Crime scene: traffic jam

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title traffic jam
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SWR
classification Episode 1027 ( List )
First broadcast September 10, 2017 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Dietrich Brüggemann
script Daniel Bickermann
Dietrich Brüggemann
music Dietrich Brüggemann
camera Andreas Schäfauer
cut Sabine Garscha
occupation

Stau is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The by Südwestrundfunk contribution was produced on September 10, 2017 First erstgesendet. The Stuttgart investigator duo Lannert and Bootz is investigating in its 20th case.

action

A 14-year-old girl dies in the evening traffic in Stuttgart. It could be a hit-and-run accident or intentional killing. Except for a three-year-old boy, interviewed by Sebastian Bootz, there are no witnesses. The 80-year-old neighbor looked out the window all evening, but did not notice anything conspicuous on the street at the time of the crime. The only road from the crime scene leads to the traffic jam on the Neue Weinsteige. So Thorsten Lannert sets out to secure traces there and record statements.

Different characters of car drivers and passengers are shown, who react increasingly irritated: the frustrated employee Matthias Treml, first reprimanded by his boss and then hired as a courier service driver for a parcel; the telephoning businesswoman Ceyda Altunordu, who turns her young chauffeur Bernd Hermann into a snail; the Breidenbach couple, who can no longer hide the breakdown of their marriage; the troubled pensioner Günther Lommer; the smoking nurse driver Kerem Aykanat; the cheating lawyer Moritz Plettner, who picked up his child from kindergarten; the mother Tina Klingelhöfer terrorized by her nine-year-old daughter Miris and an intoxicated bachelor quartet. Among them may be the perpetrator whom the commissioners want to catch before the traffic jam clears up again.

The interim suspicion of sexual abuse of the victim cannot be substantiated because the victim was with his friend the evening before. Meanwhile, the situation in the traffic jam comes to a head. Rumors arise that the roadblock will be artificially maintained in order to conduct further interrogations, which is why motorists are increasingly rebelling.

Shortly before the traffic jam is cleared by the police, Inspector Lannert questions Tina Klingelhöfer again in detail, but she continues to deny the act. When the roadblock is lifted and the traffic starts moving again, however, her car stays where it is. Tina Klingelhöfer then bursts into tears, which can be seen as an admission of guilt for an accident with a hit and run.

background

The film was shot from November 14, 2016 to December 16, 2016 in Baden-Baden and Freiburg im Breisgau . On 12 of the 24 days of shooting, a hall at the Freiburg Exhibition Center was the location where the Neue Weinsteige arterial road from Stuttgart was recreated. With over 30 cars, a traffic jam was simulated in the evening rush hour. Cityscapes of Stuttgart were added to the picture afterwards.

The comedian trio Your Mothers has a guest appearance in this crime scene as part of the bachelorette party; there are three of them on the back seat of the car. Also part of the quartet is the magician Topas ; he is sitting in the passenger seat.

The premiere took place on June 2, 2017 at the SWR Summer Festival in Stuttgart.

reception

Reviews

This section consists only of a cunning collection of quotes from movie reviews. Instead, a summary of the reception of the film should be provided as continuous text, which can also include striking quotations, see also the explanations in the film format .

“Author and director Dietrich Brüggemann [...] staged on punch, but also psychologically precise. Every little private hell on four wheels that Lannert and Bootz look into during their investigations is coherently structured. The figures in 'Stau' […] are briefly characterized […] - all these figures fit together to form the image of a society that threatens to perish due to its own mobility. To a Requiem in D major for the ailing auto republic of Germany. "

- Christian Buß : Spiegel Online

“A thriller that works well on many levels. All characters are carefully selected, the angry retiree and the career aunt and the young mother, who has completely surrendered to the whims of her ten-year-old riot daughter. It is played excellently and written by Brüggemann together with Daniel Bickermann at least as well. "

- Holger Gertz : Süddeutsche Zeitung

“In“ Stau ”, Brüggemann mainly designs an entertaining panopticon of big city figures. It is a comical revue and sometimes a nasty moral picture. [...] The principle of the ensemble film reaches its limits in the end [...] But the many individual stories make this “crime scene” varied without it becoming confusing. Brüggemann's staging [...] remains mobile despite the traffic jam. There is an inner dynamic, because within the traffic jam community, characters come into contact with one another and develop further. And there is an external dynamic because the script and staging switch back and forth between the scenes of traffic jam and crime scene. So the tension remains high, even if the "crime scene" has already experienced cases with a greater thrill factor and more demanding crime thriller construction. "

- Thomas Gehringer : tittelbach.tv

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Stau on September 10, 2017 was seen by 9.32 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 27.2% for Das Erste .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Dick: TV REVIEW: A thriller - and many drama. In: badische-zeitung.de. Badische Zeitung, September 12, 2017, accessed on September 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Crime scene: traffic jam at crew united
  3. ^ Yvonne Weik: The SWR is shooting a crime scene in Freiburg - from Stuttgart. In: badische-zeitung.de . Badischer Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, December 2, 2016, accessed on July 23, 2017 .
  4. ^ Stuttgart traffic jam in Freiburg hall. (No longer available online.) In: SWR.de. Südwestrundfunk, December 2, 2016, formerly in the original ; accessed on July 23, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.swr.de
  5. ↑ Tom Hörner: How your mothers and topaz came to the "crime scene". In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de. Stuttgarter Zeitung Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, September 11, 2017, accessed on July 21, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Today the big SWR Tatort premiere. In: Summer Festival Stuttgart. SWR, June 2, 2017, accessed on July 19, 2017 .
  7. ^ Christian Buß: traffic jam "crime scene" from Stuttgart. My child, my car, my hate. In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online, September 8, 2017, accessed on September 8, 2017 : "Rating: 9 out of 10 points"
  8. ↑ Holger Gertz: Instead of knocking on doors, the inspector knocks on the side windows. In: sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 10, 2017, accessed on September 10, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Thomas Gehringer: "Tatort - traffic jam" series. In: tittelbach.tv. August 17, 2017. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  10. ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime Check: Sunday, September 10, 2017.quotemeter.de , September 11, 2017, accessed on September 11, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Grimme Prize 2018 - Competition Fiction. In: grimme-preis.de. Grimme Institute, January 17, 2018, accessed on March 3, 2018 .
  12. ^ German Television Crime Festival: Competition 2018 - Winner. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on March 10, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fernsehkrimifestival.de
  13. ↑ Jupiter Award 2018 - TV feature film. (No longer available online.) In: jupiter-award.de. Jupiter Award, March 16, 2018, formerly the original ; accessed on March 16, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.jupiter-award.de
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