Crime scene: junk and manslaughter
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Junk and manslaughter |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 490 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | January 6, 2002 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jürgen Bretzinger |
| script | Dorothee Schön |
| production | Ulrich Herrmann |
| music | Markus Lonardoni |
| camera | Jürgen Carle |
| cut | Monika Kretschmann |
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Scrap and Manslaughter is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The episode was produced by Südwestrundfunk under the direction of Jürgen Bretzinger and first broadcast on German television on January 6, 2002. It is the 490th episode of the crime scene and 25th episode with the Ludwigshafen investigator Lena Odenthal .
action
Bertram Nock is a youth swimming trainer and has to admit that he likes little girls more than is normal. He recently started living with his girlfriend Sylvia Böbinger and her eight-year-old daughter Nina. When he is sexually aroused by Nina one evening, he goes in search of a replacement object because he does not want to harm the child. Late in the evening on a lonely street he meets twelve-year-old Giri Reinhard, whom he pulls into his car and tries to rape. Giri is able to free himself and flees. Her grandfather is the head of a Sinti family and decides not to inform the police in order to save his granddaughter unnecessary suffering. The next day, Giri accidentally meets her tormentor again and runs away in her fear. In a panic, she jumps off a bridge and is found dead on the banks of the Rhine a little later.
Commissioner Lena Odenthal and her colleague Mario Kopper should now clarify whether this was a suicide or a murder. Odenthal noticed the battle marks on the girl's neck and Gigi's grandfather reveals to the inspector that someone had tried to rape her the day before. The investigator receives information about a blue Golf with a Ludwigshafen number, which is not very helpful at first, as there are over 3000 of them in the city. Another clue is a necklace with eye-catching pearls that Gigi lost in the raid.
Since Bertram Nock tried in vain to remove a telltale blood stain in his car, he decided to have the car scrapped without further ado. He turns to his friend Karl Scherkamp, who runs a junkyard, with his request. What he does not know is that he is friends with Gigi's grandfather and almost belongs to the Sinti family that has secretly sworn vengeance. When Bertram Nock delivers a blue Golf, Scherkamp takes a closer look and finds pearls from Gigi's necklace in the trunk. He does not notice that Nock is already behind him and is now removing the alleged confidante. Without further ado, he dumps the corpse in the Golf, which goes into the scrap press the next day and is shredded. Ms. Scherkamp notices her husband's absence and when an artificial hip joint appears on the sorting belt of the shredder, she realizes that this can only be from her husband. So the commissioners continue to investigate and Odenthal believes that there must be a connection between the two deaths, which is confirmed when particles of blue car paint on a Golf can be detected on the hip joint. Initially, Odenthal considers Scherkamp to be guilty of Gigi's death, who then judged himself because of his feelings of guilt. But gradually contradictions pile up and after a blue Golf is reported as stolen, Bertram Nock moves into the focus of the investigators. Nock couldn't explain the disappearance of her car to his girlfriend other than that it must have been stolen and she then filed a complaint. When Odenthal and Kopper want to look for Nock in the swimming pool, because they have found further evidence against him, they just get there when he tries to drown Nina. She had started to blackmail him several times because she had noticed that he was hiding something bad. Nock can be asked and Nina is brought to the clinic.
background
The film was produced in 2001 by Südwestrundfunk and shot in Karlsruhe , Baden-Baden and the surrounding area and in Herbertingen . For director Bretzinger it was difficult to find a junkyard near Baden-Baden that would allow filming because scrap dealers are very suspicious of television, as they are often only portrayed negatively. Due to family ties to the Ravensburger entrepreneurial family Bausch, the shooting could take place at the scrap yard in Herbertingen and at the same time the screenwriter, who is also Bretzinger's wife, was able to research and collect further suggestions.
reception
Audience rating
9.58 million viewers saw the episode Schrott und Mansschlag in Germany when it was first broadcast on January 6, 2002, which corresponded to a market share of 25.8 percent.
criticism
Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv writes appreciatively: “Schön's sensitive handling of the sensitive topic [child abuse] is reflected in the staging by Jürgen Bretzinger. The director stages the story in a completely unspectacular manner and renouncing any suspicion of gimmicky; Nevertheless, he cleverly maintains the balance between routine crime fiction and the obvious danger of producing voyeuristic images. Of course, history cannot deny that it is highly constructed. Bretzinger succeeds in concealing this over long distances. In at least two cases, however, author Schön has to strain the audience's 'good-naturedness' quite a bit in order to tie the loose ends together. "
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm rate this crime scene as a "subtle thrill" and say: "A sensitive topic - handled seriously and grippingly."
Web links
- Crime scene: Scrap and manslaughter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of junk and manslaughter on the ARD website
- Scrap and manslaughter in the crime scene fund
- Scrap and manslaughter at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Schrott und Mansschlag filming location and audience rating tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 14, 2015.
- ↑ The first: New Lena Odenthal crime scene with René Hofschneider and Nina Hoger / At SWR, filming for scrap and manslaughter begins at presseportal.de, accessed on March 14, 2015.
- ↑ "Scrap and Manslaughter" - the latest Bretzinger crime scene. at schwaebische.de, accessed on March 14, 2015.
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Folkerts, Hoppe, Hofschneider, Hoger. Sensitive crime thriller on the subject of child abuse. Film review at tittelbach.tv , accessed on March 14, 2015.
- ↑ TV feature film : Scrap and manslaughter. Film review by TV Spielfilm , accessed on March 14, 2015.
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