Crime scene: Missing
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Missing |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR Maran film |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 743 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | October 11, 2009 on First German Television |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andreas Senn |
| script | Christoph Darnstädt |
| production |
Sebastian Hünerfeld Sabine Tettenborn |
| music | Johannes Kobilke |
| camera | Jürgen Carle |
| cut | Katja Habermehl |
| occupation | |
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Missing is a television film from the crime series Tatort and a SWR production in collaboration with Maran Film . This 743rd episode in the series was broadcast for the first time on October 11, 2009 on the First German Television .
In this episode, the Ludwigshafen investigator duo Lena Odenthal ( Ulrike Folkerts ) and Mario Kopper ( Andreas Hoppe ) have to solve the murder of a woman who has been missing for twelve years.
action
Lena Odenthal's birthday. She quietly waits for her colleagues to agree, but no one comments. When she is the last to leave the station in the evening, she receives a call and immediately goes to the restaurant where she was ordered. She is quietly hoping for a secret birthday surprise, but the caller sits shot in the beer garden. According to the identity card, it is Michaela Bäuerle, who was reported missing by her parents twelve years ago.
Since Michaela had called to make a statement about an old murder case, the investigators look at the old files. The Ritterling murder was considered solved and the alleged perpetrator had served his sentence. So death puzzles them. First, they interview the colleague who handled the case twelve years ago. It was a murder disguised as a car accident. The husband, Nikolas Ritterling, was convicted and sentenced on the basis of evidence. He has now been released and lives on a boat in the marina.
Ms. Keller can determine the hotel in which Michaela, as a Michelle Boyer from Nice, lived. Her address in Nice leads the investigators to the real estate agent Jan Seegmeister, who owns real estate in France and whose tenant was Michelle Boyer. He is visibly upset when he learns of the death of the young woman and Odenthal suspects that he had a relationship with her. However, the connection to the Ritterling case is not apparent. This is how Odenthal talks to Nick Ritterling, who impresses her very much in his way. He speaks of his wife as a "bitch" who only betrayed him. When he realized then how much she had just used him, he would have killed her and now served the sentence.
Odenthal tries to get Seegmeister into trouble, which she succeeds and he admits his relationship with Michelle. Apparently his wife, Conny Seegmeister, always knew about it. She rules in the background and tries to keep her husband away from any suspicion. She even hires a detective to monitor Odenthal and find out what she already knows. The investigators quickly find out that Seegmeister was a witness in the Ritterling murder case. Michelle may have come to Ludwigshafen to put pressure on him now. When the investigators want to confront Jan Seegmeister, he has just killed himself. He leaves a written confession that he wanted to end the relationship with Michelle, but she was not ready. She didn't want to let him go and would have come to Germany to tell his wife everything. So he would have seen no way out and shot her. When Odenthal still doubts whether Seegmeister might not want to protect his wife, a young girl from the drug milieu is suddenly picked up who wanted to shop with the dead person's credit card. This lead the investigators to their friend Manu Winter, who apparently stole the dead person's credit card and other valuables. The murder weapon is found during a house search. He himself lies unconscious on the floor after injecting himself with drugs. When Manu Winter can be contacted again, he says that he only removed the dead woman's things. However, he also saw the perpetrator and heard how the woman called him Nicki.
In the end it turns out that Michelle Boyer wasn't Michaele Bäuerle at all, as everyone suspected, but the allegedly murdered Christian Ritterling. Odenthal speaks to Nick and he says that it was not him but Jan Seegmeister who drove away with his wife and on the way they ran over a young woman. The two of them just put her in the car and fell down the slope. Christin wanted to start afresh in France with a new identity. Instead of solving the accident, she had put him behind bars with her silence. Now that she had returned, he had only fulfilled what the court had ordered. He was convicted of killing his wife and has paid for it. Now he just changed the sequence of events. The investigators have no choice but to arrest him.
background
The film was produced by Südwestrundfunk in cooperation with Maran Film under the working title Lena O. and shot in Ludwigshafen, Baden-Baden and Karlsruhe . With this film, SWR celebrates Lena Odenthal's twenty year service.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Missing on October 11, 2009 was seen by a total of 9.03 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.5 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv writes: “Whether 'Missing' is really good - you ask yourself afterwards. We had a good time: the film is exciting, full of question marks, a lot happens, and yet you don't get the impression that this crime thriller is overloaded with action (s). [...] But in the end you could have a bad feeling ... The plot is twisty, full of surprises. Author Christoph Darnstädt 'plots' a lot with tricks. [All of this] and Harfouch's marriage endgame as a bitchy icebox alone make 'Missing' worth seeing. "
At Stern.de , Sophie Albers states: “'Missing' is the simple title for a rather complicated 'crime scene'. It is less thanks to the intricate story than to the suddenly feeling inspector Lena Odenthal that the audience stays tuned. "
Feridun Zaimoglu at Die Zeit.de judges quite sarcastically: “When Mario Kopper stirs the pasta sauce, the viewer's appetite is lost. The Ludwigshafen commissioners have to be careful that their names do not appear on the list of extras soon. "
Critics of Kino.de say: “Darnstädt and director Andreas Senn succeed in putting the puzzle of this story together so ingeniously that every answer found leads to new questions. [...] And even if the story wasn't so wonderfully tricky: the actors alone are worth seeing. Corinna Harfouch as the coldly calculating wife, […] Jeroen Willems as the one driven by his feelings; Thomas Sarbacher as a self-contained free spirit: Together with Ulrike Folkerts, you all form a great ensemble, which is excellently complemented by Andreas Hoppe (Kopper), but also by Annalena Schmidt (Ms. Keller) and Peter Espeloer (Forensic Technician Becker). "
The critics of the TV magazine TV-Spielfilm judge this crime scene: "Wendish with a touch of Chabrol."
Web links
- Missing in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Missing on the ARD website
- Missed by the crime scene fund
- Missed by Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Production details and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 11, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 11, 2014.
- ↑ Sophie Albers The suffering of the no longer very young Lena O. on stern.de, accessed on March 11, 2014.
- ↑ Feridun Zaimoglu »Missed« on Voicemail, accessed on March 11, 2014.
- ^ Review of the film on kino.de, accessed on March 11, 2014.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 11, 2014.
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