Crime Scene: Die and Will
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Die and become |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 574 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | October 10, 2004 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claudia Garde |
| script | Orkun Ertener |
| production | Martina Mouchot |
| music | Jörg Lemberg |
| camera | Martin Farkas |
| cut | Angelika Strelczyk |
| occupation | |
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Die and Become is a television film from the crime series Tatort and was first broadcast on October 10, 2004 on Das Erste . It is the third case of the Kiel investigator Klaus Borowski .
He has to find a serial killer before a missing twelve-year-old boy becomes his victim.
action
A group of music students enters a concert hall and discovers the strangely arranged corpse of a young girl on the concert grand piano. Due to a missing person report, one quickly finds out that it is the seventeen-year-old student Rita Köhler, who won a music competition a few years ago. Her sister Heike suspects that she killed herself because she had already attempted suicide twice. The forensic doctor finds an anesthetic in the blood of the dead, but also plenty of formaldehyde , as if someone wanted to preserve it. When the resident Karl Hahnemann is found in a similar way the next day, Borowski is certain that he is dealing with a psychopath . In addition, it cannot be ruled out that there may be further victims. Borowski therefore wants all missing person cases to be passed on to him immediately. It doesn't take long before a paraplegic athlete is missing and found dead shortly afterwards.
Borowski finds out that what they all had in common was an extraordinary talent. Rita was a gifted pianist, Karl was a gifted chess player and the third victim was an exceptional swimmer - and they all suffered from an illness. A serial offender is obvious: a man who chooses talented people who, however, cannot use their talents. The very next day the twelve-year-old, highly gifted Björn Jacobs, who suffers from muscular dystrophy , disappears .
This is an alarm signal for the investigators. They feverishly try to find the boy before he becomes the fourth victim. Roadblocks are erected and the media switched on. The perpetrator, Stefan Gärtner, stops his car and hides the kidnapped man in an empty freight container at the port. Access to this is blocked by other containers in the course of the daily loading work. As a result, the gardener cannot achieve his goal and the investigators gain time. However, Björn needs essential medication, which he is now missing, so that his life is also threatened from a medical point of view.
Suddenly the perpetrator reports to the press with a video message. He explains that he is not a monster but the Redeemer: "Now you are what you always wanted to be," are his words. Borowski got the idea to ask the art academy and is on the right track. The professor remembers Stefan Gärtner, an extremely conspicuous student with whom she had studied together over twenty years ago and who had already photographed corpses and artfully embalmed them in the Danish fortress . Borowski and Zainalow immediately look around there. You will find what you are looking for and discover Gärtner's workshop with traces of blood and formaldehyde. They then observe his apartment in the hope that he will lead them to Björn. In addition, they resort to a ruse: On the radio, they report that the boy was found safe and sound last night. Gärtner immediately goes to the container port and the police follow him. But Gärtner notices that he is being followed and stops. Without further ado, Borowski sits down with him in his car and engages him in a psychological conversation. But he cannot lure him out of the reserve with this. Only when Borowski drives the car towards the water at high speed and the gardener is scared to death does he explain which container the boy is in. Björn can then be released.
background
The film was produced by Studio Hamburg and Norddeutscher Rundfunk and shot in and around Kiel.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Stirb und Werde on October 10, 2004 was seen by a total of 8.52 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 23.1 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv says: “In the crime scene 'Die and Become', Commissioner Borowski has to deal with an equal opponent. Matthias Brandt plays this supposed savior visually with a Milberg touch. What works well on the film and image level is not psychologically or criminologically plausible, and Claudia Garde's well-staged film is not particularly exciting either. Some "Borowskis" of the 00s manage the open management of the perpetrator much better in dramaturgical terms! "
At Moviesection.de, Thomas Ays awards four out of five possible stars and writes about “this explosive and exciting case”: “Director Claudia Garde uses the screenplay written by Orkun Erteneras and delivers an absolutely gripping and exciting“ Tatort ”in Kiel. It can only be described as a shame that logical mistakes happen to her that damage this thriller considerably. For example, a secret pursuit of the alleged perpetrator is started and, believe it or not, four (!) Luxury cars are required. Even the dumbest and most careless man must notice that he is being observed - and it is not surprising if this actually happens. "There is praise for the acting achievements, so" Matthias Brandt is just as brilliant as a confused psychopath [...] such as Maren Eggert as psychologist Frieda Jung or Mehdi Moinzadeh as Borowski's colleague Alim Zainalow. […] Axel Milberg as investigator Klaus Borowski is and remains fantastic and at the center of it all. He gives his part authentically and absolutely convincingly - great! "
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm judge this crime scene with its "quirky humor, thrill and famous pictures" as a "top Northern Lights thriller with a Wallander touch"
Web links
- Death and rebirth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Die and Be on the ARD website
- Die and become part of the crime scene fund
- Die and become at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 7, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 7, 2014.
- ↑ Thomas Ays film review ( memento of March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on moviesection.de, accessed on August 31, 2019.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 7, 2014.
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