Crime scene: bitter grapes

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Bitter grapes
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Saarland radio
length 87 minutes
classification Episode 731 ( list )
First broadcast April 26, 2009 on Das Erste
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Director Hannu Salonen
script Andreas Pflüger
production Martin Hofmann
music Karim Sebastian Elias
camera Andreas Doub
cut Claudia Fröhlich
occupation

Bitter Grapes is the title of the fourth Tatort episode with Maximilian Brückner and Gregor Weber as Saarbrücker Tatort team. Kappl and Deininger are confronted with the murder of a wine controller and have to deal with the hatred of several winegrowers among themselves.

The 731st Tatort episode first aired on April 26th, 2009 on Das Erste .

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Kappl receives a call that his father is in the hospital, that he has fallen and broken his arm, but he doesn't want his son to come to him. Meanwhile, a man is shot dead on the street in a wine-growing region. Kappl and Deiniger appear at the scene the next morning, money and cell phone are still there, a robbery is therefore impossible. The dead man's name is Gerhard Nieser and he was a wine inspector by profession. Kappl and Deiniger visit the wine merchant Weickert, where Nieser checked on the day of his death. However, there have never been any complaints. The dealer says that Nieser then went on to Bernheim, where he wanted to check the winemakers Altpeter and Eckes. Kappl and Deiniger then drive to Bernheim, where there is a wine festival that day. You first look for Old Peter, Sneezer had checked with him the day before. They were good friends. Then the two inspectors go to Eckes, he makes no secret of the fact that Sneezer was an "asshole" and "Korinthenkacker" for him, who checked extremely carefully and made life difficult for him. Frau Weickert dances with Altpeter at the wine festival, they seem to know each other better.

Kappl and Deininger sink into the wine festival and Kappl ends up in bed with the wine queen. She tells him that she knew Sneeze, she also says that Sneeze was very meticulous and lacking in humor. Ms. Weickert went to see Old Peter the next morning and told him that she would cancel the delivery contract because his wine was sulphurous. You will ruin him. Kappl and Deiniger then also look for old Peter, he has no alibi for the time of the crime, but asserts his innocence. Then they go to Eckes, who says that Altpeter has tied himself to a wholesaler that Weickerts took over six months ago. Old Peter would no longer get out of the contract. Old Peter was once in a relationship with Isabel Weickert. He persuaded her father, who was also a winemaker, to cultivate organic farming, which drove him against the wall. He then asked Marlis Altpeter's father, who owned the neighboring property, for help, but he waited for the foreclosure auction and bought his vineyard in this way, and Isabel's father died of a broken heart over it. Richard Altpeter then left Isabel and courted Marlis, so he came to "his" vineyard. Richard also got a gun from his father, who was a day laborer, as the only heirloom.

In the meantime, Nieser's car was found and after his death it was towed to the place where it was found. Horst Jordan also found out that the murder weapon was a pistol that was built exclusively for the Swiss Army between 1918 and 1933, and that it was also a weapon that Richard Altpeter inherited from his father. Marlis and Isabel meet in Marlis' vineyard, Marlis begs Isabel not to ruin her and her husband. Isabel recalls that her father asked Marlis' father for help at the time, but refused to help. Now she will ruin the old Peter. You would have to do this to avoid being ruined yourself. Kappl seeks out old Peter about the gun, but he says the gun was stolen from him. The Weickerts visit the grave of their 18-year-old daughter, who died six months ago in a car accident. Kappl drives to his home with the wine queen, with whom he is now having an affair, where he sees from the outside that someone is in his apartment. He draws his gun and goes upstairs, that's where his father is. He wanted to call, but his son did not answer the phone. The wine queen then says goodbye to Kappl. The next day, Kappl asked Mrs. Braun to look after his father. Ms. Braun informs Kappl and Deiniger that a radar photo shows Jean-Paul Weickert how he was flashed between the crime scene and his home in Saarbrücken. So neither he nor his wife have an alibi, Mr Weickert, but his wife is now also urgently suspect. Kappl and Deiniger confront the Weickerts with the fact that they had smeared sneezes in order to hang something on the old peters. At the winegrowers' meeting, Eckes attacks Altpeter and blames him for the image problems that arose from the murder of the inspector among the winegrowers in the village. Most of the winemakers withdraw their trust as president, only one winemaker is still on his side. Eckes then lets himself be elected as the new president of the local winegrowers' association.

