Crime scene: weightless
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Weightless |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
WDR |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 946 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | May 3, 2015 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Züli Aladağ |
| script | Ben Brownish |
| production | Hans W. Geißendörfer |
| music | Karim Sebastian Elias |
| camera | Yoshi Heimrath |
| cut | Anne Fabini |
| occupation | |
| |
Weightless is a television film from the crime scene crime series by ARD , ORF and SRF .
The film was produced by WDR and first broadcast on May 3, 2015. It is the 946th episode of the Tatort series and the sixth case of investigators Faber, Bönisch, Dalay and Kossik , played by Jörg Hartmann , Anna Schudt , Aylin Tezel and Stefan Konarske .
action
The seriously injured Leo Janek is deposited by strangers more dead than alive in front of a Dortmund clinic. The detective chief inspectors Faber and Bönisch, whose team is dealing with the case, have to inform his wife Klara and his son Martin that the seriously injured man is in a coma and only lives because he is connected to the corresponding machines. The investigators first try to find out what exactly happened. Since Janek was a passionate skydiver , it stands to reason that something happened to him in the process, but suicide cannot be ruled out either. In the latter case, however, it is even less clear how the injured person got to the clinic and the emergency room. Did someone want to save him but not be seen?
Kossik and Dalay make inquiries at the sports airfield, but there is evidence that nobody jumped there last night. The next day, Leo Janek's car is found in an old, abandoned industrial area. Faber and Bönisch look around there and come to the conclusion that Janek was probably a base jumper here . After a long search, Faber finds a blood stain on the ground and also the parachute buried nearby. The later investigation reveals that the blood came from Janek and that someone on the parachute "reacted" with a sharp object and thereby also damaged the separation system, which led to the crash.
In videos and photos that someone has posted on the Internet , Janek can be seen in action during his dangerous hobby, along with some of his base jumper friends such as the jumper instructor Jules Lanke. Kossik and Dalay contact him, and while Dalay decides to do a tandem jump , Kossik looks around the ground. He discovers Lanke's off-road vehicle with traces of blood in it, which he saves and sends to the laboratory. In the evening, the inspectors meet with the Basejumper group, which includes Jules Lanke, student Joanna Wolert and Janek's brother-in-law Frank Hövel. However, when Bönisch learns that her two young colleagues are investigating more or less privately and have not identified themselves as police officers to the suspect, she is furious, as this procedure could result in a complaint from the police. So Faber officially questions the three base jumpers and learns that Frank Hövel had borrowed money from his brother-in-law. Hövel has no idea that this could have been a reason for him to kill Leo only to avoid having to repay his debts. This is confirmed by Janek's wife, who also admits that their marriage no longer worked well and the couple were on the verge of separation. Yet it is not easy for her to turn off the machines that keep her husband alive. It's also a difficult day for her son Martin. Faber takes the boy's fate with it, as it means that he is again confronted with the death of his wife and daughter. Martin had also confided in him that his father had promised him that one day he would take him skydiving.
The blood from Lanke's car has now been analyzed and clearly attributed to Leo Janek. Lanke is then interrogated and admits to having illegally jumped with Janek on the night of the accident. After Janek's jump failed, he drove him to the clinic and hid the umbrella - for fear that they would be found out about their illegal jumps. When investigators find out that Janek was having an affair with Joanna Wolert, they question his wife about it. She admits she knew about it; but since their marriage was over anyway, this was only the last reason to throw her husband out, which happened on the day of the accident. Martin had overheard this argument, in which Leo Janek had also thrown at his wife's head that he had never wanted a child. It is clear to Faber that the boy, who has always been very reserved since the accident, must have vented his anger at his father's words on his parachute. He drives to Martin and speaks to him about his parents' argument, which made him sad and angry. Jumping was so important to his papa, more important than anything else. Then he worked the parachute with scissors. Martin sobs that he didn't want that, and Faber replies that he knows that. Faber and Böhnisch take the boy's scissors with them and throw them out of the window while driving.
Production and Background
The crime scene weightless was filmed from June 17, 2014 to July 17, 2014 in Cologne and in the former Phoenix-West blast furnace plant in Dortmund-Hörde . The airfield recordings were made at the Marl-Loemühle airfield in Marl .
The music title Extreme Ways by Moby was used as the soundtrack for the video of the parachutists . The two music tracks Kick It Like A Sensei (Feat. Lil Wayne) and We Feel Love by WestBam were used for the scenes that play in the disco , and Poney Part 1 by Vitalic can also be heard.
The audio description for the film was produced by WDR itself; The speaker is Susanne Reuter.
