Crime scene: abducted
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Carried off |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SR |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 825 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | January 22nd, 2012 on Das Erste , ORF, Swiss TV |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hannu Salonen |
| script | Khyana el Bitar , Dörte Franke |
| production | Martin Hofmann |
| music |
Michael Klaukien , Andreas Lonardoni |
| camera | Wolf Siegelmann |
| cut | Julia Oehring |
| occupation | |
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A television film from the crime series Tatort is abducted . It is the seventh case of the Saarland team of investigators Kappl and Deininger and at the same time their last case, since the Saarland Broadcasting Corporation separated from the two main actors Weber and Brückner in November 2011, allegedly by mutual agreement. The broadcast of the report produced by Saarländischer Rundfunk took place on January 22, 2012 on First German Television .
action
The body of a stabbed young girl is found next to a motorway, and on the same day passers-by find a living girl. Both were dressed in white coats, were malnourished and had severe wounds on their skin. Everything indicates that they were held captive in some kind of dungeon for years. However, there is no evidence of sexual abuse . The dead is 16-year-old Sonia Lehmann, who disappeared two years ago, the living is 17-year-old Barbara Romers, who has been missing for seven years. Barbara is mentally completely confused and does not make any useful statements. Kappl and Deininger assume that the two girls fled and that Sonia was killed by her kidnapper while trying to escape . Traces of an unknown male and female DNA are discovered on the body of the dead , which indicates that a third girl is still in the hands of the kidnapper, probably Elisabeth Werth, who disappeared five years ago. The investigators have to act quickly and suspect the former lifeguard Andi Mollet, who has a criminal record for exhibitionism in front of young girls, including Sonia Lehmann. But after some investigations, he is ultimately eliminated as a suspect. The father of the dead Sonia injures Mollet, whom he believes to be the perpetrator, with a knife and has to be arrested by Kappl and Deininger. Meanwhile, Barbara Romers disappears from the hospital, which puts the police under even greater pressure.
The male DNA found under Sonia Lehmann's fingernails can be assigned by forensic scientist Horst Jordan to a man named Werner Mahler with a criminal record for bodily harm. In Mahler's house, Deininger discovers the fabric of the smock in an adjoining room, whereupon the house is searched . A receipt for insulating plates, cable ties and wires can be found in his basement, Mahler himself has disappeared. The next day, Mahler surprisingly comes to SOKO and declares that he wants to work with the police. He wanted to look after his missing friend Rudi Herder and therefore used his second key. In the house, however, he only found the three girls, and Sonia attacked him. Mahler procured the fabric and the other utensils on Herder's behalf, without knowing what he was planning to do with them.
Deininger and Kappl then have the house of Rudolf Herders, engineer for ventilation technology, searched, but he himself has disappeared. There are traces of the girls on the property, but these cannot be found. Deininger suffers a weeping fit: During the investigation into the missing person case of Barbara Romers seven years ago, he suspected and questioned Herder, but had abandoned him as a suspect. Therefore, he feels complicit. Deininger and Kappl discover a ventilation pipe in Herder's garden. From there they find a hidden cellar wing under the house, in which they find Barbara Romers and Elisabeth Werth alive. Together with Sonia Lehmann, the girls had been physically and mentally tortured here for years. The coroner Rhea Singh identifies the body of a man who died in a landslide three weeks ago as the wanted Rudolf Herder. Consequently, he cannot have killed Sonia Lehmann. In the hospital, Barbara is stopped at the last minute from suffocating Elisabeth with a pillow. The result is the solution to the case: Barbara's personality was dissociative changed through the years of torture , so that she identified so much with the kidnapper that after his disappearance she slipped into his role and did everything he would have done himself. She pursued and killed the fugitive Sonia, voluntarily returned to the dungeon and ultimately tried to kill Elisabeth too.
background
The shooting of Verschleppt took place from April 27, 2011 to May 25, 2011 in Saarbrücken , Völklingen-Wehrden and Neunkirchen . In November 2011, it became known that abducted is the last case of the investigative team around Kappl / Deininger.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Verschleppt on January 22, 2012 was seen by 9.25 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 24.3% for Das Erste ; In the group of 14- to 49-year-old viewers , 2.96 million viewers and a market share of 18.9% were achieved.
