Crime scene: shadow of fear
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Shadow of fear |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German , Turkish |
| Production company |
SWR |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 694 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | April 6, 2008 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Martin Eigler |
| script |
Annette Bassfeld-Schepers Martin Eigler |
| production | Maran movie |
| music | Oliver Kranz |
| camera | Christoph Schmitz |
| cut | Sabine Garscha |
| occupation | |
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Shadow of Fear is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by SWR under the direction of Martin Eigler was first broadcast on April 6, 2008 in the first program of ARD . It is the 694th crime scene episode and the forty-fourth case of the Ludwigshafen commissioners Odenthal and Kopper . The first broadcast was supplemented by an extensive discussion forum on the Internet. The film was also put online by SWR free of charge for the entire week after it was broadcast, so that viewers who missed the program could also take part in the forum. A broadcast originally planned for February 10th had previously been postponed "out of respect for the grief of the relatives of the fire disaster in Ludwigshafen " (ARD).
action
Ercan Celik, the owner of a Turkish diner, was run over late in the evening when he was about to finish his job with his own van, which was parked in the parking lot of the shopping center to which his shop belongs. The commissioners Odenthal and Kopper initially assume an accident with a hit-and-run. Their superior, Kriminalrat Wolf, tells them that the LKA is interested in the case and that they can hand it in if they want. However, Odenthal sees no reason for this and is investigating, as is usual in such cases. First, the family is asked whether there are any disputes with suppliers or business partners. It is not easy for the Commissioner to be accepted by the Turkish family and only learns that Ercan Celik was a good person and that no one had any reason to harm him.
Commissioner Yilmaz from the LKA reports to the Presidium. He is leading the investigation into a recent series of homicides against Turkish restaurant operators. They are on the trail of mysterious contract killers and assume that the Celik case could also be one of them. It is not yet known whether protection racket, drug or human trafficking is behind it. So far, there have been no usable traces and robbery is ruled out, as nothing was stolen in any of the cases. An Islamist or right-wing radical background is also excluded. Yilmaz would like to stay in the background and help Odenthal if she wishes.
Meanwhile, Kopper can find out that next to the van there was also a silver-colored car in the parking lot, which is said to have driven away very quickly. This note and the description of the security guard from the shopping center leads to Peter Bogner. On the evening of the crime, a police patrol found him drunk in his car near the snack bar after the officers noticed him because of his driving style. When Odenthal and Kopper want to question him, he flees. They learn from his sister that your brother and the dead man's wife knew each other well. Since family honor is very important to the Turkish citizens, the Sahins should never know. Franziska Bogner cannot say whether Ercan Celik knew about the relationship. After Kopper succeeds in catching Bogner, he admits that he is in love with Derya Celik. Since she was not treated well by her husband, he wanted to speak to him and was therefore in the parking lot. Ercan Celik had already been lying dead on the ground, which is why he drove away so quickly.
Odenthal and Kopper find out that Ercan Celik was brought in from Turkey by the Sahins to keep the snack bar of their son Önder Sahin, who is prone to criminal activities, running. He had received his residence permit for the Federal Republic without further ado through the arranged marriage to the daughter of the Sahins. The investigators learn from Bogner that the marriage has only existed on paper so far and that Celik has recently insisted on consummating the marriage. But killing him or having him killed in order to be free for Bogner would be of no use to Derya, as she would then have to break away from her family. Your culture does not allow a relationship with a German.
The surveillance of Önder Sahin by the LKA reveals that he trades in anabolic steroids and thus has an alibi for the time of the crime. Nevertheless, he is arrested by Yilmaz, who can thus book an investigation success and is satisfied.
For Odenthal, however, their main suspect falls away. She is convinced that she will find the perpetrator among the Sahin family. She had learned from Derya that her youngest brother Baris had always done everything to protect her. So he shouldn't have liked the fact that his brother-in-law had done violence to his sister recently. While Odenthal and Kopper are looking for him, he is just about to bring his sister to justice. At gunpoint, he reproaches her for bringing him into this situation. The family has just found out about Derya's relationship with Bogner and now he should restore the family honor. He, who loves his sister above all else and freed her from the man who had violated her, should he kill her now? Before that happens, Odenthal and Kopper appear and can thus prevent the honor killing and arrest Baris. Baris is happy about it, because now nobody can force him to harm his sister.
background
The film is set in a family of Turkish origin in Ludwigshafen. A husband is run over by his own car. The family of the victim behaves very suspiciously. According to Peter Boudgoust , it is "about family honor and pride, about a strict Turkish father and his daughter who has her own life plan, in short: about the difficult integration of immigrants from another cultural area into German society".
On February 3, a fire broke out in an apartment building in Ludwigshafen, which was largely inhabited by Turks , in which nine people - including five children - died and sixty others were injured. The ARD decided planned for 10 February thriller that plays among living in Ludwigshafen Turks to move, so this was then aired until April 6. At the time of the originally planned broadcast, it was not yet clear that it was an ordinary fire and not - as previously suspected after false statements by two victims - a xenophobic attack. A major contributor to the decision to delay the two-month broadcasting was the large-scale protest of Alevis a few months earlier , who saw themselves discriminated against by a previous episode of the crime scene ( who deserved credit ) and who therefore wanted to prevent a second wave of protests of this kind.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Schatten der Angst on October 3, 2004 was seen by a total of 8.06 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 23.6 percent for Das Erste .
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv approves of it: “A hot potato! The subject of Turkish murder in the name of honor comes into focus from a socially critical point of view. Martin Eigler manages a sensitive approach to the explosive topic. The film's particular strength is the sensitive portrayal of the conflict. What is shown is not an 'honor killing', but a Turkish woman in a tight spot. Not just psychologically very exciting! "
The media critic at Deutschlandradio Kultur, Bernd Gäbler , noticed positively "that this time the BKA official who came in was also a Turk, but otherwise very cliché."
Kathrin Buchner from stern.de evaluates: “Editing, processing and investigations are conventional as seldom in a 'crime scene'. Alibis are dutifully checked, suspects checked, only the LKA official, himself a Turk, which undermines an overly one-dimensional representation of this population group, is allowed to resort to unconventional methods by simply breaking open the trunk of a car. Protection money demands, Turkish mafia, organized crime, brawls, drug trafficking in anabolic steroids - the script by Annette Bassfeld-Schepers and Martin Eigler touches on any crime background, only to return to the cruelest of all threats: violence in one's own family. "(Kathrin Buchner, Star )
Awards
- 2009: 5th Marl Television Prize for Human Rights
Individual evidence
- ^ The crime scene crime thriller "Schatten der Angst" is two months late ( memento from April 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), dpa report from April 4, 2008 at digitalfernsehen.de
- ↑ Audience rating at diefilmgmbh.de, accessed on February 16, 2016.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Minefield Migration: Ulrike Folkerts and a Turkish murder in the name of honor? Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 16, 2016.
- ↑ Bernd Gäbler : Simply not exciting enough on Deutschlandradio Kultur on April 7, 2008.
- ↑ Kathrin Buchner: If the brother should kill the sister Stern.de of April 7, 2008.
- ↑ 5th Marl Television Prize for Human Rights , Amnesty International, accessed on April 16, 2011.
Web links
- Crime scene: shadow of fear in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Shadow of Fear on the ARD website
- Shadow of fear in the crime scene fundus
- Shadow of fear at Tatort-Fans.de
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