Crime scene: opponent

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Opponent
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 197 ( List )
First broadcast September 13, 1987 on ARD
Rod
Director Reinhard Schwabenitzky
script Ulf Miehe
Klaus Richter
music Jiri Berdych
camera Petrus Schloemp
cut Sigi Menzel
occupation

Opponent is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk was first broadcast on September 13, 1987 on ARD's first program. He is the seventh and last mission of Inspector Lenz, played by Helmut Fischer .

action

Jürgen Koch has been unemployed for a while and no longer wants to lie on the bag of his friend Elli Reisinger, who owns a pub. He is also planning to open a decent "Ristorante" with her. The attempt to get the money to do so through gambling fails. In the end, he loses all of his profit to a Hans Werner Hartung. Since he has only "borrowed" the starting capital for the gaming round from Elli and wants to put it back in her cash register before she notices the lack, he lets himself be tempted to attack a small car dealership. Although everything goes as planned at first and he has already left the plot with his prey, the owner draws his pistol. Koch reacts quickly and hits the man on the arm. Unfortunately, his car has also disappeared and so Koch escapes by jumping on a passing bus.

Koch cannot yet enjoy his success, because the police appear and demand an explanation as to why he knocked down a vegetable stand and then simply drove on. Hoping to have an alibi through this accident, he admits it. But that's when he really gets into trouble, because the driver of his car is charged with the murder of an old colonel. He was found shot dead in his Grünwald villa and stolen 30,000 marks. Detective Inspector Lenz arrests Koch as an urgent suspect, but he also has doubts as Koch's statements seem a bit confused. In a comparison, the widow of the murdered colonel cannot clearly identify him and, strangely enough, Hans Werner Hartung is employed there as a chauffeur. Koch explains to the inspector that they both met while playing poker. So Lenz researches Hartung and finds out that the colonel appointed him as heir and that he also suffered from the colonel's whims. After Lenz can collect some evidence against Hartung, his conviction is more difficult than he thought. But after he succeeds in finding the murder weapon with which the colonel was shot, Hartung is convicted, who deliberately steered the trail on Koch because he knew about his planned attack.

background

With this episode, Helmut Fischer says goodbye as the crime scene commissioner. Chief Detective Josef Brettschneider will be replaced by Chief Detective Franzjosef Schneider ( Georg Einerdinger ).

music

In addition to the film music composed by Jiry Berdych, the following pieces are cited as background music:

  • Criminal Tango by Piero Trombetta and Kurt Feltz (at the beginning in Elli's Imbiss )
  • Prelude to Act 1 of the opera Siegfried by Richard Wagner (at the murder of Colonel von Bredow)
  • Overture to the operetta Pique Dame by Franz von Suppè (at the subsequent encounter between Hans Werner Hartung and Hannelore Engel)

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast by Gegenpieler on September 13, 1987, was seen by 13.93 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 37.0 percent for Das Erste .

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV-Spielfilm rate this film from today's point of view and say: "With the lovingly staged crime thriller, Helmut Fischer said goodbye as the" Tatort "commissioner." Conclusion: "A worthy farewell for Helmut Fischer."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Opponent at tatort-fans.de, accessed on April 1, 2015.
  2. ^ Opponent short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on April 1, 2015.
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