Crime scene: scalpel
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | scalpel |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German |
| Production company |
SRF |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 839 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | May 28, 2012 on Das Erste , ORF 2 , SRF 1 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tobias Ineichen |
| script | Urs Bühler |
| production | Alfi Sinniger |
| music | Fabian Römer |
| camera | Martin Fuhrer BSC |
| cut | Michael Schaerer |
| occupation | |
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Scalpel is the second Lucerne episode from the TV series Tatort with Chief Inspector Reto Flückiger and the fourth case in which he is investigating. Delia Mayer can be seen for the first time as Flückiger's assistant Liz Ritschard. Reto Flückiger's team has to solve the murder of a children's surgeon, and a terrifying family drama comes to light.
action
Dr. Lanther, a pediatric surgeon, is the medical director of the Pilatus Clinic; his deputy is the pediatrician Marco Salimbeni. When both were taking part in a solidarity run for a children's aid organization in the Gütschwald in Lucerne , an attack was carried out on Lanther with a scalpel that was stuck in his throat, which resulted in his death. Commissioner Reto Flückiger and his team are taking over the case. Preliminary investigations reveal that Salimbeni and Lanther took a pee break at the same time, not far from each other, during their run. The fact that Lanther's wife Imelda had a relationship with Salimbeni also speaks for the tense relationship that has recently been observed between the doctors. It is also revealed that Salimbeni had ambitions for Lanther's chief medical officer. As further investigations show, the clinic director, who is considered choleric, was not particularly popular with his employees.
After it turns out that Lanther operated on intersex people in their early childhood in order to assign them to a specific gender through medical interventions, the perpetrator is also sought in the vicinity of the families of intersex children. Dr. Lanther accused that the gender assignments, which he mostly made to two-year-old children, were made far too early, as the children should first have been given the opportunity to find their sexual identity. The police officers are also exposed to a drama in the family of a police officer, which does not make the investigation any easier and Dr. Lanther looks in a different light. Janine, the 14-year-old sister of Flückiger's colleague Brigitte Bürki, committed suicide because the intersex child of Dr. Lanther was forced into a feminine identity when she was a child that she could never come to terms with. Janine's parents don't want to talk about it. From forensic doctor Yvonne Veitli, the officers learn that it is not uncommon for children to be assigned an identity too early, often suffering from depression because they feel they are in the wrong body. In the course of their investigations, the investigators come across more and more children who were operated on by Lanther far too early, such as Claudio, who feels like a girl or Alme, who just wants to be a boy. They also hear from Antonia Bucher, who took her own life out of desperation three months ago. Her father Urs and her mother Verena tried to blame Dr. Lanther. Urs Bucher, who could not get over the early death of his daughter, was also the one who shot the deadly scalpel at the doctor with a crossbow .
Production and Background
The film was shot in the spring of 2011 in Lucerne and the agglomeration.
In a documentary in the Reporter series on Swiss television, the viewer was involved in the casting process for the role of an intersex girl. Under the title “Bad girl wanted” the viewer was able to follow the search for the crime scene role in 22 minutes.
In the second Swiss crime scene, Reto Flückiger gets a new colleague. Liz Ritschard, played by the Zurich singer and actress Delia Mayer, who was an exchange police officer in Chicago , comes across a topic that is highly taboo in society in her first joint case with Flückiger, which does not make the investigation of the murder of a child surgeon any easier. Delia Mayer succeeds Sofia Milos . Milos played the role of Abigail Lanning and has been labeled a miscast.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Scalpel was seen by a total of 7.01 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 23.6% for Das Erste ; 1.80 million viewers and a market share of 15.0% were achieved in the group of 14 to 49 year old viewers .
criticism
Jürgen Kaube from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung was of the opinion that the second episode of the new Swiss crime scene would make the first one “forgotten”, since the second “scalpel” “did almost everything well that went wrong back then: acting, narrative, cinematic.” Especially Kaube highlighted the achievements of the young actors Anna Schinz, Steffi Friis and Jessica Oswald. He criticized that "the course of events was a bit far-fetched".
