Crime scene: salt corpse
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Salt corpse |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 711 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | November 16, 2008 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christiane Balthasar |
| script |
Johannes W. Betz Max Eipp |
| production | Studio Hamburg film production |
| music | Johannes Kobilke |
| camera | Hannes Hubach |
| cut | Anke Berthold |
| occupation | |
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Salzleiche is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk and first broadcast on November 16, 2008. It is about the crime scene episode 711. Her 13th case leads detective chief inspector Charlotte Lindholm ( Maria Furtwängler ) not only to Gorleben , but also to Spain , where she not only investigates but also wants to contact the father of her son.
action
Chief Detective Charlotte Lindholm from the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office is entrusted with a new case. A dead person was found in the salt dumps of the Gorleben exploration mine . Police chief Jakob Halder informs the commissioner on site. Papers were found on the dead man that identify him as Sven Gutzkow. Forensic doctor Edgar Strelow thinks that the man was quasi cured. The salt comes from the nearby mine. The operator of the nuclear interim and final storage facility, Sören Kasper, reacts excitedly and says that such an "incident" has never been experienced. Gutzkow was a security man at the operating company AZE and was reported missing by Kasper half a year ago. As it turns out later, Gutzkow died as a result of a brain haemorrhage. An iron rod or a piece of iron was used as a tool.
When Gutzkows's landlady at the time told Lindholm that she had forgotten to give the officers who were there earlier letters that she had been keeping, the inspector was alarmed. In a conversation with her superior, Stefan Bitomsky, she learns that no one other than herself has been entrusted with the case. Charlotte says someone has already been everywhere she goes, and she also feels like she is being watched all the time. Bitomsky replies that she shouldn't be paranoid. Police chief Halder is of the opinion that a lot would be possible, private snoops, people from the nuclear lobby and so on. First of all, Lindholm and Halder visit the geologist Manfred Sandmann, who was dismissed from the AZE and now lives on Hartz IV . For him, the news of Gutzkow's death is good, he says bitterly. On Gutzkow's computer, which is missing, there was data on measured values, he does not know any more details. Measured values had been manipulated at the AZE for years, and when he disclosed and criticized this, he stood there like an idiot and in the end even lost his job.
Then the body of Sören Kasper is found. Lindholm learns from the pathologist that a broken neck is the cause of the businessman's death. Strelow believes that it was just an accident. It is also he who introduces Lindholm to his friend Elvis, who might be able to help her restore the data from Gutzkows cell phone. We know from Gutzkow's mother that a colleague turned up shortly after her son's disappearance and asked about him. In the course of her investigation, Lindholm applied for a search warrant for the security guard Erwin Augenthaler's home. You come across CDs with the label "Gutzkow". While Lindholm is talking to Augenthaler, Halder listens to the sound carriers. Sandmann's voice was cut using Gutzkow's data so that Kasper could always be called when he was certain that he would not be at home, which should make it impossible to answer. The commissioner learns from Elvis that it is theoretically possible to fake a phone call. Lindholm tries it out and lets the dead Gutzkow call a Spanish company. It is determined that Gutzkow has covered a distance in a rental car that corresponds approximately to the distance from Hanover to Spain. In response to her bogus phone call, the Commissioner receives a text message confirming that she will meet in Barcelona the next day at 12:00. Bitomsky wants Lindholm to travel to Catalonia and attend the meeting.
When the inspector in Barcelona passed a large locker facility, she tried the locker with the corresponding number with the key that she had found hidden in a bird feeder near Gutzkow on the property. In it she finds a silver suitcase that contains measurement data and other documents as well as a capsule with a poison symbol. Lindholm wants to get back to Germany with her suitcase as soon as possible and gets on a taxi to take her to the train station. In the car she has a bad feeling, especially since her friend Belinda has warned her that she is in danger. Her suspicion that the driver is not going to the destination she specified becomes a certainty when the car stops. The driver gets out and leaves Lindholm alone. Lindholm also leaves the car and all of a sudden a man appears in front of her, who first wants to know where Gutzkow is and then asks about the goods, pointing his gun at the inspector. At that moment, hooded police arrive and shoot the man. Dunker, a BND official , introduces herself to Lindholm and says she did a good job. It turns out that Gutzkow was an agent of the BND. The cesium contained in the capsule was obtained from somewhere else, not from Gorleben. Radioactive material is being traded out there for hell. If you don't react, you yourself will one day be in the position of the sheep being led to the slaughter. Her boss Bitomsky knew about it because he had to approve her little business trip. Then Dunker wants to know whether there was anything else in the suitcase besides the measurement data and the capsule, which the Commissioner denies.
