Crime scene: no fear of heights

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Free from giddiness
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 889 ( List )
First broadcast December 8, 2013 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Justus von Dohnányi
script Justus von Dohnányi
production Jörg Himstedt
Liane Jessen
music Stefan Will
Timo Blunck
camera Carl-Friedrich Koschnick
cut Ulrike Hano (as Mücke Hano)
occupation

Free from giddiness is a television film from the crime series Tatort and the third case by Ulrich Tukur in the role of LKA investigator Felix Murot . The contribution produced by Hessischer Rundfunk is the 889th Tatort episode and was broadcast for the first time on December 8, 2013 on Das Erste .

Murot invites Magda Wächter to the circus to celebrate the victory over his tumor with her. By chance he gets caught in a missing person case and is investigating undercover . In doing so, he comes across a deadly secret from the past of one of the artists .

action

Felix Murot has undergone a successful tumor operation and his life is starting to run back to normal. Together with his secretary Magda Wächter he treats himself to a circus visit in Fulda followed by an overnight stay in a hotel. During the performance, a woman from the audience behaves very conspicuously: she points to a man whom she thinks she recognizes as “Pascha” and demands that he stop him. After the light went out for a short time, it disappeared without a trace.

The next morning Murot turns on the television in the hotel room and hears an Editha Rourka missing person. He recognizes her as the woman from the circus audience. He then decides to stay in Fulda and take another look around the circus. Before that, he meets with a local colleague to obtain information about the missing person. Accordingly, she has been in Germany for ten years, is the owner of a Yugoslav snack and also comes from Yugoslavia herself.

Arriving at the circus, the inspector is just coming to a rehearsal for the band, and since the pianist is injured, Murot jumps in for him without further ado and immediately wins the sympathy of the staff. The ringmaster agrees that Murot will step in as a pianist until the regular musician Charly has recovered. In this way the investigator can quietly ask around among the circus people. However, he is not well respected by everyone: He is met with great rejection by the Albanian Buca. Murot is too alert and attentive for him, which arouses his reluctance.

Murot orders his secretary from Wiesbaden back to Fulda because he thinks he has come across a lead. The injured pianist has announced that he knows who is responsible for the power cut a few days ago. The very next day, Charly also disappears without a trace. Buca blames Murot for the fact that Charly has left the company, because since Murot is now the pianist, Charly is no longer needed.

Magda Wächter arrives in Fulda with various, previously researched information about the circus people. Most of the troop members come from Kosovo, Albania and Bosnia. Knife thrower Frank used to be a non-commissioned officer in the Bundeswehr and in Kosovo. According to Murot's research, the missing Editha Rourka was forced into prostitution and tortured by the Kosovo soldiers in her past. One of the most brutal was a so-called "pasha" who was never brought to justice for the murder of any of the prostitutes. When Editha tried to testify against him, she suddenly disappeared.

When Murot begins to get uncomfortable with his research, he is fired by the ringmaster Raxon. The evening after his last performance, Wächter discovers that her laptop has been stolen from her hotel room. It contained all of the information she had gathered about the circus people. It is not difficult for Murot to conclude that Frank is the “Pascha” from back then and is now doing everything possible not to be recognized. He didn't shy away from killing Editha and Charly, and now threatens to kill Leja too if she doesn't hand him Charly's diary. Murot manages to protect Leja and to persuade Frank to make an involuntary confession.

background

The film was shot by the Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt am Main , Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , Fulda and in the vicinity of Fulda.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Schwindelfrei on December 8, 2013, was seen by 9.41 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.40 percent for Das Erste .

criticism

Klaudia Wick from tittelbach.tv writes very matter-of-factly: “The backdrop is clearly one behind which the socially critical Sunday thriller wants to have fun with relish. Viewed in the light of work, the Ulrich Tukur staging only prepares the stage to fool yourself and the audience into the 'somewhat different' commissioner [sic!]. "

Holger Gertz from Süddeutschen.de gives the following verdict: “'No fear of heights' by director and author Justus von Dohnányi is not for people who want to pull the duvet under their chin because of the sheer tension. The episode is a number revue and a play and an actor film: a beautifully drawn circus story by cameraman Karl-Friedrich Koschnick. Faces behind fragile glass. Heavy iron that is supposed to hold the circus tents in the wasteland. And the confession is made in verse in a crime scene that doesn't strive hard to be one. So: a collector's item. "

At Spiegel.de , Christian Buß observes cautiously: “It may be that Federico Fellini's brutally poetic artist's ballad 'La Strada' served as inspiration, but in the end the criminal number revue only reminds of the butterstullen jugglers in Hamburg's Hansa Theater. In addition, there are a few thrown references to crimes during the Balkan War, because it just doesn't work without political contextualization. "

Christina Kühnel at T-online.de is very negative: “This 'crime scene' should have lost countless TV viewers in the first few minutes. Ulrich Tukur as Chief Inspector Murot is not for everyone, as the investigator with the brain tumor named Lilly made clear in his first two cases. Murot is now cured - but his third case, called 'Heights for Heights', was as bizarre as the two before. "

Jan Wiele at faz.net sees it similarly and writes: “If Tukur wants to play his LKA investigator Murot as the clown and Uwe Bohm as the knife thrower, what will the result? Ulrich Tukur's third Hesse 'crime scene' is a big circus. "

Angelika Zahn at Focus online sees the whole thing as positive and says: “There may be more exciting, more spectacular cases than the one in the 'Tatort - Dizzy Free'. Nevertheless, one misses nothing in the new crime thriller from Hessian broadcasting. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm judge this crime scene: “The tension is subdued, but the mood is pretty gloomy. [...] Murot remains the somewhat different investigator. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 26, 2014.
  2. ↑ Klaudia Wick: film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 26, 2014.
  3. ↑ Holger Gertz: Dream-beautifully drawn circus story on sueddeutsche.de, accessed on March 26, 2014.
  4. ↑ Christian Buß : Tukur- "Tatort": Circus Ballaballa on spiegel.de, accessed on March 26, 2014.
  5. ↑ Christina Kühnel: "Tatort" with Murot tempts you to switch off on t-online.de, accessed on March 26, 2014.
  6. ↑ Jan Wiele: Where the wild carrots grow on faz.net, accessed on March 26, 2014.
  7. ↑ Angelika Zahn: Grandioser Ulrich Tukur reveals circus qualities on focus.de, accessed on March 26, 2014.
  8. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 26, 2014.
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