Crime scene: Silent days

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Quiet days
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Radio Bremen (RB), WDR
length	89 minutes
classification	Episode 632 ( List )
First broadcast	May 21, 2006 on First German Television
Rod
Director	Thomas Jauch
script	Jochen Greve
production	Katja De Bock and Annette Strelow
music	Stephan Massimo
camera	Clemens Messow
cut	Elke Schloo
occupation
Sabine Postel : KHK'in Inga Lürsen Oliver Mommsen : KHK Nils Stedefreund Joachim Król : Manfred Schirmer Karoline Eichhorn : Barbara Scheuven Camilla Renschke : Helen Reinders Roland Renner : Hartmut Klemme Winfried Hammelmann : Detective Assistant Karlsen Sabine Orléans : Petra Gliewe, saleswoman Michael Hanemann : Karl Oltrogge, father of Anne Helene Grass : Barbara's colleague Maria Hartmann : baker Joachim Meyerhoff : fitness trainer Peter Moltzen : boat maintenance Wolfgang Schenck : Garbage collector Willi Schlueter : Farmer Christiane Ostermayer : Anne Schirmer Petra Feilen : Employee in the café Sebastian Kautz : Identification Service Dagmar Sachse : Farmer's wife Peter Lange : Pub guest Natascha Steinkamp : Nursing home nurse

Silent days is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Radio Bremen under the direction of Thomas Jauch and broadcast for the first time on May 21, 2006 in the program Das Erste . For Chief Detective Inga Lürsen ( Sabine Postel ) it is the 15th case in which she is investigating, and for Detective Stedefreund ( Oliver Mommsen ) the 10th case that he has to solve together with Inga Lürsen.

In this 632nd crime scene episode, the investigative team has to solve the murder of a woman, which the husband planned and carried out very precisely. Lürsen can only persuade the perpetrator to confess with a trick.

action

Manfred Schirmer reports to the police that his wife has disappeared and he fears a crime. Chief Inspector Lürsen and her partner Stedefreund do not take the angry man too seriously at first, because the missing woman may simply not want to return home. According to information from the Schirmer's environment, the wife had already wanted to break out of the marriage a few years ago. But when a woman's corpse is actually found in Bremen, who is identified by the husband as Anne Schirmer, they have to take the case seriously and find the murderer.

A clue leads to Hartmut Klemme, an emu breeder who is one of the Schirmer's neighbors. As he becomes entangled in contradictions and Anne Schirmer's jewelry is found in his house, he is arrested on suspicion of murder. Although he admitted the crime after a long interrogation, he revoked his confession the next day. He would only have found the woman dead and taken her jewelry.

Lürsen receives various information about male acquaintances of the victim and about incidents in the marriage from Schirmer's neighbor Barbara Scheuven, who is obviously in love with Manfred. According to the research, Anne Schirmer had a relationship with her fitness trainer. His alibi leaves him as a perpetrator, but this feeds Lürsen's suspicions against the husband with whom she had just gotten into an affair. When he finds out that she is investigating him, she gets to know his irascible side.

For a short time, Barbara Scheuven comes under suspicion, who with the murder would have finally had a free run at Schirmer. When Lürsen and Stede friend wanted to interview her, she disappeared. In their search for her, they find traces of blood and they suspect Schirmer of possibly killing her too. But she reappears unharmed and Lürsen knows that the disappearance of the neighbor should lure her on the wrong track. But she has no evidence against him. So she resorts to a ruse and involuntarily elicits the confession from Schirmer by making Barbara Scheuven so jealous that she admits to know about the murder, so that Schirmer gives in.

background

The film was produced by Radio Bremen and Bremedia in cooperation with WDR . Filming locations were Bremen, Bremerhaven and the area around Bremen.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Silent Days on May 21, 2006 was seen by a total of 7.35 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 21.4 percent for Das Erste .

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate this crime scene as: "Atmospheric crime drama about love, fear and jealousy." Conclusion: "Silent psycho crime: emotion instead of action."

Web links

• Crime scene: Quiet Days in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Summary of the plot of Silent Days on the ARD website
• Quiet days at the crime scene fund
• Quiet days at Tatort-Fans.de
• The crime scene "Silent Days" lulls the audience into idyllic security until ... Video at buten un in

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Silent days Production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 21, 2015.
2. ^ Tatort: ​​Silent days short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 21, 2015.

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