Private matters of the commissioners: While Nora Dalay and Daniel Kossik repeatedly experience jealousy and exaggerated reactions, Martina Bönisch is burdened by the fact that her 15-year-old son Jan has disappeared. The longer it takes, the more worries they become. Jan is picked up at the end of the film in the city where he was rampaging. Daniel unfolds the origami crane that Nora played with all the time and looks at the ultrasound image of his child. He searches for and finds Nora and both of them fall into each other's arms, marked by pain.
Faber, on the other hand, takes care of the underage Martin in a very special way, who threatens to break down because of his guilt. The meeting with the boy brings back memories of his lost daughter and his wife.
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Schwerelos on May 3, 2015 was seen by 9.43 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.9% for Das Erste .
criticism
Christian Buß from Spiegel Online criticized the fact that "the banker's life crisis drama is soon being neglected, while that of investigator Dalay is in the foreground at some point". In addition, the critic hit the backstory of the investigators, who did not follow the procedure of the previous head author Jürgen Werner:
“It was the special quality of the Dortmund 'Tatort' that the investigators' backstory spread horizontally in the previous episodes - as if by the way, and yet consistently. [...] Ben Braeunlich, the author of the current episode, now knots the narrative threads a little too brutally. Director Züli Aladag [...] sticks a little too much to the picturesque disheveled young police officer Dalay. [...] So far the most tearful case of the Dortmund angry oaks . "
Lennart Laberenz from the Neue Zürcher Zeitung also criticized the fact that the first case not written by Jürgen Werner pushed "the private of the characters into the foreground" and thereby deprived this "crime scene of all liability to social or political realities in the Ruhr area". The critic concluded:
"If everyone then develops relationships with the case based on personal dramas, the substance remains banal."
Also Holger Gertz of the South German was not happy with the part that was intended for the young commissioners Nora and Daniel and was concluded:
“A calmly narrated, yet exciting case, classic structure: who had a motive? The gibbering of colleagues Nora [...] and Daniel [...] with jealousy and control looks is extremely annoying. As in life: If someone keeps talking about their on-off relationship, at some point nobody can hear it anymore. […] Faber is soundproofed in this episode […]. You can tell: Faber is very moving, even when quiet. However, when he stands in front of the rusty walls of the industrial ruins in his worn-out clothes, he almost becomes one with the background. That's how it is when one has arrived. Hopefully next time it will break out again. "
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said that the author Braeunlich had exaggerated the dramaturgical reflections, but judged it to be entirely positive: “While Faber slips into the role of surrogate father, Nora, who is still traumatized (by her abortion), takes over more and more the role of the borderline police force. All of the characters in Züli Aladag's film are emotionally more or less in 'free fall'. That is good for the pitch and the atmosphere in the film. "Tittelbach's conclusion was:" After two outstanding films, the 'Tatort' Dortmund is on a consolidation course with 'weightless', remains surprising and worth seeing. "
Web links
- Weightlessly in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the action of weightless on the ARD website
- Weightless with the crime scene fund
- Weightless at Tatort-Fans.de
- What you need to know The personal background of the “crime scene” commissioners
Individual evidence
- ↑ gff - geissendörfer film and television production - Tatort Dortmund: weightless. Retrieved May 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Oliver Junge: They always come down. At the sixth “crime scene” from Dortmund, everyone involved is in free fall . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 2, 2015, p. 16.
- ↑ Shooting in Marl: New Dortmund-Tatort also plays in Loemühle at stimberg-zeitung.de, accessed on May 4, 2015.
- ^ Tatort: Weightless in the Hörfilm database of Hörfilm e. V.
- ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime Check: Sunday, May 3, 2015.quotemeter.de , May 4, 2015, accessed on May 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Christian Buß: parachutists "crime scene". Adrenaline, a murderous drug. Spiegel Online, May 1, 2015, accessed May 1, 2015 .
- ^ Lennart Laberenz: «Tatort» from Dortmund. The fabulous Faber. In: television. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 3, 2015, accessed on October 16, 2015 : "The Commissioner's Fear of the Basejumper"
- ↑ Holger Gertz: Become sensible. In: Media. Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 1, 2015, accessed on May 3, 2015 .
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Series "Tatort - Schwerelos". Hartmann, Schudt, Tezel, Konarske, Aladag. Commissioners on a consolidation course. at tittelbach.tv
|
previous episode April 26, 2015: Lower instincts |
Crime scene follow |
next episode May 17th, 2015: Colder than death |
|
Alter Ego (2012) | My Revier (2012) | Another world (2013) | Forever yours (2014) | Hydra (2015) | Weightless (2015) | Collapse (2015) | Dog Days (2016) | Payday (2016) | Storm (2017) Rabies (2018) | Death and Games (2018) | Wrath (2019) | Inferno (2019) | The team (2020) | Monster (2020) |
||
