Crime scene: Insomniac in Weimar
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Sleepless in Weimar |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
MDR |
| length | 87 minutes |
| classification | Episode 650 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | December 17th, 2006 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Uwe Janson |
| script | Andreas Pflüger |
| production | Jan Kruse |
| music | Oliver Biehler |
| camera | Philipp Sichler |
| cut | Florian Drechsler |
| occupation | |
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Schlaflos in Weimar is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD , ORF and SRF . The film was produced by MDR under the direction of Uwe Janson and first broadcast on December 17, 2006. It is the crime scene episode 650. For the detective chief inspector Bruno Ehrlicher and his colleague Kain it is the twenty-first case in which they are investigating from Leipzig .
action
In the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig there is a dramatic incident. When Michael Köster, who has been serving a prison sentence for five years, is released, one of the officers accompanying him is killed and Köster manages to escape. The course of the crime seems clear, because the victim's carotid artery was severed with a severed bottle neck, which Köster, according to witnesses, was holding in his hand and who himself was smeared with blood. The surviving officer, Peter Vosskamp, confirms this information to Ehrlicher and Kain .
The commissioners go to the correctional facility where Köster is serving his sentence. There they learn that the fugitive took part in a therapy for prisoners, which is led by the Weimar art professor and painter Robert Henze, which explains Koster's goal of visiting an art museum of all things. After a letter from his girlfriend is found in Köster's cell, in which Judith Wagner declares her separation from him, Ehrlicher and Kain consider it very likely that this was the reason for his escape. They immediately seek out Judith Wagner, who lives in Weimar and who cannot imagine that Michael would be capable of murder. Nonetheless, Ehrlicher has concerns and would like Cain to stay close to her at all times for Wagner's protection. This measure also quickly leads to the success of the arrest, because Köster can be contacted when Judith Wagner is contacted. However, Köster denies having killed the security guard. His colleague Vosskamp would have had the bottle in his pocket and after he stopped the elevator, Vosskamp would have cut off the neck and killed Sobeck with it. Then he would have forced him to touch the bottle.
While Kain is bringing Köster back to Leipzig alone, Ehrlicher wants to stay in Weimar for a few more days because he had registered with his doctor friend, Martin Steingart, for an examination. On the way there, he gets caught in a police investigation. The tenant of an apartment building has apparently leaned out of the window with suicidal intent. Honest knows the dead woman, because he had met Gabriele Teichert by chance at the bar of the hotel in which he had stayed. The fun-loving woman in no way gave him the impression that she was suicidal. Because of his job, he has doubts and investigates on his own. One of her last phone calls was with Prof. Robert Henze, who he had met in the prison. That makes him suspicious again and so he goes to the artist who lives in Weimar and owns various houses and a gallery here. There the inspector meets Henze, who is surprised to meet Ehrlicher in Weimar, where Köster was caught again and brought back to Leipzig. When he learns that the inspector is here because of the death of Gabriele Teichert, he is surprised. Ehrlicher is even more surprised when he learns from Henze that she was Judith Wagner's mother.
Meanwhile, Cain has doubts about Köster's guilt. Sobeck was not very popular with his colleagues and had even abandoned Vosskamp from his position. From a colleague, Kain learns about transactions that Vosskamp had argued about with Sobeck. He is also sure that Vosskamp deposited the letter that Judith Wagner allegedly wrote in Köster's cell when he picked him up for clearance - all just to prepare for his perfidious act, to lure Köster to Weimar and see him as a murderer to stand there. Because there are now indications of a third-party death of Judith's mother and Kösters fingerprints can be found in the apartment of the dead. It is more honestly clear that Henze is behind the intrigue and got Gabriele Teichert out of the way: on the one hand, in the hope that Köster would be held responsible for the murder and that he could keep him in the prison even longer than in the courses Henze Koester's talent was noticed and he had passed his pictures off as his works. On the other hand, Teichert had found out that Henze "adorned himself with foreign feathers" and wanted to expose this hoax.
Cain can outsmart Vosskamp. He coaxes an involuntary confession from him and arrests him. Vosskamp also confirmed Ehrlicher's assumption that Henze was complicit, who was then arrested.
background
Sleepless in Weimar was produced by Saxonia Media Filmproduktion and shot in Weimar, Leipzig and Erfurt . Because of this - film error - one of the police vehicles also has an Erfurt license plate, although the action never takes place in Erfurt. The inspector's title and work-related sleep disorders give an involuntary indication of the film characters' fatigue in office, who can only be seen in three other cases.
reception
Audience ratings
When it was first broadcast on December 17, 2006, the episode Schlaflos in Weimar in Germany was seen by 7.52 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 20.7 percent.
criticism
Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv says about this “tricky story”: “As soon as the news was out that the next 'Tatort' contributions from Leipzig will also be the last for the Ehrlicher / Kain team, the duo went too well in good shape ... The thrillers with Peter Sodann and Bernd Michael Lade were always a bit sleepy, so to speak the Saxon answer to the Swabian Bienzle. Even in 'Schlaflos in Weimar' the two are not bursting with zest for action. Nevertheless, Uwe Janson's film is extremely entertaining, [...] [because] the art professor embodied by Christoph Waltz in his inimitable mixture of arrogance and sympathy [is] becoming more and more of the central figure in the story. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm only gave this crime scene a medium rating and said: "Despite guest star Waltz, no world class."
Web links
- Crime scene: Sleepless in Weimar in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the action of Schlaflos in Weimar on the ARD website
- Sleepless in Weimar at the crime scene fund
- Sleepless in Weimar at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatort: Schlaflos in Weimar at bavaria-film.de, accessed on December 22, 2015.
- ↑ Audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on December 29, 2015.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Sodann, Lade, Christoph Waltz, Uwe Janson. A tricky thriller from Saxony, film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on December 29, 2015.
- ^ TV thriller with the later Oscar winner Christoph Waltz. Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on December 29, 2015.
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