Tatort: Two Lives (2017)
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Two lives |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German |
| Production company |
SRF and Turnus Film AG |
| classification | Episode 1028 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | September 17, 2017 on SRF 1 , Das Erste and ORF 2 |
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| Director | Walter Weber |
| script | Mats Frey and Felix Benesch |
| music | Fabian Römer |
| camera | Stéphane Kuthy |
| cut | Cécile Welter |
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Two lives is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The thirteenth joint case by the Swiss crime scene team Flückiger and Ritschard was broadcast on SRF 1 , Erste and ORF 2 on September 17, 2017 .
action
The long-distance bus driver Beni Gisler runs over a man who suicidally jumped (or was pushed) from a motorway bridge. The commissioners Flückiger and Ritschard quickly determine that the dead man had a high dose of benzodiazepine in his blood - a suicide is therefore impossible.
The reconstruction from the part of the face that was not run over and the photo from the partially destroyed identification paper shows a suspicious resemblance to a building contractor Jakob “Jacki” Conti who allegedly died 13 years ago in the tsunami in Thailand. Further research reveals that his company was heavily indebted at the time of the tsunami and was about to close due to insolvency. With the officially certified "death" of Mr. Conti, the bankruptcy could be averted due to lack of assets. The successor company Conti Erben could be continued. At the same time, some supplier companies went bankrupt due to the default, one of the company owners affected took his own life as a result. The investigators speculate that entrepreneur Conti could only have faked his demise.
The bus driver Gisler shows symptomatically a severe post-traumatic stress disorder . At first he can hardly react positively to his acquaintance with Inspector Flückiger from common military service. The investigators discovered afterwards that as a train driver he had to deal with running over suicidal people twice . After the second trauma , his behavior problems caused by flashbacks had led to the breakup of his family and the woman and her children to move out. As a long-distance bus driver, he had been looking for a new start in his career that promised less risk of a recurrence of the trauma. In vain, because again someone throws himself in front of the vehicle that Gisler is driving. Gisler reacts very disturbed to the new stroke of fate. A cell phone video of his tantrum in the face of this futility reached the Internet and was used by his employer to justify his termination. This throws Gisler completely off track. He no longer sees any support or meaning in life, so that there are brief suicidal intentions.
But Gisler's wish to find the real culprit who pushed Conti off the bridge prevails. Among other things, Gisler is in treatment with Dr. Sonja Roth, a therapist. It should help him to process the traumatic experience and to reconstruct the incident exactly from Gisler's point of view.
In fact, the assumption is confirmed that Conti did not die in the tsunami in Thailand, but continued to lead a new life there. Finally, Flückiger and Ritschard find out that Conti entered Switzerland under a false name, i.e. with a new identity, three days before his death. He visited his sister with dementia. Conti had been in hiding for a long time because his disappearance made it possible in the first place that his company could continue to run and not go bankrupt. Before that, however, Conti had already ruined several small businesses, including Ueli Lenz's plumbing company. Ritschard visits him in the nursing home. Lenz threw himself in front of a train when his company was financially down and lost his lower legs as a result.
Meanwhile, Gisler can remember the details of the evening better and better, he sees a panicked woman at the edge of the bridge in front of him again. This is Sonja Roth. Gisler thus exposes his own therapist as the perpetrator. She was visiting her father in the nursing home when Conti suddenly showed up there. Roth's father Lenz was very open and friendly towards his old business partner, which Roth could not understand, after all, Conti indirectly ensured that her father lost his legs. That is why Roth gave Conti the drug and made him so docile. She then led him to the bridge and made sure that he jumped - an act of desperation by Sonja Roth.
When Gisler finds out, he threatens Roth with a weapon and leads her insane to the bridge. He is already holding the gun to her head and wants to kill her, because he had sworn to punish the perpetrator and let him suffer as much as he did. Only the intervening of the foreboding Flückiger and his colleague Ritschard prevents the act of desperation.
background
The film was shot in Lucerne and the surrounding area from November 16, 2016 to December 19, 2016 .
reception
Reviews
“'Two lives' […] is clunky in parts, everyone here is somehow connected to everyone else, that's not always entirely plausible. But as a crime drama about how the dead have the living under control, this 'crime scene' develops a zombie-like pull. "
“There is a lot about this“ crime scene ”from Lucerne that seems richly constructed and reaches the limits of the doubtful. And yet: The twelfth joint case of Commissioner Reto Flückiger [...] is quite remarkable, even if the murderer plays some role here, although not the most important. So there is no trace of the slowness of so many cases from Switzerland. "
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Zwei Leben on September 17, 2017, was seen by 8.46 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.0%.
Web links
- Two lives in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Zwei Leben on the ARD website
- Two lives in the crime scene fund
- Two lives at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatort: Two lives at crew united
- ↑ Christian Buß: Nachtschwarzer "Tatort" from Switzerland. Dying is sheer egoism! Spiegel Online, September 15, 2017, accessed on September 16, 2017 : "Rating: 7 out of 10 points"
- ↑ Inna Hartwich: Unlikely, but good: the «crime scene» from Lucerne. In: Feuilleton. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, September 17, 2017, accessed on September 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Timo Nöthling: Primetime check: Sunday, September 17, 2017.quotemeter.de , September 18, 2017, accessed on September 18, 2017 .
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