Crime scene: shooter
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Shooter |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
MDR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 852 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | December 2, 2012 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Johannes Grieser |
| script |
Andreas Schlueter Mario Giordano |
| production | Jan Kruse for Saxonia Media Filmproduktion on behalf of MDR television |
| music |
Jens Langbein Robert Schulte-Hemming |
| camera | Wolf Siegelmann |
| cut | Esther Weinert |
| occupation | |
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Gunman is a consequence of the German TV crime series Tatort from 2012. The film of the Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk with Detective Chief Commissioners Eva Saalfeld ( Simone Thomalla ) and Andreas Keppler ( Martin Wuttke ) and Leipzig investigators was the first time on Sunday, 2 December 2012 at the First aired . It's about the crime scene episode 852. In their 15th joint case, Saalfeld and Keppler are dealing with pitiless youngsters who destroy the lives of several people at once.
action
Anne Winkler, who is on the way home in a tram with her husband René , intervenes when three young people get on loudly and immediately rump around, insult the passengers and pour beer over an old man. When the couple left the train shortly afterwards, they didn't notice at first that the young men were following them. They have barely reached both of them when they brutally beat and kick them. The nearby police officers Phillip Rahn and Peter Maurer see the incident through the window of a snack bar, but cannot catch the perpetrators who are fleeing. The public prosecutor's office wants to take tough action and investigate attempted manslaughter or attempted murder and entrusts the chief detective Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler with the case. Rahn and Maurer do not want to have recognized the hooded sweaters . When Saalfeld comes to the hospital, she sees René Winkler sitting on the bed of his terribly battered wife. He, too, was seriously injured. Anne Winkler, who is five months pregnant, has lost her baby. René Winkler hands over three drawings to Saalfeld showing the rioters from the tram. He explains that he is a teacher of art and German and does not understand why the police officers did not want to see the perpetrators because the crime scene was well lit.
Saalfeld and Keppler talk to Rahn and Maurer's superior, who counts them among his best people, and show him the three drawings. After taking a look at it, after a moment's hesitation, he points to one of the pictures and says that it could be Tobias, the son of his colleague Rahn and, if asked, the other two drawings are similar to Robin Franke and Marcel Degner. Rahn, confronted with the drawings, further claims that he did not recognize anyone. Meanwhile, Keppler speaks to Marcel Degner, who has had Parkinson's for a year . He admits the incident on the tram, but denies the raid. When Keppler then tried to question Robin Franke, who was living in dire circumstances, his mother immediately claimed that her son had been home all night yesterday. After Winkler was at the snack bar and Rahn and Maurer had almost begged that they must have recognized the perpetrators and referred to his wife and his dead unborn child, who was in a coma, Maurer wanted to unpack. With reference to an earlier incident in which he covered Maurer, Rahn Maurer swore that he could not stab him in the back, after all, it was about Rahn's own son. When Saalfeld and Keppler use photos from the tram to find out that the perpetrators have given them the wrong clothes, their tone towards their colleagues becomes much sharper. Your suspicion that Rahn is putting pressure on his colleague Maurer is not confirmed by the latter. Winkler watches the three teenagers and yells at them that they are the last shit, that they are scum. His wife always said that everyone deserved a chance. He sees it differently now. When he goes to the hospital, he finds his wife's bed empty. The words that you have tried everything barely reach him, he collapses. Shortly before, he had told the Commissioner that he and his wife Anne had tried so hard before she finally got pregnant.
Keppler is of the opinion that Robin Franke is the weak point with the boys and wants to talk to him. He finds him drinking beer and immediately unsavory on a bench. When asked by Keppler, he boasts that he has 118 friends on the Internet. Ulrike Rahn tells Saalfeld that her husband is a good father, and Saalfeld sees tears in her eyes. Maurer lets his colleagues know that he can no longer continue like this and that he will testify. A short time later he is shot. Rahn immediately explains that he had not been to Mason's because he spilled coffee and drove home quickly to change his pants. The colleague wanted to go to the snack bar ahead of time. Maurer was hit by two long-range shots fired in direct succession from a house about 100 m from his company car. “8 mm, probably a hunting rifle or a sports rifle,” says Keppler.
Rahn agrees with his son that he should confirm that he saw him during his short stay in the house. When Marcel Degner and Robin Franke, who were obviously beaten up, were confronted with Rahn, he only said that his fuses had blown and that his colleague had been shot. Saalfeld lets him know that Frauke Maurer will repeat her husband's statement that the perpetrators were recognized by both of them. Forensic technician Menzel was able to detect traces of smoke in all three young people . Menzel also found out that they proudly described the action in the train in their internet profile. In one of the photos Franke can even be seen with a rifle. During an interrogation, he then admits that Rahn was pursuing them, but after a brief exchange with Degner, he had withdrawn. The three of them buried the rifle in the forest, but it is not the murder weapon. Then you pull a gun out of the manhole two streets away from the crime scene, which turns out to be a murder weapon. The half fingerprint on the underside of the attached rifle scope comes from Degner. Menzel also found out that six months ago Rahn received a video from Degner in which he recorded the rape committed by Rahn on a waitress. When asked about this, he said he did not know the name of the woman, that he had never seen her again. Keppler says: "So the whole time it wasn't about Tobias, but about yourself." With Maurer's statement, everything would have been exposed.
