Crime scene: Black Afghan hound

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Black Afghan hound
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MDR ,
Saxonia Media
length 87 minutes
classification Episode 866 ( list )
First broadcast March 17th, 2013 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Thomas Jahn
script Holger Jancke
production Jan Kruse
Sven Döbler
music Susan DiBona
camera Thomas Jahn
cut Bernd Schriever
occupation

Schwarzer Afghane is an episode of the German crime series Tatort from 2013. The film by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk was first broadcast on March 17, 2013 on Erste . It is the 866th crime scene episode and the 16th case with the Leipzig investigator duo Saalfeld and Keppler . In the event of death, the commissioners have to clarify whether it is an accident or a murder. In doing so, they come across an insidious plan, a mixture of terrorism and revenge.

action

Keppler has just returned from a flight when he is called to a mission. A young Afghan burned in a kind of spontaneous combustion in an open field. The whole thing is more than puzzling. Smoke can be seen in the background, which indicates a larger source of fire. Saalfeld and Keppler go to where the fire brigade is already extinguishing and suspected arson. The burned down hall was used by a German-Afghan friendship association and contained all kinds of relief supplies. The owner is Norbert Müller, a freight forwarder. Keppler looks around there and is received in a very unfriendly manner, as he is believed to be an unauthorized intruder. The freight forwarder stores air freight for Afghanistan and is in constant contact with the airport.

In the meantime, Saalfeld is discovering the secret of spontaneous combustion: white phosphorus . The dead man must have tried to quench himself in the stream. When it dried again it caught fire again. The investigators are looking for clues in the remains of the burned down hall. The dead man was probably Arian Bakthari, as his cell phone is found near the hall and also has traces of phosphorus.

Keppler asks the university and learns that Arian studied high-frequency physics. He had been in Germany for four years after his entire family was killed in a rocket attack in Afghanistan. Together with Saalfeld, Keppler wants to look around Arian's room. There you surprise a stranger who fled immediately. The caretaker reports that two days ago Arian Bakthari and another Afghan carried large packages into his room. Keppler looks in the closet and finds a small missile. Keppler immediately calls the bomb squad, which finds out that this is an American signal rocket , which normally contains phosphorus, but which has been removed here. Saalfeld concludes that when shooting such a rocket, Arian may have come into contact with the phosphor himself and perished in the process.

Keppler learns that Mette Müller, the freight forwarder's daughter, is looking for her boyfriend Deniz Guba. He works for her father who should take care of Deniz's residence permit. She is afraid that her boyfriend will be sent back to Afghanistan if he does not have the appropriate papers. Arian Bakthari smuggled Deniz Guba into Germany and tried through him to get a part-time job at the forwarding company. Arian had also worked one day at the shipping company, but since he had tampered too much with the containers from the security area, he was not allowed to stay. Foreman Walid Junbesh suspects that Arian was trying to smuggle something into the containers. Keppler quickly combined that it could only be a bomb that he wanted to smuggle on board the plane with which soldiers fly to Kabul. He could then have detonated them with a remote detonator.

The stranger from Arian's room is Olaf Böhm; he threatens Arian's girlfriend and ambushes Mette Müller. He absolutely has to find Deniz Guba. This would have something that belongs to him. But Mette is also looking for Deniz, who simply cannot be found. In the meantime, Olaf Böhm reports to the station. It turns out he's a major at MAD . He reports that the rocket in Arian Bakthari's room, along with three others, was stolen from an American base. He is certain that one of the missiles destroyed the hall, but where the remaining three are is unclear. The investigators also do not understand why Arian set the hall on fire. Maybe it was just a test. Olaf Böhm asks that they work together so that they can find the missiles as quickly as possible.

Unexpectedly, Arian Bakthari contacts his girlfriend Ina Feuerbach, who greets him with joy and surprise. Arian went into hiding after the fire and pretended to be Deniz after ordering Deniz into the hall by SMS and then shooting the rocket at him. So he could block every trace and search for himself and secretly continue to work on his plan of revenge. He hides his rocket bomb in Ina's water-filled bathtub. So that Ina cannot betray him, he kills her too. Major Olaf Böhm has now issued a terror warning level. As long as the remaining missiles are not secured, there is an acute danger. When he finds Arian, he too is killed. Then Arian goes to Mette Müller and brings her into his power. With a video message found by Saalfeld and Keppler, he leaves no doubt that he wants to crash an airplane. With Mette hostage, he forces her father to smuggle a sports bag with the bomb into the plane. Only when he sees the plane burning does he want to release Mette.

