Crime scene: animals of the big city
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Big city animals |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Provobis |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 1066 ( List ) |
| German-language first broadcast |
September 16, 2018 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roland Suso Richter |
| script | Beate Langmaack |
| production | Jens Christian Susa |
| music | Nils Frahm |
| camera | Max Knauer |
| cut | Patrick Wilfert |
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Animals of the Big City is a television film from the crime series Tatort , which was first shown on September 16, 2018. It is the 1066th episode in the series and the eighth case of the Berlin team of investigators Rubin and Karow .
action
Investigators Nina Rubin and Robert Karow are called to two crime scenes in quick succession. In the middle of the Kurfürstendamm , the corpse of a kiosk operator is found in a vending machine café and that of a dead jogger in Grunewald. In the case of the kiosk operator, the situation is very strange, because Tom Menke is in a kiosk that is not easily accessible from the outside. Apart from him, there is only the coffee robot, which manages the kiosk operation on its own and takes customer orders via voice control and carries them out autonomously. Human cooperation is only necessary in the event of an accident or for replenishing food and material. The deceased does not have a very large puncture point in the neck. Based on blood build-up, one of the robot's tools is likely to be the weapon of the crime. The question now is who was able to break into the kiosk and close it again after the crime? The suspicion that the robot was the culprit, which is negligible, because the automatic system is set so that the machine automatically goes into a safety mode as soon as the door is opened and someone is in his work area. After evaluating the surveillance cameras around the crime scene, it can be ruled out that a stranger has broken into the kiosk. Only the owner and his wife have fingerprints inside. The manufacturer of the robot assures Commissioner Karow that it is impossible that “his” model had a functional defect. The programming is quite simple, because you only have to show this model the necessary movements and save them as a new setting, or preprogram it as a one-time execution. After reading out the robot's data, which movements it had made during the period of the crime, it is clear that the machine actually killed the owner with a targeted stab in the neck. Although the wife stated that she did not understand anything about the programming of the device, Karow was able to prove the opposite to her. According to his investigation, Tom Menke had a lover and when his wife had to find out from him that he wanted to leave her, Kathrin Menke made the decision to kill her husband. On the night of the crime, she notified him that the tank in the kiosk was clogged so that he could have a look. He did, and so fiddling with the tank valve was the signal for the robot to carry out the movements programmed into it. Karow arrests the confessing Kathrin Menke.
In the case of the dead jogger, wild boars and the onset of rain left hardly any usable traces. A missing person report can be used to identify the victim as Carolina Gröning. According to the husband, his wife regularly went jogging in the Grunewald. On the day she died, she was attacked by a wild boar, which ripped open her femoral artery, causing her to bleed to death. If help had been on site in time, the woman could have been saved. Commissioner Rubin may not really believe in a simple accident. The family situation of the Groenings was quite tense since their child died. While Reno Gröning kept the memory of his son alive by all means and did not want to have any children again, his wife saw things differently recently. Gradually she could no longer bear the "idolization" of her dead son by her husband and wanted to break out of the family. When Commissioner Rubin Gröning confronts her suspicion, he admits that he did not help his wife after the wild boar attack. He was paralyzed and saw the whole thing as a kind of divine judgment. Rubin arrests him for failure to provide assistance.
background
The film was shot in Berlin from January 16, 2018 to February 13, 2018 , the scenes from the robotics laboratory in the Ottobock Science Center, among others .
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Animals of the Big City on September 16, 2018 was seen by 8.10 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 24.9% for Das Erste .
Reviews
Christine Holthoff from WAZ judged: “The table of contents of the Berlin 'Tatort' did not initially suggest anything good. A coffee shop in which a robot is serving, a blogger who finds the corpse - that sounded a lot like Berlin clichés. But then the eighth case of Commissioners Nina Rubin (Meret Becker) and Robert Karow (Mark Waschke) turned out to be a strong, because innovatively told piece about the ambivalence of nature and technology. And left nothing, really nothing, to chance. [...] This game between technology and nature runs through the whole 'crime scene'. Not in the reading of evil versus good, but in an effort to show shades of gray. "
Claudia Schwartz rated the NNZ similarly and wrote: “The Berlin 'Tatort' with Meret Becker and Mark Waschke, 'Animals of the Big City', conjures up signs and wonders instead of relying on the usual suspects. Worth seeing!"
Christian Buß from Spiegel Online said: “After the meta-'Tatort' from the Berlinale at the beginning of the year, which was bursting with format in every sense, ' Animals of the Big City' has become another modern Berlin crime thriller that is largely free of scare tactics and cultural pessimism about curse and Blessing of fully automated capital city life told. We are happy to forgive occasional exaggerations and inconsistencies. "
At the FAZ Heike Hupertz wrote: “The director Roland Suso Richter [...] makes the best of the template. He finds cinematic sensual images and settings that help theory from head to toe. The prelude (cut by Patrick Wilfert) is convincing as a mysterious association sequence of nocturnal cityscapes and their accelerated mobility. ”“ The staging skillfully turns a clear book into an ambiguous future matter. ”
Web links
- Crime scene: Animals of the big city in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the story of animals in the big city on the ARD website
- Animals of the big city at the crime scene fundus
- Animals of the big city at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatort: Animals of the Big City at crew united
- ↑ Thomas Kopietz: The crime scene on Sunday also takes place in the Ottobock Center in Berlin. In: hna.de. September 16, 2018, accessed September 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime check: Sunday, September 16, 2018.quotemeter.de , September 17, 2018, accessed on September 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Christine Holthoff: "Tatort": That is why the Berlin robot crime thriller was great cinema. In: waz.de. September 17, 2018, accessed September 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Claudia Schwartz: «Tatort» Berlin - an extremely good episode between high-tech and unruly nature. In: nzz.ch. September 16, 2018, accessed September 21, 2018 .
- ^ Christian Buß: Robot "crime scene" from Berlin. Machines are pigs. Spiegel Online, September 14, 2018, accessed on September 14, 2018 : "Rating: 8 out of 10 points"
- ↑ Heike Hupertz: Machines rule the city. In: Feuilleton. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 16, 2018, accessed on September 16, 2018 .
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