Crime scene: Death Bridge
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Death bridge |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
RBB |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 591 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | March 13, 2005 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Christine Hartmann |
| script | Frauke Hunfeld |
| production | Jürgen Haase |
| music | Fabian Römer |
| camera | Alexander Fischerkoesen |
| cut | Cosima Fast |
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Death Bridge is a television film from the crime series Tatort on ARD and ORF . It is the twelfth joint case of the Berlin investigator duo Ritter and Stark . The RBB produced the film, directed by Christine Hartmann , and it was first broadcast on March 13, 2005 on ARD .
action
Till Ritter and Felix Stark are out on the Autobahn together in the morning. Suddenly a water bomb that schoolchildren threw off a pedestrian bridge bursts on their windshield. Stark is only able to prevent an accident with great effort. He also sees the three boys running away, but cannot follow them.
A short time later, the insolvency administrator Thomas Franke is on his way to work and at the same place his car is hit by a cobblestone and he has a fatal accident. So it is obvious for the commissioners that the children could have thrown the stone here too. They manage to catch her on the bridge the next day, just as they are again making projectiles. But while they are questioning the children in the Presidium, another fatal accident occurs at the same place as the day before. This time the victim is Sybille Bohrmann, who not only lives in the same settlement as Franke, but is also his boss and works for the management consultancy Moggenhauer. So the commissioners conclude that someone could be targeting the company. Ritter and Stark learn from the company owner that both victims last worked on the same case. It was about the insolvent shipping company Meier-Hofer, where they were supposed to handle the auction. Ritter looks around there, but cannot find any evidence that the owner Stahlmann is a possible perpetrator.
Eva Franke, the wife of the first victim, knows that her husband not only had friends through his work. There is always trouble with her neighbor, Klaus Reling. When Ritter and Stark want to question him, he behaves extremely dismissively and aggressively, whereupon he is summoned to the presidium. It turns out that he too had worked for the Moggenhauer management consultancy some time ago. As a lawyer, however, he knows his rights and exploits them. The suspicions are insufficient to arrest him. Therefore he will be observed from now on.
Strongly illuminates the environment of Sybille Bohrmann. She was divorced and lived alone in a row house with her two children. Her husband is now looking after the children for whom he had previously tried in vain to obtain custody. For Stark that would be a sufficient reason for a murder, but the murder of Franke does not fit in with it.
Through a practical experiment, Ritter found that you could hit a car from a bridge, but you wouldn't see who was sitting in the car. But before he can put forward further theories here, the management consultancy Moggenhauer is blackmailed. A stranger demands money so that he doesn't let more of the employees die. The money should be handed over in the park and despite the supervision of Ritter and Stark, the blackmailer succeeds in taking the money from Moggenhauer and escaping undetected. Because of the bicycle he used, Ritter concluded that Stahlmann from the Meier-Hofer forwarding company was the culprit. The investigators look for him immediately and arrest him. The money is actually in a hiding place in the shipping company, but Stahlmann states that he only wanted to have used his chance. Everywhere it would have been said that the blackmailer had not contacted you again, so he had the idea of getting the money for his company. Obviously he is actually not the stone thrower, but just a free rider. So the investigators concentrate on the contentious neighbor Klaus Reling. But a hint brings an indication of Manfred Bohrmann, whom Stark suspected at the beginning. After all, during his first attack, he couldn't see who was in the car and accidentally hit Franke. The commissioners are looking for Bohrmann, who is just about to hand over his children to school. When they arrive there, Bohrmann notices this and takes refuge with his children on the roof of the school building. He threatens to jump to their deaths with his two children. He would not allow the children to be taken away from him again. Stark, who is currently in a similar situation as a father, is able to dissuade him and Bohrmann is arrested.
background
Death Bridge was produced by ProVobis Film on behalf of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg under the working title Children's Games . The shooting took place in Berlin.
reception
Audience ratings
10.42 million viewers saw the episode Death Bridge in Germany when it was first broadcast on March 13, 2005, corresponding to a market share of 27.80 percent.
criticism
Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv rates this crime scene as “Not really successful […] [but it is] surprisingly calm and unexcited for a metropolitan thriller (with Alexander Fischerkoesen's camera strong), including the harmonious integration of the parallel plot the inevitable private narrative thread […] [bring] some pretty details "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm think this crime scene is a: "A nested murder mystery with a kick."
Web links
- Crime scene: Bridge of Death in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of the death bridge on the ARD website
- Death bridge at the crime scene fund
- Death bridge at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Filming locations and audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on September 25, 2014.
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on September 25, 2014.
- ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on September 25, 2014.
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