Crime scene: puppeteer
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Puppeteer |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Radio Bremen (RB) and WDR |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 864 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | February 24, 2013 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Florian Baxmeyer |
| script | Christian Jeltsch |
| production | Radio Bremen film production |
| music | Stefan Hansen |
| camera | Marcus Kanter |
| cut | Elke Schloo |
| occupation | |
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Puppeteer is a television film from the television crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Radio Bremen and broadcast for the first time on February 24, 2013. It is the 864th episode in the crime scene series. Chief Inspector Inga Lürsen ( Sabine Postel ) is surprised in her 27th case by the plans of her colleague Nils Stedefreund ( Oliver Mommsen ), for whom his 22nd case should be his last because he wants to take a break to help police students in Teaching Afghanistan . Together with their new colleague Leo Uljanoff, the commissioners have to deal with corrupt machinations between politics and business.
action
. The judge Konrad Bauser spends the night with the young Mel When he asks her how old she was, she replied: "How old should I be because" The next day it goes into a meeting about the controversial Weser depression , one on the Judges have to rule; two of the judges are for, two are against. Dr. Bauser's voice tipped the scales, so to speak . There is a dossier for all five judges with preferences and weak points. Shortly afterwards Bauser receives a video on his cell phone in which he can be seen making love with the very young Mel. Then a male voice demands 50,000 euros from him and threatens that the video would otherwise be online tomorrow . Immediately after the phone call, Richter Bauser calls a young woman, whereupon a gigantic machine starts moving. When Ole, Mel's friend, does not find anyone at the meeting point agreed with Bauser, he calls the judge, but only the mailbox answers . Then he sees a shadow in the door and thinks it's Bauser. However, the hooded man points a gun at him. Ole manages to escape, unfortunately his cell phone gives him away, which rings at that moment, the man shoots him without hesitation, in cold blood. When the doorbell rings again, he takes the call and whispers: "Where are you?" Mel, in turn, replies that he knows that, she is waiting for him in the harbor. The voice whispers: "I'll be right there." Then the man prepares the corpse as that of a drug addict, wipes out the number noted in Ole's hand with spit and hurries to the harbor, where he points his weapon at Mel. When he is almost there, she manages to fool him by throwing her jacket into the water in the dark. He aims at it several times, and Mel escapes.
Judge Bauser meets with his colleague who started the killing of Ole. In the car she says to him that he can only hope that there is no copy that turns up on the Internet . When Bauser realizes that Mel is alive, he calls the woman again and complains that the girl is alive and is following him. Over the phone he gives her a murder assignment and demands that “this damn whore must die.” The young woman he has in hand because of an incident in Leipzig records the conversation. Then she calls a cell phone number and says she knows that she should only dial this number in an emergency and adds that it is about Dr. Bauser go and it could be an emergency.
When Detective Chief Inspector Stedefreund visits the crime scene, he finds Mel, who is lying on the ground in the sketched place and is listening to the music that she always heard with her boyfriend. The young woman received a grazing shot during the exchange of fire in the harbor. Stedefreund learns that she lives on the street and hardly trusts anyone. She tells him that Ole's killer shot her too. As a precaution, the superintendent takes Mel into his apartment and tells her not to move until he's back. In order to uncover the identity of Ole's killer, Stedefreund also speaks to Judge Bauser. As soon as the inspector left, Bauser called the mysterious number again and complained that he had just been molested by a detective inspector after he had previously arrogantly asked Stedefreund whether he actually knew who he was.
Leo Uljanoff, a new colleague, has now researched eight cases that were similar to the present one: The same weapon was used, DNA traces of the same person were always found at the crime scene and not one of the cases could be resolved because always before a corresponding instruction was given from a higher authority. Just as a man approaches Mel with a syringe, Stedefreund comes back. Mel tells him that someone must have been there, that she saw a shadow. The inspector then brings her to Chief Inspector Inga Lürsen. She tells her how the encounter with Judge Bauser came about. She had been called, not by the judge himself, who was drunk when he came into her room. She then secretly made video recordings that Ole had with him on the cell phone that has disappeared. There is no copy of it. At an event “Pros and Cons of the Weser Deepening”, Lürsen revealed that there was another surveillance camera in the judge's room that is still being sought. Shortly thereafter, Bauser apologized for being unwell, looked for the camera in the rented room and found it. Again he dials the relevant number and implores the participant that he has to fix it, he is one of the highest German judges and he will stay that way and again emphatically: "You fix it, if not, trembles Berlin! ”The BKA takes over, the head of the group that is supposed to solve the case is Sigrid Strange, the woman who was put under massive pressure by Bauser. She immediately questions Mel and uses methods that intimidate Mel, showing her a photo of her own father and asking if it was him. Mel backs away in horror. Strange, however, continues to incite Mel with words and deliberately leaves her weapon on the table when she briefly leaves the room to receive the appointed judge Bauser. Mel has hardly seen him when she takes up the gun and threatens Bauser, who then collapses. Strange's plan to get Mel to shoot the judge didn't work out. The BKA presents Lürsen and Stedefreund as the perpetrator, the contract killer with the abbreviation AV7K. Everything has been prepared and proven with alleged evidence and requested that the case be filed. However, Lürsen and her people continue to investigate.
