she will decide on the recognition of "Perfect Mind" as a religious community. Thereupon she interrupts the hearing and faces the prosecutor, who is already waiting at the door.

In return for the evidence against Helmstedt, Batic and Leitmayr Haak had to promise that he would not be prosecuted in the current investigation.

background

The production for Perfect Mind - Im Labyrinth took over this time the MTM Cineteve GmbH in Munich-Geiselgasteig under the direction of Andreas Bareiß. The company produced from 1994 to 2003 and has been working with Bavaria Film since 1999 . In December 1996 Natalia Wörner received the "Golden Gong" for her portrayal of the "Milena Ems".

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Perfect Mind - Im Labyrinth on December 15, 1996 was seen by 7.11 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 20.00 percent for Das Erste . The episode reached 327th place out of a possible 911 on the Tatortblog.

Reviews

At Moviesection.de, Thomas Ays awards four out of five possible stars and judges: “Director Friedemann Fromm staged the screenplay, which was written by his brother Christoph, not completely logically, but it does present a believable set-up, great pictures and an increased tension curve. Then there is the fantastic cast. Ulrich Tukur as a mean villain cuts an authentic figure and knows how to shine in every facet of his character, and Natalia Wörner can also convince as Milena Ems. The two commissioners, played by Udo Wachtveitl and Miroslav Nemec, are particularly challenged here and know how to deal with the new challenges well. 'Perfect Mind - in the Labyrinth' has become a super thriller that has become highly explosive in society and therefore all the more important. Great!"

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm confirm the episode “fine actors and a cool finale save the somewhat hysterical story. [The whole thing seems] a bit overambitious [but is] still ok ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Tatort: ​​Perfect Mind - Im Labyrinth . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Production on bavaria-film.de, accessed on February 1, 2014.
  3. ↑ Audience rating on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 9, 2016.
  4. ↑ Ranking list on tatort-blog.de, accessed on February 1, 2014.
  5. ↑ Thomas Ays : Critique ( memento of March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on moviesection.de, accessed on February 1, 2014.
  6. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 1, 2014.
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