Crime scene: you are dead!
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | You are dead! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SFB |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 476 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | August 5, 2001 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Diethard Küster |
| script | Daniela Mohr |
| production | Jürgen Haase |
| music | Stefan Warmuth |
| camera | Peter Aichholzer |
| cut | Kerstin Kexel |
| occupation | |
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You are dead! is a TV film from the crime series Tatort on ARD and ORF . The film was produced by the SFB and first broadcast on August 5, 2001. It is the third case of the investigative duo Ritter and Stark , after Dominic Raacke had already solved six cases with Stefan Jürgens as Hellmann and Ritter and the 476th crime scene episode. Ritter and Stark have to solve the murder of a young man and come to the conclusion of a family drama.
action
The 18-year-old Lukas Bremer plays the " Gotcha " game with his peers under the supervision of the former teacher Dr. Werner Jessen hit and killed by a real bullet. Jessen and the other players appear concerned and clueless. Stark considers that the perpetrator could be found outside the group, while knight Werner Jessen has his sights. Lukas' mother says that her son had been friends with Miriam Seidel for some time and was even ready for her to leave his "gotcha" group. The officers want to visit Miriam at home, but they only meet her grandmother Gerlinde and brother Philip, the siblings have been living with their grandmother since their parents' fatal accident last year. Both claim that they do not know anything about Miriam's boyfriend, but Philip, who obviously has neo-Nazi tendencies, knows Lukas from school. Marked by her grief, Miriam appears the next morning at Ritter and Stark and says that Lukas wanted to play Gotcha for the last time with his group the day before and thus wanted to say goodbye to the group for Miriam's sake. Lukas seems to have been Jessen's “darling” in the group, she doesn't know anything about arguments within the group. Shortly afterwards, Ritter and Stark observe an argument between Miriam and her brother in front of the Presidium, when Stark joins them, Philip drives away on his moped without a word.
In Lukas' school, the officials learn that Jessen was employed as a teacher there until a year ago and that some of his students are still in good contact. The Gotcha group is recruited from this group. To their surprise, the teachers also get the information that Lukas is good friends with Philip Seidel and that the latter was also a member of the Gotcha group. Meanwhile, Miriam tells her shocked grandmother at home that Philip is playing Gotcha, and Gerlinde has recently found neo-Nazi material on her grandson. Ritter and Stark seek out Jessen, who lives in a noticeably expensive house. He claims to be voluntarily divorced from the school service, allegedly he does not know Philip Seidel better. The officers secretly follow Jessen into the forest, where he meets the Gotcha group and swears that they will not testify to the police. The group is also no longer allowed to meet, as some of the participants are not yet of legal age. The officers finally join in and confront Jessen. He also has to admit, based on a phone number stored in his cell phone, that Philip Seidel was a member of the group. Stark learns from Weber that Lukas was shot with an old Mauser military pistol, which reinforces his belief that Jessen, who has more modern weapons, is ruled out as the perpetrator, while Ritter remains convinced of Jessen's guilt. In the meantime, Jessen meets with Philip and encourages him to remain absolutely silent to the police.
Ritter goes to Lukas' school again, a teacher tells him that Jessen has retired from school because some parents thought he was homosexual and believed their sons were in danger, while the colleague thinks Jessen is only a committed teacher. Meanwhile, Stark seeks Miriam, who says that Philip knew nothing about her and Lukas, Lukas didn't want this. Philip had become a military fanatic through his late grandfather, a former Wehrmacht officer. Miriam further states that she was with her friend Anne and Philip at the time of the crime at a forest lake. Gerlinde Seidel finds out Jessen's address and seeks him out. She accuses him of having given her grandson neo-Nazi material and asks him to leave him alone. When Jessen suggests that Philip is close to him like a son, Gerlinde Seidel threatens him with a criminal complaint. Stark seeks out Anne, she and Miriam have known each other since kindergarten, she has no good rapport with Philip, he is constantly on his sister's side. He had joined the two of them the day before at around 5 p.m., after the time of the crime. Ritter drives to Jessen again, when he doesn't open, he secretly enters the villa through an open patio door and finds an old weapon there. He returns with a search warrant and tries to secure the weapon, but it turns out that it is not a Mauser. He explains books from the Nazi era with his former activity as a history teacher. Meanwhile, Philip brings his sister home an expensive present again, but she refuses her brother. In the evening, Ritter goes to the regular discotheque of the high school students, when he talks to Miriam, Philip jealously intervenes. Ritter asks Philip, who is leaving the bar in a hurry, what he knows about the death of Lukas, the boy suggests that Lukas knew something that could have been dangerous to Jessen. Ritter summons him to the presidium for the next morning.
Jessen later confronts Philip about the neo-Nazi material and threatens to drop Philip if he doesn't keep his hands off these things. When Philip Thomas, another boy from the Gotcha group, meets with Jessen, he assumes the two are having a relationship and leaves, angry. At home, his sister confronts him about his apparent knowledge of Lukas' death and urges him to go to the police and tell what he knows, but Philip attacks his sister and almost kills her. His grandmother arrives and shoots Philip in emergency aid for her granddaughter Miriam. The next morning, his body was found in the cemetery where his grandfather was lying, as if laid out on his grave. Next to it is the murder weapon, a Mauser military pistol. Stark noticed that the shoelace on the shoe of Philips' corpse had been torn off, a similar one had been found on Lukas at the crime scene. In Philip's room, the officers find a letter from Lukas in which he wrote to Philip that he loved whoever he wanted and that Philip should not bother him any further, as well as a photo of the two friends with Jessen, with Philip over Lukas' face had painted a target on it. Ritter and Stark suspect a love affair between Jessen and Lukas and Philips' jealousy as a motive for murder, Jessen could now have shot Philip in revenge. The officers look for Jessen and take him to the presidium despite the alibi that Thomas gives him. While the officers question Jessen, who asserts his innocence with regard to the murders and the alleged relationships with the underage students, it turns out that the fingerprints on the gun were not his and they fire him.
Ritter and Stark ponder who could have killed Philip with his own weapon. Stark remembers that Philips' grandfather was a Wehrmacht officer. The officers go to the Seidels and, since nobody opens, use a second key in the stairwell to gain access. There you will find a storage room with old devotional items from the grandfather's Nazi era, the holster of the military pistol, and a recently used wheelchair, which was obviously used to transport Philip's body. At the school, officers question Anne, who testifies that Philip was jealous of anyone who approached his sister. They suspect Miriam as the murderess of their brother in revenge for his murder of Lukas. Miriam wants to drown herself in the forest lake when Anne leads the officers to their meeting point at the last moment. Ritter is able to save Miriam by jumping into the water. Miriam testifies that Philip always threatened suicide if she did something with a boy, since she was the only person for him since the death of her parents. At that moment Weber arrives with Gerlinde Seidel, who says that she shot her grandson to save her granddaughter.
production
The crime scene You are dead! is a production on behalf of the SFB for Das Erste . The film was shot in Berlin . When it was first broadcast on August 5, 2001, Tot bist Du! 7.31 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 24.10%.
criticism
TV Spielfilm rated the film positively and commented "The Berlin team hits the mark".
Web links
- You are dead! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- You are dead! in the online film database
- You are dead! at the crime scene fund
- You are dead! at Tatort-Fans.de
- Summary of the plot of Dead Are You! on the ARD website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Crime scene: You are dead! at tatort-fundus.de
- ↑ You are dead! tv movie
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