Crime scene: Made flat

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Made flat
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 86 minutes
classification Episode 742 ( List )
First broadcast October 4, 2009 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Buddy Giovinazzo
script Stefan Cantz ,
Jan Hinter
production Sonja Goslicki
music Susan DiBona
camera Henning Jessel
cut Dora Vajda
occupation

Made flat is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film, produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and directed by Buddy Giovinazzo , was broadcast on October 4th, 2009 on ARD's first program. It is the 44th case of the Cologne team of investigators Ballauf and Schenk and the 742nd crime scene sequence.

action

While Ballauf and Schenk are eating a currywurst at a snack bar on Heinrichsplatz in the middle of Cologne , a young homeless man collapses on a bench in front of them .

Dr. Joseph Roth's autopsy reveals that the cause of death was antifreeze , which someone must have put into the bottle of red wine that the victim last drank. In a homeless shelter, the investigators can find out the identity of the young man. It's about Andi Lechner, who was a drug addict and earned his living as a prostitute . One who should have known him better is the Berber "Beethoven". Ballauf and Schenk find him playing the organ in a church. Beethoven reports on a dispute between Andi Lechner and Django. The investigators first have to find him before they can question him. Accompanied by “Beethoven”, they wander through the Cologne homeless scene and meet Stefan Meutsch, a former chief inspector who now works as a detective and is looking for a witness among the homeless.

When the commissioners finally find Django, he is hardly accessible. Ballauf has to send him to sober up before he can question him. In the meantime, Schenk is pursuing a young man who had recently attacked an old and defenseless homeless man. Since the boy obviously doesn’t like the homeless and Schenk finds antifreeze in his garage, he takes a sample with him for analysis. However, this does not coincide with the drug given to the homeless.

The questioning of Django only reveals that he wanted Andi Lechner to return the money he owed him. The investigators found out that Lechner was working with the cosmetic surgeon Dr. Norbert Ellermann was well respected and served as a prostitute. Ellermann is known as the patron of the Cologne homeless and had just given a charity evening. Ballauf thinks it is possible that Lechner could have blackmailed Ellermann and who then got him out of the way, especially since it turns out that Lechner was HIV- positive. Ballauf confronts the doctor with these new findings and Ellermann is sometimes surprised. He states that he has been HIV-positive himself for years and therefore only had protected intercourse with the victim. He had nothing to do with Lechner's death.

In the evening a new victim, poisoned with glycol, is found among the homeless. “Beethoven” is astonished to find that the dead man was wearing his coat. The other Berbers are concerned that a serial offender might be targeting them. In order to be able to do better research, Ballauf and “Beethoven's” help mingle with the homeless. It turns out that the last victim lived under an assumed name. Ballauf is unexpectedly threatened by Stefan Meutsch, who is still looking for a homeless person named "Kempel". As it turns out, this is "Beethoven" and Meutsch's client is the lawyer Gesine Stürner.

The investigations show that Kempel, alias “Beethoven”, can expect an inheritance worth millions and lives voluntarily on the street because he wants to do a kind of “penance”. His cousin is Gesine Stürner, who has high hopes for the money and wants to get her cousin out of the way by putting Stefan Meutsch on him. Since he has now killed the "wrong man" with the poisoned wine for the second time, she takes matters into her own hands. She goes to “Beethoven” and threatens him with a gun. When Ballauf and Schenk arrive, the lawyer flees, but can be found by the investigators.

background

Platt made was produced by Colonia Media on behalf of WDR . The shooting took place in Cologne and the area around Cologne.

At this crime scene, the Cologne band De Höhner and the folk actor Peter Millowitsch have brief guest appearances when they create the final scene. The episode does not end at the snack bar, as it rarely does.

reception

Audience ratings

When it was first broadcast on October 4, 2009, the episode Platt made was seen in Germany by 9.55 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 27.20 percent.

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv assesses cautiously: “The beginning with an elegant entrance swing is very promising. [...] What follows is the same game between Freddy Schenk and Max Ballauf. "

At Stern.de , Kathrin Buchner says: “'Made flat' is a kitsch-oozing social study that unfortunately corresponds to its title. […] Burning garbage cans against social coldness, the struggle for a bourgeois existence, the fear of social decline. All of that could have been made flat, but unfortunately the title says it all. [...] Flat and bold with an overdose of pathos, platitudes and thrashing of phrases, this 'crime scene' just doesn't get off the ground. To make matters worse, at the end of the day you don't even see who murdered whom and why. "

Feridun Zaimoglu at Zeit.de judges quite sarcastically: “This is a nice, calm, warm film with a fairytale ending. But are we 'bankers' so wrong if we believe in fairy tales? The cold season is coming, we think, we wish the Berbers lots of bowls of hot pea soup, a warm place to sleep and lots of groschen on the coin plate. "

Torsten Thissen at Welt.de notes: “And so the inspectors trudge through a bad film, reciting wooden dialogues in which a bicycle is a synonym for bicycle. A film in which a corpse is lying around, visibly tapping the carotid artery and in the end there is a perpetrator whom you hardly know, whose motive you do not understand and in which it is also not clear how it could have happened at the beginning of the film kills the wrong person. "

The Berliner Morgenpost takes a more positive view of the crime scene and writes: “It would have had to stop just two minutes earlier, then this crime thriller would have remained unadulterated. […] The final scene with the band 'Höhner' roaring their Berber hymn 'Everything lost' hardly matched the beautiful 'crime scene' in its emotionalism, which had previously decidedly avoided any social pathos. And with this mixture - the Cologne mates Ballauf and Schenk investigated homeless people - a small masterpiece. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm judge: “The message is applied thickly, the finale seems constructed, but until then it remains exciting. A tricky story with the right concern. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ "Tatort" (TV episode 2009). Retrieved December 29, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Location and audience rating at fundus.de, accessed on December 7, 2014.
  3. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on December 7, 2014.
  4. ↑ Kathrin Buchner: Panik im Pennerglück at stern.de, accessed on December 7, 2014.
  5. ↑ Feridun Zaimoglu: "Platt made" at zeit.de, accessed on December 7, 2014.
  6. ↑ Torsten Thissen: The "Tatort" and the good homeless of Cologne at welt.de, accessed on December 7, 2014.
  7. ↑ Cool staged , at Morgenpost.de, accessed on December 7, 2014.
  8. ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on December 7, 2014.
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