Crime scene: Sweet home

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Sweet home
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
Colonia Media Filmproduktion GmbH
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 871 ( List )
First broadcast April 21, 2013 on Das Erste , ORF , Swiss TV
Rod
Director Christoph Snow
script Frank Koopmann ,
Roland Heep
production Sonja Goslicki ,
Frank Tönsmann
music Günter Illi
camera Diethard Prengel
cut Guido Krajewski
occupation

Trautes Heim is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film by director Christoph Schnee based on a script by Frank Koopmann and Roland Heep deals with a case by the Cologne investigators Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk and is the 871st Tatort episode. In their 57th case, the commissioners are dealing with the kidnapping of a child and the resulting murder. The report produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk was first broadcast on April 21, 2013 on Das Erste .

action

A motorcyclist observes eight-year-old Lukas Schäfer being dragged into a car and starts chasing him. When the car has to stop because of a sideways car and the motorcyclist tries to open the back door of the van, the driver of the car sets back in cold blood and runs over the young man. The detective chief inspectors Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk are entrusted with the case.

At the same time, the boy's father receives a call in a disguised, barely understandable voice: If he wants to see Lukas again, he should come to a certain place. When he comes home, Ballauf and Schenk are already waiting for him with his partner Simone Schäfer and want to know if he knows a Peter Wiegand, which he affirms. At the moment it is assumed that he observed the kidnapping of his son, which is why he is now dead. When the couple are alone again, Roman Sasse tells Simone about the call and that he hadn't said anything because the kidnappers would otherwise kill Lukas.

It turns out that Lukas was kidnapped in a Pieler construction company delivery truck. The car was reported as stolen by its owner, the run-over Peter Wiegand is known to the man. He vehemently denied to the police that he knew anything about a kidnapping and that the vehicle had been stolen from him. At the same time, Roman Sasse observes a woman leaving her house and then enters it because he has a key. There he immediately sits down at the computer.

A cell phone has now been found in the burned-out car whose SIM card is approved for Hugo Junghanns, Ruth Junghanns' son. Ballauf speaks to the woman, who tells him that neither she nor her son Hugo would know a Lukas Schäfer, but Roman Sasse, who is her husband and Hugo's father. The summoned Sasse explains to her that Luke is his son and that he has been living with him and his mother for nine years if he is not with her and their son. Ruth Junghanns now knows why her husband had to go to Leipzig so often , and the emergencies at Christmas, Easter and during the holidays now make sense for her. They were a great team, complemented each other well and gave each other freedom, she emphasizes to Ballauf.

As it turns out, Sasse has organized his double life over the past few years through an agency Pretesto, which made calls for him in order to credibly support what he made his wife and girlfriend believe. Sasse then finally revealed that he had received a call from the likely kidnappers of his son who demanded 100,000 euros and threatened to kill the child if the police were called in. He also tries to explain how he got into this situation and says that it was wonderful with his wife. Shortly after the birth of their son Hugo, he met Simone and fell in love. About three years ago everything became too much for him and so he called on Pretesto to coordinate.

It won't be easy for Sasse to confess his double life to Simone. He is particularly attacked by Simone's sister Heike and her brother-in-law Kai, who furiously yells at him how he could do something like that to Simone. The ransom money that Sasse is supposed to deposit in a wastepaper basket has now been obtained from the police. The handover is monitored by the officers. When a hooded man approaches the wastebasket, the officers pursue him, but discover that he has only removed a returnable bottle. While they were following him, the real culprit has usurped the money. When analyzing the ransom calls one finds that at least one of the perpetrators must be a woman. Meanwhile, Sasse admits to his wife that the kidnappers don't want any money, but rather sensitive data on the credit cards that she has locked away on her computer. But Ruth doesn't want to help him and turns away.

Lukas has now woken up in his hiding place and is looking around the cellar dungeon. When he tries to reach a high window and climbs onto a rickety shelf and yells for help from the window, he falls down with the shelf. Outside, a man is busy with an angle grinder who also wears earmuffs, so Lukas' cry for help goes unheard.

