Crime scene: ricochet

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Ricochet
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Desert Medien GmbH on behalf of the NDR
length	90 minutes
classification	Episode 1111 ( List )
German-language first broadcast	1st December 2019
Rod
Director	Stephan Rick
script	Oke Stielow
production	Björn Vosgerau , Uwe Kolbe
music	Stefan Schulzki
camera	Felix Cramer
cut	Florian Drechsler
occupation
Wotan Wilke Möhring : Thorsten Falke Franziska Weisz : Julia Grosz Milan Peschel : Steffen Thewes Eray Eğilmez : Cem Aksoy "Jimmy" Deniz Arora : Efe Aksoy Marie Rosa Tietjen : Tine Geissler Rudolf Danielewicz : Roland Rober "role" Oana Solomon : Marie Thewes Charlotte Lorenzen : Sara Thewes Levin Liam : Torben Falcon Esther Roling : Kathy Aksoy

Querschläger is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by NDR was broadcast for the first time on December 1st, 2019 on Erste and SRF 1 . It is the twelfth case of police chief inspector Thorsten Falke , the sixth with police chief inspector Julia Grosz and the first crime scene of director Stephan Rick .

action

During a police check at a truck stop, a sniper shoots a truck and a truck driver is fatally hit by a ricochet. Inspector Grosz pursues the perpetrator alone in a breakneck manner, he escapes her. One of the first leads is a drug that is only available abroad and that the perpetrator lost at the scene of the crime.

The viewer learns early on that the culprit is actually the customs officer Steffen Thewes, who only wanted to hit the truck to extort money from a freight forwarder. He needs the money for a life-saving operation on his seriously ill daughter, as this special treatment is not covered by the health insurance company. The perpetrator then shoots a hunter who sees him in the forest with his sniper rifle. He also shoots a truck driver and the haulier; both survive.

The commissioners finally track down the perpetrator. In the final scene, Commissioner Falke is able to convince the perpetrator to give up a hostage-taking, and he builds a bridge for the freight forwarder to donate a large amount of money earned through criminal channels and to remain unpunished for it. Shortly afterwards, a large amount of money goes into the donation account for the girl, which makes the life-saving operation possible.

background

The film was shot under the working title Collateral Damage from September 11, 2018 to October 11, 2018. The premiere took place at the 30th Emden-Norderney International Film Festival on June 15, 2019.

Reviews

The critic Christian Buß rated the film at Spiegel Online with seven out of ten possible points and gave a praiseworthy verdict: “The emotional center of this 'crime scene' is therefore a murderer. This works because Peschel created his Thewes as a highly ambivalent figure who, as a father, pushes all moral considerations aside in order to save the daughter. "

The film service rated the film with two out of five possible stars and rated it as an average crime thriller that neglects tension and logic and sometimes turns out to be "very kitsch" about the claim to tell a tragic family drama. Only “the well-played desperate perpetrator” would gain in profile in the scenario. The journalist Matthias Hannemann saw it similarly in the FAZ : The film could have been “more than a common 'crime scene'” if all the roles had been cast as “precisely” as Peschel's.

Audience rating

The first broadcast of the film on December 1, 2019 was seen by 9.14 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.2% for Das Erste .

Web links

• Crime scene: ricochet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Summary of the plot of ricochet on the ARD website
• Ricochet in Tatort-Fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} crime scene: ricochet. In: New German Films. Internationales Filmfest Emden-Norderney, June 2019, accessed on July 4, 2019 . 
2. ^ Crime scene: ricochet at crew united
3. ↑ Christian Buß: Falke "crime scene" about sniper. The new militancy of the suburbs. In: In the crosshairs. Spiegel Online, November 29, 2019, accessed on November 29, 2019 : "Rating: 7 out of 10" 
4. ^ Crime scene - ricochet. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .  
5. ↑ Matthias Hannemann: A man takes up his rifle , in: FAZ from Dec. 1, 2019, accessed on Dec. 5, 2019
6. ↑ TV ratings: On Sundays, as always, Tatort at the top , in: digitalfernsehen.de from December 2, 2019, accessed on December 2, 2019

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