Crime scene: Fatal investigation
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Fatal investigation |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR Maran film |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 786 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | January 2, 2011 on First German Television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Schneider |
| script | Andreas Schlueter |
| production |
Sebastian Hünerfeld Sabine Tettenborn |
| music | Dirk Leupolz |
| camera |
Ralf Nowak Stefan Sommer |
| cut | Angela Springmann |
| occupation | |
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Fatal Investigations is a television film from the crime series Tatort and a SWR production in collaboration with Maran Film . This 786th episode in the series was broadcast for the first time on January 2, 2011 on First German Television .
In this case, the Ludwigshafen investigator duo Lena Odenthal ( Ulrike Folkerts ) and Mario Kopper ( Andreas Hoppe ) are confronted with the murder of a police student whose killer is found in the immediate vicinity of the young woman.
action
Odenthal and Kopper are called to a slain jogger. Due to a missing person report, she can be identified as Bettina Schnell. The police student was about to graduate and was engaged to Torben Brandstetter, the son of her trainer. In the police school, Bettina was known as a determined and ambitious person. Her fiancé, his friend Heiner Struck and her roommate Sabine Erler were the only friends she had there.
While Odenthal visits the police school and her old teacher Robert Brandstetter, Kopper takes care of the petty criminal Hasan Kiser, with whom Bettina had a clash on her last assignment. It looked as if she had deliberately fished out Kiser's car during a vehicle inspection. The investigators learn that they often investigated on their own, even in private. Malte Boller's gym had long suspected her of dealing in illegal doping substances, suspecting Hasan Kiser as a supplier. Since Bettina's little sister Svenja is also very overzealous, the investigators learn from her that Malte's allies do indeed deal in drugs, and with her help they can locate the camp. However, they cannot establish a direct connection with the murder.
Odenthal's colleague Edith Keller discovered her feeling for this case and determined Bettina's whereabouts based on mobile phone movements. After that it is obvious that she was on her way to the police school in Hahn on the night of her death. However, the body was found in a settlement in Ludwigshafen. So the killer had taken the trouble to deposit the body far away from the police school. In this context, the behavior of Robert Brandstetter appears suspicious to Odenthal. He had known about Bettina's private investigations and had invalidated a complaint from the drug department against the police student and stood before her protectively. In any case, Odenthal increasingly has the impression that the solution to the case is to be sought in the police school and that one of the classmates is likely to be the perpetrator. However, Robert Brandstetter torpedoed the investigation, which has now revealed that Bettina was killed in a parking lot very close to the police school. Forensic technician Becker found traces of blood from the victim there and he compared footprints, which, based on the individual imprint of a running shoe, should lead to the man who was with the victim in the parking lot. But it's not about Heiner Struck, whose shoes they were actually. The forensic scientist can clearly identify traces of an asthma drug, which Odenthal leads to her old teacher Robert Brandstetter. Confronted with the evidence of modern forensics, he admits to having had an affair with Bettina. His son didn't know anything and Bettina threatened to tell Torben and the police department about it. This led to a dispute on the way from Ludwigshafen to the police school and it would have escalated. But Odenthal doesn't believe him and asks Torben herself, because she had found an asthma drug in his car, which sporty people like to use to build muscle. He admits to having quarreled with Bettina because she asked him about these illegal means. She put him under so much pressure that he lost his nerve. He would only have pushed her away because she attacked him. She fell and then did not move. Since he had Heiner's shoes in the car, he would have put them on and told his father everything later. Thereupon this Bettina's body then drove to the settlement and deposited it there.
background
The film was produced by Südwestrundfunk in cooperation with Maran Film and shot in Ludwigshafen, Baden-Baden , Wittlich and Wittlich-Wengerohr.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Fatal Investigations on January 2, 2011 was seen by a total of 9.55 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 24.7 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv writes: “'Deadly investigations' looks like a 'crime scene' on the trail of an RTL TV movie. The plot is the engine of the film. It is determined linearly, sometimes cut to speed, sometimes looking for the gaze of physically strong actors. […] This 'crime scene' is short of breath, varied in its sequence of scenes, strong action, but has no consistent narrative perspective. The film is full of small emotions, this crisp leather jacket and police uniform crime thriller also has effective details visually. It is hardly noticeable that the film falls in two halves. "
At Stern.de , Frank Thomsen states: The “shown episode 'Deadly Investigations' offered low-tension 0815 criminalistics and a silly running gag, for which the screenwriter would actually have to donate his fee due to repeated torture of viewers. [...] Kopper regularly parks his old Fiat in a no-stopping zone, and the same policewoman - tall, slim and very blond - always comes by to give him a ticket. "
Frank Rauscher at Voice.de judges quite soberly: Even if the forensic work by forensic technician Becker is quite “sympathetic”, “the first 'Tatort' work by director Michael Schneider [...] [as] a Whodunit crime thriller , which unfortunately soon doesn't matter who did what exactly. The story is rudimentary, and the characters are so anemic that even a top-class guy like Christian Redl remains strangely pale. On the other hand, the perfectly coordinated duo Folkerts-Hoppe is once again enjoyed to watch, also because the two of them go down to business one or the other time with a wink of humor. "
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm judge this crime scene: “At the beginning it is quite exciting to watch, the story gets bogged down until an absurdly implausible resolution falls from the sky in Ludwigshafen. [Conclusion:] Lena O. is good, the story is probably not. "
Web links
- Deadly investigations in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Fatal Investigations on the ARD website
- Fatal investigation into the crime scene fund
- Fatal investigation at Tatort-Fans.de
- Official press booklet of the SWR
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 10, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 10, 2014.
- ↑ Frank Thomsen Rarely laughed so little on stern.de, accessed on March 10, 2014.
- ↑ Frank Rauscher Tatort: Deadly Investigations ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Stimme.de, accessed on March 10, 2014.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 10, 2014.
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