Crime scene: Deadly disguise

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Deadly camouflage
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Maran Film on behalf of SWR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 724 ( list )
First broadcast March 1, 2009 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Rainer Matsutani
script Holger Karsten Schmidt
production Nils Reinhardt ,
Sabine Tettenborn
music Nikos Platyrachos
camera Ralf Nowak
cut Sabine Garscha
occupation

Deadly Camouflage is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The article was produced by Maran film commissioned by the Südwestrundfunk produced and on 1 March 2009 at the First sent for the first time. It is the 724th episode in the series and the 3rd case of the Stuttgart investigative team Lannert and Bootz . You have to solve a murder that is quite clearly the work of a long-sought arms dealer. The secret of Commissioner Lannert from his past will also be revealed.

action

Lannert and Bootz are called to find a body at the airfield. The bullet holes in the victim's back and also in the hand are striking. Lannert is immediately reminded of a case from his time as an undercover agent. The dead person is Uwe Scheer, customs officer at Stuttgart Airport. Investigators look around his apartment and it's evident that he couldn't have financed his lifestyle from his salary alone. Because of his diary entries, they meet his various girlfriends, none of whom were really interested in him, but only in his generous way of spending money on them.

Lannert and Bootz get information from Uwe Scheer's work colleagues. He was very popular there and no abnormalities were known. Two colleagues were always assigned to customs controls. The investigators have the duty roster shown and come across two suspicious aid deliveries to Uzbekistan. Immediately contact the person in charge, Iris Westermann, who works on a voluntary basis for the aid organization. The accusation that she might have bribed Scheer to get rich and smuggle hits her hard. Lannert suddenly asks for a Victor de Man, whereupon Westermann explains that he is one of their most generous donors and that he is currently also staying in a hotel in Stuttgart. Bootz is surprised and asks Lannert to explain. On the way to the hotel, he informs his colleague that the arms dealer Victor de Man is the reason he came to Stuttgart from Hamburg. After serving as an undercover agent to disrupt de Man's network, he had to give up when he was exposed. When they sit down at the table with de Man, he is surprised. He only knows Lannert by his code name "Chris Gabriel" and he once appreciated this very much. Lannert speaks to him about Uwe Scheer, whom he denies knowing.

Lannert informs the public prosecutor that he is convinced that de Man is behind the murder of Uwe Scheer. He has known de Man as an arms dealer for 4 years and knows that he always uses donation deliveries from aid organizations for his arms deliveries abroad and that he deliberately bribes customs officials so that they don't randomly check these shipments. The bullet in Scheer's hand is an unmistakable sign of de Man's organization. Thereupon de Man's Stuttgart export company is searched by the public prosecutor. You can find weapons, but they are not intended for foreign countries, but for German buyers, for which he has permission.

After work, Lannert and Bootz sit down for a beer together. When he saw family photos in Lannert's apartment, Bootz was able to persuade him to report on the dramatic events surrounding his wife and daughter: he was sitting with de Man in a restaurant in Hamburg while his daughter happened to be in a playground on the other side of the Street and she recognized her father. Since he did not respond to her calls, she ran across the street, her mother wanted to hold her back and so both were hit by a truck and killed. With that his camouflage was gone and de Man wanted to say goodbye to "Chris Gabriel" in his own way. He had him shot, which he survived by a stroke of luck. After Bootz promises not to tell anyone else he leaves Lannert's apartment, but forgets his cell phone. So he turns around again and comes in at the right time when de Man's killer Jens Reiser is about to complete his work this time. Surprised by Bootz, Lannert Reiser manages to shoot. He is convinced that they will be hot on de Man's heels if he resorted to such means.

In the meantime, de Man has managed to transport his next arms delivery for Uzbekistan past customs and into the corresponding cargo plane. Lannert, Bootz and prosecutor Alvarez go to the airport. While they are preventing the take-off permit, Bootz seeks Scheer's colleague Babette Kerner and explains to her that Scheer's murder was a warning that should be addressed to her. Because she manipulated the duty roster in such a way that it would not be noticed that she was always on duty together with Scheer and that the corresponding deliveries were unchecked.

When examining the current delivery to Uzbekistan, the customs are accordingly successful and can confiscate the boxes, which all contain illegal weapons. Victor de Man is arrested in his hotel and Lannert explains that Babette Kerner will testify against him.

