Crime scene: images of death

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Images of death
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MDR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 824 ( list )
First broadcast January 15, 2012 on Das Erste , ORF , Swiss TV
Rod
Director Miguel Alexandre
script Miguel Alexandre
production Jan Kruse
music Dominic Roth
camera Jörg Widmer
cut Marcel Peragine
occupation

Death Pictures is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film by Miguel Alexandre , who also wrote the screenplay, is the twelfth case of the Leipzig investigator team Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler. The report produced by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk was first broadcast on January 15, 2012 on Das Erste .

action

Annika and Peter get married in Leipzig and leave the hall during the celebration. The next morning both are found brutally beaten to death nearby. Saalfeld and Keppler investigate the crime scene. A witness testifies to have seen a bright flashlight during the night, similar to a weather light. The press photographer Roman Rustaveli also appears, a childhood sweetheart of Eva Saalfeld, who works as a photographer for a local newspaper in Leipzig.

A saliva sample is arranged for all wedding guests, which all but one follow: Florian Koll. The fitness instructor and ex-boyfriend of the bride is visited and interrogated by Saalfeld and Keppler in the fitness studio. He seems extremely tense and choleric, but offers to hand in the sample directly on the spot, but is supposed to come to the presidium the next morning. After investigators leave, he nervously tosses the bride's blue garter into a trash can. The investigative team, made aware of his behavior, observes him during the night and sees him setting the contents of the garbage can on fire. However, you are too late to discover that the garter belt was also in the garbage can. They still take him to the presidium that night to take the saliva sample, but have to release him again.

Shortly afterwards, after a bowling evening, high school graduate Kerstin is found stabbed to death. A witness, the caretaker of the bowling alley, stated that he took out garbage at the time of the crime and saw a bright flash of light during the crime. When the photographer Roman Rustaveli takes photos again at the crime scene, the caretaker clearly identifies the flash as that of a camera. Keppler becomes suspicious.

When interviewing the bride's grandmother, they found out that an uncle, the driving instructor Horst Baumann, was not invited to the wedding. Shortly after an argument with his brother, Annika's father, he suffered a heart attack and died. Since then, Annika Baumann has been blaming her father's death. Keppler and Saalfeld then visit Baumann, who claims to have quarreled with Annika's father about accounts, which later turns out to be a lie.

A camera cap found directly at the crime scene next to the corpse appears and Rustaveli moves further into the circle of suspects. Saalfeld makes an appointment to interview him. At the time of the crime, he claims to have no alibi. The sealing cap found fits on Rustaveli's camera, which lacks the sealing cap.

An ex-boyfriend of the high school graduate breaks into Baumann's driving school and beats him up. In the evening he claims to have suffered the injuries in a fall. He gets a bottle of wine from the cellar and gets drunk while desperately deleting files from his PC. There are innumerable nude photos of young women.

Keppler visits Rustaveli in the editorial office, but does not find him because he is out of the office. While the department is holding a conference, only Franz Mohr, who is responsible for the layout, is at his workplace. He describes Rustaveli as an extremely sad person, but refers him to the editor-in-chief if he has any further questions. Keppler takes him out of the conference to ask him about Rustaveli. When asked about Mohr's testimony, he denies that the photographer is an extremely sad person and claims that this would apply more to Mohr himself, who lost his family in an accident a year ago. Keppler also learns that Rustaveli has worked as a war photographer in recent years, but could no longer take the pictures and therefore started working for a local newspaper in his home country. In return for the information, the editor-in-chief demands that Keppler make himself available for a portrait of various professions that is currently being printed in the newspaper. He promises to send Saalfeld. Saalfeld later appears in the editorial office and an article about her will appear in the next issue.

A cigarette butt found right next to the murdered bride is assigned to Koll and confronted with him. During the interrogation he admits that he first found the dead Annika and then removed the dead woman's garter. He burned this garter belt during the night for fear of looking suspicious. He is arrested and imprisoned. Saalfeld is certain to have found the murderer, but Keppler is skeptical.

