Crime scene: bright future
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Shining future |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Radio Bremen (RB) Bremedia |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 671 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | August 26, 2007 on First German Television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mark Schlichter |
| script | Christian Jeltsch |
| production | Gerhard Schneider |
| music | Klaus Wagner |
| camera | Ngo the Chau |
| cut | Elke Schloo |
| occupation | |
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Radiant Future is a TV film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Radio Bremen and broadcast for the first time on August 26, 2007 in the program Das Erste . For Chief Detective Inga Lürsen ( Sabine Postel ), it is the 17th case in which she is investigating, and for Detective Stedefreund ( Oliver Mommsen ) the 12th case that he has to solve together with Inga Lürsen.
The desperate act of a woman who fights against the danger of radio waves from radio masts makes this 671st crime scene episode an explosive case. In the course of the events, a murder must be solved that, contrary to all expectations, has nothing to do with the initial event and is merely an act of jealousy.
action
In the middle of Bremen's market square, Sandra Vegener deliberately runs over Judge Weller when he comes out of the justice building. Then she leaves the car, runs into the building and throws herself off the roof. Since she ordered Lürsen to go to the marketplace in advance by telephone, she immediately witnessed the events. She knew the woman and knew that since her daughter had developed leukemia and died, she had taken up the fight against a cell phone company. She claimed that radiation from the radio masts made her child sick. She herself would be pursued with radiation weapons since she became too dangerous for the company. Because she had succeeded in enforcing an injunction against the company "ToWave" that no further radio masts may be erected.
Sandra Vegener's adult son Daniel makes Inga Lürsen jointly responsible for the death of his mother, because she was there and hadn't helped her. He knocks down Lürsen, seizes her service pistol and disappears with it. Obviously he wants to take revenge on the people who did not take his mother seriously and who had committed her to psychiatry in order to make her unbelievable in public. Stedefreund therefore wants to first warn the psychologist Peter Humberth, who treated Sandra Vegener. However, he is not at home and his wife says he is at a seminar. In passing she mentions that these seminars usually start with an M, like Melanie, Monika, Martina or Melissa.
The investigators try desperately to find Daniel before he can wreak havoc with the gun. But he's always a move faster than the investigators. He visits his father and confronts him. He knows that ToWave's father received money in order not to support his wife's fantasies. In front of the mobile phone camera, he forces him to confirm this and sends the film to Lürsen on his mobile phone.
Lürsen finds out that Sandra Vegener was pregnant and the child was deformed. She is outraged that both the forensic doctor and the public prosecutor Reinhardt withheld this information from her. Because with it Vegener's short-circuit action gets a meaning. Lürsen is convinced that Sandra Vegener was absolutely not schizophrenic , as the doctors claimed, but desperate and angry, because she could not have endured losing another child.
Daniel manages to find the psychologist Peter Humberth. He had written the report that declared his mother to be mentally ill and on the basis of which prosecutor Reinhardt ordered the admission to psychiatry . He also forces him at gunpoint to admit in front of the camera that he forged his mother's report on behalf of “ToWave”. Before he can stop that, however, a shot is fired and Humberth sinks to the ground, dead. Daniel initially escapes, but shortly afterwards he turns himself in to the police. Lürsen feels guilty that Daniel could get to her weapon, but it turns out that the bullet did not come from her weapon. Since a car belonging to the security company "RMB-Electronics" drove away immediately after the shot, the boss, Rüdiger Bosbach, was summoned. He works for "ToWave" and also produces radiation weapons, which Sandra Vegener always claimed to be shot at. He had monitored Humberth and saw who fired the fatal shot: Humberth's wife Katja. Stedefreund goes to her and she admitted without further ado that she had finally used the chance and said: "It was just about time."
Daniel's friend Jessica kidnaps the daughter of prosecutor Jörg Reinhardt. He then takes Daniel out of custody to prevent Jessica from rushing his daughter from the courthouse. Daniel goes with Reinhardt to the roof and wants to force him to admit that the report was falsified and that he had his mother admitted to the psychiatric ward at the will of "ToWave". When the situation escalated and both threatened to fall from the roof, Lürsen, who followed the prosecutor, shoots Daniel in the leg and ends the hostage situation.
It turns out that the company "ToWave" has its connections up to the Senate of the city of Bremen, which means that even the public prosecutor is obliged to keep quiet. Thus Bosbach cannot be held responsible for bodily harm to Sandra Vegener. Lürsen and Stedefreund have evidence that the woman was actually shot at with microwave beams, as she always claimed, but the evidence is too thin and the public prosecutor is not interested in prosecuting this crime.
background
The film was shot by Radio Bremen and Bremedia in cooperation with WDR under the working title Donna Quichotte in Bremen and the area around Bremen. With this episode, Sabine Postel is celebrating her ten-year “Tatort” birthday.
reception
Audience ratings
The repeat broadcast of Strahlende Zukunft on August 8, 2010 was seen by a total of 6.07 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 19.2 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv approves: “'Radiant future' does raise questions such as the side effects of cell phone radiation, but the film avoids getting entangled in thematic inconsistencies or being carried away by hasty theses. Author Christian Jeltsch bundles the social explosive that the topic offers and uses it for the necessary icing on the cake within a well-built and densely told crime thriller. It's not about the classic murder search, but about uncovering deadly machinations. And parallel to the commissioner, the dead activist's son is on the road as an unpredictable angel of revenge, which creates tension in two ways. In general, there are many secondary scenes and people involved - not as the usual suspects, but as cogs in the perfidious machine. That makes the optically exclusive film, in which Mark Schlichter stylized cool technology into visual metaphors, into one of the best 'crime scenes' of 2007. "
Kathrin Buchner at Stern.de has a similar opinion of this crime scene, which is "gaining explosiveness, liveliness and depth from minute to minute": "The story is implemented with a lot of modern technology. Evidence is sent as MMS, even a murder is recorded live by a mobile phone camera [...], there are computer animations with which high-tech weapons like in a science fiction thriller are demonstrated. The fact that employees of the mobile communications industry hunt down opponents with radiation weapons seems to be over the top - even if the powerlessness of the individual against the interests of large corporations is clearly demonstrated. "
On the website Krimi-couch.de, Jochen König writes about this very “explosive case”: “'Radiant Future' is a solid crime thriller that deals with its current and threatening scenario, although it is slightly speculative, but definitely serious. Ernst describes the power of corporations and the powerlessness of the individual briefly and vividly. Clichés - due to the brevity of the novel - cannot always be avoided, but they are not an irritant to the stomach. [...] Despite these weaknesses, Christoph Ernst succeeds in developing the plot in a plausible and thought-provoking manner right through to the end. That requires a lot of skill on so few pages - and presumably the renunciation of one or the other character depth of field. "
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm believe that “the daring scenario [...] is credibly spun out at this crime scene. [This makes this] paranoiathrill - as smart as it is captivating. "
Web links
- Crime scene: Bright future in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Radiant Future on the ARD website
- Bright future with the Tatort fund
- Bright future at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Production details on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on April 5, 2014.
- ↑ Production details on Internet Movie Database , accessed April 5, 2014.
- ↑ Audience rating on mediabiz.de, accessed on April 5, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on April 5, 2014.
- ↑ Kathrin Buchner: When the cell phone becomes a weapon on stern.de, accessed on April 5, 2014.
- ↑ Jochen König: Tatort - Radiant Future on krimi-couch.de, accessed on April 5, 2014.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on April 5, 2014.
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