In a side story, Lannert's work colleagues think about a birthday surprise for him. Secretly they organize a party and a birthday present. Since he is from Hamburg, they restored a small rowing boat for him. However, his enthusiasm for it is limited. He speaks to Bootz alone over a beer and his colleague can get him to throw away a piece of his old life in order to start a new one by throwing the bullet that hit him in Hamburg and that he still picked up into the water.

background

The shooting took place under the working title Open Account in Stuttgart and the surrounding area.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Tödliche Camouflage on March 1, 2009 was seen by 7.88 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 21.30 percent for Das Erste . In the crime scene blog, the episode reached 51st out of a possible 911

Reviews

At Stern.de , Kathrin Buchner particularly rates the work of the screenwriter Holger Karsten Schmidt, who "cleverly [...] linked the past with the current murder case" and thus "composed the development of Inspector Lannert over three episodes [...]". “A long-term concept as a recipe for the continuously high ratings of the traditional Sunday evening crime thriller in the past few months. […] Exciting cases plus continuous further development of the characters of the protagonists. The formula for success is detective stories and kisses - is an emotional liaison with the cream cake prosecutor developing, or is it going to continue with the student neighbor? There are topics related to these private entanglements with zeitgeist and socio-political relevance. A concept that works and is fun. "

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv praises this “classic police film” with the “cleverly developed script”, because “the actual case of 'deadly camouflage' that gets the whole thing rolling [...] [is solved, although] it seems almost impossible to convict the highly intelligent and slick arms dealer. The fact that there is a lot of people in the area in between seems out of place at first, but it is inevitable lead to the grand final gesture, which could be the beginning of a wonderful friendship for Lannert and Bootz. "

Josef Seitz at Focus -online rated Tödliche Camouflage with the words: “A cool“ crime scene ”from Stuttgart allows itself a lot of emotion. And it proves: The Commissioners are good at a pinch of private life. "

There is somewhat cautious criticism from Anna Sita Zinn at Moviepilot.de. She judges this episode as not bad, but also as not very “consistent” because, in her opinion, “in the course of the film an unbalanced balance between old-fashioned and modern [developed] [...] with the director apparently deciding not to take either side could. ”The focus was“ more on the characterization of investigator Lannert [...] than in the criminal case itself. [...] Whole scenes, such as the car race with the youngsters or the review of Lannert's loss of his wife and daughter in a sepia look, even looked completely out of place. [...] Even if the juxtaposition of Lannert and Viktor de Man certainly had its charms - the bottom line was that the crime scene was lacking: deadly camouflage of speed. "

At Moviesection.de, on the other hand, Thomas Ays awards all five possible stars and says: “What a 'crime scene'! [...] This is exactly how you imagine Sunday evening entertainment. Not only does the investigation of the two unequal commissioners please, it is the case that carries you away and makes you affected. [...] Richy Müller is extremely good in his role as Thorsten Lannert. Felix Klare as his colleague Sebastian Bootz also cuts a believable figure. However, the star of this film is Filip Peeters as the arms dealer Viktor de Man. This actor acts with a stoic calm that one truly fears. [...] Screenwriter Holger Karsten Schmidt [...] delivers heroes and anti-heroes who turn 'Tödliche Camouflage' into an exceptionally good, gripping and exciting Swabian 'crime scene'. Great!"

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm think “Richy Müller plays his role with flying colors [and] he shouldered the fateful sides of the 'crime scene' almost single-handedly. It's just a shame that the case seems haunted (and) [...] often (is) more of a melodrama, but a good one. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Working title and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on February 3, 2014.
  2. ↑ Ranking list on tatort-blog.de, accessed on February 3, 2014.
  3. ↑ Kathrin Buchner Deadly greetings from the past on stern.de, accessed on February 3, 2014.
  4. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 3, 2014.
  5. ↑ Josef Seitz Life next to the murder on focus.de, accessed on February 3, 2014.
  6. ↑ Anna Sita Zinn Tödliche Camouflage - Sch'wurd gschwäbelt on moviepilot.de, accessed on February 3, 2014.
  7. ↑ Thomas Ay's review on moviesection.de, accessed on February 3, 2014.
  8. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 3, 2014.
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