Crime scene: Deadly bites
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Deadly bites |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR |
| classification | Episode 822 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | January 1st, 2012 on Das Erste , ORF , Swiss TV |
| Rod | |
| Director | Josh Broecker |
| script |
Frauke Hunfeld , Josh Broecker |
| production |
Sebastian Hünerfeld , Sabine Tettenborn |
| music | Ulrich Reuter |
| camera | Cornelia Wiederhold |
| cut | Katja Habermehl |
| occupation | |
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Deadly Nibbles is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film of the Südwestrundfunk by director Josh Broecker with Ulrike Folkerts and Andreas Hoppe as investigators Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper from Ludwigshafen am Rhein was broadcast for the first time on Sunday, January 1, 2012 on Das Erste .
action
In the Ludwigshafen-based company Metropol, a slaughterhouse for fresh meat and ready meals, Steffi Pietsch is bullied by her colleagues . They run the machines she works on too fast or cut her clothes.
On the way home from a police ball, the chief detective Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper pick up a girl at the edge of the forest. It's about Lotte Pietsch, who tells them in the police station that she woke up and called in vain for her mother Steffi and her cat. Therefore, she was on the way to look for them. The following morning Steffi Pietsch is found dead under a bridge. It looks like suicide, but tire tracks lead away from the crime scene. Determine Odenthal and Kopper. Their computer has disappeared in the dead man's apartment. They also find medication and a prescription with the address of the psychiatrist Dr. Schmitz-Gräter. A neighbor interviewed said he had neither seen nor heard anything. A questioning of Pietsch's divorced husband Richard Pietsch did not provide any new information either. However, he does not believe that his ex-wife committed suicide. The last time he saw Steffi was a week ago at his daughter's day care center. Pietsch is in a new relationship with the dance teacher Claudia Kröger, who is not particularly liked by his daughter Lotte. Even questioning the psychiatrist does not help the officials, as he invokes his confidentiality.
The autopsy of Steffi Pietsch's corpse reveals that the young woman was already dead before falling from the bridge and had a broken neck. In the Metropol company, the investigators question the operations manager Holger Hermanns. He is not aware of any problems with Ms. Pietsch. Her shift manager Johanna Steinhäuser and her colleague and friend Elke Schmitz also claim that there were no problems with Steffi. Odenthal asks Elke Schmitz again separately and learns that Steffi Pietsch allegedly wanted her husband Richard back and that Claudia Kröger knew about it.
Under the pretext of wanting to take dance lessons, Mario Kopper goes to Claudia Kröger's dance school to get more information. When Odenthal examines Steffi's locker, she finds a piece of the cut clothes and Johanna Steinhäuser's fingerprints on it. She then admits the bullying and frankly admits that Steffi was not popular in the slaughterhouse because she wanted to incriminate the company because she did not only disagree with the slaughtering methods there. So you were afraid of losing your job. It fits in with the fact that the inspectors in Lotte's day-care center find out that the children have occasionally had lunch delivered from the Metropol. There was an incident in which some children became sick from the food and several of them had to be hospitalized with food poisoning. Steffi's daughter Lotte was also among them. You also learn that Elke Schmitz occasionally picked up Lotte from the after-school care center. With a court order, the psychiatrist is released from his duty of confidentiality, who indicates that Steffi Pietsch suffered from depression because of the stress at work.
As Odenthal further ascertains, Steffi Pietsch has met the veterinarian Dr. Rudolf is on the phone, the veterinarian of the Metropol. According to his statement, it was only about the vaccination of your cat, which Odenthal does not believe in the length of the phone calls. Pietsch was very active in the Nogbook social internet network and had almost 1,000 friends there. She posted videos there and announced something big in her last video as soon as she had 1000 friends. Forensic technician Peter Becker can log into Steffi's account at Nogbook with the help of an LKA password cracker, so that the video that the young woman wanted to publish can be viewed. It shows the miserable circumstances under which the pigs are slaughtered at Metropol, although it is questionable whether this is sufficient for the plant to be closed.
