Crime scene: Romeo and Juliet
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Romeo and Juliet |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 521 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | January 5, 2003 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nicole Weegmann |
| script | Harald Göckeritz |
| production | Ulrich Herrmann |
| music | Oliver Biehler |
| camera | Thomas Makosch |
| cut | Carola Hülsebus |
| occupation | |
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Romeo and Juliet (sometimes Romeo & Juliet ) is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The program produced by SWR is the 521st episode in the series and was broadcast on January 5, 2003 on ARD's first program. In her 27th case, Lena Odenthal is investigating the murder of a young man from the right-wing extremist milieu as a crime scene commissioner.
action
Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper are currently in Italy because Kopper was invited to a wedding. On the way back she is accompanied by young Marcello, who is worried about his German girlfriend. His father insists that Marcello stay in Italy for the time being and do his training, but he really wants to see Julia.
Julia's brother rejects Marcello as an Italian, just as Marcello's family rejects his German girlfriend. When Robbi tries to keep him away from his sister by force and pulls out a knife, Marcello defends himself with a stick. He hits Robbi in the head so unhappily that he stays on the ground. Terrified, Julia and the slightly injured Marcello flee and hide in an old demolished building. She lets her mother know that she is going to France for a few days with a friend.
Odenthal and Kopper are called to the place where Robbi's body was found. They quickly find out that he belonged to a clique of neo-Nazis and did not shy away from beating his mother and sister. After a local pharmacy is broken into and only pain medication is stolen, investigators are sure this is related to their case. When Odenthal meets Julia by chance and her mother's statement cannot be correct, the investigator thinks it is possible that Julia did something to her brother, possibly out of anger over his violence against her mother.
While Odenthal and Kopper continue to look for clues, Marcello and Julia think of a way out. They never want to separate again and stay together forever, so that Marcello cannot face the police and so he wants to flee to Italy with Julia. To organize that, however, he has to leave her alone again and to Roberto, Kopper's friend. Kopper is with him right now and immediately notices that something is wrong with Marcello, but he does not reveal him. It is also now clear to him that Robbi's sister is "his" Julia.
Odenthal manages to find Julia and tries to talk to her, but she remains silent. After suddenly claiming she killed her brother, the investigator doubts. Julia could want to protect someone, possibly her friend, whom Odenthal, unlike Kopper, does not know. Julia manages to escape and meets with Marcello, who has prepared everything for her trip to Italy.
To clarify the events on the evening of the crime, the investigators want to interview Robbis Nazi friends. Odenthal speaks to Marie and learns from her that Julia's boyfriend is an Italian. It is also clear to her that this can only be Marcello and he is already on his way to Italy with Julia. So Odenthal and Kopper travel behind and talk to Marcello's father. He is shocked when he learns that his son is said to have killed someone, but he also stands in front of him to protect himself so that the two young people can flee again. In their need they would rather die together than go to prison and so they both swim out to sea. Odenthal alerts the coast guard and they manage to save the two of them from drowning. Julia finally speaks to the investigator and so she learns that Marcello had only fought against Robbi. When she told her that her brother had allowed his boyfriend Leo to rap Julia a few days earlier, the investigator had some sympathy and did not take Marcello to Germany, but let the two live their young love.
reception
criticism
"God, how gloomy: a German-Italian love without a chance, a brutal brother, overexerted police [...], and Ludwigshafen is similar to Italy: all garbage. A 'crime scene' [...] as an exercise in dismaying spectators. "
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Romeo and Juliet on January 5, 2003 was seen by 6.64 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 19.9% for Das Erste .
Award
Denis Moschitto received the Günter Strack Television Award 2003 in the Best Actor category .
“Denis Moschitto plays Marcello, this sympathetic underdog, with astonishing intensity. You truly believe his fear, his feelings of guilt, his despair and his panic as well as his tenderness and his unconditional love for Julia, for which he fights with all means. "
Web links
- Romeo and Juliet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Romeo and Juliet on the ARD website
- Romeo & Juliet at the crime scene fund
- Romeo and Juliet at Tatort-Fans.de
- Crime scene: Romeo and Juliet at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b crime scene: Romeo and Juliet . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 2003, p. 145 ( online - evidence for the title).
- ↑ a b Romeo & Juliet. Crime scene fund, accessed on April 29, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Chronicle 2007–1997. Studio Hamburg , accessed on April 29, 2015 : "Günter Strack TV Prize 2003 for an outstanding performance as Marcello in the TV film" TATORT - Romeo and Juliet ""
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