Crime scene: death gang

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Death gang
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)
Studio Hamburg Film production based on an idea by Urs Aebersold
length 86 minutes
classification Episode 556 ( List )
First broadcast January 25, 2004 on First German Television
Rod
Director Thomas Bohn
script Thomas Bohn
production Kerstin Ramcke
music Hans Franek
camera Karl-Heinz Valier
cut Inge Bohmann
occupation

as well as: Allessa Olvedy , Gilles Gavois , Paul Barz , Tom Jahn , Dominik Maringer , Jona Mues , Stefan Schreck , Joachim Ueberschär , Ole Zapatka

Death gang is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . Thomas Bohn directed the crime thriller produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk and broadcast for the first time on January 25, 2004 in the program Das Erste . For Kriminalhauptkommissars Casstorff ( Robert Atzorn ) it is the 7th case in which he is investigating.

action

The young police officer Thorsten Beckershoff is seriously injured during a demonstration. Since Kriminalhauptkommissar Jan Casstorff's son Daniel was also a participant in the anti- globalization demonstration , the case is particularly explosive for the officer. When looking through the video recordings, it is noticeable that Beckershoff was standing all alone in front of a pharmacy, which is unusual. Using a distinctive jacket, Robby 'King' Bastner, known in the autonomous scene, is identified as one of the assassins who is now being searched for. The BKA also intervenes.

During a visit to the seriously injured police officer in the hospital, Casstorff meets Angela Meerbaum, the victim's friend, and her three best friends from school: Thomas Wichelhaus, the owner of the pharmacy in front of which the beating took place, Michael Loose, a building contractor, and the State Councilor Hans-Joerg Pfeiffer. The next day the victim succumbs to his injuries.

Although the main suspect Bastner is caught, the whole thing does not seem conclusive to the experienced criminalist Casstorff. He looks around Beckershoff's apartment and sees a rather lavish lifestyle. His girlfriend had supported him financially every month, but whether that was enough for that alone is questionable. So there could be more to the attack than it seems. Especially since closer research reveals that Beckershoff's character was not as noble as it seemed at first glance. He even ditched his previous girlfriend and child for the wealthy Angela Meerbaum. Angela seemed downright submissive to him, which both her old friends and her father, a successful businessman, disliked. Casstorff talks to him and he tells of the old friendship between Angela, Wichelhaus, Loose and Pfeiffer. For them she used to be their queen and later each of them had a two-way relationship with her.

According to the research, Thorsten Beckershoff was specifically requested and specifically posted in front of Wichelhaus' pharmacy, as he was supposedly particularly reliable. Casstorff has Angela Meerbaum summoned and confronts her with his suspicion that her three friends wanted to give Beckershoff a rub. She then asks the three of them if they really planned this. They are forced to admit that, because they wanted to punish him for having only used and exploited their friend. Casstorff, who followed the sea tree without her noticing, listens to everything in his hiding place. After the confession of Wichelhaus, Loose and Pfeiffer, he reveals himself and explains to them that the kick that ultimately led to Beckershoff's death was carried out by Bastner who happened to be passing by, but that he is now arresting them for inciting willful assault will.

production

The film was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk and shot in Hamburg and the surrounding area.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Death Gang on January 5, 2004 was seen by a total of 6.98 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 18.90 percent for Das Erste .

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv wrote: “'Death gang' is a 'crime scene' that one likes to track down. It is exciting because the commissioner is driven by personal motivation and he bites into the case more than usual. It is also subliminally about the rehabilitation of the anti-globalization opponents, who are denigrated by the police as chaos. No black and white painting in the characters, clear staging, high curiosity factor, plus a first-class cast down to the smallest guest role make this 'Tatort' by Thomas Bohn a rock-solid crime thriller. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm pointed with the thumbs up for this crime scene , gave one for humor and action and two of three possible for suspense and said that it was a "fetched story, but with angular characters."

Prisma was of the opinion that 'Tatort' veteran Thomas Bohn had staged “a gripping crime episode about the abuse of power by state authority”, in which one does not immediately know where the hare was going. Funny on the side is “the shuffling of a curious case between the homicide squad and the BKA”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b death gang production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 24, 2015.
  2. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Robert Atzorn, Prückner, Thomas Bohn. High sense of justice & deep fatherly love Film review at tittelbach.tv , accessed on March 24, 2015.
  3. ^ Tatort - Death gang Robert Atzorn as a grumpy Hamburg bull and moral apostle - short review at tvspielfilm.de (with 20 film images), accessed on March 24, 2015.
  4. ^ Tatort - death gang adS prisma.de. Retrieved September 22, 2017.
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