Kopper finds out that Claudia Kröger has no alibi for the time of the crime, because she left the dance school for some time that evening. She confesses that she knew that Richard had met his ex-wife again and that she followed him to their apartment. Richard admits in his questioning that he was there but drove back home because nobody opened the door for him. From the corner of his eye he saw Claudia go to the front door.
Odenthal succeeds in sneaking into Metropol at night and filming how slaughterhouse waste is stored together with usable meat in a cold room. She is locked in the cold room and Kopper, who was waiting for her in front of the company premises, is also brought into the cold room after he has been knocked down. The imprisoned manage to set off the alarm with the lighter and escape unnoticed.
When Odenthal watches Elke Schmitz's apartment, she sees a man walking into the apartment. Under the pretext of wanting to question her again, the inspector goes to the young woman, but cannot find anyone there, but she discovers a visiting card from the psychiatrist Schmitz-Graeter. Another observation of the apartment reveals that a man is leaving the house with a large box under his arm. Peter Becker has now succeeded in assigning the tire tracks from the crime scene to Elke Schmitz's car. During the interrogation she confesses that she stole and burned Steffi's computer because she did not want Steffi's videos to be published. In a subsequent quarrel in the company, Steffi fell down the stairs and broke his neck. She then drove the body to the bridge and threw it down. After Elke Schmitz fails to push the policewoman representing the victim over the guardrail, it is obvious that the young woman must have had an accomplice. Yet she is stubbornly silent. Another questioning of the psychiatrist shows that he is Schmitz's half-brother and that not Steffi, but his sister Elke, suffers from depression and paranoia. The main trigger for this was the relationship she had with her boss Holger Hermanns, which he ended.
All Metropol computers are confiscated and Peter Becker manages to identify Steffi Schmitz's computer. When Holger Hermann was questioned in the police station, he denied all allegations. Odenthal manages to get Elke Schmitz to confess everything. She tearfully reports that Steffi was not dead when she fell from the stairs, but only seriously injured. She then notified Holger Hermanns and asked for help. He then took the opportunity and broke Steffi's neck and threw the body off the bridge.
background
Before it was broadcast on television, Tödliche Häppchen was shown on December 2, 2011 at the Baden-Württemberg film show .
reception
Audience ratings
When it was first broadcast, the film achieved a market share of 22.2 percent with 8.39 million viewers. On January 1, 2012, Tödliche Nappchen was the most-watched program on German television. For viewers under 49 years of age, the market share was 15.8 percent.
criticism
“What about the death of a slaughterhouse employee? 'Deadly appetizers' becomes a plea against meat-eating addiction, which, coupled with the German bargain mentality, can cause particular stomach pains. Josh Broecker's film is not a vehicle for verbal messages - the images from the meat factory are too haunting for that and the little dramas between social network and psychotherapy are too varied and too well played. Finally a passable Odenthal 'crime scene'! "
“The 'Tatort' episode 'Tödliche Nappchen' on New Year's Sunday is about machinations in a major Ludwigshafen slaughterhouse. Lena Odenthal (Ulrike Folkerts) and Mario Kopper (Andreas Hoppe) investigate between pork halves and pressed meat in a murder case. A political activist was killed who was obviously on the trail of a real mess. [...] So in 'Tödliche Häppchen' (book: Frauke Hunfeld, director: Josh Broecker), after women's football and genital mutilation, another big topic is turned and turned, until at the end a soporific crime thriller comes out. [...] As a protest against this veggie thriller you want to quickly put a chop in your pan. "
Web links
- Fatal bites in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of fatal appetizers on the ARD website
- Deadly morsels in the crime scene fund
- Deadly bites from Tatort fans
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tatort - Tödliche Memento ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Filmschau Baden-Württemberg 2011, accessed on January 2, 2012
- ↑ High ratings for Tatort with Odenthal and Kopper , DerWesten.de from January 2, 2011
- ↑ tittelbach.tv: “Tatort - Tödliche Häppchen” series , accessed on January 1, 2012.
- ↑ Spiegel Online : Let it squeak, ARD! , accessed January 1, 2012.
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