Crime scene: anger

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title anger
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company
Bavaria Fiction
classification Episode 1081 ( List )
First broadcast January 20, 2019 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Andreas Herzog
script Jürgen Werner
music Martin Tingvall
camera Wolfgang Aichholzer
cut Gerald Slovak
occupation

Zorn is a television film from the television crime series Tatort , which was first broadcast on January 20, 2019 on Erste. It is the 1081st episode of the crime scene series, the 13th case of the Dortmund investigative team Faber, Bönisch and Dalay and the second of team member Pawlak.

action

Not far from Dortmund, the former miner Andreas Sobitsch is found dead on a canal bank next to a former steel mill. He was shot in the chest in an execution-like manner not far from the site. As the owner of the Ewigkeit eV association, he campaigned for the interests of the miners and for them to receive compensation of 20,000 euros for post-mining damage to their houses. However, some of the club members are dissatisfied with the amount of the severance payment.

The commissioners investigate Sobitsch's circle of friends and relatives and come across his friends Ralf Tremmel and Stefan Kropp, who live in a caravan and are unemployed. Kropp, who lives separated from his wife, has turned down a job offer in an amusement park that is being built on the former colliery site where the miners once worked. Instead, he wants to work with the club for the future.

For the inspectors it turns out that Stefan Kropp's wife Frederike had a love affair with Andreas Sobitsch, about which Stefan Kropp does not yet know. When Commissioner Pawlak asked Stefan Kropp despite his alcoholism, he also informed him about his wife's affair. This uncoordinated, unauthorized approach by Pawlak is met with great resentment by his colleague Dalay. Shortly thereafter, Stefan Kropp went to his house in a rage to confront his wife, but was ultimately held back by Tremmel.

Meanwhile, Faber is analyzing video recordings from a police station that Sobitsch had visited before his death. Through this and by questioning a police officer there, he realizes that Sobitsch wanted to report a man named Friedemann Keller in connection with the arms trade before he, after the protection of the constitution, Dr. Klarissa Gallwitz has left the station again. Keller is a citizen of the Reich who lives heavily armed in his own "state" and rejects the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany. Keller was revealed by the secret service as an undercover agent had been recruited and should deliver three buddies Sobitsch, Kropp and Tremmel-functioning detonators for explosives explosions. They intended to express their anger through targeted explosions on the site of "their" colliery before everything was given to real estate sharks. So they had turned to Keller to get the material for it.

A little later, Stefan Kropp is also found dead, everything points to suicide.

Keller proves to be Sobitsch's murderer, but his car not only left explosive tire tracks at the place where Sobitsch died, but also at the place where Kropp died. Keller shot Sobitsch after the explosives were handed over so as not to leave any witnesses. It turns out, however, that Kropp was also at the site of Sobitsch's shooting.

On the premises of Keller, Faber can persuade him to be arrested by the police without further resistance. At the same time, Tremmel wants to blow up a former steelworks, for which he has already climbed the facility with the detonator. Dalay follows him up on his own authority and approaches him within a few meters. She tries to get him to give up, but gets hyperventilating more and more out of fear of the threatening explosion. Just at the moment when Tremmel is about to hand her the detonator, he is shot by a police sniper.

Emergence

The film was shot from March 5th to March 27th, 2018. The film was shot in Dortmund and in the Duisburg-Nord landscape park , among others .

reception

criticism

In Spiegel online said Christian Buss that this scene sequence then be strong, "if it tightly with the buddies, the cold sweat of Malocher crawling out of them, when they think of the future in which the usual welded joint not matter should play more. ”But it is weak“ when the social erosion in the pot is turned into emphatically topical danger situations. ”The turn to the imperial bourgeoisie seems as if those responsible“ were afraid that the miner's story alone was not relevant enough for the presence".

“The episode takes place over large parts of brownfield sites, collapsing colliery settlements and human relationships like this, and is still a splendid crime scene. It shines in a harsh light. Someone has thought very carefully about the elementary craftsmanship, about the landscape and about the fact that there is no need to constantly chat, but that sentences, movements, even anger, sometimes also benefit from silence. "

- Claudia Tieschky : Süddeutsche Zeitung

When the film was first broadcast, a controversy arose over the image the film paints of the region in which it is set. In a letter to WDR director Tom Buhrow, Dortmund's Lord Mayor Ullrich Sierau criticized the film as being unrealistic, as it fades out structural change and in it the people in a region are exposed to ridicule by showing them "drinking beer in tracksuits in front of run-down houses" would. In his return reply to Sierau, Buhrow referred to artistic freedom and explained that it is not the job of the crime scene to polish up the image of a city or region.

Commenting on Sierau's criticism, Matthias Dell said at Zeit online that Sierau was not entirely wrong and that the film was “clichéd and annoying” as well as “clumsy and cobbled together”. Said tracksuit in the film "does not have a headstrong, specific figure [...], but a half-baked dramatic function in a schematic and, as far as the case is concerned, rather unclear crime thriller." The film plays "uninspired with the simplest ideas" of the region .

Also in response to Sierau's criticism, main actor Jörg Hartmann told Bild-Zeitung that nobody wanted to make the Ruhr area or Dortmund bad.

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Zorn on January 20, 2019 was seen by 9.22 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.7% for Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Tatort - Zorn , in: web presence of crew-united , accessed on January 26, 2019
  2. Daniele Giustolisi: stockpile in Hombruch? So much Dortmund was in the crime scene "Zorn" , in: dortmund24 from January 21, 2019, accessed on January 26, 2019
  3. Christian Buß : Dortmund "crime scene". Close the mine, buddy hoe. Spiegel Online , January 18, 2019, accessed January 18, 2019 .
  4. Claudia Tieschky: Like two brilliant demons. In: Tatort column. Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 18, 2019, accessed on January 18, 2019 .
  5. WDR director Buhrow rejects criticism , in: DLF24 from January 25, 2019, accessed on January 25, 2019
  6. Matthias Dell: Plump and cobbled together , in: Zeit online from January 23, 2019, accessed on January 26, 2019
  7. Now actor Hartmann joins the Dortmund "Tatort" dispute , in: RP Online from January 25, 2019, accessed on January 26, 2019
  8. Timo Nöthling: Primetime check: Sunday, January 20, 2019.quotemeter.de , January 21, 2019, accessed on January 21, 2019 .