Crime scene: Watch on the Rhine
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Watch on the Rhine |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
WDR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 1007 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | January 15, 2017 on Das Erste , SRF 1 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sebastian Ko |
| script | Jürgen Werner |
| production | Sonja Goslicki |
| music | Olaf Didolff |
| camera | Kay Gauditz |
| cut | Dora Vajda |
| occupation | |
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Wacht am Rhein is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by WDR was broadcast on January 15, 2017 on Erste and SRF 1 . In this 1007th crime scene episode, the Cologne commissioners Ballauf and Schenk determine their 68th case.
action
The shop owner Adil Faras and the young mother Nina Schmitz patrol through Cologne with the self-proclaimed vigilante "Wacht am Rhein" in order to ensure more safety in the streets. The son of the owner, Peter Deisböck, is shot dead in a raid on a pet shop. The potential robber escapes undetected. Witnesses can only state that he wore an eye-catching hooded shirt and that this covered his face. When Adil Faras discovers a young man in such a hooded shirt on his way home, he is convinced that he has found the culprit. He follows the man, drugged him with a stun gun and locked him in the basement of his shop. Under massive torture he tries to get him to admit the murder and to reveal where he has the weapon. Baz Barek claims to be a harmless student and not to have murdered anyone. But Faras doesn't believe him. He comes from Morocco himself, but he was accepted in his neighborhood and he doesn't want that to be ruined by such attacks by other foreigners.
The commissioners Ballauf and Schenk have no idea of this action and, in the course of their investigations, receive a reference to the Moroccan Khalid Hamidi. He had worked as an intern in a small advertising company that is in the immediate vicinity of the pet store. So he knew the location and since he is on file with the police, the investigators are sure to be on the right track. Hamidi is arrested, interrogated and his apartment is searched. However, apart from various stolen property, there is no murder weapon. Ballauf and Schenk can bring Khalid Hamidi to a confession. He states that Deisböck boasted that he had a lot of money in the store. The investigators therefore suspect that Deisböck deliberately wanted to lure a thief. When Hamidi then explains that he only used a blank gun, the case turns. Ballauf and Schenk take another look around the scene and come to the conclusion that Lars Deisböck was accidentally shot. As a shooter, the own father is identified, who finally admits the act and also admits to having set a trap for the burglar.
In addition to solving the murder of Lars Deisböck, detective assistant Tobias Reisser is looking for Baz Barek. His girlfriend reported him missing and since he was wearing a hooded shirt when he disappeared, Reisser fears that something has happened to him. After evaluating recordings from public surveillance cameras, he finds the trail of Adil Faras. He sends Ballauf and Schenk to Faras, who they find dead next to his chained prisoner in the end. In fear of death, Baz Barek had stabbed his tormentor and killed him.
background
The film was shot in Cologne from July 5, 2016 to August 4, 2016. The jazz musician Klaus Doldinger , composer of the title music of the series, can be seen and heard as a street musician in a cameo after about 16 minutes ; he improvises on the crime scene theme on the saxophone.
The title " Wacht am Rhein " is a political song that, in the German Empire from 1871, along with Heil dir in the wreath, had the meaning of an unofficial national anthem .
reception
Reviews
Matthias Dell at Zeit.de said: “The Watch on the Rhine [unfortunately] does not show any excessive ambition to invent plausible figures. The vigilante chief, [...] the agency hipster [...] and the migrant criminal Khalid Hamidi [...] talk like the standard attitudes circulating in the media on the subject. "
At Tagesspiegel , Markus Ehrenberg found: The author has succeeded in creating a “deeply balanced crime story about a lack of integration and growing crime […] in which there is no black and white. The best 'crime scene' on the topic in recent times. "
“You cannot accuse the 'crime scene' of racism. Although it takes up the structures of organized crime in which some young men from the Maghreb live in North Rhine-Westphalia according to the so-called Casablanca report, it also differentiates. Interestingly, the German characters remain quite pale, while the North African characters sometimes develop a considerable complexity - without being granted victim status or a sympathy bonus. "
“A panopticon of the Federal Republic in times of the refugee debate, laboriously held together by a moderately interesting crime story and two commissioners whose work would not be described sufficiently uninspired with the word 'routine'. [...] Maybe a crime scene as a contribution to the debate, but not a good crime scene. "
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Wacht am Rhein on January 15, 2017 was seen by 9.90 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.6% for Das Erste . In Switzerland, the crime scene was watched by 398,000 viewers on SRF 1 and achieved a market share of 21.9%.
Trivia
This time the two chief inspectors use an Opel Senator for their official trips .
Web links
- Watch on the Rhine in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Wacht am Rhein on the ARD website
- Watch on the Rhine at the crime scene fund
- Wacht am Rhein at Tatort-Fans.de
- Wacht am Rhein at crew-united.com
- Excerpt with Klaus Doldinger on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ scene: Watch on the Rhine at crew united with crew united retrieved.
- ↑ a b Christian Buß: Cologne "crime scene". In the shadow of the cathedral plate. In: Culture. Spiegel Online , January 13, 2017, accessed on January 13, 2017 : "8 out of 10 points"
- ^ Matthias Dell: Alte Nazis, neue Nazis bei zeit.de, accessed on May 10, 2017.
- ↑ Markus Ehrenberg: The refugee crime scene at tagesspiegel.de, accessed on May 10, 2017.
- ↑ Katharina Riehl: Maybe a contribution to the debate, but not a good "crime scene". Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 13, 2017, accessed on January 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Sidney Schering: Primetime Check: Sunday, January 15, 2017.quotemeter.de , January 16, 2017, accessed on January 16, 2017 : "With this remarkable range, the Cologne" Tatort "got off to a great start in the New Year on Sunday evening."
- ↑ Audience figures , SRF 1 - January 15, 2017. (PDF) Retrieved April 3, 2017 .
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