Schenk is of the opinion that someone specifically wants to direct suspicion in the direction of Pieler in order to distract from himself. This also fits that Sasse had mentioned that he had told Pieler about the credit cards, but the latter had pointed out that Sasse had also told other people about it. In addition, no traces of the KTU were found in Pieler's apartment or on his construction sites .

Simone Schäfer is urged by her sister and brother-in-law to talk to Ruth Junghanns. Ruth says there is nothing she can do for Simone's son because the police have already intervened and she can no longer get the data. Ruth compliments Simone at the door and then collapses crying. Simone, who is also crying, grabs Ruth's son Hugo in front of the house and threatens his life by holding a weeder to his neck. The desperate Ruth can no longer get the credit card numbers because the access is blocked. The arriving inspectors Ballauf and Schenk learn from Simone's sister that Lukas is in the basement of an old tractor factory. Sasse is now also on site. He looks at his brother-in-law in disbelief when the commissioners tell him that Kai and Heike are behind the kidnapping of Lukas. Kai had built up a lot of hatred against the successful future brother-in-law: he had made Heike believe that Roman was to blame for the fact that they could no longer get on their feet, and thus got her to go through with the kidnapping together with him and even approve of it to accept the death of a man trying to help a child.

When little Lukas is freed from his hiding place, he only says that his battery is empty. Beaming with joy to have found the child almost intact, Schenk says: "Well, we'll recharge it."

production

The shooting began on August 28th and lasted until September 27th, 2012. The shooting took place in Cologne and the surrounding area.

reception

Audience ratings

When it was first broadcast on April 21, 2013, Trautes Heim was tuned into by 10.27 million viewers and achieved a market share of 28.6 percent.

criticism

Heike Hupertz from the FAZ was of the opinion that "the new 'crime scene' from Cologne [lacks] logic and tension." It was also criticized that the story "moves almost only in dialogue". Hupertz came to the conclusion: "If it weren't for Sandra Borgmann and Alma Leiberg, who unlock some touching moments, there would be no reason to turn on this 'crime scene'."

Also Holger Gertz of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung came at Dialoglastigkeit this scene episode and stated: "The long-suffering audience is struggling through Ballauf'sche monologues. [...] And you don't even have to be spoiled by the narrative pace of American series to find [the] ball fuss [...] monologues [...] tiring. "Gertz came to the result:" At this crime scene there are two police officers who have been speaking for a very long time are on duty. "

TV feature film's thumbs up, humor, ambition and action were each given one point out of three possible, and two points for suspense. The editors found that it was an "abysmal tragedy of the middle class". Conclusion: “Oh! The bad is often so close. "

The taz was also of the opinion that it was not exciting how a middle class family broke up and concluded: “Even if the actors show a good performance in portraying clearly exaggerated middle class members, in the end this episode is a crime scene 'according to the well-known scheme:' Don't worry, we are the police. ' Currywurst stand, end. "

Volker Königkrämer from Stern.de also criticized the dialogues and came to the conclusion: "No tension, no emotion, foreseeable twists and turns - this 'crime scene' drags on to the end."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tatort - Sweet Home at crew-united.com. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
  2. ↑ Trautes Heim data on the crime scene sequence at tatort-fundus.
  3. ↑ Heike Hupertz: Tatort: ​​Trautes Heim When men lie too much In: FAZ, April 21, 2013. Accessed on December 29, 2013.
  4. ↑ Holger Gertz: Tatort “Trautes Heim” Zerschlagenes Déjà-vu In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 21, 2013. Accessed December 29, 2013.
  5. ↑ Tatort: ​​Trautes Heim In: TV Spielfilm.de. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
  6. ↑ WDR “Tatort” from Cologne: Trautes Heim, Glück alone In: taz.de, April 21, 2013. Accessed on December 29, 2013.
  7. ↑ Volker Königkrämer: “Tatort” critique of skimmed food from Cologne In: Stern.de, April 21, 2013. Accessed on December 29, 2013.
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