Holger Gertz of the Süddeutsche Zeitung was of the opinion that “nothing [speaks] for this crime scene, instead [there is] a lot of talk.” His review also states: “When people don't speak, heads are tilted to one side. Somebody is constantly summarizing the status of the investigation, and Flückiger (Stefan Gubser) can be watched for an agonizing long time thinking. In the end, of course, Hopp Schwiiz, a crossbow is the key to clarifying all open questions, Wilhelm Tell sends his best regards. So a great theme is sacrificed on the altar of folklore. "
Christian Buß from Spiegel Online was of the opinion that “the previously hapless Commissioner Flückiger was finally in top form and the actor Stefan Gubser developed a feeling for his Reto Flückiger after the false start, which also pumped him full of theses and specialist vocabulary Scenes appear believable [let]. He plays quietly, vulnerable, vulnerable, sometimes even a little crooked with worry. He questions himself. Sometimes he whispers as if he [was] afraid of his own voice. "
Focus -Online -Author Julia Bähr put in her review Simone de Beauvoir's sentence: You are not born a woman, you are made into it andstated, “You [can] only praise the Swiss crime scene for its confident approach to the subject of intersexuality. The investigators [are] now also convincing. ”[…]“ The wonderful landscape around Lucerne [is] presented in an excellent way. Just a little more tension wouldn't have hurt. It is too obvious that no further murder [will] occur because the object of hate [is] already dead. "
TV Spielfilm kept its fingers crossed, gave one of three points for claim, action and suspense, and was also unable to gain anything positive from the second Swiss crime scene, which read like this: “Unfortunately, a lot of paper rustles again in the dialogue, the dramaturgy bumps and the incessantly human investigators remain mostly pale. [Conclusion:] It starts in the forest and remains wooden. "
Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv was again unable to convince Stefan Gubser as Reto Flückiger in the second crime scene from Lucerne. He judged: “'Scalpel' remains colorless all along the line. The scenes are cumbersome, the communication is stuck, the dramaturgy is weak. The only interesting topic is the operation of transsexuals at an age at which gender preference cannot yet be determined. The topic is presented with a sympathy bonus - in other words: cannibalized for a bit of emotion. And Flückiger patronizes the do-gooders. Does not meet 'Tatort' quality standards. "
The TV magazine prisma, on the other hand, was of the opinion that the film was "coherent and often movingly staged" and highlighted Delia Mayer's performance as a criminal investigation officer, who was "brilliant" in her role. The final verdict was: “The compliance with northern German listening habits is great, and yet quite a few viewers will have difficulties with the Swiss tone of voice. It doesn't matter, it's worth watching. "
Web links
- Scalpel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the action by Scalpel on the ARD website
- Scalpel at the crime scene fundus
- Scalpel at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Data on the scene of the crime - Follow the scalpel at tatort-fundus.de. Retrieved May 24, 2013.
- ↑ Bad girl wanted - observations during Tatort – Tatort casting ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. From reporter on May 28, 2012 (video). Retrieved May 24, 2013.
- ↑ With CSI star Sofia Milos Too bad! Swiss crime scene is postponed In: Express.de from February 14, 2011. Retrieved on May 24, 2013.
- ↑ Reinhold Hönle needs a certain amount of filth . In: tagesanzeiger.ch of August 11, 2011. Accessed on May 24, 2013.
- ↑ quotemeter.de : Swiss «Tatort» and «Sherlock» are increasing . Retrieved August 27, 2012.
- ^ "Tatort: Scalpel" Jürgen Kaube. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Naturally tormented on May 28, 2012. Retrieved on May 24, 2013.
- ↑ Lucerne – crime scene “Scalpel” victim on the altar of folklore Holger Gertz. In: Süddeutsche.de on May 28, 2012. Retrieved on May 24, 2013.
- ↑ Swiss “Tatort” on intersexuality: boy, girl, murder Christian Buß on Spiegel Online from May 25, 2012. Accessed on May 24, 2013.
- ↑ Lucerne - "Tatort" in the criticism A child in the wrong body Julia Bähr. In: focus.de on May 28, 2012. Retrieved on May 24, 2013.
- ^ Tatort: Scalpel at tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved May 24, 2013.
- ^ "Tatort-Scalpel" series by Rainer Tittelbach. tittelbach.tv. Retrieved May 24, 2013.
- ↑ Crime scene: scalpel at prisma.de. Retrieved May 24, 2013.
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