Crime scene: protégés

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Protégés
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 86 minutes
classification Episode 493 ( List )
First broadcast March 3, 2002 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Martin Eigler
script Sönke Lars Neuwöhner ,
Sven S. Poser
production Anke Scheib ,
Katja De Bock
music Wolfgang Böhmer
camera Benjamin Dernbecher
cut Claudia Wolscht
occupation

Protégés is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film, produced by WDR and directed by Martin Eigler , was broadcast on March 3, 2002 on ARD's first program. It is the 19th case of the Cologne investigative team Ballauf and Schenk and the 493rd crime scene sequence.

action

When the three teenagers Oktay Kutlucan, Jürgen Eckert and his brother Andy break into a warehouse, they find the body of the administrator Volker Andresen there. Since the police are already at the scene, they manage to arrest Andy while the other two flee. The interrogation is difficult because the boy is deaf - but nobody knows that yet. In a panic, Andy jumps out of the window at a favorable opportunity, which ends fatally for him. Commissioner Freddy Schenk is now plagued by feelings of guilt, especially since it later turns out that Andy was actually innocent.

A second murder occurs suddenly. Horst Merz, the owner of the warehouse and other apartment buildings, is found dead. Since a dispute with his tenant Balzer had to be settled by the police, Ballauf and Schenk want to talk to the hobby boxer Erwin Balzer. However, he cannot be found in his apartment, but they can find out from a neighbor that Andresen, as Merz's property manager, was urged by him to drive the tenants out of the house. For Schenk it is certain that Balzer must be her perpetrator in both cases, especially since his fingerprints can be proven at the scene of the first murder. Ballauf does not want to commit himself too quickly.

A cultural center for the deaf, the "Exil", belongs to the property of the tenement house in which Balzer lives. There the investigators look around and meet Jennifer Hoffmann, who runs the center together with her husband Michael. She also knew Andy because he was often "exiled" and she had taught him sign language . Franziska finds out that Andy has a brother who has already appeared under criminal law. That explains Ballauf Andy's panic in front of the police.

Erwin Balzer can be arrested and interrogated. He admits to having argued massively with Andresen and Merz. Andresen would have "turned on" him and he would only have fought back with his fists. But he wouldn't have killed Merz. He can remember that Merz also quarreled with a young woman and her boyfriend, whom he saw both in "exile". Schenk is also certain that the murderer von Merz must have been deaf because he did not turn off the radio.

Andy's only friend, Oktay Kutlucan, who is also deaf and who was there at the break-in, is looking for shelter with Andy's brother Jürgen. Since he is still afraid of being caught by the police, he avoids his own apartment. Jürgen is meanwhile arrested by the police when he is caught with blood-smeared money. He admits that he, along with his brother and Oktay Kutlucan, committed the break-in from which they took the money. But he would not have murdered anyone, because after all the manager was already dead on the floor. Ballauf and Schenk want to question Kutlucan, but he is fleeting. His girlfriend Svenja is also looking for him. In the hope that he will appear in "exile", the investigators wait there, as does Svenja. When Kutlucan notices the police officers, he flees again and meets Michael Hoffmann, who helps him. Svenja speaks to Schenk and can remember that Jennifer Hoffmann wanted to see Merz on the night of the murder. So this is questioned, and she admits that Merz would have humiliated everyone. He wanted to "destroy" them all and he would have even enjoyed that. At that moment she wouldn't have cared anything and since there was a gun on his table, she took it and pulled the trigger. Oktay Kutlucan would have seen everything and wanted to protect her. That's why he evaded police access. Jennifer Hoffmann is arrested.

background

Fosterlings was produced by Colonia Media on behalf of the WDR . The shooting took place in Cologne and Bonn .

The filming was a very special challenge for the actors, as some of them had to learn sign language first. Others, however, do not: The also deaf actor of the director of the youth center, Marco Lipski , is editor of the Bavarian radio and looks after seeing instead of hearing .

reception

Audience ratings

When it was first broadcast on March 3, 2002, the episode Schützlinge was seen by 8.20 million viewers in Germany, which corresponded to a market share of 22.60 percent.

criticism

Tilmann P. Gangloff from Kino.de praises the crime scene and writes: “It is a strange world into which this 'crime scene' takes you. Those who do not speak sign language often have to rely on subtitles. […] It's just a shame that director Martin Eigler, who also initiated the story, does not stay true to his line: Whenever a person speaks with a voice in sign language, he translates for the audience what his hands are saying; that always seems a bit strange in films of this kind. Otherwise, however, 'Schützlinge' is an excellent crime thriller from Cologne that carefully takes its viewers on a journey into the world of silence without having to forego the cherished set pieces (the usual dispute between Schenk / Ballauf). "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm judge: “An unadulterated insight into the everyday life of the deaf. Sensitive and committed crime series. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Location and audience rating at fundus.de, accessed on October 11, 2014.
  2. ↑ Location on Internet Movie Database , accessed October 11, 2014.
  3. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed October 11, 2014.
  4. ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on October 11, 2014.
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