Crime scene: room service
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Room service |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR Maran film |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 948 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | May 25, 2015 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tim Trageser |
| script |
Stefan Dähnert Patrick Brunken |
| production |
Nils Reinhardt Sabine Tettenborn |
| music | Andreas Weidinger |
| camera | Michael Merkel |
| cut | Sabine Garscha |
| occupation | |
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Roomservice is a television film in the crime series Tatort . It is about the 62nd Ludwigshafen case with Ulrike Folkerts as Lena Odenthal and Andreas Hoppe as Mario Kopper . The crime was on Whit Monday, May 25, 2015 in First broadcast and is the 948th Tatort episode.
action
Hotel director Dreusen is in the process of dividing his 38 housekeeping employees into the various floors for cleaning. He asks housekeeping Yasemin Akhtar to start with suite 426. Visibly nervous, the young woman then heads for Suite 426 and with the word "housekeeping" uttered twice, she enters the room in which the EU Commissioner Joseph Sattler is waiting for her, who lives in the room.
Meanwhile, the journalist Wolfgang Schüttler visits Sattler's wife and reports that her husband raped a young chambermaid. Valerie Sattler wants to send him away without comment, but pricks up the ears when the journalist explains that it is not an old story but a current case. Valerie Sattler then calls her husband in his hotel room, but is put off by him until later. A short time later, Yasemin Akhtar falls from an upper floor over the banister and is instantly dead.
Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper arrive at the hotel and are immediately asked by Director Dreusen how long "the whole thing would take" because it could disturb his guests. Odenthal first has the situation described and is surprised to find the case analyst Stern, who has already carried out initial investigations on her own initiative. When Odenthal learns that Sattler was living in a suite a few minutes ago and that there are allegations of rape against him, she orders his immediate interrogation, which should take place in the hotel.
Meanwhile, another maid rushes up to Akhtar's corpse and grieves her hair. Odenthal prevents this so as not to destroy any traces. Meanwhile, Stern investigates various case positions and finally finds that Akhtar must have fallen down the spiral staircase through someone else's fault.
Meanwhile, Odenthal interrogates Joseph Sattler, who admits consensual sexual intercourse with Yasemin Akhtar. Shortly afterwards, his requested lawyer arrives: his wife Valerie. The perpetrator learns from her that she allegedly has no problem with her husband's affairs. The extremely motivated Johanna Stern is convinced of Joseph Sattler as the perpetrator, especially after he became suggestive towards her. Not so Odenthal, which harbors potential for conflict and ultimately degenerates into an argument between the two.
While Odenthal looks around suite 426 late in the evening, Akhtar's sister Rana threatens the hotel manager Dreusen with a knife. She knows that Yasemin's sex with Sattler was an offer from Dreusen because he wanted to persuade her to offer such services too. So she considers him guilty of the death of her sister and wants to punish him for it. But Dreusen overwhelms the young woman and is in the process of mistreating her when Odenthal arrives and can save Rana from further kicks.
Finally, Stern seems to have found the solution to the case and orders Joseph Sattler and his wife to go to the hotel to discuss the course of events and convict Sattler. For Stern and Odenthal, it is certain that Valerie Sattler is the perpetrator. Her husband had called her on the morning of the crime because he had pushed Akhtar away in an argument and she had hit her head against a piece of furniture and then lay lifeless on the floor. When the investigators finally arrive at the scene of the incident, next to the spiral staircase, and Stern explains that Akhtar was still alive at the hotel when Valerie Sattler arrived, Joseph Sattler is finally convinced of his wife's guilt. He gets into an argument with Odenthal and Stern, with the three moving away from the railing. Shortly afterwards they hear an impact - Valerie Sattler fell down.
background
The shooting is carried out by Maran Film on behalf of the SWR in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , Baden-Baden and the Schlosshotel Bühlerhöhe under the working title Mord in Suite 426 .
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Roomservice on May 25, 2015 was seen by a total of 9.63 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 27.9 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
The critics at Bild.de judge quite soberly: “Lena Odenthal is tired of office. Yes, it can also be weak. But slowly the makers should come up with something fundamentally new for Germany's longest-serving TV commissioner. Otherwise their viewers will also get tired. 'Room service' has become another mediocre crime scene in Ludwigshafen. Not a total failure, but unfortunately not a highlight either. What a shame!"
Christina Kühnel at T-Online saw things a little differently: “The private dramas of the commissioners were given comparatively little space compared to the last cases - at least in the first half. Everything revolved around the case. [...] The thriller skilfully picked up the storylines of previous films and finally got to the point. Only those who had not seen the last cases could have had a problem following the film in the meantime. "
Web links
- Crime scene: Room service in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the action of room service on the ARD website
- Room service at the crime scene fund
- Room service at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Room service at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on June 2, 2015.
- ↑ Average crime scene wins with average ratings at meedia.de, accessed on June 2, 2015.
- ↑ A touch by Dominique Strauss-Kahn on bild.de, accessed on June 2, 2015.
- ↑ Christina Kühnel: Lena Odenthal starts again at t-online.de, accessed on June 2, 2015.
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