Crime scene: burned

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Burned
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company
Desert media
on behalf of the NDR
classification Episode 957 ( List )
First broadcast October 11, 2015 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Thomas Stuber
script Stefan Kolditz
production Björn Vosgerau, Uwe Kolbe
music Stefan Will
Marco Dreckkötter
camera Alexander Fischerkoesen
cut Max Mittelbach
occupation

Burned is a television film from the crime series Tatort , which was produced for Norddeutscher Rundfunk and was first broadcast on October 11, 2015. It is the 957th episode in the series and the sixth case of Chief Inspector Thorsten Falke and Inspector Katharina Lorenz .

action

In the industrial town of Salzgitter in the Lower Saxony province, Katharina Lorenz and Thorsten Falke observe an African asylum seeker on suspicion of trading in forged passports. The suspect Gibril Bali defies arrest by Lorenz with one blow, whereupon Falke beats him. The next day it turns out that there was a mix-up of names and that Bali is innocent. When Falke and Lorenz come back to the police station, they find out that Bali, who is handcuffed and handcuffed, was burned in his cell. At Falke's request, the two investigations begin inside the police station to clarify how the death could have come about.

It turns out that the head of the department Werl subjects his young police officers to an initiation ritual. Werl compares himself with Hagen von Tronje from the Nibelungen saga . Police officer Andreas Kohler admits to the two investigators that he doused the mattress in the detention cell with an accelerator and set it on fire. He resists his arrest by shooting himself with his service weapon. The incriminating statements from Werl can be recorded by detective inspector Katharina Lorenz with her smartphone during a memorial service among colleagues . She makes these recordings available to her colleague Falke before she leaves the office so that Falke can initiate criminal prosecution against Werl.

background

The film was shot from November 4, 2014 to December 3, 2014 in Salzgitter and the surrounding area as well as in Hamburg . Before it was first broadcast, the film was shown in numerous cinemas as a preview on September 30, 2015.

The plot is based on the real case of the 36-year-old asylum seeker Oury Jalloh from Sierra Leone, who died on January 7, 2005 in a prison cell in the basement of the Wolfgangstrasse 25 service building of the Dessau police station in Saxony-Anhalt.

The episode Burned represents the last collaboration with the actress Petra Schmidt-Schaller , for which the Austrian Franziska Weisz joins the investigative team at the side of Wotan Wilke Möhring in the following episodes .

Film music

The second movement of the Kaiserquartett by Joseph Haydn , the basis of the German national anthem, was chosen as the film music for the title sequence . As a ringtone of the mobile phone of detective chief Thorsten Falke music title is Toxicity of System of a Down from the same album Toxicity to hear from 2001 onwards. At the barbecue party of department manager Werl runs u. a. the music title Auf uns by Andreas Bourani . From the car radio from Mehmet Mutlu drowned AKs in the closet of Kollegah . The credits are accompanied by the live version of the music track Strange Fruit by Jeff Buckley , whereby the expression "Strange Fruit" has established itself as a symbol for lynchings .

reception

Reviews

In view of the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe , the police union was critical of the action of the episode and is quoted as saying: "Our officers feel that they have been brought in, although they are working overtime these days and are at the forefront of the refugee crisis" . "Our colleagues are doing a very good job in the current refugee situation, the people thank them," it continues, and the case is "oversubscribed" . For the commissioning broadcaster NDR, however , the criticism of the police union is incomprehensible, since it is a fictitious representation that is based on a real case and the plans were made two years ago and thus long before the escalation of the refugee crisis. In particular, representatives of the public prosecutor's office and the police had the opportunity at a discussion in Dessau to express any concerns about the consequence, but did not take advantage of them. “It's not the film that is the problem, the original case is a disgrace for the police,” said the NDR.

That the crime was based on a true story, was "tricky" , Petra Noppeney ruled by the Westfälische Nachrichten , which is why the result "with a lot of idle" therefore come, especially since "in the" evening news "recently still reminds of the real event" was his should. “To create tension” by the scriptwriter “laying wrong tracks” is “not very convincing” . The fact that the resolution had to use a "leaked video [s]" was not "entirely conclusive" ; the farewell to detective inspector Katharina Lorenz was announced several times during the episode and was staged "melancholy" .

“This 'crime scene' has become a truly claustrophobic thriller; Breaking out of the closed community of police officers is unthinkable. [...] A 'crime scene' that hurts. A murderous blues from the middle of Germany. "

"'Burned' by Thomas Stuber (book by Stefan Kolditz, terrific camera: Alexander Fischerkoesen) is told more stringently and therefore the best episode of this team."

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Burned , which ran parallel to a European Championship qualifier for the German national soccer team on October 11, 2015 , was seen by 7.2 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 19.8% for Das Erste .

Awards

At the 2016 German TV Crime Festival , Tatort: ​​Burned won the main prize. Petra Schmidt-Schaller received the award for best actress.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Crime scene: burned at crew united
  2. Burned at the crime scene fund, accessed on October 19, 2015
  3. New Falke-Tatort celebrates its preview in the cinema. In: Tatort-fundus.de, accessed on October 12, 2015
  4. a b c Stern : Tatort - Verbrannt , dpa , Carsten Rave, October 11, 2015
  5. a b c d e Focus : The police are massively criticizing the Möhring “crime scene”: “Being portrayed as xenophobic and racist at the crime scene does not help” , October 13, 2015
  6. a b c Westfälische Nachrichten : Tatort: ​​Verbrannt (ARD) - With a lot of idle time , media / seen, Petra Noppeney, October 12, 2015
  7. Christian Buß: Refugee "crime scene". Burned in Germany. Spiegel Online, October 9, 2015, accessed on October 9, 2015 : "Real case, tough cop cinema."
  8. Holger Gertz: People really think that way. In: Media. Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 9, 2015, accessed on October 9, 2015 .
  9. Author sauer: Why did this crime scene run parallel to football? In: Derwesten.de of October 12, 2015
  10. Timo Nöthling: Primetime check: Sunday, October 11th, 2015.quotemeter.de , October 12th, 2015, accessed on October 12th, 2015 .
  11. «Tatort» and Petzold's «Polizeiruf 110» awarded. In: NZZ.ch of March 11, 2016.