Crime scene: silent death
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Silent death |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR , Maran Film |
| length | 86 minutes |
| classification | Episode 523 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | January 26, 2003 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Huber |
| script |
Martina Brand , Dorothee Schön |
| production | Ulrich Herrmann |
| music | Martin Todsharow |
| camera | Jürgen Carle |
| cut | Roswitha gracious |
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Silent Death is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film with Eva Mattes as chief detective Klara Blum was produced by SWR and first broadcast in Germany on January 26, 2003. This 523rd episode in the crime scene series is the third case of Klara Blum, who is investigating a murder case in which the culprit seems to have been established. On closer research, the public prosecutor who tries to cover up a relationship act of his childhood sweetheart becomes more and more targeted.
action
The industrialist Wolfgang Reichert wants to settle with his wife on Lake Constance, as she grew up here. While Bärbel Reichert is on the lookout for real estate, her husband has rented a yacht on which he has now been found stabbed. There is also a suspect, because Daniel Seefried was arrested in the harbor with traces of blood and a knife in his hand. There is also money and valuables in his jacket pocket that obviously belonged to the victim. He is arrested, but he hardly speaks and cannot remember anything. He looks battered, which leads the investigators to suspect drug use, but this cannot be confirmed by the laboratory.
The next day, Seefried insists on being able to make a phone call and calls Rita Fürmann, the public prosecutor's wife. He wants to meet with her, but she only sends him a lawyer to defend him. Seefried asks him to tell his client that she should tell her husband everything, everything!
Blum does not have the impression that the case will be settled as easily as it seems. Too many details don't quite fit together. Since Seefried still cannot remember and therefore cannot admit the act, prosecutor Fürmann suggests a local appointment to help Seefried's memory on the jumps. Blum is amazed at this measure, she is also amazed that Seefried's first call from prison went to Ms. Fürmann. He's also permanently saved her number on his cell phone. This gives Blum something to think about and she comes to the conclusion that Seefried should have a relationship with Rita Fürmann. At the local appointment, which did not bring any new knowledge, Seefried managed to get the signal pistol and flee with the yacht. Fürmann wants to take responsibility for everything and hand over the case.
Blum receives the information that Fürmann has known for a few months that his wife has a relationship with Seefried. So she tries to talk to her and openly tells her that she knows about her affair. Rita Fürmann asks that her husband should not find out, otherwise he would do something to himself. He would have tried suicide before after deeply disappointing a woman. Blum finds out that this bitter disappointment has to do with Bärbel Reichert. She was his tragic childhood sweetheart and Fürmann even named his daughter after her. Now Blum wonders what Fürmann is keeping quiet. Has he met Bärbel Reichert again by chance and now worked with her to forge a plan to kill her husband? And to accuse her lover of murder as revenge on Rita Fürmann? Fürmann had even had the opportunity to exchange Seefried's urine sample so that it was not possible to prove the narcotic that he had administered to him and for which Bärbel Reichert might have obtained the prescription. Nevertheless, Blum has doubts. She knows Fürmann as a loving father and husband and can not imagine that he would give up for his childhood love.
Seefried kidnaps Fürmann's son Tom and asks Rita Fürmann to help him. So she learns that her husband has known about their relationship for a long time. When her husband comes home, begs her to tell the truth, otherwise they would never see Tom again. He promises to send the Konstanz public prosecutor's office a corresponding notification. After he wrote a confession in which he admits that he falsely incriminated Seefried, he wants to throw himself off the roof of the public prosecutor's office. Blum is able to persuade him to talk to him and learns that Bärbel Reichert stabbed her husband to death after he had told her that he would leave her. He would have humiliated her so much that she lost her temper. She then remembered her old childhood sweetheart and so she asked Fürmann to help her. Blum convinces him to see that he is not guilty of Reichert's death and that he did not kill anyone. His family would also stand by him. Fürmann lets himself be convinced and he refrains from rushing to his death.
In the end, Seefried releases Tom and Bärbel Reichert is arrested.
reception
Audience ratings
The German first broadcast of the Tatort Stiller Tod on January 26, 2003 was seen by 7.55 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 20.20 percent.
Reviews
The website: How was the crime scene? writes: “Stylistically, the 523rd Tatort picks up where the 513rd left off: Director Richard Huber (On the Sunny Side) shows romantic lake panoramas and sunsets and underscores the story, told at a leisurely pace, with dreamy piano music - that's fitting, sometimes just cheesy. ”Overall, this episode is rated as“ a crime scene episode that is well worth seeing, which only reveals its true strengths after an hour: the course of events and the perpetrator question. Until then, everything looks as if the viewer - in contrast to the less well-informed inspectors - has long since known about the obvious resolution. "The filmmakers rely on the Whodunit principle because" the classic Columbo dramaturgy would not work [...] and forms the basis for an emotional showdown in which Blum is once again in demand as a psychologist. This makes the Silent Death after two moderate predecessors the most convincing case of Lake Constance to date, which is easily forgiven for minor inconsistencies [...]. The audience is still waiting in vain for the first big hit from Constance. "
Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv assesses Stiller Tod positively and says: “After two thoroughly unsuccessful editions, the 'Bodensee-Tatort' finally found with the third film a size that is appropriate for the crime series. Now you can also take Klara Blum (Eva Mattes) seriously as a commissioner: still full of gentleness and understanding, but finally not just unconventional, but also criminalistic. "
The critics of the TV magazine TV-Spielfilm attest the episode “good beginnings, but [they also mean] the story is not captivating. [...] Despite good figures and a complex network of relationships [this crime scene] is too lively. "
Web links
- Stiller death in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Stiller Tod on the ARD website
- Silent death at the crime scene fund
- Silent death at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b role names on crew-united.com, accessed on January 20, 2014.
- ↑ Audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 20, 2014.
- ↑ That was the crime scene on wiewardertatort.blogspot.de, accessed on January 20, 2014.
- ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff With the third case, Eva Mattes' Klara Blum joins the first "Tatort" league on tittelbach.tv, accessed on January 19, 2014.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 20, 2014.
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