Crime scene: under control
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Under control |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR Maran film |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 623 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | March 5, 2006 on First German Television |
| Rod | |
| Director | René Heisig |
| script | Stefan Rogall |
| production |
André Zoch Melanie Wolber |
| music | Rainer Michel |
| camera | Jürgen Carle |
| cut | Martina Butz-Kofer |
| occupation | |
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A television film from the crime series Tatort and a SWR production in collaboration with Maran Film is under control . This 623rd episode in the series was broadcast for the first time on March 5, 2006 on First German Television .
The Ludwigshafen investigative duo Lena Odenthal ( Ulrike Folkerts ) and Mario Kopper ( Andreas Hoppe ) have to solve a murder that leads to a stalker who apparently does not shrink from violence in order to get to his goal.
action
Event manager Markus Möller is found dead. He was pushed down a flight of stairs one night after a party and then suffocated, possibly with a scarf. First of all, Odenthal and Kopper want to start the investigation in Möller's agency, but they find out that the tax investigators are currently working there and are investigating tax evasion and bankruptcy delay. Neither Möller's assistant Martina Dierks nor Möller's brother Jörg, who also works in the agency, claims to have known anything about it.
The commissioners first draw their attention to Rike Hoffmann, who was the last to be with Markus Möller at the celebration and who had argued with him. Odenthal gets the impression that she is very upset and seems to be afraid of something. Odenthal learns from Isabel Menning, Rike Hoffmann's friend, that she fell in love with Möller and that she has been stalked by a stalker for over six months. He still harassed her with anonymous calls and gifts, even a video tape with recordings of her was there. She would have reported that, but it was unsuccessful. So she took courses in self-defense in order to be able to defend herself against an attacker in an emergency. However, this fact allows the conclusion that it could have overwhelmed the actually stronger Markus Möller.
However, there are also suspicions against Martina Dierks. She had a relationship with her boss in the past and wanted to go on vacation with him shortly. 400,000 euros have disappeared from the company account, but obviously he wanted to run away with the money alone. If she found out, that would be a classic motive for murder. When Odenthal tries to find Dierks, she is already on the run. Kopper manages to stop them at the airport with the embezzled company funds. She states that she only wanted to help Möller and did not kill him. During the questioning, the investigators found out that Möller was with her friend before he got involved with Rike Hoffmann. Odenthal then asks Isabel Menning, who also has no alibi for the time of the crime. There is even a criminal record for assault. In order to save herself from the threatening situation, she tells the investigators about the video that the stalker had sent to Rike. You look at it immediately and you have to realize that Rike Hoffmann attacked Möller and he fell down the stairs. Rike Hoffmann is questioned and says that she was of the opinion that the stalker would attack her and therefore she defended herself. In the dark she could not have seen that Möller had reached for her and not a stranger. The investigative work concentrates on these when Odenthal found a thread of wool near the crime scene, which obviously belongs to the scarf with which Möller was suffocated. Odenthal suspects that this scarf belongs to the stalker and is now trying to find the stranger. So Jörg Möller makes himself suspicious when he touches Rike Hoffmann very heavily. She agrees to work as a decoy and meets with Jörg Möller while Odenthal and Kopper watch her. However, the action goes wrong and Möller fled. Fearing that he might take revenge on Rike, Odenthal places her in her apartment. Unexpectedly, the stalker finds out, whereupon she escapes from the apartment and calls Odenthal for help. Since Möller is currently complaining about the investigation against him with his lawyer in the police station, it becomes clear that Odenthal and Kopper are following the wrong lead.
Rike flees through the city center in a panic. Driven by the fear that no one can protect her, she runs into a car and is injured. When she is sent flowers that clearly come from the stalker, she escapes from the hospital to her work colleague Christian Mühlhaus. He is visibly pleased with the visit, but when Rike discovers a video camera and looks at one of the recordings, she realizes that he is Markus Möller's murderer. She manages to call Odenthal, who then has Christian Mühlhaus arrested.
background
The film was produced by Südwestrundfunk in cooperation with Maran Film and shot in Ludwigshafen, Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Under Control on March 5, 2006 was seen by a total of 6.23 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 16.01 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv particularly praises the acting performance of Annett Renneberg at this crime scene, “who feels observed day and night [in the role of the stalking victim] with just the right mix of fatalism and despair. [...] Apart from the humorous introduction by the investigator duo, Heisig staged this SWR crime thriller with deadly seriousness. It shows Ludwigshafen from its most inhospitable side; even apparently intimate friendships bear traces of betrayal. And because Heisig succeeded in creating an exciting crime thriller with comparatively little effort, two small objections can be safely disregarded: Odenthal ends up teaching every time she talks about the phenomenon of 'stalkers'; and the perpetrator sometimes has to be exaggerated. "
At Moviesection.de, Thomas Ays awards four out of five possible stars and writes: "Director René Heisig impressively knows how to build tension, conjure up a gloomy atmosphere and thereby grab the viewer and never let go." He consistently finds words of praise about the actors , but criticizes the “sometimes out of place psychological wisdom of Lena Odenthal. [The] could have saved the scriptwriter Stefan Rogall, but 'Under Control' has turned into an exciting and gripping 'Tatort' from Ludwigshafen. "
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm write about this crime scene: “A difficult plot, unimaginatively staged and underlaid with annoying music. [Conclusion:] A colorless case that is slowly being solved "
Web links
- Control in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Under Control on the ARD website
- Under control at the crime scene fundus
- Under control at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Movie length on Internet Movie Database , accessed March 12, 2014.
- ↑ a b Production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 13, 2014.
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 13, 2014.
- ↑ Thomas Ays : Tatort - Under Control (TV). In: Moviesection.de. Archived from the original on June 26, 2015 ; accessed on September 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 13, 2014.
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