Lürsen and Stedefreund visit Judge Bauser in the hospital and confront him with a case from Leipzig, where the chronology of the crime began, and show all the connections in such a way that Bauser has to assume that they know. They cleverly incorporate into their conversation that Strange wanted Mel to get him out of the way. Bauser then says everything he knows. What he says is terrifying. All over Germany, criminals are on the road in prepared trucks on behalf of the Federal Criminal Police Office, waiting - like puppets - for new orders. Lürsen and Stedefreund are following Sigrid Strange and are tracking down these people's headquarters. The delegates from “Pro Weservertiefung” appear at the judge's bedside. It is they who want to blackmail him with a video that exists next to the one made by Mel. Bauser then jumps to his death.
Production notes and background
Puppeteers were shot in and around Bremen. The editing was done by Annette Strelow from Radio Bremen and Götz Schmedes from WDR . The production company was Bremedia . For this crime scene episode, screenwriter Christian Jeltsch abandoned a still unsolved affair about the possible involvement of high-ranking personalities from the judiciary, politics and the secret service milieu in child prostitution, real estate transactions and the related criminal machinations in Saxony, especially in Leipzig, the so-called Saxony swamp , inspire.
In this episode, Nils Stedefreund has to cope with the loss of a friend. The widow hands him a box with memories from both youth. The commissioner has been dissatisfied with his life for a long time and wants to change something. He has applied for a place in a program called Third World Police Training. How he tried to convey Inga Lürsen in a conversation that he had put off for a long time, because he had to go new ways and had so many dreams that he had not realized and he did not talk to her about them because she would have tried to talk him out of it. “We're wriggling on the threads of some puppeteers we don't even know,” that's why he wrote the application. In February he will go to Kunduz . As his temporary successor, Chief Detective Leo Uljanoff, born in Gorki and formerly with the drug squad, joins the series. Lürsen and he spend a night together.
reception
Audience ratings
When it was first broadcast on February 24, 2013, Puppeteers had 9.65 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 25.8%.
Reviews
Sandra Kegel from the FAZ ruled that the new investigator, whom Inga Lürsen had been placed at the side, had "made her nervous" and that the team had solved an "absurd case, embedded in an overloaded story".
Annina Schopen from the BZ was of the opinion that “less would have been more” and that the Bremen crime scene was too “packed” with the subjects of “sex, blackmail, conspiracy and a new colleague. It would have done a little less. "
Jürn Kruse from the taz said that “after the NSU affair a corrupt state was suddenly conceivable”, even if he headlined: “But not in Germany” and stated: “Murder in Leipzig, murder in Berlin, murder in Hamburg. It is killed without pity, as if director Florian Baxmeyer and screenwriter Christian Jeltsch wanted to set a new record for freezing cold killings on Sunday evening with the 'crime scene' 'Puppeteer'. "Only then does the film start properly."
Susanne Baller from Stern was of the opinion that “a little James Bond can be quiet. Weser deepening, corrupt federal judges and a BKA with a contract killer unit - that only sounds partially like Bremen. "
TV Spielfilm summarized its criticism in the sentence: “Complex, explosive and in cinematic aesthetics. Baxmeyer pillory [e] in his fast-paced, multi-perspective split-screen images, political crime stories told of the arrogance of high officials who abuse their power. "
The television magazine Hörzu rated the episode in an article on February 24, 2013 with three possible points in the categories of humor, action and eroticism with one point each, two points for suspense, the overall rating was: “Successful.” The short evaluation by Thomas Kunze read as follows: “A new member in the police station: The new colleague brings a breath of fresh air and a strong pinch of humor. The case is tough. Murder and violence are not exactly saved. But sex & crime work great here. Exciting and very modern implemented: This Bremen 'Tatort' is top! "
Focus online author Jakob Biazza judged that “the episode 'Puppeteers' has everything a 'crime scene' [should] have at the moment: minimal reference to a real case, a new investigator, a little bit of child prostitution, a little bit of booze between the commissioners, multiple blackmail, a little dream world, some conspiracy theories - and with it: an outrageously overloaded story. "[...]" In the end there is the merciless judgment: switch it on or off? "His recommendation was:" The TV stays off please - no court vocabulary! "
Web links
- Crime scene: puppeteer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Puppeteers in the online film database
- Summary of the action of puppeteers on the ARD website
- Puppeteers at the crime scene fund
- Puppeteers at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Data on the crime scene: puppeteer
- ↑ Series "Tatort - Puppeteers" at: Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved May 12, 2013.
- ^ " Tatort " - Follow " Puppeteer " Co-driver in his own life Sandra Kegel. In: FAZ of February 24, 2013. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
- ^ Tatort: Puppeteer Bremen Tatort: Less would have been more Annina Schopen. In: BZ-Berlin, February 24, 2013. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
- ↑ Bremen Tatort: "Puppeteer" But not in Germany, Jürn Kruse. In: taz.de from February 24, 2013. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
- ^ "Tatort" Bremen "Puppeteer" With Druzhba against the murderous BKA Susanne Baller. In: Stern.de from February 24, 2013. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
- ^ Tatort: Puppeteer at tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
- ↑ Crime scene: puppeteer in the Hörzu check. Thomas Kunze. In: Hörzu, article from February 24, 2013. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
- ↑ "Short Trial" with the Bremen - " Tatort " Do you know how it came about? Kebab murders! Jakob Biazza. In: Focus – Online from February 24, 2013. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
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