Crime scene: avenging angel
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Angel of revenge |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
MDR |
| length | 84 minutes |
| classification | Episode 667 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | May 28, 2007 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hannu Salonen |
| script |
Mario Giordano Andreas Schlueter |
| production | Jan Kruse |
| music | Karim Sebastian Elias |
| camera | Carl Finkbeiner |
| cut | Julia Oehring |
| occupation | |
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Racheengel is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD , ORF and SRF . The film was produced by MDR under the direction of Hannu Salonen and first broadcast on May 28, 2007. It is the crime scene episode 667. For the detective chief inspector Bruno Ehrlicher and his colleague Kain it is the twenty-third and penultimate case that they investigate in Leipzig .
action
The patrol officer Matthias Erler meets with his girlfriend, the writer Ulrike Oppermann, in an hour hotel . When Erler wakes up, he finds the woman strangled in bed next to him. In his distress, he calls his colleague Anna Stein, who then notifies the criminal police. Ehrlicher and Kain only find traces that speak against Erler. Only his colleague Stein is convinced that he is innocent. She asks Ehrlicher to help him with the investigation, but he refuses.
Ehrlicher inquires about Oppermann at the book publisher. There he learns that she wrote her novels under the pseudonym "Mimi Blaise" and that she had received death threats from time to time. More recently, when it became known that she wanted to let her serial hero die. She had already completed the manuscript for this book, but has now disappeared. According to the publisher Carola Nagel, it would be very valuable to her and she would pay up to a million for it. Since Matthias Erler had a rather lavish lifestyle, Kain therefore considers a murder in order to obtain capital to be conceivable.
Next, the investigators question the journalist Lutz Döhring, who is currently in the process of creating a biography about "Mimi Blaise". From him they learn that there were quarrels between Oppermann and the publisher. Although there was not yet an approved advertising concept, Carola Nagel had already started a large-scale advertising campaign for the book series.
Forensic technician Walter has now been able to search the victim's laptop and has come across a lively e-mail correspondence with a Mechthild Bläser, who is the real author "Mimi Blaise". Hoping to meet the woman at the book fair, which is currently taking place in Leipzig, they ask in all hotels in the city and can find Mechthild Bläser. She is shocked to learn of the death of her agent and the disappearance of the manuscript. Since she doesn't want to appear in public as “Mimi Blaise”, Anna Stein slips into this role without further ado. The publisher is only superficially pleased to see its author alive, because after her death the rights to the book series would have passed to her.
After Anne Stein reveals herself to the public as “Mimi Blaise” and announces the ultimate end of her series hero at a press conference of the publishing house, she immediately escapes a bomb attack with luck. On the very same day a stranger called in and offered the missing manuscript “Mimi Blaise” for sale. You can ask it at the handover. It is Robert Lützgen, who organizes the sales of the promotional items on behalf of Carola Nagel. He states that he himself only bought the manuscript from someone. The commissioners believe him and initially suspect Mechthild Bläser, because her contract with Ulrike Oppermann was only verbal, which could have led to problems if she had no longer come to an agreement with her agent one day. She tells them that she actually got the idea for her series hero from a book that she got hold of as an editor ten years ago. She picked up the idea and made it what it is now. The author at the time was a Lutz Döhring.
Ehrlicher and Cain go to him to arrest him. He claims to have been looking for "Mimi Blaise" all these years to finally get revenge. After realizing that he had killed the wrong one, he thought he had found the right one in Anna. The officers are horrified to learn that Döhring has kidnapped Anna and wants to kill her with a bomb, just like the book hero. When he learns that he has caught the wrong "Mimi Blaise" again, he reveals the detective's whereabouts and Anna can be saved.
background
Racheengel was produced by Saxonia Media Filmproduktion GmbH under the working title Copyright and shot in Leipzig.
reception
Audience ratings
When it was first broadcast on May 28, 2007, the episode Racheengel was seen by 6.22 million viewers in Germany, which corresponds to a market share of 18.00 percent.
criticism
Franz Solms-Laubach criticizes for welt.de and comes to the conclusion: “The film harbors a lot of potential for frustration. The breaks in history are just too big. Even the commissioners seem confused by the constant dodging history. At the very end of 'Racheengel', when everything went well, the guilty party caught and the lovers are happy, Kain asks his colleague Ehrlicher: 'And what do we do now?' His colleague replies: 'We're eating pea soup at Frederike's'. There is nothing to add to that. ”The summary:“ To be honest, the crime scene doesn't exactly knock its viewers off their feet. ”
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm rate the film only mediocre and say the crime thriller "starts well, but despite nice ideas stumbles into an unbelievable scenario with an exaggerated finale." Conclusion: "A thriller about books, but without a good book."
Web links
- Crime scene: avenging angel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Racheengel on the ARD website
- Angel of revenge at the crime scene fund
- Revenge Angel at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 7, 2016.
- ↑ Franz Solms-Laubach: Even fallen angels are only people at welt.de, accessed on January 7, 2016.
- ↑ Ehrlicher and Kain investigate the literature business in the book fair city of Leipzig. Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 7, 2016.
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