Crime scene: immortally beautiful

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Immortal beautiful
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company
Bavarian radio
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 780 ( list )
First broadcast November 21, 2010 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Filippos Tsitos
script Stefanie Kremser
production Michael Hild
Claudia Simionescu
music José van der Schoot
camera Polydefkis Kyrlidis
cut Dirk Göhler
occupation

A television film from the crime series Tatort is immortally beautiful . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk with investigators Batic and Leitmayr was first broadcast on November 21, 2010 on ARD's first program.

The chief inspectors are dealing with a murder in a Munich spa and are investigating the broken family of the victim.

action

Konstanze Schiller, the successful and desirable owner of a Munich beauty temple, is found dead in a chocolate bath. The news of his death was brought to the husband Andreas Lutz, and he was surprised to find that his wife had moved out of the apartment without being noticed the previous evening because her wardrobes are empty.

The autopsy reveals that the victim broke off his fingernails while trying to open the door. She must have known that she was in danger of death because she had a severe allergy to peanuts, among other things. However, nothing of the kind was detectable in the stomach contents. It is surprising that in her acute condition she did not give herself the emergency syringe that she always had with her in an emergency. The traces from the bathtub to the door clearly show that she wanted to leave the room, but did not manage to open the door, which the killer must have locked. Chocolate is everywhere, just not on the key, which indicates that someone deliberately caused the allergy shock and later put the key inside to make it look like an accident.

Batic and Leitmayr investigate the broken family of the victim, which is also fully dedicated to the cult of beauty and for whom being beautiful is simply the measure of all things. They realize that there has been tension between the protagonists for many years. It also seems obvious that the murdered woman and her brother-in-law Jürgen Jahn had an affair. That makes Jahn's wife Dorothea suspicious, especially since she never achieved the beauty and business acumen of her sister and envied her for it. It is also stressful that Konstanzes cell phone is in her handbag.

The dead man's husband, who works as a male model and for whom attractiveness and youthfulness are existentially important, is also suspected. He was 20 years older than his wife and prone to hot temper. He wore a gold-colored suit when he shot peanuts on the night of the murder. Evidently he had taken it home with him.

In cross-examination together with Dorothea Jahn, he admits that he went to his wife's spa after the advertising shots . She had told him over the phone that she wanted to part with him. In a rage, he drove to her immediately, so that he was still wearing the suit with some peanuts from the commercials in the pockets. The peanuts eventually gave him the idea of ​​how to get revenge on his wife and kill her. He was calm and relaxed towards Konstanze, but he was seething. Feigning understanding, he kissed her goodbye in the bathroom, after having eaten a few peanuts in the next room. The allergens in the peanuts in his mouth caused an allergic shock shortly afterwards without leaving any traces in the contents of her stomach. Before she realized what he was doing, Lutz had already left the bathroom and locked the door. When she was lying on the floor after her agony, he opened the door and put the key inside. Batic and Leitmayr arrest Lutz.

reception

Reviews

“There's no running or shooting, it's not about political intrigues, gun-pushing, child abuse. It's all about the madness of beauty - a social issue that can also be traced back to the desire for eternal youth, which in turn expresses a grotesque superficiality in the assessment of people. That should be the lesson here. "

- Christopher Keil : Süddeutsche Zeitung

“The dialogues have puns, the characters are believable, the actors are all great. The criticism of the absurd youth mania is well packaged and is not morally angry. "

- Lea Wolz : Stern

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Immortal Beautiful on November 21, 2010 was seen by 9.83 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.7% for Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Christopher Keil: "Tatort": Immortal Beautiful (BR). An act in cocoa. Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 5, 2020, accessed on May 5, 2015 .
  2. Lea Wolz: "Tatort" critique. A sweet death. Stern, January 5, 2020, accessed May 5, 2015 .
  3. Immortal beautiful. Crime scene fund, accessed on January 5, 2020 .