Crime scene: Tango for Borowski
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Tango for Borowski |
| Country of production | Finland , Germany |
| original language | German , Finnish |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 761 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | April 4, 2010 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hannu Salonen |
| script | Clemens Murath |
| production |
Kerstin Ramcke , Pekka Korpela |
| music |
Michael Klaukien , Andreas Lonardoni |
| camera | Andreas Doub |
| cut | Claudia Fröhlich |
| occupation | |
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Tango for Borowski is the title of a crime scene crime thriller with Axel Milberg in the lead role. The NDR television film based on a script by Clemens Murath was first broadcast on April 4, 2010. It is set in Finland , which is where much of the filming took place.
action
In Ilomantsi , Finland , 17-year-old German Ralph Böttcher is suspected of murder. He is said to have raped and killed a girl from the neighboring village, Anni Häkkinen .
Klaus Borowski travels to North Karelia to ask the former drug addict about his involvement in a robbery in Germany. There he learns from his Finnish colleague Mikko Väisanen that the boy is to be transferred to Helsinki. During this return trip, however, Ralph escapes. Borowski starts investigating the murder with Mikko. He has doubts about Ralph's culprit. The police psychologist Frieda Jung then travels to Finland to support Borowski.
Ralph thinks the rocker Vallu is the real culprit and wants to get revenge on him. Vallu overpowers him and locks him up. He claims that he is not the murderer but knows the real culprit. Ralph finally manages to escape.
Investigators find out that Anni had sexual intercourse with Vallu and then blackmailed him with an alleged pregnancy. They then interrogate Vallu, who accuses the sawmill owner Kalevi Pohjanmies of being the murderer. During a search of his house - Kalevi himself has gone into the forest - they find numerous “sacrificial birches” of the superstitious Kalevi. The heads of several corpses are buried under these. Several tourists who were believed to have disappeared while hiking were apparently killed by Kalevi. Ralph is among the dead.
When trying to arrest Kalevi, Borowski gets lost in the Finnish forest the next morning. There he finally meets Kalevi, who does nothing to him. After two days and one night in the forest, Borowski finally finds his way back to civilization.
In Kalevi's house, Mikko and Borowski find a photo of a rock by the river. You go there and see how Kalevi takes his own life. As Mikko reports, he killed a total of 23 people in 30 years - with the exception of Ralph, whom he killed in self-defense, all of his victims were lovers. The murder of Anni Häkkinen does not fit into his scheme. Mikko and Borowski arrest then Vallu, the girl in alcohol intoxication killed.
subjects
In the film, many topics of the German-Finnish relationship and the country-specific peculiarities are discussed. The Finnish director Hannu Salonen, who lives in Germany, incorporated numerous comments and images into the dialogues and camera settings, which can be classified accordingly.
Examples
- The evaluation of distances is very generous in Finland: In Helsinki, Borowski receives the message “500 km from here to Joensuu and then to the right” for the trip to Ilomantsi.
- personal address takes place by you : "Klaus" Borowski is introduced to all Finns by their first name only.
- The exemplary Finnish school system has been known in Germany since the PISA study at the latest - Mila's comment “I can speak German. This is my fourth language in school "
- Coffee is drunk in Finland in every situation: the Finns are world champions in coffee consumption .
- Tango has its second home in Finland - and is at least as important there as it is in Argentina.
background
The film was produced by Studio Hamburg Filmproduktion and the Finnish media company Talvi . The shooting took place from June 29 to July 30, 2009 in Helsinki and Ilomantsi in North Karelia and was funded by the Finnish Film Fund.
The premiere was on March 3, 2010 in Wiesbaden as the opening film of the competition for the German Television Crime Prize 2010, for which Tango for Borowski was nominated as one of ten crime novels.
reception
Reviews
"A film that is mood-wise, that's praise, reminiscent of the weird works of cult director Aki Kaurismäki and in which the Finnish taiga plays a well-deserved leading role."
“On the trail of Wallander: The Kiel“ Tatort ”commissioner Klaus Borowski goes on a business trip to the fjords and birch forests of Finland. Between tango dancers, teen queens and drinkers, he comes across a serial killer. A scary and exciting thriller in cinema quality. "
“Almost always when the“ crime scene ”is a very good one, it is primarily about things that are hardly talked about. With the character of Commissioner Klaus Borowski, silence is part of the concept anyway. But in his new case it is of particular importance, because with this beautiful kind of eloquent silence that is inherent in the man, all those who turn on the television mainly because they want to know how will have to put up with this episode it then continues with Klaus and Frieda. "
“Even exciting moments only arrive milky on the German screen. Maybe life in North Karelia is really so watered down, soaked in alcohol and sweated out in the Finnish sauna. ... But whether that has to be processed in a crime scene? Hannu Salonen (director of Finnish origin trained in Germany) and Andreas Doub (camera) could have safely stayed with a nature film about North Karelia. It is a nice setting. And that Borowski would not have noticed the script (Clemens Murath) in Tango. "
“Salonen and his cameraman Andreas Doub have created a successful mixture of road movie and real German crime scene, landscape portrait and satire. And above all they have built a backdrop in which Borowski and Jung look wonderfully out of place with their neat clothes and their German thoroughness. "
Audience ratings
When it first aired on TV on Easter Sunday 2010, the crime scene in Germany reached 6.21 million viewers and a 19% market share - making it the most watched TV show that day. The broadcast of the television crime thriller from Finland in Germany was also reported in the Finnish media.
Web links
- Tango for Borowski in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Tango for Borowski on the ARD website
- Tango for Borowski at the crime scene fundus
- Tango for Borowski at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Tatort: Tango for Borowski. (PDF) In: NDR press kit. NDR press and information, April 4, 2010, accessed on January 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Kathrin Buchner: Borowski meets a serial killer on the fjord: The horror behind Bullerbü wooden house facades. In: "Tatort" review :. stern.de, accessed on April 5, 2010 : “Mosquitos, sauna, weird guys, midsummer nights, tango melancholy - except for ski jumping, the Finnish-born Salonen, who has lived in Germany for 17 years, makes use of all the common clichés from his homeland and mixes things up from it an atmospherically dense thriller. "
- ^ "Tatort - Tango for Borowski" premiere. Opening film of the TV Crime Festival 2010, Wednesday, March 3rd, 7 p.m. In: TV crime festival. State capital Wiesbaden, 2010, archived from the original on March 9, 2010 ; accessed on June 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Joachim Hirzel: "Tatort: Tango for Borowski" - They're crazy, the Finns. In: FOCUS television club. FOCUS Online, accessed April 19, 2010 .
- ↑ Kathrin Buchner: Borowski meets a serial killer on the fjord. In: "Tatort" review. stern.de, accessed on April 5, 2010 .
- ↑ Lena Bopp: It's man against man. In: “Tatort” episode “Tango for Borowski”. FAZ.NET, accessed on April 7, 2010 .
- ↑ Joseph Girshovich: Headless North Karelia. In: Cicero. April 2, 2010, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on June 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Florian Blaschke: White Nights. news.de GmbH, April 4, 2010, archived from the original on February 13, 2011 ; accessed on June 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Fabian Riedner: "Tatort" & "Wallander": A strong team. Quotemeter GmbH, accessed on April 5, 2010 : "Axel Milberg showed the competition where the hammer is."
- ↑ Saksan televisiossa murhadekkari Ilomantsista. In: Kulttuuri. YLE.fi, June 3, 2012, accessed on February 29, 2016 (Finnish): "Criminal story from Ilomantsi on German television"
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