Crime scene: Turkish honey

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Turkish honey
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MDR
Saxonia Media
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 893 ( List )
First broadcast January 1, 2014 on Das Erste
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Director Christine Hartmann
script Andreas Pflüger
production Jan Kruse
Sven Döbler
music Fabian Römer
Manuel Römer
Matthias Hillebrand-Gonzalez
camera Jakub Bejnarowicz
cut Georg Soering
occupation

Turkish honey is an episode of the German crime series Tatort from 2014. The film by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk with the Leipzig investigator duo Saalfeld and Keppler was first broadcast on January 1st, 2014 . It is the 893rd crime scene episode and the investigators' 18th joint case. Eva Saalfeld has to watch as her half-sister is kidnapped in front of her eyes and shortly afterwards a murder occurs that only has to do with the kidnapping at second glance.

action

Eva Saalfeld receives a call from her half-sister Julia, about whose existence she did not know anything until that day. She asks for a meeting, but before it happens, she is dragged into a car and kidnapped in front of Eva's eyes. Eva immediately starts the manhunt. Eva learns from Hamid Özer, the owner of a small restaurant, that her sister has been living in Leipzig for over two years and that she and her friend Leon Jentzsch run the “Türkischer Honig” confectionery shop. From time to time Julia helps out here in the restaurant. He is her mother's brother and thus Julia's uncle and would love her like his own daughter.

Eva is unintentionally confronted with her own past because she herself had to arrest her father two years ago. He had lived abroad under an assumed name since 1983 after killing someone. So she visits him in prison in the hope of finding a clue as to who might have kidnapped Julia. Since he is likely to have a lot of enemies due to his criminal past, it is conceivable that there could be a motive here.

Shortly afterwards, the wealthy Abdul Gündag is murdered in his house. His son Ersoy Gündag did not have a good relationship with him and comes under suspicion. He is a criminal known to the police and runs a shisha bar. But suddenly Julia reappears after escaping her kidnappers. She claims to have recognized no one and does not know what the kidnappers wanted from her. Eva drives her back to where she was held. However, forensics cannot find anything useful. However, the jeep with which Julia was kidnapped is located and there are fingerprints of a petty criminal named Tim Roloff on record, who is, however, volatile.

For the investigators, it is difficult to find any evidence to what extent Julia's kidnapping could have anything to do with the murder of Abdul Gündag. However, Ersoy Gündag has been in love with Julia for years, but since she is only half a Turkish woman and very emancipated, Ersoy's father has forbidden him to interact with her. He chose his father and his money. After his father's death, he misses a black notebook. Since all the debtors are listed there, he is sure that one of them is the killer. Julia had also borrowed money from his father through her uncle, which he had wanted back for a long time.

So in the end it turns out that Julia had arranged the kidnapping herself. To make it look as real as possible, she asked her sister to be a witness and did not tell anyone else. She wanted to achieve that any suspicion would fall on Ersoy Gündag and that she would give him a proper lesson. Julia admits during interrogation that even her beloved uncle did not know anything about her plan. But she didn't expect that it would affect him so much that he would stand up for her so much. When the black notebook is found at Hamid Özer's, the latter admits to having killed Gündag. Julia's uncle states that Gündag was with him immediately after the kidnapping, and from his comment he deduced that he was behind Julia's kidnapping. When he tried to confront him, Gündag only humiliated him and so Hamid stabbed him to death.

background

The plot of the film is partly based on events from the crime scene episode Nasse Dinge , in which Saalfeld's father, who was believed to be dead, reappears and is meanwhile having to serve a prison sentence. The shooting for this crime scene took place in Leipzig and the area around Leipzig.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Turkish Honey on January 1, 2014 was seen by 7.98 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 21.1% for Das Erste . The episode reached 604th place out of a possible 919 on the Tatortblog.

Reviews

Volker Bergmeister from tittelbach.tv says about this Leipzig crime scene: “Director Christine Hartmann manages some atmospheric passages - the ride of Keppler and Eva Saalfeld in a chic American sledge (to Turkish sounds) is one of them. [...] But a lot is staged in a conventional and expected way: interrogation scenes, investigative work - full of tiring, explanatory dialogues. [...] Josefine Preuss [...] reaches her limits with this torn, mysterious figure of Julia. She plays the emotional very much outwardly, a little more withdrawn would have been more. […] Turkish honey is sweet stuff - you shouldn't enjoy too much of it. This 'crime scene' also makes you feel full quickly. "

At Filmstarts.de , Lars-Christian Daniels awards two out of five possible stars. He says: “A bit much family for ninety minutes of crime thriller: Despite plenty of tears and a solid criminal case, the start of the new 'Tatort' year is a disappointment. In addition to the clichéd characters, the wooden dialogues and the clumsy attempt to approach Turkish culture also contribute. "

Frank Preuss at Derwesten.de is also critical and says: “The crime scene from Leipzig offers bitter memories and tragic family conflicts. But as quickly as the case may start, it flattens out very quickly and ends up in the routine investigation department. "

At Stern.de, Dominik Brück feels that there are far too "many storylines" built into this crime scene, which makes it "sometimes difficult to understand for the viewer [...]". A positive assessment is: “Despite the many little stories and network of relationships, everything still fits together at the end of the Leipzig 'crime scene'. The story is completed without many open questions. [...] In the end there is a mediocre crime scene with a few lengths, which you can definitely see due to the good acting performances of the main actors. "

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm said that this episode was “tightly staged, top cast, but hopelessly overloaded and properly constructed. The first was supposed to present a diagram of the Saalfeld family ramifications on its“ Tatort ”website. [Conclusion:] Totally overloaded family constellation. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Filming locations and audience ratings on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on February 10, 2014.
  2. ↑ Ranking list on tatort-blog.de, accessed on February 9, 2014.
  3. ↑ Volker Bergmeister film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 10, 2014.
  4. ↑ Thomas Ays film review on filmstarts.de, accessed on February 10, 2014.
  5. ↑ Frank Preuss Tatort "Turkish Honey" comes from the Routine department on derwesten.de, accessed on February 10, 2014.
  6. ↑ Dominik Brück Too much of a good thing on stern.de, accessed on February 10, 2014.
  7. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 10, 2014.
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