(Please do NOT read this comment, if you do not want to learn the clue of the story!) We speak here about one of the most famous Tatort episodes, with a creme De la creme-crew, including Nastassja Kinski, Christian Quadflieg and Judy Winter (not to forget the late Klaus Schwarzkopf), therefore, it may be allowed to look with a magnifier at the story. After she has refused to spend her leisure time with former boy-friend Michael, Sina is caught by Michael having an affair with her literature teacher, Fichte. Because Michael is deeply angry about this liaison, he urges Sina to go the next day with him into the forests and make love - as she did with Fichte. Because Michael threatens to denounce Fichte to the director of the school, she agrees. A bit later when she is called by Michael, she tries to dissuade him from his idea. The central question is here: Did Sina already at this moment conceive the plan to kill Michael, or not? The seems so suggest the second alternative. However, when they arrive in the forest, Michael immediately throws himself on Sina, lying on her back in the soil. Crying that Michael should leave her alone, but unable to lift him away from her, she catches a stone on smashes his head. Arrived at that point, how would you, reader of this comment, continue the story? I would say: Sina goes to the police, reports that Michael tried to rape her, the police will probably believe her (we hear about Michael's unbalanced character a bit later in the movie), and then there will be a self-defense, but not a murder case. OK, what the author needed is a satisfactory murder-story and not a self-defense. But how he changed this quasi natural on-going of the story, is less than unsatisfactory: He lets Sina invent the Big Third Unknown, allegedly a portly built, middle-sized hunters-man - too much fairy-tale for a sexually and intellectually mature 17 years old girl. Since the police suspects that Sina covers her own school-teacher, they lure her into a trap and present her the caught alleged culprit. Since she is so stupid to identify him as her raper, the police is now convinced that it was the teacher who killed Michael. Well-understood: the police do not even doubt that there were only two instead of three persons at the place of the crime! Because she sees no other way, she writes a good-bye letter in which she frees her teacher from all crime, admits that she killed Michael and disappears in order to commit suicide. Only then, when she is found still alive, the mystery is disclosed. But the movie is finished, and the big question, if Sina will now be sentenced for first-degree murder and not for self-defense, appears. It seems that here the most important twist in the whole movie has been screwed up.
Review of Reifezeugnis