Keppler remembers that the relatives of the murdered found them particularly happy at the time of the crime. They suspect that the perpetrator is after happy people. They also find out that the victims were reported in the newspaper shortly before the murders. Rustaveli always took the photos. Fiber samples found at all crime scenes turn out to be identical. While it is quickly found that the fibers do not match either Koll or Baumann, the verification of Rustaveli's samples is still ongoing. He admits to Saalfeld that he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorders. During the nights of the crime, he had telephoned his therapist the whole time , but kept silent about Saalfeld out of shame. The therapist confirms that.

Horst Baumann is suspected of abuse. The high school graduate's ex-boyfriend accuses him of abusing her and of having nude photos of her. When confronted in his apartment, he does not want to give any more information and only speak to a lawyer. His wife now also accuses him of fights between Baumann and his wife. Keppler intervenes and hits him in the face. Baumann is arrested and his PC secured. It turns out that someone recently deleted picture files using a special program that makes it impossible to recover the pictures. His camera was also seized during a house search of Rustaveli's apartment, but there were no incriminating images on it. However, Keppler notices someone who was an onlooker at both crime scenes: Franz Mohr, the newspaper's layouter.

Keppler drives a task force to Mohr's apartment, where he finds photos of the perpetrators of both murders hanging next to the victims' newspaper articles. The third article hangs on the wall about Saalfeld, obviously he has chosen his next victim. The task force drives to her apartment, which Mohr has meanwhile broken into. Keppler's warning no longer reaches her because she is lying in the bathtub. When Mohr makes a careless noise when he fetches his camera in the hallway, Saalfeld becomes aware of him and leaves the bathtub. A fight ensues, during which Mohr overpowers them. When the commando penetrated the apartment, Mohr Saalfeld holds a knife to his throat and takes her hostage. Keppler talks reassuringly to her and presents her to him as a sad person who has lost her father and already a child and a husband at an early age. He couldn't kill her at all because she wasn't happy at all. Mohr becomes inattentive and briefly appears confused and can be overwhelmed by Saalfeld. Mohr is then arrested and taken away.

background

The shooting of the 824th crime scene crime story took place in Leipzig and in Machern . It was the twelfth crime scene with the Leipzig investigator duo Saalfeld and Keppler.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Death Pictures on January 15, 2012 was seen by a total of 9.45 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.1% for Das Erste ; In the group of 14 to 49 year old viewers , 3.24 million viewers and a market share of 21.0% were achieved.

criticism

“Miguel Alexandre tried his hand at a crime thriller - and wrote it himself. The specialist for upscale melodrama and event formats with high demands would have better kept his hands off it. What he brought together is a simple mixture. “Pictures of Death” is dramaturgically weak, seems overloaded with regard to topics and the problematic situations are functionally grafted onto the crime case. Looking for the effect, this public service "crime scene" is reminiscent of the worse commercial TV movie thrillers of the late 90s. "

- Rainer Tittelbach : tittelbach.tv

“The Leipzig investigators Saalfeld / Keppler are among the newer teams in the crime series - which usually deliver a sufficient dose of excitement and predictability for a Sunday evening without daring too much. So this time too. The episode "Images of Death" lives from a decently made hunt for a killer phantom. Overly critical minds may tinker with the simple narrative and the play-it-safe concept of serial killers or the lack of social superstructure, but it doesn't have to be art at the "crime scene" every week. "

- Niels Kruse : stern.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ quotemeter.de : Primetime check: Sunday, January 15, 2012 , accessed on January 23, 2012.
  2. ↑ tittelbach.tv: “Tatort - Death Pictures” series , accessed on August 23, 2013.
  3. ↑ stern.de: "Tatort" criticism of "death pictures": The happiness of others , accessed on January 23, 2012.

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