Back home, Lindholm lets Bitomsky feel that she is mad at him, that he exposed her to such a danger without blinking an eyelid. In his defense, he claims that he had no other choice. The commissioner still has a murder to solve. She telephones the numbers found in the suitcase and realizes that there is Halder's number among them. Under a pretext, she lets Halder's wife Bettina write something on a piece of paper and recognizes her writing as the one that was on a piece of paper she found in Gutzkow's trash can. She tells the young woman that she had a relationship with Gutzkow and that the child she was expecting was from him. As soon as it is in the world, she will arrange a paternity test. It breaks out from Halder that he had watched for a long time how his wife and Gutzkow had met again and again, and then she told him that she was pregnant. Thereupon he confronted Gutzkow, who had sneered that he should be glad that something was going on with Bettina. Then that iron bar was lying there ... it wasn't on purpose. The commissioner has to arrest the police officer.
When Martin reads a report that evening about the immediate release of Dunker, in which there is a hidden clue, he says that he now knows why Charlotte was in Barcelona.
Production and Background
The shooting lasted from April 7, 2008 to May 11, 2008. The shooting took place in Hanover and the surrounding area, in Wendland and in Barcelona . The team also received a filming permit to film in the mining facilities, for example in a salt dome around 800 meters deep. The production broadcaster was the NDR, the editing was with Doris J. Heinze .
The commissioner's private life: In this episode, Charlotte is desperately looking for a place in the crèche for her son David, which turns out to be quite difficult. Martin only says that she has him and her mother Annemarie. The language of David's father, a married Spaniard and father of two children, with whom she has no contact, also comes up briefly. Charlotte tells her friend Belinda Utzmann, also a police officer, who had already stood by her in the episodes Heimspiel , Atemnot and The nameless girl , that she only knows that David's father lives near Barcelona. She then takes her business trip to Barcelona as an opportunity to go to his house, where she sees him frolicking happily with his daughters from a distance. Then she turns to go. Martin calls her during this time and wants to know if she was with David's father, he was at the Spanish band at the time. Charlotte puts him off to talk when she gets back.
The pathologist Edgar Strelow, who was a few years his junior, fell in love with Charlotte, admired her and made advances to her. However, the Commissioner believes that this is going nowhere.
reception
Audience rating
When the film was first broadcast on November 16, 2008, it had 9.29 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 25.8%.
criticism
TV Spielfilm pointed the thumbs up, gave one of three points for humor and action, two for ambition and excitement, and found “Homeland crime between Lüchow-Dannenberg and Barcelona: exciting and still explosive.” Conclusion: “Atomic power, no thanks , like this thriller! "
For Rainer Tittelbach , the crime scene was : “More than passable! Lots of action, solid tension and a case that takes the Commissioner to Wendland with an action-packed stopover in Spain. The 'Tatort: Salzleiche' is good genre craft between village crime and political thriller with a bold, socially critical note. "
Kathrin Buchner from Stern.de referred to the demonstrations against the transfer of radioactive waste from France to Gorleben, which took place shortly before the film was first broadcast, and found that the crime scene creators had demonstrated an "almost uncanny sense of timing" [...] " and that with a format that requires many months of preparatory work. Respect. ”Buchner, however, restricted the fact that the crime thriller itself“ had weaknesses despite the explosive material ”and spoke of a story that was“ too confused ”.
Focus Online commented: “Commissioner Lindholm is stumbling through the investigation. Here the single-parent building block builder on the early shift, there the business trip to Spain, which takes her to dirty bomb makers and cesium in the locker. Here the BND, who misused the inspector as a decoy, there the helping mother who advises her to give the baby back because of time constraints, as long as it still fits in the baby hatch. "The story is" nicely balanced "because the mix between the private and political vote.
The news magazine Der Spiegel was of the opinion that the viewer "temporarily [lost] the perspective of the story that was contaminated by BND activities and mafia-like machinations".
For the television magazine Gong , the result was a “very exciting case with borrowings from the political thriller.” The film received five out of six possible points, which corresponds to the rating “very good”.
Web links
- Crime scene: salt corpse in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Salzleiche on the ARD website
- Crime scene: Salt corpse in the crime scene fund
- Salt corpse at Tatort-Fans.de
- The crime scene from Lower Saxony Salzleiche press kit of the NDR
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b data on the crime scene episode salt corpse at tatort-fundus.de
- ↑ Highly explosive case for Maria Furtwängler: ORF premiere for " Tatort - Die Salzleiche " ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. First feature film shot in the controversial BRD exploration mine Gorleben. At ORF.at. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
- ^ Crime scene: Salt body TV crime thriller. Commissioner Charlotte Lindholm is investigating in Wendland. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
- ↑ Rainer Tittelbach: series "Tatort - Salt corpse" Maria Furtwängler takes the dangers of nuclear energy on and maintains good! at tittelbach.tv . Retrieved April 11, 2014.
- ↑ Kathrin Buchner: “Tatort” criticism Kiffende Kommissarin exposes agents. In: stern.de, November 17, 2008. Accessed April 11, 2014.
- ↑ "Tatort: Salzleiche" Ötzi from the atomic time In: Focus Online.de, November 17, 2008. Retrieved on April 11, 2014.
- ↑ Tatort: Salzleiche , criticism In: Der Spiegel No. 46/2008
- ^ Tatort: Salzleiche In: TV magazine Gong No. 28 of July 4, 2014, p. 65
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