Crime scene: secondary school leaving certificate

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Secondary school leaving certificate
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 NDR
length 108 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 73 ( List )
First broadcast March 27, 1977 on German television
Rod
Director Wolfgang Petersen
script Herbert Lichtenfeld
production Rudiger Humpert
music Nils Sustrate
camera Jörg-Michael Baldenius ,
Hans Schreiber
cut Hannelore Pitschek ,
Karin Wagner
occupation

Reifezeugnis is a German television film from the crime series Tatort from 1977. The 73rd film in the series and the 6th case for Inspector Finke "is one of the most legendary and most repeated episodes of the crime series" and made Nastassja Kinski known to a wide audience.

action

Sina Wolf is a sixteen year old student from a rich family. The pretty girl is adored by her classmate Michael Harms. Although they have been friends for a long time, she suddenly gives him the cold shoulder. Sina Wolf has a secret. She has had an intimate relationship with her teacher Fichte for some time. When Michael Harms followed her unnoticed one day to a lake on his bike, he happened to witness sexual acts between the two of them, which seriously injured him mentally. Hateful he tries to blackmail Sina and demands sex from her under the threat that he will make this criminal relationship public. In order to protect herself and her teacher, Sina sees no other way out than to comply with Michael's request. After school, both drive together into a forest, where Michael attacks Sina. In the affect , Sina grabs a stone and kills it. Fearful, she adds more evidence of rape and tells the police that Michael Harms wanted to save her from being raped and that the perpetrator killed her. The description of the perpetrator fits a man who has been making headlines in the newspapers as a rapist for a long time. Before his death, Michael informed his classmate Inge, who was at risk of being transferred, about the relationship between the married Fichte and Sina. She is now blackmailing Fichte and thus gets the solution to the next math work that she writes and passes with Fichte's wife, a math teacher.

During the investigation, Commissioner Finke learns of the teacher-student relationship . When it was also determined that the alleged perpetrator was not an option for the time in question, teacher Fichte was suspected. Confronted with accusations of taking advantage of a dependency relationship, he ends his relationship with Sina. The girl also gets caught up in contradictions with the police. Desperate, she flees to the lake, which was often the place of secret meetings, and tries to shoot herself with her father's gun. Since she doesn't manage to reload the weapon, Inspector Finke finds her still alive.

background

The shooting locations are in Holstein Switzerland . The main location was the small town of Eutin .

  • The Eutin Johann Heinrich Voss School , which became known throughout Germany through this film, served as the location for the high school .
  • The scene in which Michael Harms is riding his bike through the town was filmed on Riemannstrasse in Eutin. In Holstenstrasse near the Eutiner Seepark, he meets Inge and tells her about the affair between Sina and Fichte.
  • The Fichte couple's house is on Lindenstrasse in Eutin.
  • Sina's parents' elegant bungalow was on Stadtbeker Strasse in Bosau , directly on the Großer Plöner See . The building was demolished in the summer of 2018 after no buyer could be found who was willing to pay the last requested € 690,000. In addition, considerable renovation work, in particular an energetic renovation, would have had to be carried out.
  • The scene in which Commissioner Finke is consulting with his assistant in a fish restaurant was shot at the Fährhaus Bosau .
  • At the Bischofssee , in the north of Bosau , the scene was shot in which Inspector Finke followed Fichte's car and then had a chat with Fichte.
  • The Kolksee near Kasseedorf served as a filming location for the Black Lake .

Nastassja Kinski was 15 years old at the time of shooting and had already played a few minor roles in films. The role of Sina Wolf, broadcast at prime time on ARD , made her known to a wide audience. It was also the beginning of a career for director Wolfgang Petersen that took him to Hollywood .

The secondary school leaving certificate is one of the classics of the Tatort series and is regularly repeated within ARD. The episode was released on DVD on January 7, 2010.

Reviews

“'Reifezeugnis' is one of the most well-known 'Tatort' episodes along with some Schimanski's . The early work of Wolfgang Petersen - now a successful Hollywood director - was the talk of the day when it was first broadcast and was repeated many times. This was due to the sensational debut of the young Nastassja Kinski, who undressed several times for the film and thus brought a bit of the 70s ' schoolgirl report' flair into German living rooms. Of course, Petersen's film is much better made, but it was without a doubt not the rather leisurely crime story that gave it the resounding success. "

- Prism Online

“To do without the usual guessing game is a tricky undertaking in criminal cases, it goes well here. Wolfgang Petersen's film does not live from a particularly sophisticated story, but from the remarkable psychograms of the characters involved. [...] A 'Tatort' episode of the better kind. The tears flowed abundantly, but at the end, where the film could have slipped into kitsch, the screenwriter Herbert Lichtenfeld came up with something. Sina wants to take her own life out of lovesickness. She takes her father's revolver, but it doesn't work, she goes into the water, but she can swim, the environment is just not good for tragedy. "

- Michael Schwarze : FAZ from March 29, 1977

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: school-leaving certificate . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ High school diploma from the German Film Portal
  3. ↑ locations
  4. ↑ cinefacts.de: Tatort: ​​Reifezeugnis
  5. ↑ faz.net: “Tatort” classic “Reifezeugnis” (1977) in vain walk into the water , accessed on January 12, 2012.
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