Saalfeld tries to free Mette Müller, but she is tied to an explosive device that is difficult to defuse. Keppler now intercepts Norbert Müller and when Saalfeld calls that Mette is safe, Keppler takes the travel bag and runs with it out of the building complex and throws it away.

Meanwhile, Arian Bakthari is standing on the edge of the airfield with a video camera and wants to document the plane crash. The SEK , by which he was shot, can approach unnoticed. With the last of his strength, he manages to detonate both explosives remotely, but they can no longer cause much damage.

background

The shooting of this crime scene took place in Leipzig, Espenhain and the area around Leipzig. Director Thomas Jahn also worked on the camera for this production.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Schwarzer Afghane on March 17, 2013 was seen by 8.73 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 24.3% for Das Erste .

Reviews

The reviews of this crime scene are mostly positive. Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv praises this Leipzig crime scene and writes: “What starts out from black and humorous to macabre will soon pick up speed. The tension in this well-crafted crime thriller builds up to the highly dramatic finale. Although this political case requires some explanations, Holger Jancke and Thomas Jahn manage not to serve the background knowledge as a introductory seminar for the Talkring Heads. In addition, Keppler / Wuttke is finally wearing his pants for this “man's film”! [...] Despite the correspondingly large number of close-ups, "Schwarzer Afghane" is not a television with a talking head, especially since Jahn manages to create a consistently high level of tension thanks to editing (Bernd Schriever) and music ( Susan DiBona ) .... The finale in particular is from great drama. "

Ursula Scheer at the FAZ thinks that this “film [goes] on a journey to old resentments and new, well-intentioned reflexes - both of which he subverts. The fact that he treats this as a simple search for facts without much excitement is his greatest quality. [...] The quiet game is a relief. The director and cameraman Thomas Jahn largely refrains from any showmanship, tension develops from the dialogues, the calm play of Thomalla and Wuttke is a boon. The fact that it is not always plausible - for example, because even Leipzig is too big to run into the same people by chance - is a weakness that the consistently good actor performances do not hide. "

At Stern.de , Swantje Dake states critically, "Saalfeld and Keppler [...] met their Hamburg colleague Tschiller at eye level [...] At least in the current Leipzig case, the really big criminal topics were dealt with again - instead of trafficking in girls and the Mafia this time Islamism, Terrorism and Drug Trafficking. The classic murder in the family with the motives of jealousy, revenge or greed seems to be taking a break in the "crime scene". It is also no longer possible without a special task force crawling through the mud and colleagues who botch the inspectors into the trade from higher-level authorities, always operating on the edge of legality and with a high degree of brutality. [She finds words of praise for the actors] Sylvester Groth as the seedy haulier Müller. […] Anatole Taubman shone as a seedy colleague from the Military Counterintelligence Service. Kostja Ullmann was also a great cast for the highly talented student Arian Bakhtari. "

Gregor Dolak at Focus.de thinks it's a: “mediocre crime thriller [and] ultimately a rather simple story about revenge and extended suicide. [...] However, it ends in a respectably exciting finale at Leipzig Airport. White phosphorus guarantees the bang effect. "

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm judge as follows: “Crime routineer Thomas Jahn made a twisted, exciting political riot who repeatedly warns of clichéd assessments of Afghans, but then tells an all too typical martyr revenge story. [The story is] politically rather shallow, but still exciting. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Filming locations and audience ratings on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on February 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 14, 2014.
  3. ↑ Ursula Scheer The fuse is burning at both ends on faz.net, accessed on February 14, 2014.
  4. ↑ Swantje Dake Good "Leipziger Art" action on stern.de, accessed on February 14, 2014.
  5. ↑ Gregor Dolak dead people do not wear plaids on faz.net, accessed on February 13, 2014.
  6. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 14, 2014.
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