Meanwhile, Weickert begs his wife to end the campaign of revenge against Old Peter, but she absolutely wants his vineyard, which once belonged to her father. That's why she wants to drive Old Peter into the foreclosure auction. Weickert desperately asks his wife if anyone else is about to die. Food technician Kliebenstein informs Deininger that neither Altpeter's nor Eckes' wine is marketable. Altpeter's was sulphurized, and Eckes's had vinegar. Kappl and Deininger talk Eckes about the vinegar in his wine and ask whether it was why he killed Sneeze. Then von Eckes' son flees and Kappl can catch him. He accidentally messed up the wine with vinegar. He was in love with Denise Weickert and worked without concentration out of mourning for her after her death. His father would kill him if he found out. Kappl and Deininger then went to the old peters, who had begged Niesers not to report the sulphurisation, for which they were not responsible. He wanted to sleep on it for a night. Since his own car no longer started, the old Peters would have given him theirs. When they found him dead the next morning, they picked up their car, dragged his there and made the investigation case disappear. They had nothing to do with the murder. Meanwhile, Kappl learns that the sulphurisation was brought about by hydrogen peroxide. It occurs to him that his girlfriend, the wine queen, had large amounts of this substance at home. Kappl and Deininger interrogate them. Although she works for the Weickerts, she had worked as a harvest helper for the Altpeters. She admits that she adulterated Old Peters' wine. She was friends with Denise Weickert, she was like a sister to them. Denise, like her mother decades ago, had a relationship with Richard Altpeter. She had been very much in love, but Richard Altpeter had broken up with her the night she died. Denise had called her friend who was worried because Denise sounded so strange. She told Denise not to go any further, she would pick Denise up. But suddenly the connection was broken and the next morning she found out about Denise's death. Therefore, she wanted revenge on Old Peter. Isabel Weickert had only recently found out about her dead daughter's relationship with Old Peter when, after much hesitation, she read her daughter's diary. When Isabel asked, the Wine Queen confirmed that Denise had a relationship that ended a few hours before her death. Kappl and Deininger now combine that Isabel did not want to murder Sneeze, but Altpeter and that there was only confusion because Nieser was driving Altpeter's car.

Weickert misses his wife and asks Kappl and Deininger to find her because he is afraid that she will make nonsense. In the meantime, the entire Altpeters wine inventory is being destroyed. Isabel Weickert meets old Peter in the vineyard that once belonged to her father. She pulls out his gun, which she stole from his hiding place the week before. He knew she had the gun but did not report it to the police. She wants to kill him, she also wanted to kill him the days before, had followed him to kill him and only noticed too late that Sneeze had driven Old Peter's car. She accuses him of being responsible for both her father's death and that of her daughter. Kappl and Deininger join in at the last second, but cannot prevent Isabel Weickert from shooting Altpeter. Isabel Weickert is arrested.

Production notes

This episode was filmed from September 9th to October 12th, 2008 in Saarland.

It is a production of the Saarländischer Rundfunk in cooperation with the ARD - Degeto Film . The production company was ProSaar Medienproduktion .

Konstantin Wecker can be seen in a guest role as Ludwig Kappl.

reception

Audience ratings

When the episode Bittere Grapes was first broadcast on April 26, 2009, 7.40 million viewers tuned in, which corresponded to a market share of 22.5%.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tatort: ​​bitter grapes data on the crime scene sequence at tatort-fundus.de.
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