Crime scene: sinking ships
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Sink ships |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
RB |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 734 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | May 24, 2009 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Florian Baxmeyer |
| script |
Wilfried Huismann , Philip LaZebnik |
| production |
Sandra Flachmann , Claudia Schröder |
| music | Stefan Hansen |
| camera | Marcus Kanter |
| cut | Elke Schloo |
| occupation | |
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Sink Ships is a television film in the Tatort crime series. The contribution produced by the RB was broadcast for the first time on May 24, 2009 in the ARD's first program. This is the 19th case of Chief Inspector Inga Lürsen.
action
A corpse goes into the net of a German fishing boat in the North Sea. The investigations reveal that the dead man must be Radek Jankowski, the second officer of the container ship MS Karina . However, he was not reported missing. Chief Inspector Inga Lürsen from the Bremen Police Department has the water police bring her on board the MS Karina . In the meantime, her colleague Nils Stedefreund is investigating in Bremerhaven where the shipping company of the ship is based. On the MS Karina , which is on its way to Norway , Lürsen is uncooperative with both Captain Bleibtreu and the rest of the crew. Convinced that the killer is still on board, Lürsen instructs Captain Bleibtreu to take the ship back to Bremerhaven. Since the MS Karina is already outside the German territorial waters and the law of the open sea now applies to the captain, he refuses to turn back. In addition, he has Lürsen remove his service weapon. Lürsen is still doing further research. In the ship's log she finds falsified entries and in a lifebuoy a paper by Jankowski with cargo calculations. When she got into the hold through a shaft, she discovered Jankowski's camera under a box. Shortly afterwards, she is strangled to the point of unconsciousness by a man who then steals Jankowski's charge calculations from her.
Meanwhile, Stedefreund is looking for the wealthy shipowner Delius, who is supposed to order the MS Karina back. Stedefreund's daughter Julia points out that this is not possible because a delay in ship delivery would cost the shipping company a contractual penalty of 100,000 euros. The public prosecutor also refuses to intervene, since German law no longer applies outside the twelve-mile zone . Since the MS Karina sails under the Liberian flag, Stedefreund visits the Liberian consulate. There an official told him that another ship belonging to the Delius shipping company, the MS Phoenix , sank three years ago . When Lürsen comes to, Stedefreund can reach her on her cell phone. She learns from her colleague that Jankowski's brother Adam sank on the MS Phoenix and that Bleibtreu was also the captain. When Lürsen wants to confront the captain, he brings her to Jankowski's cabin and has the door welded. After Lürsen has showered there, the marine engineer Onno Sibum appears in the cabin. The commissioner had previously accused him of almost strangling her. Angry, he now falls on her and handcuffs her. When he was preparing to rape her, the machine alarm went off. Onno lets go of her and disappears. The first officer, a Dane named Sondergard, finds Lürsen, who is only dressed in a towel, and throws her the handcuff keys.
Meanwhile, Stedefreund finds out that the MS Phoenix was overloaded in order to make more profit. However, since all the witnesses were dead, the Delius shipping company could not be held responsible. A camera memory card is finally found in the stomach of Jankowski's corpse. Lürsen can print out the images from the memory card using a computer on board the MS Karina . Captain Bleibtreu recognizes empty ballast tanks, which allow the transport of more cargo, but also endanger life in heavy waves. Together with Lürsen, Captain Bleibtreu discovers that the MS Karina's tanks are actually empty. He informs Delius about the empty tanks and the associated overloading of 400 tons of cargo. Delius now gives him permission to turn back. From her office, however, Julia Delius contacts the ship and orders another course change.
Lürsen finally learns that Captain Bleibtreu was not on board the MS Phoenix at all. Because he was too drunk, an inexperienced captain had taken on his job. Lürsen now concludes that Jankowski had investigated the death of his brother and wanted to bring the truth to light with his photos. Because of this, he was strangled and thrown overboard. The MS Karina is meanwhile in a storm off England. When Captain Bleibtreu noticed the change of course, he realized that the satellite phone and the on-board electronics for navigation were deliberately paralyzed. In order to find out who is behind it and who is also Jankowski's murderer and who has emptied the ballast tanks, Bleibtreu has the machines switched off. The ship threatens to sink in the storm. To prevent this, the first officer Sondergard finally reveals himself when he tries to let cargo go overboard. Lürsen, who received her service weapon back from Bleibtreu, arrests Sondergard. As it turns out, Sondergard had always been instructed by Julia Delius, who wanted to take over her father's shipping company with more profit to which she was entitled. While the machines are being restarted, Stedefreund has Julia Delius arrested in Bremerhaven for inciting murder and negligent homicide in ten cases.
background
After Macht der Angst (2007) and Häuserkampf (2009), director Florian Baxmeyer made his third contribution to the crime scene series with Sinking Ships .
The shooting took place from September 16 to October 16, 2008 in Bremerhaven and Hooksiel . At the premiere on 24 May 2009 at the first the audience was 7.31 million viewers, representing a market share of 24.70%.
Reviews
According to Kathrin Buchner from Stern , sinking ships "has become an exciting crime thriller", which as a "chamber play on the cargo ship" instead of "seafaring romance [...] shows the sadness of the sailor's job on an oppressive scale". Christian Buß from the daily newspaper found that despite technical "inconsistencies [...] the profound insight into the legally nebulous cargo hatches [...] can shock [...]".
"Clumsy staging, pale figures and many improbabilities," judged TV Spielfilm . The "great" ship scenery is "not used". Prisma pointed to the “unbelievable single deployment of the commissioner on board”. Nevertheless, director Baxmeyer succeeded in “an exciting case”, “which, however, suffers from the weaknesses of the original by Wilfried Huismann and Philip LaZebnik”.
Web links
- Battleships in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of ships sinking on the ARD website
- Ships sink at the crime scene fundus
- Sink ships at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. tatort-fundus.de
- ↑ Kathrin Buchner: Trapped on a murder ship ( Memento from September 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). In: Stern , May 25, 2009.
- ↑ Christian Buß : A sea trip is not funny . In: the daily newspaper , May 22, 2009.
- ↑ cf. tvspielfilm.de
- ↑ cf. prisma.de
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