Crime scene: Up from the sky
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | From the sky above |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR |
| classification | Episode 1074 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | December 9, 2018 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Bohn |
| script | Thomas Bohn |
| music | Jan Kazda |
| camera | Jürgen Carle |
| cut | Isabelle Allgeier |
| occupation | |
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From Heaven is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The paper produced by the SWR was on 9 December 2018 First aired. In this 1074th crime scene episode, Ludwigshafen commissioner Lena Odenthal investigates her 68th case.
action
The renowned psychiatrist Dr. Steinfeld is found slain in his practice. He treated civilian and military victims of armed conflict, including traumatized military personnel from Ramstein Air Base . Shortly before Inspector Stern arrives at the scene, she happens to meet a man who wanted to go to Steinfeld's practice, but he turns back because of the police presence. He is one of two brothers of Middle Eastern origin who lost family members in their homeland to US drone attacks during the war. Since they judge the attacks as a politico-military mistake and they feel left alone with their grief by politics and the public, they want two multicopters - one of which is equipped with a camera and one with an explosive device - a high-profile attack on a high-ranking meeting Politicians, including the American Jason O'Connor, are the heads behind the US drone development program. Odenthal does give the prosecutor information about the brothers and recommends that the politicians' meeting be canceled because of the danger. The prosecutor wants to avoid this because of the negative public impact that the cancellation would have. Nevertheless, a special police unit can find the two men and thus thwart the attack.
Meanwhile, Stern is together with the criminal investigation secretary Keller and with Dr. Steinfeld's practice co-owner sifting through Steinfeld's patient files in order to find clues about the murderer. The patients also include the US soldier Heather Miller, who has been severely traumatized since she was jointly responsible for the deaths of numerous women and children as a drone pilot. Because of her trauma, Dr. Steinfeld found her unfit for service. Contrary to Odenthal's instructions not to go alone to suspects' homes, Stern went to Miller in their private home and informed her of the police finding that she was with Dr. Steinfeld was receiving treatment. Miller expresses her bitterness over Steinfeld's unfit for service judgment and reveals that it was why she murdered him. She overpowers Stern, ties her to the heater and strips her. With Stern's clothes, hairstyle and ID card, she goes into the heavily guarded building where the politicians' meeting is to take place, and wants to murder O'Connor there in retaliation for her traumatization. Odenthal, who misses her colleague, goes there and can stop Miller from killing O'Connor with a shot. Using Miller's address data, she finds Stern in her apartment and frees it.
background
The film was shot from November 14, 2017 to December 15, 2017 in Baden-Baden, Ludwigshafen, Rastatt, Ettlingen and Karlsruhe. The premiere took place on May 25, 2018 at the SWR Summer Festival in Mainz.
reception
Reviews
Critics were of the opinion that the film took over its theme. At Spiegel Online , Christian Buß said that the “synchronization of the victim's biography and the soldiers' medical records” would not work and that “questions of guilt would be put into perspective”, that the anger would “be directed all too quickly to the mechanically saluting cardboard comrades of big politics.” In the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Holger said Gertz rejects: "Cut-in war scenes seem presumptuous that the [sic!] Topic is too big, too huge for a mediocre Sunday evening thriller." The film service was particularly dissatisfied with a rating of one of five possible stars : "Hanebueches constructed and annoying superficial crime thriller that blows at the goal of a political thriller. Lengthy, illogical and with involuntarily comical dialogues, the film represents a low point in the 'Tatort' series. "
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Vom Himmel hoch on December 9, 2018, was seen by 7.69 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 21.8% for Das Erste .
music
The song Strong by the British band London Grammar , used several times in the film, returned to the German single charts after it was broadcast on TV.
Web links
- Crime scene: Vom Himmel hoch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Vom Himmel hoch on the ARD website
- From the sky high at the crime scene fund
- From the sky high at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Crime scene: From the sky up at crew united
- ↑ "Tatort" premiere attracts hundreds of viewers. In: Summer Festival Mainz. SWR, May 25, 2018, accessed November 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Christian Buß: "Tatort" on modern warfare. Threatened in Ludwigshafen. In: Culture. Spiegel Online, December 7, 2018, accessed on December 7, 2018 : "4 out of 10 points"
- ↑ Holger Gertz: Too huge a topic for a mediocre Sunday evening thriller. In: Media. Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 7, 2018, accessed on December 7, 2018 .
- ^ Tatort - Vom Himmel hoch , in: Film-Dienst , accessed on December 24, 2018
- ↑ Sidney Schering: Primetime Check: Sunday, December 9, 2018.quotemeter.de , December 10, 2016, accessed on December 10, 2016 .
- ↑ TV tip Tatort in Stern on December 9, 2018
- ↑ chart of "Strong" on officialcharts.de; GfK; accessed on December 17, 2018
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