In Austria 645,000 viewers and a 20 percent market share were achieved.
criticism
“Inspired by Kampusch , Fritzl & Co, 'Abducted' quickly gets to the point. It's about young girls who have been bestially imprisoned. This SR-'Tatort 'by Hannu Salonen is staged in a cinematic aesthetic precise and highly suggestive. But the abnormality of the crime is not subject to any thematic penetration. At best, the film reflects a social phenomenon of psychological perversion. Above all, however, he uses a horror scenario that is perceived as real for the sole purpose of entertainment. Should what movies do also be allowed to be a 'crime scene'? A public law crime discussion is overdue! "
“What we will miss in the future at the Saar 'Tatort' can now be seen again in the final episode with Weber and Brückner: Weber's Deininger rages as if it were for his life. His time is running out, now he shows it all again, even if it ends in a kind of self-disassembly. He jumps by the throat of a psychologist, pours in one hip flask after the other, lashing out in a mixture of overconfidence and self-doubt. Even the more level-headed colleague Kappl, played by Brückner, lets himself be carried away: in the interrogation cell, he gleefully hits a suspect in the pit of his stomach because he thinks he is a pederast. Clean policing works differently. […] The investigators' turmoil is understandable: 'Abducted' (director: Hannu Salonen) is about three girls who were held for years by a kidnapper in an underground dungeon, where they are obediently with bizarre technical devices conditioned. The Natascha Kampusch motif is processed by the screenwriters Khyana El Bitar and Dörte Franke ('The System') into a thriller, which in a few moments comes across as subtle as a torture shocker from the 'Saw' cinema series. "
“This 'crime scene' from Saarbrücken is not an easy case. For the viewer. The cool colors, the blue cast over everything, the gloomy scenes, often filmed with a handheld camera - it's exhausting for the eyes. The squeaky sounds torment, the whirring of the fan rubs off. The 'Tatort' episode 'Abducted' is one of the really good ones in this series! [...] Kappl and Deininger have so far been more relaxed than ambitious, more solid than spectacular. But the style of the episode 'Verschleppt' - both in terms of content and film - is more reminiscent of American or Scandinavian crime novels that solve brutal murders with profilers. […] No desk criminals, no isolated detective duo, no annoying private life, but action, a large team, only professional and no ambiguous social criticism. A disturbing crime, born between pedophilia and madness. "
Web links
- Abducted in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Carried away in the online film database
- Summary of the plot of Abducted on the ARD website
- Carried away from the crime scene fund
- Abducted at Tatort-Fans.de
- sr-online.de: Picture galleries for the shooting of Verschleppt
Individual evidence
- ^ Benjamin Fiege: Everything is there in Die Rheinpfalz , Menschen, January 22, 2012
- ↑ crew-united.de: Tatort - Verschleppt , accessed on January 23, 2012.
- ↑ spiegel-online.de: Brückner and Weber leave the SR "Tatort" , accessed on January 23, 2012.
- ↑ quotemeter.de : Primetime-Check: Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 , accessed on January 23rd, 2012.
- ↑ Medienforschung ORF , data from Sunday, January 22, 2012.
- ↑ tittelbach.tv: "Tatort - Verschleppt" series , accessed on January 23, 2012.
- ↑ spiegel.de: Farewell to the Saar “crime scene”: Inspector Kamikaze , accessed on January 23, 2012.
- ↑ stern.de: Tatort “Abducted”: A disturbing finale , accessed on January 23, 2012.
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From the dream… (2006) | The Dead by the Roadside (2007) | The Black Grave (2008) | Bitter Grapes (2009) | Helpless (2010) | Home Front (2011) | Abducted (2012)