Winkler approaches the three youths with a rifle and shoots immediately when Franke tries to take it from him on Degner's orders. He wants to record a confession from the three. If they didn't finally admit everything, he would shoot them one by one. In the meantime, Saalfeld and Keppler have arrived. When the commissioner wants to intervene, Degner takes the opportunity and grabs the rifle. Again he steps on Winkler and points the gun at Keppler. “Two murders are enough,” he says. Tobias Rahn only now realizes that Degner shot Maurer, he had told him about his plans. Degner gives Keppler instructions and then takes the completely surprised Tobias hostage. Keppler is supposed to drive the getaway car. Saalfeld says full of fear that he has never driven a car. Since the getaway car is a police car, the inspector can overhear what is going on via her car and the police radio. In the meantime, snipers have positioned themselves, a shot is fired and Degner, who was about to change positions with Tobias, falls to the ground - headshot. Keppler's head is bleeding profusely, Saalfeld goes to him, while Rahn goes to his son. “I tried,” says Keppler, “it was pointless.” “I know!” Is Eva Saalfeld's answer.
Production and Background
The crime scene was produced by Saxonia Media for Das Erste on behalf of MDR . The film was shot from March 6th to April 3rd, 2012 in Leipzig and the surrounding area. The editor was Sven Döbler from MDR.
Jonas Nay and Wotan Wilke Möhring already played father and son in the home video .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast on December 2, 2012 was seen by a total of 9.57 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.7 percent for Das Erste ; In the group of 14–49 year old viewers , 3.06 million viewers and a market share of 19.7% were achieved.
criticism
TV Spielfilm was - with regard to the most recently broadcast "Tatorte" - of the opinion that the story was told "compactly and excitingly", the Commissioners would leave their "private affairs at home", not speak, "as if they were suffering from brain tumors", Would receive "no clues from the hereafter" and would not have to "explain the world to us." This was summarized in the sentence:
"Simple and straight ahead, without any inclination."
Karolin Jacquemain from Hamburger Abendblatt stated that it was a “sad, irreconcilable case”, the story of which was told “straightforwardly” and “reduced to a few protagonists”. She also emphasized that "although the guilty party was determined early on", the film would remain "exciting until the end". Her further verdict was:
"The perpetrators, impressively portrayed by Jonas Nay, Antonio Wannek and Vincent Krüger, have faces like milk rolls."
T-Online was of the opinion that this was "all in all Saalfeld and Keppler's best effort so far" and summarized it as follows:
“The plot was exciting, played very well and the story was terrifyingly topical. […] Here […] an explosive topic was implemented in a gripping manner. The oppressive case has a long lasting effect and unfortunately makes you a little afraid of getting on the tram home after the next visit to the cinema ... "
Heike Hupertz from the FAZ also considered this episode from Leipzig to be the “best of the 15 episodes so far” and spoke of “depressing topicality.” Here, “a counterpart to the joke thrillers that have just come into fashion”, ie “a real crime thriller” was created. She sums it up as follows:
“Among the Leipzig 'crime scenes' that otherwise looked rather mediocre, this one is the best so far. In addition to the book (Mario Giordano, Andreas Schlüter) and direction (stringently: Johannes Grieser), this is due to Wotan Wilke Möhring and Stefan Kurt. And especially in the straightforward portrayal of the young violent criminals by Jonas Nay, Antonio Wannek and Vincent Krüger. "
Christian Buß from Spiegel Online found:
“Somehow everything doesn't seem to ignite properly. That is why there is a second violent crime at the end. But by then the viewer has long since switched off just like the two investigator machines Saalfeld and Keppler, who dutifully reel off their automatic indignation and combination. "
Niels Kruse from Stern came to the conclusion that it had not been possible to completely dispense with clichés, and also criticized some “wooden dialogues”. Overall, however, it was a "crime scene" that understood, thanks to the well-cast roles of "fessel [n]":
“The creators of the Leipzig 'Tatort' have succeeded in creating a dense, remarkable ball of drama. The crime writers [...] staged the TV case as a tightly woven and dreary social drama, and thankfully renounced any morally sad dismay. Even if they couldn't do without some wooden dialogues and one or the other cliché. [...] The fact that the 15th 'Tatort' with the investigative team from Saalfeld / Keppler looks a bit over-ambitious in some places and yet captivates for 87 minutes is also due to the fine cast [...]. "
Web links
- Gunman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Death Shooter on the ARD website
- Death shooter at the crime scene fund
- Death shooter at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Data on the scene of the crime - Follow death shooters at tatort-fundus.de.
- ↑ a b Thomalla- “ Tatort: Death Shooter ” recalls a real case at t-online.de
- ↑ Manuel Weis: Primetime check: Sunday, December 2, 2012.quotemeter.de , December 3, 2012, accessed on December 3, 2012 .
- ^ Tatort: Death Shooter at tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved May 17, 2013.
- ^ Scene of the crime: Gunman - duel without a winner Karolin Jacquemain. In: Hamburger Abendblatt, December 1, 2012. Retrieved May 17, 2013.
- ↑ Leipzig "Tatort" From the price of moral courage Heike Hupertz. In: FAZ of December 2, 2012. Retrieved on May 17, 2013.
- ↑ Christian Buß: Leipzig- “Tatort” about youth violence with Wotan Wilke Möhring , Spiegel Online . Retrieved December 5, 2012.
- ↑ Niels Kruse: "Tatort" criticism of the "death shooter": corpses pave the Losiererstraße , stern.de . Retrieved December 5, 2012.
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